10 August 1919 Drama, Romance 66 mins
A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New York stockbroker, but doesn't tell him about her first marriage. Soon she is contacted by someone who threatens to tell her new husband all about her past if she doesn't pay up.
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Olive Tell as The Schoolteacher Heroine
Sidney Mason as The Broker Husband
Tallulah Bankhead as Helen Carson
Jere Austin as The Prospector Husband
Rod La Rocque as The Blackmailer
Joseph Burke as The Father
Earl Schenck as The Brother
Jules Eckert Goodman Writer
Eve Unsell Writer
Frank Reicher Director
Richard Harding Davis Story
United States 10 August 1919
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Lon Chaney plays a French Canadian who loses his mine and girl friend to Alan Hale. All that is left for Lon is revenge. Enhanced with sound effects and music ...
THE TRAP 1922 silent Lon Chaney.
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20 January 1919
Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara in her pursuit of romance and love.
25 May 1919
A near-forgotten film, Virtuous Sinners tells the story of Dawn Emerson (Wanda Hawley), an abused wife cast out into the street by her uncaring husband.
19 January 1919
A beautiful young French girl falls in love with a handsome New Englander, but when they marry and return to his family home, she finds that she does not fit in at all.
29 June 1919
A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
30 November 1919
A henpecked husband goes out on a series of adventures. He is pursued by cops and detectives and joins the Salvation Army in an effort to escape.
02 March 1919
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
16 November 1919
When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horse racing.
19 April 1919
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01 January 1919
Young Harry Kenyon returns home to Tondo City after graduating college so he can help his rancher father drive a herd of cattle to the annual market, but a pair of outlaws - Cactus Ben and Tondo Bill - are planning to steal the herd for themselves.
29 August 1919
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