Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
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Edna Mayo as Eve
Eugene O'Brien as Adam
Edward R. Mawson as David Winters
Edward Arnold as Seymour Purchwell
Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Tupper-Bellamy
Leona Ball as Clarice Bellamy
John Cossar as John Raymond
Renee Clemmons as Trixie Shevlin
United States 16 October 1916
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1916:
29 July 1916
Black La Rue was born on the Mexican border in times of raids and fights. His father was killed in one of the fights.
10 March 1916
Ranger Frank rescues a family from a devastating outlaw band.
13 February 1916
After the death of her father, a friend hides Dimples' inheritance in a doll, which Dimples carries to her new home at her aunt's boardinghouse.
01 April 1916
Jack Marston is the sheriff of a western town and Jennie, his sister, is postmistress and operator at the stage station.
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.
17 September 1916
An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men.
08 September 1916
Melodrama tells about complex human relationships.
22 January 1916
The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict.
10 July 1916
When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture.
18 September 1916
Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his wife, he is accused of a murder that was actually committed by crooked attorney Herman Slade.
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