Movies: John T. Dillon

  • 1917
    A Rich Man's Plaything

    A Rich Man's Plaything (1917)

    A Rich Man's Plaything

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    Marie Grandon may have seen more of the world than any nice girl ever would, but her motives remain pure. Marie labors in a New England oyster cannery and dreams of someday crushing the slumlords who prey upon the poor. While on a cruise, "Iron" Lloy...

    A Rich Man's Plaything
  • 1925
    Midnight Molly

    Midnight Molly (1925)

    Midnight Molly

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    Midnight Molly' is hit by a car while evading the police, and mistakenly identified as the wife of John Warren, candidate for mayor, whom she resembles. The real Mrs Warren has run off with another man, George Calvin, and John Warren is happy to reco...

    Midnight Molly
  • 1913
    A Chance Deception

    A Chance Deception (1913)

    A Chance Deception

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    The jealous husband saw a flirtation; the Raffles, a necklace. The husband's suspicions were further confirmed when the Raffles came out of his hiding. The Raffles permitted the deception, until his manhood came to the surface. He realized how his ow...

    A Chance Deception
  • 1912
    A Cry for Help

    A Cry for Help (1912)

    A Cry for Help

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    Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several tim...

    A Cry for Help
  • 1912
    A String of Pearls

    A String of Pearls (1912)

    A String of Pearls

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    A story about a poor young man who falls ill, while his wealthy employer ignores his plight and instead spends lavishly on a pearl necklace for his wife. The poor man recovers with the help of his community, while the rich wife falls ill and dies, th...

    A String of Pearls
  • 1913
    The Vengeance of Galora

    The Vengeance of Galora (1913)

    The Vengeance of Galora

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    In her own outraged sense of injury Galora sought to bring the young express agent into the justice that men might give, while the other woman sought to save his life from moral disaster and won. So the vengeance of Galora worked for the common good;...

    The Vengeance of Galora
  • 1913
    For the Son of the House

    For the Son of the House (1913)

    For the Son of the House

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    In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist the sordid way of poverty and sin. The woman's indulged son, overcome by his weakness and debt, robs his mother. It is then the girl saves the home fr...

    For the Son of the House
  • 1911
    Fisher Folks

    Fisher Folks (1911)

    Fisher Folks

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    A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt....

    Fisher Folks
  • 1913
    The Telephone Girl and the Lady

    The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)

    The Telephone Girl and the Lady

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    D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewe...

    The Telephone Girl and the Lady
  • 1913
    Olaf—An Atom

    Olaf—An Atom (1913)

    Olaf—An Atom

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    Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to return her kindness when he overhears a plot to r...

    Olaf—An Atom
  • 1913
    A Dangerous Foe

    A Dangerous Foe (1913)

    A Dangerous Foe

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    The judge's young daughter championed the cause of Ching Fow against "The Bull." Kindness begot kindness again in a manner unlooked for and unusual. Ching Fow proved himself an unconscious humorist, but his very practical joke saved a life, making as...

    A Dangerous Foe
  • 1914
    The Tear That Burned

    The Tear That Burned (1914)

    The Tear That Burned

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    The Tear That Burned is a silent movie drama....

    The Tear That Burned
  • 1913
    Under the Shadow of the Law

    Under the Shadow of the Law (1913)

    Under the Shadow of the Law

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    In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective continually on his track, he is able to save both a young woman's honor and her weak brother from the h...

    Under the Shadow of the Law
  • 1916
    Destiny's Toy

    Destiny's Toy (1916)

    Destiny's Toy

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    Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly gets involved with a criminal gang. When the gang attempts and fails to rob wealthy Thomas Carter's h...

    Destiny's Toy
  • 1914
    The Hop Smugglers

    The Hop Smugglers (1914)

    The Hop Smugglers

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    Short, silent movie about a female journalist who does a sensational article for the newspaper investigation opium smuggling....

    The Hop Smugglers