Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situation and is elected. The editor of The Red Messenger organizes the streetcar drivers to begin a general strike, but Burr manages to break up the strike
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Frank Keenan as Carson Burr
Kathleen Kerrigan as Mrs. Burr
Clark Marshall as Theodore Burr
Janice Wilson as Roxy Burr
Bert Sprotte as Nicolai Poppoff
Claire Du Brey as Emma Reich
Joseph McManus as George Knox
Frank Keenan Story
Frank Keenan Screenplay
Ernest C. Warde Director
Jack Cunningham Scenario Writer
United States 17 August 1919
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1919:
28 April 1919
When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell.
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.
13 July 1919
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
01 April 1919
Rural melodrama about the social and humanistic events that occurred at the dawn of the past times.
19 April 1919
One of the series of Bobby Bumps silent animated shorts made at Bray Studios.
11 October 1919
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well.
05 November 1919
It tells the adventures of a tailor, played by the comedian Morvello, who believes he has won the lottery.
04 May 1919
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for fear of damaging his career as a city official.
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.
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