Movies: American Mutoscope And Biograph Company

  • 1909
    The Wooden Leg

    The Wooden Leg (1909)

    The Wooden Leg

    41909HD

    A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers, and the disgusted suitor rejects her....

    The Wooden Leg
  • 1909
    Twin Brothers

    Twin Brothers (1909)

    Twin Brothers

    51909HD

    Two boys, twins, leave the old homestead to seek their fortune in the world. They go divergent roads, and are soon widely separated one from the other, but they grow lonesome and try to find each other's whereabouts, without success. We lose sight of...

    Twin Brothers
  • 1909
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe (1909)

    Edgar Allan Poe

    5.11909HD

    As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her....

    Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1909
    The Jilt

    The Jilt (1909)

    The Jilt

    0.51909HD

    John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and convinces him to jilt her at the altar....

    The Jilt
  • 1909
    The Winning Coat

    The Winning Coat (1909)

    The Winning Coat

    51909HD

    A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He returns to the castle and hides until the kidnappers show up, then he exposes the kidnapping plot....

    The Winning Coat
  • 1909
    Tragic Love

    Tragic Love (1909)

    Tragic Love

    41909HD

    Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike his wife when Bob interferes, incurring the resentment of the doctor. During the flurry Mrs. Rankin dro...

    Tragic Love
  • 1909
    Trying to Get Arrested

    Trying to Get Arrested (1909)

    Trying to Get Arrested

    3.51909HD

    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 Eavesdropper

    The Eavesdropper (1909)

    The Eavesdropper

    3.51909HD

    Hidalgo offers his daughter's hand in marriage when he can't repay a loan to Manuella. But when Manuella overhears the daughter bidding farewell to her lover, he is so moved by their devotion that he cancels the debt....

    The Eavesdropper
  • 1909
    Mrs. Jones Entertains

    Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)

    Mrs. Jones Entertains

    3.21909HD

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    Mrs. Jones Entertains
  • 1909
    Drive for a Life

    Drive for a Life (1909)

    Drive for a Life

    1.51909HD

    Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save his fiancée before she eats the candy....

    Drive for a Life
  • 1908
    The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora

    The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora (1908)

    The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora

    2.51908HD

    A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are seated an old gentleman, a duenna, and a pretty young Senora. The inevitable happens; all are relieved...

    The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora
  • 1909
    The Suicide Club

    The Suicide Club (1909)

    The Suicide Club

    01909HD

    One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. Presumed to be a lost film....

    The Suicide Club
  • 1909
    The Roue’s Heart

    The Roue’s Heart (1909)

    The Roue’s Heart

    4.51909HD

    Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of diversion he visits the art rooms, just as a young girl enters with a magnificent piece of sculpture ...

    The Roue’s Heart
  • 1909
    A Troublesome Satchel

    A Troublesome Satchel (1909)

    A Troublesome Satchel

    3.51909HD

    Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a colleague and return the bag and tools....

    A Troublesome Satchel
  • 1909
    One Touch of Nature

    One Touch of Nature (1909)

    One Touch of Nature

    31909HD

    "A pathetic story of mother's grief. No more intense emotion can be imagined than a mother's grief for her dead child. and this Biograph subject beautifully portrays a story of maternal bereavement. It also shows the seemingly cruel workings of fate...

    One Touch of Nature
  • 1909
    The Deception

    The Deception (1909)

    The Deception

    21909HD

    A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without telling him the truth. When he discovers her lie, he is determined to leave her, until she is injured an...

    The Deception
  • 1909
    A Fool's Revenge

    A Fool's Revenge (1909)

    A Fool's Revenge

    0.51909HD

    A court fool believes the Duke is after his beautiful daughter, and arranges to have the Duke murdered. The daughter overhears the plot and, disguised in the Duke's cloak, sacrifices her life to save him....

    A Fool's Revenge
  • 1909
    The Prussian Spy

    The Prussian Spy (1909)

    The Prussian Spy

    51909HD

    Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy....

    The Prussian Spy
  • 1908
    A Famous Escape

    A Famous Escape (1908)

    A Famous Escape

    01908HD

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    A Famous Escape
  • 1909
    Lucky Jim

    Lucky Jim (1909)

    Lucky Jim

    31909HD

    Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim....

    Lucky Jim