Snow White

Dec 24, 1916

1h 3m

★ 5.8

Overview

Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarfs in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.

Genres

Fantasy

Drama

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Cast

Snow White

Marguerite Clark

Queen Brangomar, Snow White's Stepmother

Dorothy Cumming

Prince Florimon

Creighton Hale

Berthold, the huntsman

Lionel Braham

Witch Hex

Alice Washburn

Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoisseur and the Parishioner inspect the picture, the Connoisseur tells Standish that the model was a one-time paramour. Buying the painting they depart. Standish confronts Mary, who tells him that she believed herself legally married to the Connoisseur. Unbelieving he ejects her and their baby son. Penniless Mary leaves her boy on the steps of a monastery. Years later before becoming a monk the boy is sent to see the world. Wandering into a café he is seduced by Beauty as the other inmates of the place, Lust, Rum, Avarice and Passion dance around him. The proprietor enters; it is Mary. Recognizing the crucifix, she left with him as a baby she persuades him to go back without revealing her identity. After he becomes a priest Mary, now a bedraggled old woman enters his church. She recognizes him and just before she dies her son gives her absolution.

4.8

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

Oct 11, 1917

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5.5

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6.2

Bread

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6.9

Schlagende Wetter

Feb 15, 1923

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0.0

One Stolen Night

Mar 15, 1929

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0.0

Lily of Life

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0.0

Adoration

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Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.

0.0

Devdas

Mar 30, 1935

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0.0

The Law Decides

May 1, 1916

Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.

0.0

I Delete and I Judge

Jan 1, 1919

Brišem i sudim is a Croatian film. Only one minute of the film is saved.

5.2

The Story of the Kelly Gang

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0.0

The Paul Street Boys

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A couple of boy gangs in Budapest constantly fight over the neighborhood turf.

0.0

A Broken Doll

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5.7

The Perils of Pauline

Mar 31, 1914

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6.5

Sanshiro Sugata

Mar 25, 1943

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0.0

Ashes of Love

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In order to provide for her widowed mother, Louise Mordyke, Ethel marries Arthur Woodridge, a wealthy philanthropist who is considerably older than she. Although she respects her husband, Ethel resumes an affair with Howard Rosedale, the husband of her cousin Helen. Helen hires a detective, who discovers the lovers at a roadhouse. Rushing from the inn, Ethel is caught in a thunderstorm, after which she contracts pneumonia and dies, repentant but unconfessed. Arthur grieves so deeply that Louise and Helen fear for his sanity, and when Louise learns that he is contemplating suicide, she reveals the truth about Ethel's infidelity. Arthur, incredulous, denounces her. Following Howard's sudden death, however, Helen confirms the story. Louise and Arthur marry, and Helen weds an old friend.

0.0

The Jewess of Toledo

Aug 1, 1919

The love affair between King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish woman.

0.0

Passione tsigana

Jan 1, 1916

No overview available.

0.0

War and Peace: 1918

Oct 25, 1918

Ducrot and Ninette accuse Mario and Anny of owing their wealth to the murderous effects of Mario's bombs. Anny leaves for the front to care for the wounded. Third part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy. Most of the film is considered lost – a single fragment remains.

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