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Dolken

Dolken

1915 • 46 min
Mr Bernhard has financial difficulties. He has fallen into the hands of broker Mr Pouzer. In desperation, Bernhard's daughter Julia visit Pouzer to ask for mercy for her father. Yes, Pouzer replies, if I get you in return.
The Gilded Cage

The Gilded Cage

1915 • 11 min • United States of America
The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger stepdaughter, played by Stonehouse. When the elder spurns her lover to marry wealth, she learns the error of her ways.
On Dangerous Paths

On Dangerous Paths

1915 • 50 min • United States of America
Viola Dana plays Eleanor, a minister's daughter who comes to New York to visit her older sister, a successful businesswoman. Eleanor manages to get a job as a nurse in a major metropolitan hospital. One night, she is called upon to look after a drunken tourist, who turns out to be her hometown sweetheart Roger (Pat O'Malley).
The Outer Edge

The Outer Edge

1915 • 20 min • United States of America
A physician is dragged down to the depths by the drug habit, losing position and wealth. After pawning every available possession except a revolver to satisfy his craving for the drug, he returns to his cheap lodging house to end his life. Half stupefied, he gets into the wrong room, where he finds a woman and daughter almost starved. He takes his revolver and pawns it to buy food for them. His own act of kindness gives him a new view of life and he struggles to break his habit. Many times he almost falls again, but is aided by a nurse whom he had known years before. Finally he throws off the yoke altogether and wins back to manhood and the love of a woman.
The Wild Olive

The Wild Olive

1915 • 60 min • United States of America
Nicknamed "Wild Olive," Miriam Strange discovers that her mom was an Indian, she moves to a hovel close to an Allegheny stumble camp. Norrie Passage, straight from school, visits his uncle, the tormenting manager of the camp, and meets Miriam. After his uncle is killed with a blade discovered covered up under Norrie's bedding, Norrie is condemned to pass on. In spite of the fact that he pledged to wed her, after his letters to "Wild Olive" return undelivered, Norrie, wearing a facial hair growth and an accepted name, gets connected with to Evie Wayne, Miriam's stepsister. At the point when Norrie is shipped off be his association's New York director, he meets Miriam once more. She forfeits her adoration and consents to wed attorney Charles Victory, in the event that he will demonstrate Norrie's blamelessness. After Evie finds out about Norrie's past and breaks the commitment, the killer makes a deathbed admission. Conquest discharges Miriam when he sees that she adores Norrie.
Cartoons on the Beach

Cartoons on the Beach

1915 • 10 min • United States of America
The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.
The Flash of an Emerald

The Flash of an Emerald

1915 • 50 min • United States of America
The picture starts with Robert Warwick walking into the office of director Albert Capellani (the film's actual director). Capellani offers him the role of a heavy and hands him the script. The next four reels show Warwick playing a Raffles-like character, an ingenious crook who moves through society, committing robberies and even murder.
Hash House Mashers

Hash House Mashers

1915 • 11 min • United States of America
A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents.
Kidnapped in New York

Kidnapped in New York

1915 • 41 min • United States of America
When a trio of criminals kidnap a rich man's daughter and nurse, a detective goes undercover into the Italian-immigrant ghetto where they're being held.
Scandal

Scandal

1915 • 36 min • United States of America
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
Pretenses

Pretenses

1915 • 11 min
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
All for a Girl

All for a Girl

1915 • 55 min • United States of America
After a young man’s family loses their fortune, he is encouraged to court a wealthy woman who wants to escape the attention her wealth attracts. As the two grow closer, misunderstandings and unexpected events lead to a deep connection, with both learning valuable lessons about love, integrity, and wealth.
The Lie

The Lie

1915 • 12 min
Fisherman’s drama about a woman who thinks her husband has drowned while fishing, and then marries one of his colleagues after a while. Then her husband suddenly pops up again; it turns out that his colleague appears to have lied about his death.
The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour

1915 • 18 min
Bain is in love with Alice, the niece of his employer Mr Borrow. However, Alice is already happily engaged to Clifford. When his boss dies Bain starts working for his brother William Borrow. When Bain sees Alice again jealousy drives him to plan Clifford's murder. He pays Cochise, an Indian, to do the dirty work, but Cochise kills William Borrow instead of Clifford. Clifford is suspected of the murder and will be hanged. However, Cochise confesses his crime when he is rescued from drowning by Alice. Clifford can be released on time.
The Three Brothers

The Three Brothers

1915 • 21 min • United States of America
Three brothers: Bob, Will and Charlie, all are in love with Mae. Bob, the eldest, is sullen and revengeful, and Mae is afraid of him. Will, the middle brother, is a happy-go-lucky boy with whom she falls in love, and Charlie, the youngest, sacrifices his own feelings for Will, who loves Charlie devotedly. Will and Mae are engaged. During his absence in the city, where he is trying to get a hold in business, so that he and Mae can marry, Bob makes violent love to his brother's fiancée. Charlie comes to her rescue. Learning of the episode, Will later has word sent home that he is dead, and Mae marries Charlie. Some time after this, Will cannot resist coming home to see his mother and Charlie, though he intends that Mae shall not know of his return. Before he can slip away, however, an incident occurs in which he is called upon to save Charlie's life. His presence and his heroism become known to Mae. The inference is that she had a good deal of a struggle to overcome vain regrets.
Bulgaran is Gallant

Bulgaran is Gallant

1915 • 60 min • Bulgaria
Bulgaran is a sophisticated and sociable man. While strolling through the city streets, he encounters a young woman and engages in playful banter with her. Unbeknownst to him, she has a plan to teach him a lesson.
A Mile a Minute

A Mile a Minute

1915 • 12 min • United States of America
Hume and Frintz, while riding in a boxcar, see a trunk in the unguarded baggage car of a passenger train. By a daring leap from the freight to the passenger, Hume steals the trunk, throws it into one of the boxcars, and then leaps back. The trunk is missed and the loss reported from Helen's station.
Chimmie Fadden

Chimmie Fadden

1915 • 40 min • United States of America
Bowery hooligan Chimmie is saved from false arrest by socialite dogooder Fanny. She takes in him, his brother and mother as servants. His brother schemes to steal the good lady's silver.
Gambier's Advocate

Gambier's Advocate

1915 • 50 min • United States of America
Hazel Dawn starred as Clarissa, who upon graduating from a private girl's school learns that her widowed father has remarried. At first resentful of her new stepmother (Dorothy Bernard), Clarissa slowly warms up to the woman. Later on, the heroine falls in love with a handsome attorney named Gambier (James Kirkwood), only to be disillusioned when she catches the attorney and the stepmother in a warm embrace.
Do-Re-Mi-Boom!

Do-Re-Mi-Boom!

1915 • 12 min • United States of America
A man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music, fancies he's found his true love, and chats her up. Her boyfriend arrives for his music lesson and jealously dismisses the interloper, who swipes a grinder's organ (and monkey) to help him serenade the maid. Later he follows the boyfriend to a residence hotel and plants a bomb in the man's piano. The organ-grinder is gunning for the thief, and soon the piano, bomb, monkey, thief, and pistol-packing grinder are rolling down the road to the delight of maid and lover. It's ka-boom for some and a kiss for others.
The Deceivers

The Deceivers

1915 • 13 min
Mr. Simpkins gets a raise, but puts some of it away for himself. Overnight, he believes he's accidentally poisoned himself, but does his wife have something to do with it?
The Good in the Worst of Us

The Good in the Worst of Us

1915 • 13 min • United States of America
Crime drama where Minnie's past overtakes her. She flees Jim to escape his bad influence. Jim shoots a man down in a burglary and demands that Minnie helps him flee.
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket

The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket

1915 • 29 min • United States of America
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket is a 1915 silent film directed by Richard Foster Baker. Gloria Swanson made her first credited appearance in this film as Farina.
Boobley's Baby

Boobley's Baby

1915 • 14 min • United States of America
A man with a baby gets a scarce seat on the streetcar, leaving Mr. Boobley standing. Boobley gets the bright idea to carry a doll with him to be sure of getting a seat.