Movies: George D. Melville

  • 1915
    Vanity Fair

    Vanity Fair (1915)

    Vanity Fair

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    "Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15 y.o. and played the role of the young Becky Sharp. Directors obviously took notice of her performanc...

    Vanity Fair
  • 1917
    The Last Sentence

    The Last Sentence (1917)

    The Last Sentence

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    George Crosby, a New York lawyer, with a passion for painting, wearied of his legal duties, sails for Brittany, where he meets Renée Kerouac, a fisher-maiden, and sketches her as a Corregan, a fairy who destroys the men who refuse her love. Hoel Kall...

    The Last Sentence
  • 1917
    A Wife by Proxy

    A Wife by Proxy (1917)

    A Wife by Proxy

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    The film opens in Ireland, as a dying Patrick McNairne tells his daughter Jerry to go to New York and look up Norton Burbeck, a wealthy young man whose life Patrick had saved some time earlier (the surviving print, largely complete, lacks the second ...

    A Wife by Proxy
  • 1912
    The Shaughraun

    The Shaughraun (1912)

    The Shaughraun

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    Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella. Conn the Shaughraun comes to his rescue, helps him to escape from the prison ship and r...

    The Shaughraun
  • 1913
    The Favourite for the Jamaica Cup

    The Favourite for the Jamaica Cup (1913)

    The Favourite for the Jamaica Cup

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    Gambler wrecks train in order to kill racehorse....

    The Favourite for the Jamaica Cup
  • 1915
    The Menace of the Mute

    The Menace of the Mute (1915)

    The Menace of the Mute

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    Young Edyth Vail, believes her fiancé Allen Morris may have committed a murder, asking Ashton Kirk to investigate the crime. The fiancé admits he went to the David Hume's home to retrieve plans for a submarine, invented by his scientist father and st...

    The Menace of the Mute
  • 1915
    An Affair of Three Nations

    An Affair of Three Nations (1915)

    An Affair of Three Nations

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    Ashton Kirk is a wealthy and scholarly young man who solves mysteries that have the police puzzled. Stella Morse asks Kirk to find out who is threatening her uncle, Dr. Morse. Morse has a copy of a secret treaty between Russia and the United States t...

    An Affair of Three Nations