When the body of Col. S.F. Hargraves was found in a room in the rear of Cradelbaughs, a gambling house, with a bullet in his heart, the police found "Big Jim" Pemmican, the manager of the place, coolly pacing the floor when they arrived.
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Hamilton Revelle as J. Lawrence Challoner
Marguerite Snow as Miriam Challoner
Carlton Brickert as William Murgatroyd
Walter Hitchcock as Graham Thorne
Fred Williams as Colonel S.F. Hargraves
Frederick Heck as Broderick
John Smiley as Pemmican
Ferdinand Tidmarsh as Merrick
Carol Seymour as Shirley Bloodgood
Diane D'Aubrey as Letty Love
United States 10 April 1916
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Lillian Hill, a poor stenographer, sacrifices her romance with an equally poor playwright, Henry Parker, to marry her boss Wilbur Mason.
24 April 1917
Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky.
06 October 1914
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The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted.
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15 May 1916
Having forced Jim Carson to leave town in order to avoid a trumped-up embezzling charge, now Albert Temple is rid of his only serious rival for Helen, whom he soon marries.
10 September 1916
When her husband Jim strikes it rich, Grace, who has had a lifelong fear of poverty, strictly raises her daughter Florence to accept only luxury.
02 January 1916
Illustrated travel lecture directed by Robert J. Flaherty, composed of film shot during his time with the Inuit in 1914-1915.
01 January 1916
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
16 April 1916
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage.
12 March 1916
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders.
27 February 1916
The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy Dora, only to be turned down by the girl's mercenary mother.
21 October 1916
Accused of stealing the annual report of the Great Western Railroad Dick Olney is discharged though it was really the president’s secretary Hodges who took it to sell information to the opposition.
24 April 1916
Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday.
22 January 1916
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Mink Jones of Jonesville, is the lord high executioner and everything else.
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Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Renie, stranded in the village, stays one night in his home and Olaf falls in love with her.
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