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:
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.
21 October 1916
To her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the butler's tall tales of being a pirate.
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.
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.
12 November 1916
Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector.
08 October 1916
A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested.
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.
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.
01 October 1916
It May Be Your Daughter is a 1916 silent drama.
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