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Under the Top (1919) on 4 january 1919
, 50minutesDirected by Donald Crisp
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Fred Stone, Ella Hall, Sylvia Ashton, James Cruze, Charles Ogle, Guy Oliver
The Homesteader (1919) on 2 january 1919
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Evelyn Preer
Rating68%
The Homesteader involves six principal characters, the leading one being Jean Baptiste (Charles Lucas), a homesteader far off in the Dakotas, living where he alone is black. To this wilderness arrives Jack Stewart, a Scotsman, with his motherless daughter, Agnes (Iris Hall). In Agnes, Baptiste meets the girl of his dreams. Agnes, however, does not know that she is not white. Peculiar fate threw her in the company of the Homesteader, but their love is forbidden by the custom of the country. Baptiste eventually sacrifices the love of this girl of his dreams, goes back to his own people and marries the daughter of a preacher.
The Black Secret (1919) on 2 january 1919
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Pearl White, Walter McGrail, Wallace McCutcheon Jr., George B. Seitz, Harry Semels
Rating15%
The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1919) on 1 january 1919
Directed by Henry Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Romance
Actors Chrissie White, Henry Edwards, Henry Vibart
Do You Love Your Wife? (1919) on 5 january 1919
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Actors Stan Laurel, Bud Jamison, Gus Leonard, Belle Mitchell, Marie Mosquini, William Gillespie
Rating51%
Elmo, the Mighty (1919) on 2 january 1919
Directed by J. P. McGowan, Henry MacRae
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Elmo Lincoln, Grace Cunard, Rex De Rosselli, William Orlamond
Know Thy Wife (1918) on 30 december 1918
, 13minutesDirected by Al Christie
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dorothy Devore, Leota Lorraine, Earle Rodney, Harry L. Rattenberry
Rating56%
Camping Out (1919) on 5 january 1919
, 20minutesDirected by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Roscoe Arbuckle, Alice Lake, Al St. John, Monty Banks
Rating53%
A man runs away from his wife's bad cooking, camps out on Santa Catalina Island, and attempts to do his own cooking.
Roped (1919) on 3 january 1919
, 1hDirected by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Harry Carey, Neva Gerber, Mollie McConnell, J. Farrell MacDonald
Rating44%
Cheyenne Harry is a wealth ranch owner. After his cowboys put an ad in the newspaper trying to find him a wife, Harry marries Aileen Judson-Brown. A year into their marriage, Aileen gives birth to their first child. The new family live with Aileen’s status seeking mother, Mrs. Judson-Brown. Mrs. Judson-Brown tries everything in her power to break up the marriage so her daughter can marry the wealthier Ferdie Van Duzen. Mrs. Judson-Brown steals Harry and Aileen’s baby and tells Harry that Aileen no longer loves him and their baby has died. Heart broken, Harry moves out west.
The Lightning Raider (1919) on 2 january 1919
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Pearl White, Warner Oland, Boris Karloff
Rating59%
Little Orphant Annie (1918) on 31 december 1918
Directed by Colin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Colleen Moore, Tom Santschi, Eugenie Besserer, Ben Alexander, Billy Jacobs, Lillian Hayward
Rating65%
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
Treat 'Em Rough (1919) on 5 january 1919
Directed by Lynn Reynolds
Genres Western
Actors Tom Mix, Jane Novak, Val Paul, Charles Le Moyne, Jack Curtis
As described in a film publication, daredevil cowboy Ned Ferguson (Mix) is hired by John Stafford (Curtis) to stop the cattle rustling plaguing his ranch. On the way to the ranch Ned is bitten by a rattlesnake and is nursed by Mary Radford (Novak), who is writing a western novel. Ranch foreman Dave Leviatt (Le Moyne) tells Ned that Mary's brother Ben (Paul) is behind the rustling. After Ben and Ned come to an understanding, Dave shoots Ben from undercover, and Ben is sure that Ned double-crossed him. Mary will have nothing to do with Ned, even after Ned saves her life during a cattle stampede. Ned finally runs down the rustlers, and Mary sees him as a hero instead of merely putting him in her novel.
The Professor (1919) on 1 january 1919
, 7minutesDirected by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Albert Austin, Tom Wilson, Henry Bergman, Charlie Chaplin
Rating59%
The Professor is a 1919 American silent comedy film made at the Chaplin Studios for the First National film company starring Charlie Chaplin. However, the film was never released or even completed. Chaplin abandoned production after finishing only one scene.
Out of the Shadow (1919) on 5 january 1919
Directed by Émile Chautard
Origin USA
Actors Pauline Frederick, Wyndham Standing
As described in a film magazine review, Ruth Minchin is unhappily married to her father's business partner Gabriel, who is a drunken brute. She starts a friendship with Severino, a pianist who lives in the same apartment building. Her husband discovers them together, orders Severino from the room, and strikes his wife down. Severino kills Gabriel while in a delirium following pneumonia, and Ruth is suspected of the crime. She is befriended by Richard Steel, who knew her husband from their time in Australia. However, Richard is also suspected of the crime, and she cannot marry the man who may have killed her husband. She later recalls the confrontation when she had been with Severino, and under pressure the pianist confesses to the crime, solving the mystery and leaving Ruth Richard on the road to happiness.