Movies: Kalem Company

  • 1907
    Ben Hur

    Ben Hur (1907)

    Ben Hur

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    The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ....

    Ben Hur
  • 1909
    A Slave to Drink

    A Slave to Drink (1909)

    A Slave to Drink

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    Illustrates a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the enemy of his family had already sunk its claws firmly upon James Grant. A man of superior intelligence, his habits hold him down to the lot of a commo...

    A Slave to Drink
  • 1915
    The Leap from the Water Tower

    The Leap from the Water Tower (1915)

    The Leap from the Water Tower

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    Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Learning of the impending peril, Helen dashes to a wat...

    The Leap from the Water Tower
  • 1910
    The Lad from Old Ireland

    The Lad from Old Ireland (1910)

    The Lad from Old Ireland

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    A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home....

    The Lad from Old Ireland
  • 1913
    The Cave Men's War

    The Cave Men's War (1913)

    The Cave Men's War

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    The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People....

    The Cave Men's War
  • 1912
    From the Manger to the Cross

    From the Manger to the Cross (1912)

    From the Manger to the Cross

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    The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land....

    From the Manger to the Cross
  • 1914
    Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw

    Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw (1914)

    Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw

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    After he learns hypnotism, a husband uses it on his wife and mother-in-law. While they're in a trance, he goes out on the town with other women....

    Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw
  • 1915
    The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight

    The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight (1915)

    The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight

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    Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard an outgoing freight and drops onto the roof of the ...

    The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
  • 1913
    The Pursuit of the Smugglers

    The Pursuit of the Smugglers (1913)

    The Pursuit of the Smugglers

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    A short smugglers’ drama in which a new employee of the harbour police starts working for an export trader, so as to keep an eye on the smugglers. After a wild chase, the smugglers are captured, and it turns out that harbour police agent and the daug...

    The Pursuit of the Smugglers
  • 1916
    The Girl from Frisco

    The Girl from Frisco (1916)

    The Girl from Frisco

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    A series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself....

    The Girl from Frisco
  • 1910
    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged (1910)

    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

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    Anastasia is being picked up by an artist who wants to paint her picture.The artist have other intentions as well. He tried to seduce Anastasia. When he is tired of her, Anastasia returns home to her mother....

    The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged
  • 1917
    The Man from Tia Juana

    The Man from Tia Juana (1917)

    The Man from Tia Juana

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    Jack Hoxie and Marin Sais star in this 'American Girl' short. A courageous young woman must clear her boyfriend after he is framed for a hold-up....

    The Man from Tia Juana
  • 1913
    Breaking Into the Big League

    Breaking Into the Big League (1913)

    Breaking Into the Big League

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    Montjoy Jones, a disgraced baseball player after losing a game due to a dropped flyball, begins to dream of a scenario where he makes the catch, and becomes a hero....

    Breaking Into the Big League
  • 1913
    The Vampire

    The Vampire (1913)

    The Vampire

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    The story hinges on the redemption of a country boy, an artist, who has fallen among evil companions, and is an outcast....

    The Vampire
  • 1915
    The Death Train

    The Death Train (1915)

    The Death Train

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    The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives capture two of the trio, but one of them gets away, pursued by Helen, across a high railroad trestle. Seve...

    The Death Train
  • 1914
    The Brand

    The Brand (1914)

    The Brand

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    Mary's lot. always hard, becomes doubly so upon her father's death. Desiring to re-marry, the girl's stepmother conspires to get her out of the way....

    The Brand
  • 1911
    The Fiddler’s Requiem

    The Fiddler’s Requiem (1911)

    The Fiddler’s Requiem

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    The old musician playing his fiddle in his garret home dreams of his youth and his lost love. As the past unfolds itself he sees his sweetheart, Dolores, forced by her parents to sign a contract of marriage with Don Carlos, and he again reads over in...

    The Fiddler’s Requiem
  • 1916
    The Mysterious Cipher

    The Mysterious Cipher (1916)

    The Mysterious Cipher

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    Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defrauding the railroad. A car-load of cheap furniture is shipped with a valuation of $40,000 on it. Blanding, the tool of Chilton and his partner, awaits at ...

    The Mysterious Cipher
  • 1914
    Sherlock Bonehead

    Sherlock Bonehead (1914)

    Sherlock Bonehead

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    Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with Helen, a girl from the city...

    Sherlock Bonehead
  • 1914
    A Celebrated Case

    A Celebrated Case (1914)

    A Celebrated Case

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    Foster sister of the Duchess d'Aubeterre, Madeline, marries Jean Renaud, a French soldier, and has a daughter named Adrienne. Five years later, on a battlefield, Renaud is entrusted by the Count de Moray with jewels and papers proving that Adrienne i...

    A Celebrated Case