Movies: Marc Robbins

  • 1916
    The Mainspring

    The Mainspring (1916)

    The Mainspring

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    Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs....

    The Mainspring
  • 1916
    The Social Buccaneer

    The Social Buccaneer (1916)

    The Social Buccaneer

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    While working in China for Nathan Goldberg, a New York Jewish importer, Chattfield Bruce comes to admire the Robin Hood philosophy of Wong Lee, who gives to the poor all the food, clothing and money that he steals from the rich. After Chattfield info...

    The Social Buccaneer
  • 1918
    Riders of the Purple Sage

    Riders of the Purple Sage (1918)

    Riders of the Purple Sage

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    Lassiter quits the Texas Rangers and spends his life in pursuit of a group of Mormons who kidnapped his married sister. In a town on the Utah border, he meets the Withersteens and falls in love with their daughter, Jane. He also befriends Venters, an...

    Riders of the Purple Sage
  • 1918
    True Blue

    True Blue (1918)

    True Blue

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    True Blue begins with the marriage of black-sheep British nobleman Gilbert Brockhurst to the daughter of a Western rancher. When he learns that he has inherited his father's title and estate, Brockhurst deserts his wife and young son Bob. Upon attain...

    True Blue
  • 1920
    Li Ting Lang

    Li Ting Lang (1920)

    Li Ting Lang

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    In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudice is broached here -- and Hayakawa still doesn't get the girl, who in this case is society girl Mar...

    Li Ting Lang
  • 1917
    The Heart of a Lion

    The Heart of a Lion (1917)

    The Heart of a Lion

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    Hiram Danforth (William Farnum) is on a quest to find his birth mother, a search complicated by his upbringing and the social context of the time. The movie explores the themes of his murky, repressed past, and the journey he undertakes to uncover it...

    The Heart of a Lion