Movies: John R. Cumpson
- 1908
The Stolen Jewels (1908)
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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...
- 1909
Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)
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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....
- 1909
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
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- 1909
Trying to Get Arrested (1909)
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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....
- 1909
The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909)
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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...
- 1909
A Rural Elopement (1909)
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Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
- 1909
Confidence (1909)
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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....
- 1909
A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
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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....
- 1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
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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...
- 1909
The Cardinal's Conspiracy (1909)
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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 ...
- 1909
Mr. Jones’ Burglar (1909)
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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...
- 1909
The Lure of the Gown (1909)
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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 ...
- 1909
His Wife's Mother (1909)
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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....
- 1910
The Eternal Triangle (1910)
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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....
- 1909
The Road to the Heart (1909)
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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....
- 1909
The Note in the Shoe (1909)
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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....
- 1909
Resurrection (1909)
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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...
- 1910
The Nichols on a Vacation (1910)
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A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at....
- 1909
The Salvation Army Lass (1909)
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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...
- 1909
The Voice of the Violin (1909)
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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....