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:
21 June 1915
Cash Parrish, a bandit, is betrayed to the sheriff by his pal, Jud Ross, who covets Parrish's treasure and his wife, Rose.
02 June 1915
Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When an annoying party guest persuades Mabel to dance with him, Mabel hurries through the dance and then goes to look for her fiancé, only to discover him caressing another woman.
14 December 1915
Lord John, a detective novelist and the Marquis of Haslemere's brother, receives word that the stage adaption of one of his stories will not be performed because Roger Odell, a millionaire, has spoken against him.
26 February 1915
A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside.
01 September 1915
Roman Regent of Police Baron Scarpia, loves Floria Tosca, a beautiful opera singer, but she is engaged to artist Maurice Saranof.
05 January 1915
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.
19 April 1915
Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City.
22 April 1915
Once upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who had died from eating too much pomegranate juice and who had a reputation for making history.
13 September 1915
Richard Duvall is a young American detective in the employ of the French Secret Police. While in Paris he meets Grace Ellicot, also an American, with whom he falls in love.
18 October 1915
In 1857, Mary McLean leaves her sweetheart in the Scottish Highlands to teach school in India, where her father is a missionary.
26 April 1915
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechanic, Helen yearns for fine clothes, wealth, and attention.
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