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- After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
- The Sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community, populated by New York City police officers, slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.
- In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
- Unpleasant story of rape and murder involving a disturbed veteran of the war in Vietnam.
- V has turned into everything that women hate, but still has no trouble finding a number of them to sleep with...and then not call. When he realizes that his womanizing ways can't erase what's been plaguing him, he turns to his friends Nick, Scott (also known as "Squatty" for his urination techniques), and Desmond, whose lives aren't as cozy as they seem either, and they head upstate for a month-long bonding adventure. In the woods of their childhood summer stomping grounds, they are met with freedom, temptation, euphoric outlets, and a powerful dose of reality. It is here that they are visited by a free-spirited local and her bag of goodies who provides them with unconventional wisdom, but it's up to them to know what to do with it. As the summer nears its end, their friendship is inevitably tested as each must confront his own inner demons before they all head back home to straighten out their lives. The film takes a look at issues that people face as they head into their 30s and more specifically touches on broken and failing relationships while examining how vulnerable lifelong friendships truly are. We never realize how fragile our connections with people really are. This film plays with the strings that bind friends and family, and it sometimes pulls too hard.
- This is the story of Myke Hideous and the punk rock music industry.
- A psychosexual thriller about a boy who thinks he gets his mother pregnant by masturbating in the shower.
- London Bell shames his family, which contains a long line of legendary ball boys, when he gets banned from baseball for life for objectionable behavior. Down in the dumps, London's friends, Roman and Dublin, convince London to try out for Women's Tennis Federation despite London's reservations about tennis not being a team sport. The WTF is run by a wacky Orthodox Jewish Rabbi known as the Rabbi Mendel, who is assisted by the scheming Saul. At the tryouts, London goes up against some very athletic competitors, with the exception of one mentally challenged ball boy hopeful. The tryouts feature duels, where ball boys go one on one, as two guest players, the sexy champion Vlada and the no-nonsense number two contender Bella, smack volleys against each other. London ends up losing most of these duels and trudges back to his favorite dive bar, the OZbar. The one saving grace for London: He may have caught the attention of Bella. The OZbar also happens to be the celebrations location for the ball boys who won jobs. The obnoxious and steroid-inclined ball boy, Sebastian, ridicules London for thinking he could win a job in tennis just because he was a famous baseball ball boy. London, humiliated, gets a surprise visit from Coach Sven, the coach of the number one player Vlada...You can guess what happens...And no, London does not end up as a Ballboy for Coach Sven.
- Harold is ensnared by the wiles of Sybil, an adventuress. The boy forgets Helen, his country sweetheart. Sybil's influence over him is so evil that he can no longer apply himself to his work. His employer finally discharges him. When Harold's money is gone, the adventuress throws him over. He becomes a drunkard. Helen, failing to hear from him, comes to the city, where she secures a position. Harold decides to become a hold-up man. To pass away the time before midnight, he goes to a theater where Bert French and Alice Eis are presenting their famous "Vampire Dance." The characters are an artist and a vampire, in the guise of a wood nymph. Harold sees the artist attracted by the beautiful creature and then his struggles as he realizes what the result of the fascination must inevitably be. The victim beats her in his frenzy of fear, but is irresistibly drawn into the coils by the vampire's fiendish wiles. The vampire fascinates the man by her beauty and lures him toward a forest dell There the horrible creature succeeds in taking his life. Harold feels that a veil has been torn from his eyes. He seems to have reviewed his life with Sybil, and vows to reform. He succeeds in regaining his position and once more takes his place among men. The boy learns of Helen's presence in the city, but can find no trace of her. Sybil, learning of Harold's prosperity, attempts to drag him into her net once more, but the boy, with the memory of "The Vampire Dance" before him, resists her efforts. That night he finds Helen, and to insure his reformation, proposes immediate marriage. His sweetheart consents, and the knot is tied.
- Hunting Season explored duality of sexuality through perspective of a "cross dresser," named Madeline LaRue. While escaping from the fundamental life as George, Madeline meets the woman who opens his eyes of love, adventure and betrayal.
- Kimberly Alves, an assistant bank manager, meets Wolf Sutcliff, an overweight immortal man, when he robs the bank she works at. Kimberly realizes, that after being alive for thousands of years, Wolf feels as though he has nothing to live for and she takes it upon herself to help him find reason and purpose for his life.
- Lem Ransom, the village drunkard, steals the Widow Huggins' bonds while under the influence of liquor, at the instigation of Hannibal Chapman, an unscrupulous lawyer. After taking the stolen bonds from his catspaw, Chapman treacherously arranges to have suspicion fall upon Lem. The theft is discovered. Darius Startle, the constable, traces the robbery to Lem and arrests him. Chapman secures the man's silence by promising to look after Lem's wife and his daughter Nance, while he is in prison. The drunkard is sentenced to three years at hard labor. Laater. Lem learns that Chapman has broken his promise when Nance writes him her mother is dying and that they are in want. Frazier, his cell-mate, comes to his assistance and gives him money to send to Nance. Thaddeus Strong, the new minister, arrives at Hardscrabble. Strong's doctrines are disapproved of by the narrow-minded deacons of the church, A day or two later, these deacons, of whom Chapman is one, learn that Lem has been released because of good behavior and is coming home. They decide to force him out of the village. Lem finds a champion in Strong. Chapman fosters the ill feeling entertained by the deacons against the new minister, by declaring that he should be ordered to cease his friendship for the ex-convict. The church officials hold a meeting. They decide to visit Strong and make known their objections to the doctrine he is preaching and to his friendship for Lem. Lem is in an adjoining room when the deacons call upon the minister. Lem hears Chapman demand that Strong cease his friendship for him. Upon the minister's refusal. Chapman declares that a meeting will be held by the church officials and that Strong's dismissal will result. Lem bursts into the room and announces his intention of being present at the meeting. Chapman is terrified. Frazier breaks jail and comes to Hardscrabble. He appeals to Lem for aid. Ransom hides the man in his cellar for the time being. Darius comes to Lem's house in search of the escaped convict. He enters the cellar and is made a prisoner by Frazier, who forces the constable to change clothes with him. Chapman calls to see Lem, The convict escapes in the lawyer's buggy. Several villagers seeing the man dressed in Darius' clothes and riding in Chapman's buggy, fear something has occurred. They hasten to Lem's house, knowing the lawyer has called upon him. Darius, in the cellar, hears the conversation between Chapman and Lem. He learns of the former's guilt. Emerging from his hiding-place, the constable places the man under arrest. The villagers enter and Chapman's rascality is made known.
- Marion and May, two-year-old twins, are the pride of the Chesapeake Foundling Asylum, but there comes a time when it is decided to separate them, since no one is inclined to adopt them both. May is the first to go and falls into the hands of an unscrupulous woman, a professional beggar. Marion becomes the daughter of a wealthy English couple, who shortly afterward return to England. Twenty years pass. May is a notorious counterfeiter. A raid by Federal officers results in the capture of her confederates, but she makes her escape. Marion's adopted parents die, leaving a document which informs her of her twin sister. She determines to find her and leaves for America. A falling brick injures her shortly after her arrival and she is taken to a hospital where her physician falls in love with her. His mother invites Marion to her home. Marion is accosted by one of the counterfeiters, who believes she is May, while walking with the doctor. The doctor repulses the man. The latter decides upon revenge and decoys Marion to a house where with a companion to aid him he binds her. The men leave and May arrives in their absence. She is followed by the doctor a few moments later, he having traced Marion to the house. Just as the sisters are about to embrace, the counterfeiters return. Seeing the doctor one of the men shoots at him, but May interposes her body and receives the bullet in her breast. She dies just as the police break into the room. Thus, after twenty years, the sisters meet, only to part forever.
- The Zulu chief of the Amatabele tribe has an only daughter who dies of fever at age 4; in the opening scene of this Biograph story he is burying her. Scarcely has the poor bereft father laid the little one in the ground, when the war cry is heard resounding in the hills. There is an uprising and the chief is summoned to action. Tearing himself from the grave of his little girl, he arms himself with his assegai and oxhide shield and is soon at the head of his band of savages, with sinister designs on the Boers. The Boers themselves have become active, and scouts have been sent out to warn those nomadic South Africans who might be on the road. One family, comprising a Boer, his wife and a four-year-old girl, is trapped, and despite extreme measures to elude the merciless black brutes, soon overtaken. Finding escape hopeless, the Boer leaps from his wagon, and sending his wife and child into the woods, seizes his rifle, in the vain hope of holding the savages at bay while the woman and child seek a place of safety. There is a shower of assegais, one of which pierces the poor fellow, dropping him into the road. Up rush the prancing, jibbing, gibbering barbarians. Finding the man dead, they rush on to find the others. The distracted woman hides the girl in a niche in the rooks, while she goes to find some avenue of escape, but she is at once apprehended and taken by the band to their camp, their chief remaining behind. The baby now comes forward to appeal to the Zulu, who is so reminded by her of his own lost treasure that his cruel nature at once softens as the little one offers her dollie as ransom for her mother. The chief is so moved that he vows to save the mother's life, if it costs him his own. Placing the little one in a crevice in the rocks, where she soon falls asleep, he goes to find the mother. Arriving at the camp, he demands the release of the woman, which his followers grant with protests. Back he goes to get the child, but the wily devils have anticipated him and carried her off. He soon overtakes them, however, and after slaying three in a terrific conflict, delivers the child to its mother, and then sees them safely to their destination. The subject is a beautiful story of parental affection, portrayed in a most novel manner, besides being intensely thrilling.
- Uncle Tom and Eliza's child are sold to Haley, a slave dealer. When Eliza learns that her son is to be taken from her, she steals the boy and runs away. Her flight is discovered. The slave crosses the ice-filled river and joins her husband, George Harris, who is also a runaway slave. The two foil their pursuers and get away. Uncle Tom is placed aboard a steamboat to be taken down the river. Later, he saves the life of little Eva, who has fallen overboard. St, Clare, her father, purchases Uncle Tom in gratitude for the slave's heroism, Uncle Tom and Eva become firm friends. St. Clare, as a joke, presents Aunt Ophelia, his New England relative, with Topsy, a mischievous imp. Always a delicate child, Eva fades away and dies. Shortly afterward, St. Clare is killed while attempting to stop a saloon brawl. His estate is sold and Uncle Tom is purchased by Simon Legree. One of the field hands turns in a cotton basket that is short weight. Uncle Tom is ordered to flog the woman. Upon his refusal, Legree orders Tom flogged. Later, Emmaline and Cassie, two slaves, hide themselves in an attempt to escape. Legree believes that Uncle Tom knows their hiding place. He orders the old slave to reveal the whereabouts of the two women. When Tom pleads ignorance, Legree has him flogged to death. Young Shelby, the son of Uncle Tom's former master, comes upon the scene just as the faithful old slave dies. The boy turns furiously upon Legree and knocks the man down. Legree drowns the humiliation of the blow in drink and dies in delirium shortly afterward. Shelby reverently takes Uncle Tom's body back to the old plantation, where it is laid away near the old slave's cabin.
- A short comedy about people who sacrifice their happiness in search of a life and those who avoid their lives in search of happiness.
- While in New York seeking work, Cynthia, a young English girl, meets Bruce Crittenden and George Rhode who introduce her to Madame Savarin, a wealthy woman seeking a companion for a sea voyage. She hires Cynthia, and while at sea, Cynthia discovers that Bruce is the ship's purser. Cynthia's father was a famous wireless expert who taught her how to read code, which enables her to overhear a plot to sink the ship and steal Mrs. Savarin's jewels. Soon after, the crew mutinies, and while Rhode and Bruce fight the crew, Cynthia sounds the alarm. As he is attempting to foil the jewel thieves, Bruce falls overboard, and Cynthia swims to his rescue with the jewels strapped to her back. They are rescued by a government patrol boat and taken back to New York where Cynthia and Bruce are married.
- When Thomas Douglas, an elderly widower, marries Sybil he does not take into account that the difference in their ages would prevent the interests of the two from being in common. Douglas' son, Harold, does not see his stepmother until after the marriage, and then the fact they are of the same age soon makes them fast friends. Douglas, at first pleased because of the friendship of the two, gradually allows himself to suspect them of being in love with each other, a suspicion fanned by a cynical friend who magnifies harmless incidents. The father decides to verify his suspicions and announces that he must leave the city. Upon his father's departure, Harold makes his home at the club. That night as Sybil is removing her jewels she notices the butler watching her with avaricious eyes. Leaving the room for a moment she returns to find the butler turned thief. He knocks her down and ties her, but she manages to crawl to the 'phone on her table and tells Harold of her predicament. He arrives in time to fell the thief, and catches Sybil in his arms as she faints. Douglas enters the room at this moment and believes his suspicions well-founded. The butler tells him he has been assaulted by Harold when he discovered him making love to Sybil. Douglas orders his son to atone for his offense by doing away with himself. Harold leaves the room, pistol in hand. Afterwards Douglas discovers his error. Harold, who can see no reason for his father's accusation, throws the pistol to the floor where it explodes. Douglas, hearing the report, believes that his son has done away with himself. The shock is too great for his heart. Although he learns of his mistake when Harold enters the room, he passes away, smiling a request at his wife and son for forgiveness.
- May, age 20, and Bessie, age 6, live with their grandfather, an old recluse and bookworm. May is invited to a dance by Jim, the ne'er-do-well son of Mrs. Heap, the housekeeper. May dislikes Jim and doesn't want to go, but her grandfather persuades her to accept the invitation. Bessie has made a pet of a white mouse and shows it to her grandfather who smiles absently and returns to his books up in the garret. At the dance, a bully insults May and Bob, a stranger, knocks down the bully. Jim fears the bully and is angry at this turn of events. May shows her contempt for him by accepting Bob's invitation to take her home. The two fall in love. Mrs. Heap discovers the hiding place of the old man's gold; filled with greed, she takes her son and the bully into her confidence and they plot to steal the money. May goes out with Bob the following night; during their absence, Jim and the bully overpower the old man, and when Bessie enters, they warn her to keep silent. She scrawls a note calling for help, pastes it on the back of her mouse, and shoves her pet into the mouthpiece of a speaking-tube that leads to the lower part of the house. May returns home and sees the mouse peeking out of the tube. She pulls it out and finds the call for help. She summons Bob, who is talking with a policeman, and they return to the house. Jim and the bully are about to escape when Bob and the officer capture them. Bob releases the old man and tells him of his love for May; in gratitude, the grandfather consents to their engagement.
- Harvey, manager of his father's mine, sees Anna struggling in the embrace of Sanders, a mine foreman. He knocks the man down. Later, the boy accompanies Anna to her home. The two fall in love with each other. A number of men are discharged by Harvey's father, in an effort to cut down expenses. Sanders sees an opportunity for revenge. The man incites the miners to strike for the reinstatement of their comrades. Davis, Anna's father, is one of the men who has lost his job. The family is thrown into dire want. Unable to pay their rent, they are dispossessed. Harvey comes to the rescue. Sanders later tells Davis that Harvey is a spy in the interests of the mine owner. The boy is ordered from the house. Sanders plots to blow up the mine office while the young manager is at work inside. Anna overhears the man discuss his deadly scheme. The foreman makes his way to the office and plants a bomb in the vestibule. Anna arrives a moment later. Seizing the infernal machine she hurls it into the street. The girl faints as the result of the nervous strain. The bomb explodes. Sanders, lurking outside, to witness the result of his scheme, is knocked unconscious. Harvey and his father rush out of the office. Anna recovers and reveals the foreman's dastardly plan. The man is led away under arrest. Filled with admiration for his sweetheart's courage, Harvey informs his father of his intention to marry Anna. The mine owner gives the lovers his blessing and in gratitude for his son's narrow escape, reinstates the miners.
- Preaching religion to young Burton Harris has about the same effect on him as waving a red cloth in front of a bull. Religion to him is a species of hypocrisy and he knows no God. No church for him; he is going fishing. Coming home, he meets his mother walking with a neighbor and the minister, just as they are leaving church. The minister, seeing the fishing tackle in his hand, administers a sharp reproof to Burton, who, in a sudden storm of anger decides to leave for the big city, where he can do as he pleases. Several years speed by, and Burton, now a man about town, is leaving a gambling house where he has just made a "killing," when he drops his watch, the back cover of which flies open, disclosing his mother's face. The picture brings to his memory a letter he received that morning in which his mother requested him to come home before she dies. So Burton decides to return home. But he comes too late, and all the money he has won over the gambling table cannot bring her back to life. Overcome with remorse, he decides to earn an honest living and secures a position at a stone quarry nearby. Promotion comes rapidly, and with it as time passes, a wife and daughter. While at the quarries one day, an explosion which buries several of his men comes simultaneously with a message from his wife telling him their daughter is dying. Tom 'twixt love and duty he knows not what to do. Falling upon his knees he cries to Heaven, "God, save my child, give me strength," and rushes to help his men. When Burton finally arrives home, he finds that his prayer has been answered and that his daughter has returned from the edge of the Valley of the Shadow.
- Billy Wayne, railroad detective, is ordered to run down a gang of freight car thieves. In one of the rifled cars he finds a piece of paper on which several Italian words are written. He is led to suspect a gang of section hands working in the vicinity and fixes upon an Italian called Nick as their leader. Billy saves the life of Tony, a laborer. Nick, who loves Rosa, Tony's daughter, resents this friendship and quarrels with Tony. That evening the latter receives a threatening missive and in alarm sends Rosa for Billy. The detective finds that the writing in the letter is identical with that on the paper in his possession. The following day Billy accidentally loses a pair of handcuffs, which are found by Nick. The detective is waylaid that evening and is placed in a sack. Noticing a mall pouch hanging from a crane, and waiting to be picked up by the fast mail, Nick removes the pouch, replacing it with the sack containing Billy. The gang then proceeds to Tony's house. They attack him, after informing the man of the fate in store for his friend. Rosa dashes out of the house to save Billy, but the whistle of the fast mail tells her she cannot reach the crane in time. In desperation she snatches a stiletto from her bosom and hurls it into the mail car as it dashes by. The knife strikes the clerk, who is holding the mail catcher, in the arm. He releases his hold just in time to miss the sack containing Billy. The train is stopped and Billy liberated. The passengers, headed by Billy, rush to the house in time to save Tony. The desperadoes are soon in custody, and as Nick is taken away, Billy asks Rosa to be his wife.
- Roger and Donald are rivals for Amy's hand. Donald is the victor; Roger vows to get his rival out of the way. Donald's employer gives him a large sum of money to take to the firm where Roger is one of the clerks, Donald delivers the money and gets a receipt for it. The cashier who receives the money dies of heart failure immediately afterward. During the excitement, Roger steals the money and later purloins the receipt from Donald's pocket. Roger's firm has no knowledge of having received the money and Donald has no receipt to show that he has delivered it. He is charged with having stolen the cash and is sent to prison for five years. Amy finally marries Roger. Amy learns her husband's true character. She also discovers the stolen receipt, which Roger has kept. Donald is discharged from prison. He meets Amy by accident and learns of Roger's treachery. The latter overhears the conversation and learns that Donald proposes to break into the house and recover the receipt. Roger hastens home and so arranges the drawer of his dresser in which the paper is hidden that Donald, in opening it, will be shot by a revolver fastened within. Amy learns of the plan, but her husband imprisons her in an outhouse. Donald breaks into the house and commences his search. Amy escapes from the outhouse and arrives outside the window of Roger's room in time to see Donald about to open the dresser drawer. She fires her revolver to warn the man. Donald starts back in fright. Roger, in the next room, believes his plot has succeeded and rushes into the room. Seeing Donald alive, he thinks the shot has gone wild. He rushes to the dresser and pulls the drawer open. A shot rings out and Roger falls with a bullet in his heart.
- John Dickson, millionaire candidate for mayor, is in love with Dora Malcom, a society girl. He finds, however, that she is engaged to marry Frank Stevens. He hides his grief and promises to be best man at the wedding. Higby, a political boss, determines to discredit Dickson as he fears he will be elected. He hires Maggie Lee, an unscrupulous woman, to appear at Dora's wedding and claim that Dickson is her husband. The program is followed out to the letter. Maggie appears and makes the accusation, but on questioning, says that Dickson hired her to do it. Dickson's infatuation for Dora is so well known that the statement is believed and he quickly loses his popularity. Dora postpones the wedding, but does not lose her faith in Dickson, whom she knows to be an honorable man, Stevens is angered at her defense of the man, an altercation follows and Dora breaks the engagement. Maggie Lee, although a hard, calloused woman, has a little daughter whom she worships. The child is lost one day and Dora is the means of restoring her to the mother. Maggie's gratitude is so great that she confesses her crime and makes a public denunciation of Higby, who hired her to lie. Public sympathy quickly shifts to Dickson and he is elected by a large majority. As a further reward, Dora promises to become his wife.
- The paymaster of one of the mines is stricken with heart disease while on his way to pay his men. He staggers to the railway station and leaves the money with Dick, the telegraph operator for safe keeping. Two tramps witness the incident and plan to steal the money. A trackwalker reports a dangerous landslide. Dick sets the danger signal to warn the Overland Express. He decides to remain on duty until the track is cleared. To pass away the time he calls up his sweetheart, Margaret, the operator at the local exchange. The tramps overpower Dick after a desperate struggle. They bind and gag their victim, after which they rifle the safe. Learning of the landslide, they remove the danger signal, thinking the train wreck will hide their theft for a while longer. Dick knocks the phone off his desk with his feet. Margaret answers but can only hear peculiar mumbling over the wire. Dick finally removes the gag and tells his sweetheart of what has taken place. Margaret dashes over to the station just in time to flag the express. The train crew go in pursuit of the thieves. The hobos are found a mile down the track fighting over a division of the spoils. They are captured and led away. Margaret and Dick receive the congratulation of the railroad officials because of their splendid work.