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Writing on the Wall

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.

To Save the Road

1916 • 12 min • United States of America

The vote stands a tie on the railroad bill that will mean ruin to the Western line should it pass the State Legislature. By getting Senator Brown, who is aboard a liner quarantined in the bay, to the Capitol the day will be saved. The road superintendent takes a daring chance and aboard a motorboat succeeds in smuggling the Senator ashore and to a Western special which speeds off towards the Capitol of the neighboring State.

A Night Out

1916 • 50 min

A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.

A Telegraphic Tangle

1916 • 13 min

Mrs. John Smithers believes her newlywed husband to be a paragon of virtue. Reality sets in as he spends a night out drinking with friends, and a series of lies ends up as comedic fodder.

The Spider's Prey

1916 • 26 min • Denmark

The titular villain is an infamous international criminal, Mrs. Valentin Kempel, known as “The Predator Spider” due to her habit of ensnaring innocent victims in her web. Men are enchanted by her, and she uses this to coerce them into taking part in her criminal activities. When one of her victims takes his own life, the victim’s brother and a detective decide to put an end to the beautiful criminal’s reign of terror. But The Hunting Spider does not give in so easily – and she is not afraid to use unsporting tricks against her new opponents. FRAGMENT. (stumfilm.dk)

The Native and the Dog

1916 • 8 min • Sweden

A native man encounters a dog outside his house.

The Libertine

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Not only wooing the love of one woman, but masterfully woos the hearts of many women.

The Upheaval

1916 • 53 min • United States of America

Young Jim takes over from his father, political boss Jim Gordon Sr. As ruthless and unfeeling as his dad, Young Jim blocks the efforts by a crusading newspaper to bring about reforms in the city's tenement district. But he comes to regret his intransigence when his father is ruined financially.

Temptation and the Man

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Jim Crosby, the product of a broken home, becomes a gangster and goes to prison. Meanwhile, Ann Payton, an heiress, converts a saloon into a mission. She is engaged to her father's secretary, Temple Vaughn, a gambler. Jim is released from prison and seeks shelter at the mission. Temple becomes indebted to gambler Phil Johnson and is forced to arrange a crooked poker game involving some of his wealthy friends. Jim overhears the plot and, realizing that Temple is Ann's fiancé, robs the poker game and puts a check Temple forged into Temple's own pocket.

The Dividend

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Wealthy John Steele has a handsome young son, Frank, on whom he pins his hopes. But riches lead Frank not into social standing and duty, but into depravity, drug-addiction, criminal activity, and finally to tragedy.

The Eye of God

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Renie, stranded in the village, stays one night in his home and Olaf falls in love with her.

His Strenuous Visit

1916 • 12 min • United States of America

A case of mistaken identity not once or twice but three times leads to much merriment!

The Uncanny House

1916 • 60 min • Germany

A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his new residence. Notes warn him, a beautiful woman appears in the mirror, valuable documents disappear from the tightly locked safe.

The Forgotten Train Order

1916 • 13 min • United States of America

107th film in the Hazards of Helen series

The Man Within

1916 • 30 min • United States of America

When ranch foreman Tom Melford (Tom Mix) becomes engaged to Vi Gatlin (Victoria Forde), her father -- the ranch's owner (Pat Chrisman) -disowns her. They have a baby, but it becomes ill while Tom is away working a round up.

Beyond the Wall

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Successful author Dane Ashley learns he has inherited an estate in a small village. Traveling to see his property Dane sees a crowd of children tormenting a young girl. He rescues the girl, but she vanishes through the door in the separating wall between his house and the next. Intrigued he investigates and learns that she is a Miss Virginia Carlton and rumored to be crazy. Disbelieving the rumors as to Virginia's insanity, Dane contrives a meeting and in time they fall in love. Virginia confides that it is her twin sister Helen who has had a mental breakdown after a traumatic incident and the loss of her beloved. In time all is made aright.

The Foolish Virgin

1916 • 55 min • United States of America

A 1916 film.

The Reclamation

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

In the dry west, Louise MacLeod works as a secretary for Robert Powell, a lawyer defending businessman John Phelan, whom the ranchers accuse of monopolizing water rights. Louise's father, Gordon, is one of the ranchers, and so Louise keeps him informed of Robert's strategy, resulting in the ranchers winning their case.

Prudence the Pirate

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

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. Nixed from a boat trip, she rents a schooner, recruits a crew and raises the jolly roger.

Honor Thy Name

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.

The Combat

1916 • 60 min • United States of America

Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his wife, he is accused of a murder that was actually committed by crooked attorney Herman Slade.

The Nick of Time Baby

1916 • 18 min • United States of America

The Nick of Time Baby is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.

Just Imagination

1916 • 12 min • United States of America

Musty Suffer dreams of being subjected to psychological experiments by unethical doctors.

The Switchman's Story

1916 • 13 min • United States of America

Number 68 in the Hazards of Helen series.