Edwin August

Edwin August

Edwin August (born Edwin August Phillip von der Butz; November 10, 1883 – March 4, 1964) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1909 and 1947. He also directed 52 films between 1912 and 1919. August co-founded Eaco Films in 1914. He wrote novels under the pen name Montague Lawrence. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

  • Title: Edwin August
  • Popularity: 0.403
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1883-11-10
  • Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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  • Also Known As: Edwin August Phillip von der Butz, Montague Lawrence
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Edwin August Movies

  • 1930
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    Romance of the West

    Romance of the West

    1 1930 HD

    Chasing the man who had caused the death of his sister, Jack Walsh rescues Mary Winters from the unwanted attentions of a drunk, and learns that she...

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  • 1911
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    The Long Road

    The Long Road

    1 1911 HD

    Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps...

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  • 1912
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    The Sands of Dee

    The Sands of Dee

    5.6 1912 HD

    A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he...

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  • 1914
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    Waifs

    Waifs

    1 1914 HD

    The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One friendly heart bred another. That was too much for...

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  • 1912
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    The Old Actor

    The Old Actor

    5.4 1912 HD

    An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the...

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  • 1910
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    The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

    4.7 1910 HD

    Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective...

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  • 1914
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    Into the Lion's Pit

    Into the Lion's Pit

    1 1914 HD

    Marius goes into the lion's pit, taking his life into his hands to save the girl who has been brutally left to die by Marius' rival.

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  • 1912
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    A Beast at Bay

    A Beast at Bay

    5.7 1912 HD

    Mary Pickford as "The Young Woman", is quite taken with Edwin August; in fact, he is her "ideal". But Mr. August's refusal to get mixed up in a...

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  • 1912
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    One Is Business, the Other Crime

    One Is Business, the Other Crime

    5.8 1912 HD

    Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over...

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  • 1912
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    The Lesser Evil

    The Lesser Evil

    5.3 1912 HD

    A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.

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  • 1910
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    Winning Back His Love

    Winning Back His Love

    4 1910 HD

    A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.

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  • 1911
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    The Revenue Man and His Girl

    The Revenue Man and His Girl

    4.5 1911 HD

    In the Kentucky backwoods, Dorothy West helps her moonshiner father take some jugs to his still; along the way, she meets dashing Edwin August. Ms....

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  • 1912
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    The Eternal Mother

    The Eternal Mother

    4.8 1912 HD

    John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife, Martha. She...

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  • 1912
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    The School Teacher and the Waif

    The School Teacher and the Waif

    4.3 1912 HD

    Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but...

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  • 1911
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    A Country Cupid

    A Country Cupid

    4.5 1911 HD

    Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away....

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  • 1942
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    The Pride of the Yankees

    The Pride of the Yankees

    7.4 1942 HD

    The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

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  • 1915
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    The Bomb Throwers

    The Bomb Throwers

    1 1915 HD

    "Red Mike" Davis, a notorious bomb thrower, has been landed in jail through the activities of Lawrence, the district attorney. During his...

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  • 1910
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    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    5 1910 HD

    Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends...

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  • 1912
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    Twixt Love and Ambition

    Twixt Love and Ambition

    1 1912 HD

    Silent one-reel melodrama

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  • 1929
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    Side Street

    Side Street

    5.7 1929 HD

    Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

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  • 1913
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    The Courage of the Commonplace

    The Courage of the Commonplace

    5.5 1913 HD

    A farmer's daughter, who devotedly endlessly gives selflessly of herself to her parents and younger siblings, dreams of going to college, which she's...

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  • 1938
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    Youth Takes a Fling

    Youth Takes a Fling

    1 1938 HD

    McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it...

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  • 1909
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    Getting Even

    Getting Even

    4.2 1909 HD

    All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all...

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  • 1909
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    The Lure of the Gown

    The Lure of the Gown

    4.5 1909 HD

    "Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

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  • 1915
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    When It Strikes Home

    When It Strikes Home

    1 1915 HD

    Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a son is born. Years later, Dick is in happy, but...

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    7.886 1939 HD

    Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...

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  • 1942
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    The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons

    7.331 1942 HD

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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  • 1912
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    Under Burning Skies

    Under Burning Skies

    4.7 1912 HD

    Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a...

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  • 1909
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    The Son's Return

    The Son's Return

    6.2 1909 HD

    A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

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  • 1910
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    The Song That Reached His Heart

    The Song That Reached His Heart

    5.2 1910 HD

    A Story of the Lumber Regions of Western Canada: a lumberjack remember his past while he listens to a record of the song his fiancée used to...

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  • 1913
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    The Calling of Louis Mona

    The Calling of Louis Mona

    1 1913 HD

    Louis Mona is left to the care of the monks of the monastery of San Luis, who have brought him up with love and care. Louis, who is devoted to his...

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  • 1914
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    An Evil of the Slums

    An Evil of the Slums

    1 1914 HD

    A young man who visits a shady bar and gets involved with the criminals there, by a misunderstanding becomes a murder suspect. An older man who...

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  • 1911
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    The Rose of Kentucky

    The Rose of Kentucky

    5.6 1911 HD

    A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger...

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  • 1909
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    The Welcome Burglar

    The Welcome Burglar

    1 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a man in an office in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1942
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    Gentleman Jim

    Gentleman Jim

    7.2 1942 HD

    As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

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  • 1910
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    The Golden Supper

    The Golden Supper

    4.5 1910 HD

    Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after...

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  • 1912
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    The Good for Nothing

    The Good for Nothing

    4 1912 HD

    A social comedy in which the young Dick Evans is seen as a failure, and then tries to prove himself to his father and father-in-law as an editor.

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  • 1911
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    His Daughter

    His Daughter

    4 1911 HD

    William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical...

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  • 1911
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    The Making of a Man

    The Making of a Man

    6.3 1911 HD

    A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father...

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  • 1910
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    Simple Charity

    Simple Charity

    1 1910 HD

    A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.

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  • 1911
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    Madame Rex

    Madame Rex

    1 1911 HD

    Located in the south of France, a woman, who, after the death of her husband, is forced to assume the management of the Gambling Casino, of which he...

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  • 1912
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    Lena and the Geese

    Lena and the Geese

    4.2 1912 HD

    A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same...

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  • 1922
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    The Blonde Vampire

    The Blonde Vampire

    1 1922 HD

    Marcia Saville, thought to be a hopeless flirt by her sweetheart, Martin Kent, shows him that she prefers Tom Smith, a man from the underworld,...

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  • 1942
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    Over My Dead Body

    Over My Dead Body

    1 1942 HD

    Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes)...

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  • 1938
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    Safety in Numbers

    Safety in Numbers

    1 1938 HD

    The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

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  • 1943
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    Mr. Lucky

    Mr. Lucky

    6.9 1943 HD

    A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

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  • 1937
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    Marked Woman

    Marked Woman

    6.5 1937 HD

    In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

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  • 1938
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    The Rage of Paris

    The Rage of Paris

    6.1 1938 HD

    Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of...

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  • 1918
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    The City of Tears

    The City of Tears

    1 1918 HD

    Chorus girl Rosa Carillo (Carmel Myers) finds herself in dire straits when the troupe she works with is disbanded and her last fifty dollars is...

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  • 1918
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    A Broadway Scandal

    A Broadway Scandal

    1 1918 HD

    Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (Edwin August) is in for quite a shock when he's...

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  • 1911
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    A Wreath of Orange Blossoms

    A Wreath of Orange Blossoms

    1 1911 HD

    The daughter of a poor seamstress takes a package to the house of her mother’s wealthy employer and meets the lady’s son. The son...

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  • 1910
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    A Child's Stratagem

    A Child's Stratagem

    1 1910 HD

    Mrs. Walton wilfully and mistakenly presumes that her husband is unfaithful, and demands a divorce. Devastated by the impending breakup of her home,...

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  • 1911
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    The Failure

    The Failure

    4 1911 HD

    A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind...

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  • 1910
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    The House with Closed Shutters

    The House with Closed Shutters

    5.2 1910 HD

    During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's...

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  • 1911
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    Conscience

    Conscience

    1 1911 HD

    As they have breakfast in their hunting lodge Howard jokingly tells his wife to improve her coffee or he'll shoot her. Later she meets him as he's...

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  • 1909
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    The Renunciation

    The Renunciation

    4.3 1909 HD

    Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

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  • 1912
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    When Kings Were the Law

    When Kings Were the Law

    1 1912 HD

    Over the Kingdom of Romanda there reigned a King who was greatly influenced by his favorite, whom he devotedly loved. He presents her with a necklace...

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  • 1911
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    The Manicure Lady

    The Manicure Lady

    5 1911 HD

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  • 1914
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    Into the Lion's Pit

    Into the Lion's Pit

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1915
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    The Bomb Throwers

    The Bomb Throwers

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1915
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    The Bomb Throwers

    The Bomb Throwers

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1914
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    An Evil of the Slums

    An Evil of the Slums

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1913
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    The Calling of Louis Mona

    The Calling of Louis Mona

    1 1913 HD

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