Broken-down tramp Weatherby finds inspiration to change his life after seeing the play "Youth". The plot follows Weatherby as he is given money by a kind passerby, which he uses to buy a theater ticket and see the drama that becomes the catalyst for his transformation.
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Crane Wilbur as Old Weatherby
Joseph Hazelton as The Passerby (Prologue)
George Harris as Harry Weatherby - as a Boy
Mae Gaston as June
John Oaker as Robert Leslie
Thelma Salter as Little Pal
United States 19 June 1916
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23 February 1924
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31 October 1919
In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths.
11 September 1913
Robert Bardon has searched for years for animal trainer Gamo who seduced and abandoned Brandon's daughter Gladys.
13 January 1918
A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.
01 September 1922
A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major.
09 October 1927
To get over a breakup with his actress girlfriend, a playwright goes on holiday to a lakeside resort, where he meets a strangely mismatched couple, a man and his much younger wife.
01 March 1924
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
01 February 1921
Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into the family.
18 August 1918
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis McDonald), whereupon the heroine takes refuge in the villa of French playwright La Farge.
07 January 1918
Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), and finally leaves him.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1916:
27 February 1916
Scott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot to ruin Haldeman.
22 May 1916
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike as "the butcher.
10 March 1916
Ranger Frank rescues a family from a devastating outlaw band.
01 December 1916
Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson.
22 January 1916
"The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen".
08 May 1916
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry.
28 August 1916
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments.
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.
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.
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.
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