Movies: John R. Cumpson

  • 1908
    The Stolen Jewels

    The Stolen Jewels (1908)

    The Stolen Jewels

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    It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of a case of jewels at the home of Robert Jenkins, a wealthy stockbroker, and although they were eventu...

    The Stolen Jewels
  • 1909
    Jones and His New Neighbors

    Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)

    Jones and His New Neighbors

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    Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation....

    Jones and His New Neighbors
  • 1909
    Mrs. Jones Entertains

    Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)

    Mrs. Jones Entertains

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    Mrs. Jones Entertains
  • 1909
    Trying to Get Arrested

    Trying to Get Arrested (1909)

    Trying to Get Arrested

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    A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person....

    Trying to Get Arrested
  • 1909
    The Violin Maker of Cremona

    The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909)

    The Violin Maker of Cremona

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    A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, S...

    The Violin Maker of Cremona
  • 1909
    A Rural Elopement

    A Rural Elopement (1909)

    A Rural Elopement

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    Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company....

    A Rural Elopement
  • 1909
    Confidence

    Confidence (1909)

    Confidence

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    Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her....

    Confidence
  • 1909
    A Drunkard's Reformation

    A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)

    A Drunkard's Reformation

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    A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them....

    A Drunkard's Reformation
  • 1909
    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)

    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

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    Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening...

    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
  • 1909
    The Cardinal's Conspiracy

    The Cardinal's Conspiracy (1909)

    The Cardinal's Conspiracy

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    A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially ...

    The Cardinal's Conspiracy
  • 1909
    Mr. Jones’ Burglar

    Mr. Jones’ Burglar (1909)

    Mr. Jones’ Burglar

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    Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in time to catch him. Instead of calling for the police, he restages the capture in an overdramatic fashion...

    Mr. Jones’ Burglar
  • 1909
    The Lure of the Gown

    The Lure of the Gown (1909)

    The Lure of the Gown

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    "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 masterpiece of the dressmaker's art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom is Enrico, the ...

    The Lure of the Gown
  • 1909
    His Wife's Mother

    His Wife's Mother (1909)

    His Wife's Mother

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    Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk....

    His Wife's Mother
  • 1910
    The Eternal Triangle

    The Eternal Triangle (1910)

    The Eternal Triangle

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    A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is mortally wounded and his now repentant wife chooses to join him in death....

    The Eternal Triangle
  • 1909
    The Road to the Heart

    The Road to the Heart (1909)

    The Road to the Heart

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    Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he reconciles with his daughter so he can get a good meal....

    The Road to the Heart
  • 1909
    The Note in the Shoe

    The Note in the Shoe (1909)

    The Note in the Shoe

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    A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job for her, as his wife....

    The Note in the Shoe
  • 1909
    Resurrection

    Resurrection (1909)

    Resurrection

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    Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in t...

    Resurrection
  • 1910
    The Nichols on a Vacation

    The Nichols on a Vacation (1910)

    The Nichols on a Vacation

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    A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at....

    The Nichols on a Vacation
  • 1909
    The Salvation Army Lass

    The Salvation Army Lass (1909)

    The Salvation Army Lass

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    A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward...

    The Salvation Army Lass
  • 1909
    The Voice of the Violin

    The Voice of the Violin (1909)

    The Voice of the Violin

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    A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich capitalist's house. When he realizes it's Helen's house, he tries to stop the plan....

    The Voice of the Violin