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In the early 1860s, the Stonemans, an affluent family from the Northern States, visit their friends, the Camerons, in the South. Austin Stoneman, a congressman who supports the abolition of slavery, is unaware that his daughter Elsie is idolised by Ben, the oldest of the three Cameron boys. This will be the last time either family will know such peace and unity...
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Four interwoven stories spanning mankind’s turbulent history show how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity across the ages. When social reformers bring about a strike in our modern era, a young woman is driven to the city, where a series of tragic circumstances rob her of her husband and her newborn child...
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Countryside neighbours Suzie and William are in love, but being young and inexperienced in the ways of love, neither knows how to open his heart to the other. William wants to go to college but his father, a poor farmer, cannot afford the fees. Suzie comes to William’s aid, selling her treasured cow and some other possessions to pay for his college education...
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18th century Paris. An aristocratic woman is forced to abandon her infant daughter on the steps of a cathedral. The child, Louise, is found by a man who takes her home and rears her with his own daughter, Henriette. Years pass and the two girls grow into handsome young women, but an outbreak of plagues robs them of their parents and Louise of her sight...
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Extreme personal circumstances drive a young woman to abandon her newborn baby. The infant is discovered by a solitary tramp who decides to adopt it. Five years on, the child and his surrogate father have formed a professional partnership – the boy goes around smashing windows, the tramp then turns up to replace all of the broken windows...
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In the sleepy rural town Blossom Bend, a grandmother lives with her beloved grandson, whom she has nurtured and taught since he was a baby. Now 19, the boy is a timid young man who is afraid to propose to the girl he loves and is tormented by a bully of his own age. The final humiliation comes when the town’s sheriff enlists his help in arresting a troublesome vagrant and he only succeeds...
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Marie St Clair and her lover Jean Millet plan to leave their French village and start a new life in Paris as man and wife. On the eve of their departure, Marie is locked out of her house by her cruel stepfather and Jean tries to persuade his parents to let her spend the night in their house. Knowing that Marie is a woman of ill repute...
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A young man named Harold sets out to make his fortune in the city but ends up as a low paid shop assistant in a large department store. He scrimps and saves so that he can buy jewellery for Mildred, his girlfriend back home, to convince her that he is making a successful career for himself. But Mildred becomes concerned that her beau may be corrupted by city life so she sets out to join him...
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Harold is the very epitome of the confirmed bachelor – or he is until he runs into an attractive young woman whilst running to his best friend’s wedding. It is love at first sight and Harold knows he must yield to the inevitable – Cupid has done his work and now there is no escape. Harold’s marital bliss is immediately compromised when his wife’s battleaxe mother...
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Everyone refers to Steve Tuttle as Lazybones, and with good reason. He spends his days idling around, too lazy even to patch up the house he lives in with his aged mother. He ought to get married. He has taken a shine to Agnes Fanning. But what’s the hurry? There’ll be time enough for all that later. One day...
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An anonymous tramp makes the journey to Alaska, hoping to make his fortune in the gold rush. Caught in a snow storm, he takes refuge in a log cabin in which he confronts an escaped convict, Black Larsen, and another prospector, Big Jim McKay. The latter has just discovered a large gold deposit, but Larsen attempts to steal it for himself...
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Dancer Sally O’Hara has barely set foot in Monteblanco before she is swept off her feet by the dashing Prince Danilo. On the day of their wedding, Danilo is persuaded by his uncle, King Nikita I, that he cannot marry a commoner, and so Sally ends up marrying Baron Sadoja, whose wealth is bankrolling the country. The baron dies on her wedding night...
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A favourite of King Louis XIII of France, the handsome courtier Bardelys has a reputation for fashion and womanising that is second to none. His rival, Chatellerault, challenges him that he cannot win the heart of the chaste Roxalanne de Lavedan. Bardelys accepts the wager and sets out to make his next great conquest, certain of his success...
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Paris, 1914. Chico, an atheistic loner, has grown tired of toiling in the sewers and hopes that one day he will become a street washer like his neighbour Gobin. Meanwhile, sisters Diane and Nana receive an unexpected visit from their wealthy relatives, who offer them the prospect of a better life. When Diane admits to being a prostitute...
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A young woman from the city finds refuge in an isolated rural community, where she immediately starts to have an affair with a married farmer. Mesmerised by the alluring woman, the farmer neglects his wife and squanders his money to impress his new lover. As her holiday comes to an end, the temptress suggests that the farmer should sell his land and return with her to the city...
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America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life – his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Annabelle’s father and brother enlist in the Confederate Army, but Johnnie is turned down because he is more valuable as a railway man. Annabelle refuses to have anything to do with Johnnie until she sees him...
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In Manhattan, New York, Rabinowitz is the Cantor at the Russian Jewish synagogue and is adamant that his young son Jakie will carry on the tradition which goes back five generations. Jakie, however, has other ideas and is more interested in singing ragtime numbers at the local beer garden. When he hears of this, Rabinowitz is outraged and drags his son home so that he can beat some sense...
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Alonzo the Armless is the main attraction in a Spanish circus with his knife throwing act, which he performs with the use of his feet. Only Alonzo’s assistant Cojo knows that he is a fake, that he really has two perfectly intact arms. However, Alonzo profits from his supposed affliction to win the sympathy of circus girl Nanon...
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For years, Bill Canfield has made a successful living ferrying passengers up and down river in his old steamboat. But now he faces ruin when the town’s banker, James King, starts up a rival business with a brand new steamer. Canfield is cheered by the news that his son is planning to stay with him, having just graduated from college...
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Mistaken for a pickpocket, a tramp is pursued by a policeman through a fairground and takes refuge in a circus big top. When he inadvertently makes the audience roar with laughter, the tramp is immediately engaged by the circus proprietor. It soon becomes apparent that the tramp has no future as a clown so he ends up working as a prop man...
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