18 February 1915 Comedy 6 mins
Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners.
Watch the official Ye Olden Grafter 1915 trailer in HD below.
Mack Swain as The Grafter
Harry Gribbon as The Gentleman Flirt
Mae Busch as The Lady
Edward F. Cline as The Knight
Billie Walsh as 1st Painter
Harry Ward as 2nd Painter
David Kirkland Director
United States 18 February 1915
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1915:
20 October 1915
Bill Pike, recently married, hits his home town about seven in the evening, and immediately is seized by a bunch of his old cronies who drag him into a hotel to have a game of poker.
02 June 1915
Rev. Horace Brightray, pastor of a New England village church, is ordered by his physician to seek another climate.
01 October 1915
Bruce Marsden, a former millionaire fallen on bad times, marries Helen Stanhope against her mother's wishes.
16 April 1915
Luke McVane (William S. Hart) shoots a card-cheat in self-defense and has to make a run for it before the town lynch him.
01 September 1915
Roman Regent of Police Baron Scarpia, loves Floria Tosca, a beautiful opera singer, but she is engaged to artist Maurice Saranof.
14 October 1915
Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt).
08 November 1915
A man neglects his wife to be with a dance hall singer. When the truth of his infidelity reaches his wife and the truth of his marital status reaches his lover, both women are heartbroken.
29 March 1915
"If yew cum a lone to thee third bench from thee fontan yew will find sum one to chear your loneliness.
19 April 1915
Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City.
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