A western prospector, who has been unusually lucky, prepares to return east to his wife. The suspicious actions of a gypsy horse-trader, whom he has seen loitering near his cabin, prompts him to take his gold to the bank, but on the way he is thrown from his horse and suffers fatal injuries. A young man and woman come on the scene and are given the gold, after they promise the dying man to send a portion of it to his wife. Later, the gypsy, learning who got the gold, attacks the mother of the young people and escapes with the treasure.
Cinematic Era: 1912 Vintage
1634 Matches Found
- 7.0 1912 • Cinematic
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The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.
From the Manger to the Cross
5.1 1912 • Cinematic -
Early Balkan footage.
Opening of the City Café in Bitola
4.9 1912 • Cinematic -
A documentary short that shows various locations in and around Los Angeles, California
Views of Los Angeles, California
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing jewellery. When the misunderstanding is cleared up, nothing more stands in the way of their romance.
At the Masquerade Ball
6.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Ruby Blackwell, typical young girl of Arizona, lives with her brother Tom, and their widowed mother in a cabin in the mountains. One day Tom takes Ruby on a lion hunt. They track a puma, or mountain lion. Tom shoots the beast, which, wounded, bounds into the canyon. Tom instructs Ruby to proceed to the ridge and await him there, while he follows the puma up the mountainside. Ruby discovers the cubs belonging to the puma which Tom has shot, and she immediately becomes so engrossed in playing with the huge kittens that she forgets the rendezvous her brother had appointed. Tom finally locates her. The cubs are taken home. They grow up around Ruby like friendly dogs. Pete Lopez, a bad Mexican, who admires Ruby very much, tries to steal one of them at night, after Ruby has refused to sell the animal to him, and the baby puma defends itself vigorously until Tom and Ruby rush to its rescue...
Bounder
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Jim Riley is to be arrested for horse stealing and when the sheriff knocks at the door of Jim's shack, he asks his little girl Nellie to go and tell the man he is not at home. Nellie tries to persuade the big sheriff that her father is out, but to no avail, for Jim is arrested and taken away, while he promises his little girl he will soon return.
A Child of the West
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The first Georgian full-length documentary follows the trip of the “king of Georgian poetry”, Akaki Tsereteli, to Racha and Lechkhumi, and his relationships with the people living in the mountainous areas of Western Georgia
Journey of Akaki Tsereteli in Racha-Lechkhumi
7.6 1912 • Cinematic -
Direktørens Datter
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.
Zigoto Drives a Locomotive
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The Kerry Gow is a 1912 short
The Little Gluers
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
The Speed Demon
6.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.
A Freight Train Drama
4.7 1912 • Cinematic -
A Secret Service agent is looking for a bandit who has just held up the stage coach. A rancher's daughter, hears a description of the outlaw and mistakes the secret Service agent for the crook.
The Sheriff's Mistake
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Siblings Sven and Betty live a quiet farmer's life in Sweden, but fate has them both ending up in America, where the New World might prove to be less wonderful than the rumors say.
The Adventures of Two Swedish Emigrants in America
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Within the sunny little Mexican City of Juarez, Alonzo, the famous bull-fighter, is to match his skill against the bull from Chihuahua. Pretty Dolores wanders one day without the Plaza El Torres, hoping to get one peep at the wonderful animals. Juan, a young Mexican employed at the Plaza, sees the girl and attracted by her beauty, offers to show her the bulls. He takes her within the Plaza and shows her all the interesting sights. The young people are mutually interested in each other and it proves a case of love at first sight. Alonzo also meets the girl and proposes for her hand. While Dolores loves Juan, she is quickly given to understand by her parents that Alonzo is a much more desirable match and that she must give up poor Juan. This Dolores reluctantly agrees to do. Finally the eventful day arrives. Alonzo, however, reaches the Plaza far too drunk to enter the arena and the management is in despair.
A Mexican Courtship
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Happy in the love of his devoted wife and their child, a young businessman found life's pathway pleasant. Then the greatest of sorrows came; his wife died and he was plunged into gloom.
The Warning
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
6.2 1912 • Cinematic -
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
She Cried
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
An early Norwegian silent short.
The Secret
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A sergeant and his nurse wife save a besieged hospital.
Muggins VC: The Defence of Khuma Hospital, India
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A farce in which Ms. Murphy finds that a horseshoe brings her anything but happiness.
How a Horseshoe Upset a Happy Family
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in canisters - goes awry.
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with successful results. Her capable hands were so busy that she had no time to think of love. One day, however, "the prince" appeared.
The Girl of the Grove
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Nothing to Wear
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Madeline carves a cross in memory of her husband, lost at sea. A sculptor recognizes her skill and invites Madeline to leave her fishing village and come to the big city. Later, the memory of the cross comes to her mind at difficult moments.
Rock of Ages
9.7 1912 • Cinematic -
This time Alkali Ike is dissatisfied with his boarding house and, when the buxom Sophie, a two-hundred-pound widow arrives in town, buys out Tony's place and nails up cards announcing that it will be opened on the following Tuesday as a first-class boarding house, Alkali is the first to see it, rushes back and begins to lay plans for switching at once.
Alkali Ike Stung!
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Maskierte Liebe
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Pyrenees mountain range, 17th century. Before dying, Diego de Robles, leader of a ruthless gang of highwaymen, has his daughter Carmen, a beautiful young woman full of courage, recognized as the new leader of the gang. (Partially preserved film: with a running time of approximately twenty-five minutes, about nineteen survive. There are doubts about the true identities of those involved in the production, both technical and artistic crew.)
Carmen, the Bandit's Daughter
5.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders, but, before he gets a chance to eat he is detected and thrown out. He breaks a store window and so loudly proclaims his guilt that the police do not believe him.
How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Mike breaks into an apartment to steal an old man's money, not realizing it's his girlfriend's father. When he discovers whose apartment it is, he begs her for forgiveness.
The Transformation of Mike
4.3 1912 • Cinematic -
Colonel de Valpeau lives alone with his negro servant, Zeno. Being pressed for funds, the Colonel is refused a loan on the hereditary estate, and is threatened with eviction.
Ghosts
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Victims of a tragic air crash are honoured in a sombre military funeral procession through the streets of Hitchin.
Hitchin. Honouring the Brave
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.
The Passer-by
5.5 1912 • Cinematic -
A foolish quarrel with his sweetheart and a desire for adventure caused a young man to enlist in the United States Navy. Soon after his departure his fiancée learned that she had treated him unjustly, but was unable to get any trace of him.
A Romance of the U.S.N.
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Yet again, Léontine ignores the well-meaning advice of her mother. She attempts to hang her downstairs neighbor (played by a man in drag) with a rope, which she then uses to attach a bookseller’s kiosk to a moving vehicle. A vengeful mob and the police gather, as they do, but she entraps them on a scaffolding by removing the rope ladder.
Léontine’s Pranks
4.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The inimitable Billy Quirk needs a wife in order to inherit his vociferous western uncle's fortune. Billy borrows his friend's wife. After a volcanic and side-splitting series of incidents, the breezy western uncle blows into town tagging with him a pretty stenographer. Well, you leave it to Billy. He gets rid of his borrowed wife in a hurry. And the uncle, what's the use! The story is as funny as a wooden leg would be on the Statue of Liberty.
Lend Me Your Wife
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Marie, a self-dependent girl, compromises herself by associating with Petro Maquin. She asks him to keep his promise to marry her. He ignores her and leaves the village to join a band of wreckers. The gossips circulate scandal about her, bringing reproach upon her name.
The Light of St. Bernard
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A production company holds a public competition for film ideas. The winning letter tells of a young woman's lost love in the 1840's. It is, in fact, the true story of a now elderly woman's life.
Adressatin verstorben
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A young man must overcome a stubborn mother's objections in order to marry the girl he loves.
When Wealth Torments
5.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Crooks kidnap musicians and take their places to rob a ball.
Three-Fingered Kate: The Pseudo-Quartette
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Jane Carston was to return tomorrow from Ohio, where she had been for the past three years in school, and the ranch was all agog with expectancy and cleanliness. Bob Evans, head cowboy, was most eager and most anxious of the lot. Tomorrow finally became today and Pa had gone to the station in his best linen duster and the buckboard to meet Jane. Finally, in a cloud of dust. Bob discerns them on the brow of the hill. Arriving at the house Jane greets mother with a rousing smack.
Her Friend, the Doctor
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The Prodigal Wife
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The emigrants are seen fighting the hordes of redskins. The hero rides to the settlement for help and engages in a thrilling duel with pursuing Indians. The settlers swoop down on the unprotected Indian village and burn it up. The savages seeing the flames, hurry back and fall into an ambush. They are attacked from the rear by the emigrants and from the front by the settlers. In a wild scene of carnage the surprised Indians are mowed down by the hail of bullets, horses and riders falling in tangled masses.
War on the Plains
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Young Billy Burns is in love with Irene Brander, to whose father he is private secretary. Irene returns his affection, but is very much afraid that her father will force her to marry Bert Austin, a young society and club man of his choice. Billy, seeing that this is imminent, goes boldly to Irene's house and asks her father for her hand.
Making Good
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Zweierlei Blut
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Bart McGrew, a notorious outlaw, lives in the hills with his young wife. McGrew's capture will be rewarded by the local lawmen, so Dan Trent acts to secure his arrest. McGrew suspects his wife and Dan Trent are committing treacherous acts against him.
A Wife of the Hills
5.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Bob Graham gains the consent of Grace Allen to marry before he leaves for the fall round-up. Bob takes with him a locket given him by Grace as a token of remembrance. Jed Brown, who has also loved Grace, goes with the punchers across the range and when opportunity offers steals the locket and forges a note which he returns and gives to Grace, making her believe that Bob has jilted her. Womanlike, she turns her affections to Jed and they are married. Bob learns of the trick and makes a solemn vow someday to get even.
The Oath of His Office
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
Aunty's Romance
5.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Detective Dublin Dan pursues a gang of counterfeiters including the leader, John Forsythe, who just escaped from prison.
Dublin Dan
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Following a bright wandering star, three magi from the East travel to Bethlehem of Judea to meet a very special newborn baby. Meanwhile, King Herod, driven by a hideous prophecy, orders him to be found and murdered.
Star of Bethlehem
5.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Jens wants to take his girlfriend out, and when his request for the evening off is refused, he sneaks out anyway. Unfortunately, the sergeant finds out about Jens' plans and follows him. (stumfilm.dk)
John Takes Himself Off
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
When the suitor of the daughter of an apparently wealthy widow finds out that the oil stocks, in which her late husband's fortune is invested, are worthless, he finds the daughter less attractive. The widow's broker has a wealthy friend, who becomes very interested in the girl, although he is twice her age. He proposes marriage, believing that he can win her love through kindness. The girl, for her mother' sake accepts and they are married. Despite his great love he is unable to overcome the great difference in their ages, so he buys the worthless oil stock so that she may be independent, and he then leaves her to go back to his oil fields. His sacrifice arouses the girl's love and she follows him to tell him of her awakening.
Just Like a Woman
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
When architect Ernstein falls for secretary Paula, his wife makes sure, that she is fired and evicted from her apartment. When she finds herself pregnant, Ernstein offers her money, but she chooses suicide.
Zu Tode Gehetzt
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Bettina was justified in being indignant because her employer, a married man, makes love to her. She tells her beau, Raymond, about it and he vows to get square with the old masher and teach him a lesson. He tells Bettina to send word to her boss that she is sick and obliged to remain at home for a few days, but she will send a substitute.
Bettina's Substitute, or There's No Fool Like an Old Fool
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Comedy superstar Kamma has her professional life and her relationship strained when her son Maurice becomes fatally ill. Only a small fragment of the film remains.
Comedians
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.
In the Year 2000
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
4.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right for her.
The Portrait of Lady Anne
6.6 1912 • Cinematic -
Everybody's ordered out on a strike when Benjamin Cohen, proprietor of a sweat-shop, reduces the employees' wages ten per cent. Rebecca Barish, a young Jewess, and her father, reluctantly go out with the rest. Unable to find other work, their circumstances become so reduced that Rebecca is obliged to go to the pawnshop with some of their belongings, and while there, Jacob Stattler, the pawnbroker, takes a fancy to her, and offers her father, through a schatehen, five hundred dollars to give her to him in manage.
Love in the Ghetto
10.0 1912 • Cinematic