Cinematic Era: 1918 Vintage
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- 7.0 1918 • Cinematic
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Wealthy diamond collector Larry Hanrahan is given the opportunity to assist the beautiful, jewel-bedecked woman he admires in a Broadway café when she and her guardian are attacked by robbers. Larry is invited to visit the grateful pair, Col. Paul Gascoyne and his ward Adrienne, at the colonel's laboratory, where he is introduced to Wintermute, a chemist who produces imitation diamonds. In return, Larry asks them to view his priceless diamond collection. Although he has fallen in love with Adrienne, Larry is forced to believe that she is a thief when he is robbed by a woman wearing Adrienne's scarf. Larry finds his jewels in Gascoyne's house, but before he can escape, a group of thugs overpowers him. Adrienne assists him in contacting the police, who arrive in time to capture Gascoyne and his gang. Badly wounded, the colonel confesses that Adrienne has been his innocent dupe, whereupon Larry happily takes her to his heart.
Hearts or Diamonds?
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Helene, who dances in a Greenwich Village cabaret accompanied on the violin by her grandfather, loses her job after his death. She then is hired as a portrait model by four artists--Jaffrey Darrel, Ned Lorrimer, Dick Turner and Stanley Sargent--all of whom become fascinated with her. Helene leaves the Village when Ned's jealousy disrupts the camaraderie of the quartet and becomes a stage star. Meanwhile, all of the artists have attained success except Jaffrey, who refuses to taint his art with commercialism.
The Cabaret
8.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The aging writer Shelestov falls passionately in love with a young actress Olga Rogina and wants to marry her. They spend many evenings together and, it seems, their story is approaching a happy denouement. But suddenly, a plane of a famous aviator lands near the town because of a plane breakdown. Romantic Olga falls in love with him and, leaving Shelestov, flies away with the pilot of the plane. The writer becomes desperate and commits suicide.
The Tale of the Spring Breeze
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Harry would prefer to marry his Grete on the spot, but at first he must have the approval of his father-in-law. He must prove that he is able to feed his future wife. So the poor fellow has a lot to think about in order to make enough money - which does not go without complications.
Harry wird Millionär
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Die beiden Meier
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Thomas Bellamy, a small black boy, is denied membership in the P. D. Q. Club, a secret organization composed of white boys, because of his color, but this does not dampen his ardor.
The Chocolate of the Gang
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Captain Grogg proposes to Sylfidia after saving her from a lobster. Kalle tries to talk him out of it.
Captain Grogg Is Getting Married
8.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The Eclipse of the Sun was a science film released in July 1918, one month after a solar eclipse visible across the United States. This film was created while Max Fleischer was working at Bray Productions.
The Eclipse of the Sun
6.7 1918 • Cinematic -
Der provisorische Ehemann
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The first appearance of Heinrich Schroth as Joe Deebs, a popular detective character in German silent cinema patterned after Sherlock Holmes.
The Rolling Hotel
10.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The opening picture finds Edith in prison where she has been for the last three years. She is a widow and her baby has been placed in an institution. She is paroled, finds her child and steals him from the asylum. After wandering around she finally obtains a position in a department store, where Jim Roberts, superintendent, falls in love with her. They are married, but she fails to tell him of her past. Mabel, also freed from prison, demands that Edith join with her and her side partner in a crime, under threat of exposing her past to Jim.
The Triumph of the Weak
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
The Paperhangers' Revenge
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Zigeunerprinsessen
10.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Die Musikantenmädel
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.
Camouflage
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The tiny Hans meets the woman of his dreams. She is a big powerful nurse. Hans disguises himself as a baby.
Das Baby
6.5 1918 • Cinematic -
Das Maskenfest des Lebens
10.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Allen Spargo, a mining engineer who is betrothed to Theresa Kane, goes West to make his fortune and is seriously injured in an accident. Kate Leonard, who falls in love with him while nursing him to recovery, jealously intercepts his fiancée's letters and then writes Theresa that Allen is dead.
A Gentleman's Agreement
10.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A doctor and an undertaker form a partnership and get more business through the alliance, but one or the other loses his wife in the business rush.
Watch Your Neighbor
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A táncosnő
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A ravaging epidemic is fast approaching the world city of Atlantica. In his laboratory, the famous doctor Harold Lister works like a maniac on a serum to counteract the deadly plague. His colleague and competitor Whistler labels Lister’s efforts as pure fantasies and even plants seeds of doubt in the mind of Lister’s fiancée, Julia, the daughter of a millionaire. When the plague comes to town carried by a poor woman, Annie Rawlins, Whistler’s claims are put to shame: the serum works. But while Lister works tirelessly to stop the infection in the city, the jealous Whistler breaks into the laboratory and substitutes the serum for a fake. Soon the citizens of Atlantica believe their medical hero to be a fraud. (Stumfilm.dk)
The Doctor
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Die Buben aus der Paulsgasse
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Bobby Bumps, his dog Fido, and a shady mouse get into a jar of jam--and trouble.
Bobby Bumps Caught in the Jam
5.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A number of boys are enjoying themselves at the old swimming hole in the bend of the creek, disporting themselves on the bank and in the water minus bathing suits: clad only in nature's garb. Tad and Mark, two urchins, are not members of the swimming hole gang.
Tad's Swimming Hole
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Die Jüdin
8.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Elena and Zefor are brothers. They live with their mother in a wild country where smuggling reigns. At their modest home, Zefor plays the violin while she dances to entertain the bandits. Arturo, one of them, has conquered Elena's heart.
L'ira
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Daughter of an Eastern lumber king, Stephanie Trent travels in the guise of a schoolteacher to the logging village of Trentsville to search for "a real man." There she meets Jimmy Raymond, a young novelist posing as a local while writing his story. When Stephanie comes to Jimmy's cabin to report a supposed plot against him, he acts as though he intends to assault her. She nearly throws herself out the window but is stopped by Jimmy, who explains that he is working on a novel and merely wanted to determine a young girl's reactions. In retaliation, she orders that he be kidnapped and held in a nearby cabin, but remorsefully nurses him back to health when he is shot trying to escape.
Back to the Woods
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
When Benny Boggs, a good-natured hobo, is rejected by the U.S. Army, he decides to overcome his aversion to work and offers assistance to a farmer known as Old Man Cushing. Cushing falls seriously ill and, believing he is about to die, asks Benny to deliver a package to his daughter Ruby, who left home to pursue an acting career. Benny soon learns that the package contains $50,000, but resolves to earn the old man's trust, despite his poverty. After arriving in the city, Benny rescues Beatrice Burnett from an attacker, and the two become friends. Later, Beatrice takes Benny to visit her ailing friend, who identifies herself as Cushing's long-lost daughter. Benny gives the money to Ruby and accompanies her back to the farm, where they receive a warm greeting from Cushing, who has recovered from his illness. The army finally accepts Benny, and Ruby promises to marry him when he returns from active duty.
An Honest Man
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A bored princess' flights of fancy cause troubles for the entire household, especially her husband.
Durchlaucht Hypochonder
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.
Pershing's Crusaders
5.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Melodrama about alleged adultery, jealousy and honor.
Das Lied der Colombine
6.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Fedora, a beautiful and elegant woman of Russian society, travels to Paris in search of her fiance's murderer.
Fedora
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
An Orthodox rabbi deals with tragedy and a rapidly changing way of life, as secularism becomes the norm.
Jehova
4.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Little Red Riding Hood
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Wo die Lerche singt
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
In order to help her poverty-stricken family, Jonnie Consadine, a strong-willed young woman from the Blue Ridge Mountains, comes to the city and takes a job in a mill, while her uncle, Pros Passmore, continues his endless search for a lost silver mine.
The Power and the Glory
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Prøvens Dag
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Thais
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels represent Dziga Vertov's first contribution to cinema.
Kino-Week No. 21
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Smilin' Billy Parsons comedy distributed by National.
A Pair of Pink Pajamas
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Der Teilhaber
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a layabout.
Mile-a-Minute Kendall
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One day, in the studio, she happened to hear a colleague actor who, back from the front, tells about the brutalities suffered by the civilians in the occupied territories. At night, still troubled by that story, Bertini falls asleep and dreams: in her dream she plays the role of Mariute, a young Friulian countrywoman, mother of three kids waiting for her husband homecoming from the frontline. One day, while she is going to the well for water, she is assaulted and molested by three enemy soldiers. Her father-in-law will avenge her. In the meantime Bertini, waking up with a start, will arrive to work on time and she will end the film inviting the public to put their savings into the war bonds.
Mariute
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors. But their mutual enemies figure out a lie that will separate them. Maria will become temporarily rich but then she will commit a crime and will divert into the slums. There Luigi will meet her again.
L'avarizia
10.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Tausend und eine Frau. Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Das Ist die wahre Liebe nicht
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A Scots-Irish lad comes to America hoping to find his fortune. On the sea voyage he meets and falls for a lovely young girl, but they are parted on arrival. Years later, in the Kentucky town where he has settled and prospered, he meets the girl again, and both sparks and complications arise.
Sandy
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Rehabilitation of the mutilated in the fields of WW1.
Réeducation des mutilés: aux champs
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The true incident of the German U-Boat which torpedoed an Argentine ship to make Argentina declare war on the Allies. The film was not as successful as Cristiani's previous film, The Apostle from 1917, since Without a Trace was confiscated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by order of President Hipólito Yrigoyen and purportedly destroyed. It is unknown if any copies of the film exist, and it is currently considered a lost film.
Without a Trace
6.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Der Todestraum
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Der Mut zur Sünde
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
A beautiful cigarette factory worker becomes the face of the company's new marketing campaign. Soon she attracts the attention of two men - a talented young composer and an old rich patron of arts.
Mania
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Der geprellte Don Juan
7.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Adaptation of Elinor Glyn's romance novel When the Hour Came.
Sphynx
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The life of Alemdar Mustafa Pasha.
Alemdar Mustafa Paşa
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Snowy Baker is a secret service agent called in to crack a ring of foreign agents involved in treason and civil violence in Australia. Jack's sweetheart, Myee, is kidnapped by the villains, but after a long chase Jack is able to trap the enemy and rescue Myee.
The Enemy Within
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
The Woman the Germans Shot
0.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), and finally leaves him. After three years she returns but leaves each evening, returning late arousing the suspicion of her husband. Having her followed he soon learns that she visits a child. Suspecting the worst because of her friendship with Dr. David Brett (Phillips), he institutes divorce proceedings. Edith confesses the truth about the child and Arthur, realizing his folly, swears off liquor and they are reunited.
Daybreak
9.0 1918 • Cinematic -
Rose Hale, a country girl, rescues Ralph Van Court after he becomes lost while hunting in the Adirondacks. Ralph had recently been spurned by his former love, Viola Shepard, who chose to marry his wealthy uncle for money. Rose and Ralph marry, but she soon finds herself neglected by her city-dwelling husband once the honeymoon phase ends.
Her Mistake
4.0 1918 • Cinematic