Cast: Charles Avery

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Linda Arvidson · Adele DeGarde · Charles Avery

Synopsis A drinking man arrives home, late and sozzled as usual. His wife reminds him that he promised to take their child to a play. The play proves to be a morality tale about the evils of drink; he sees the...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast David Miles · Marion Leonard · Mary Pickford · Gladys Egan

Synopsis A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast David Miles · Florence Lawrence · Gladys Egan · Adele DeGarde

Synopsis A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for...

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Ford Sterling · Fred Mace · Alice Davenport · Charles Avery

Synopsis Warner is an old veteran in love with the widow Simpson. His rival is an old farmer, named Burns. Warner stands in front of the old soldiers' home, telling a crowd of old veterans of the battles he took part...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Florence Lawrence · Marion Leonard · Owen Moore

Synopsis Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her...

Direction Henry Lehrman

Cast Mabel Normand · Fred Mace · Nick Cogley · Charles Avery

Synopsis At a farm near Bangville, the young daughter see strangers in the barn. She quickly rushes to the house and calls the police. The police engage in a haphazard rush across the countryside to get there in time.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mack Sennett · Harry Solter · George Gebhardt · Charles Avery

Synopsis A man's wife and children taunt him about his age and lack of spirit. He takes a course of rejuvenation, and dismays them all.

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Mabel Normand · Ford Sterling · Charles Inslee · Minta Durfee

Synopsis Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Florence Lawrence · Arthur V. Johnson · Linda Arvidson · Mack Sennett

Synopsis Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Herbert Prior · Mary Pickford · Owen Moore · David Miles

Synopsis A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Pickford · Charles Avery · Verner Clarges · John R. Cumpson

Synopsis Lillie runs a boarding house full of young bachelors. A friend writes to say she's sending her little darling daughter for a visit. The bachelors all buy toys for a little girl, but an attractive young woman gets off the...

Direction Mabel Normand

Cast Mabel Normand · Charles Inslee · Charles Avery · Alice Davenport

Synopsis Moving Picture World categorized Won in a Closet as “a nonsense number,” but its minimal narrative has become even more confusing than it would have been originally because footage is missing at the opening of this sole surviving print. (A...

Direction George Nichols

Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Charles Avery · Lou Breslow · Harry DeRoy

Synopsis After rescuing the Police Commissioner's daughter from drowning, Fatty is rewarded with a position on the force, but soon finds that the job isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Pickford · Charles Hill Mailes · Kate Bruce · Robert Harron

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Ford Sterling · Mabel Normand · Nick Cogley · Raymond Hatton

Synopsis Band leader/clarinetist Ford Sterling is a romantic rival to trumpeter Raymond Hatton for the affections of pretty Mabel Normand. Sterling enters an amateur night contest at the local vaudeville house, where stage manager Edgar Kennedy gives the quick hook to...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Frank Powell · Florence Lawrence · Linda Arvidson · Edwin August

Synopsis A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Florence Lawrence · Charles Inslee · Herbert Prior · John R. Cumpson

Synopsis A beautiful romance of a girl from the Golden West. Confidence is the flower grown from the seed of true friendship, watered by the tears of adversity, and often assailed by the blight of calumny. For as Shakespeare says', "be...

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Mabel Normand · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Charles Inslee · Virginia Kirtley

Synopsis Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Marion Leonard · David Miles · Mary Pickford · Anthony O'Sullivan

Synopsis A dying man sends a note to his lost love, asking her to visit him. As a lark she does, but brings along some drunken party guests. They find him dead, and she repents her lightheartedness.

Direction Henry Lehrman · Mack Sennett

Cast Fred Mace · Edward Dillon · Charles Avery · J. Jiquel Lanoe

Synopsis Josh doesn't like the way things go at home and decides to quit and get out. Later, his wife gets what purports to be his farewell letter, which is intended to lead her to believe he has committed suicide. He,...