Sweet Alyssum
Daisy Brooks, wife of Roanoke Brooks, night watchman in the factory of Robert Garlan, does not love her husband or her daughter, Elizabeth. Instead, she loves his money and she enters the primrose path with Garlan in order to sati...
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"Tyrone Power Sr. shoots his wife and the man she has betrayed him with. Twenty years later, the man's son is framed for embezzlement so another man can take the money and his wife. He flees and as a school teacher, boards with Power and marries his daughter. It's a mess of a plot from a novel by the man better known for writing "When Knighthood Was in Flower" but it's handled pretty well, if a bit telegraphically in this short feature from 1915. The movie makers were still learning how to make features at this point and producer William Selig was a bit wary of the for..."
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Following the successful mid-1948 telecasts of Othello (1922) and The Eagle (1925), New York City's WJZ (Channel 7), began a series of silent film feature presentations, shown more or less in their entirety, which aired intermittently for the next twelve months. This feature was initially broadcast Wednesday 17 August 1949 in both New York City on WJZ (Channel 7) and in Baltimore on WAAM (Channel 13) and in Washington DC on WMAL (Channel 7).
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Daisy Brooks, wife of Roanoke Brooks, night watchman in the factory of Robert Garlan, does not love her husband or her daughter, Elizabeth. Instead, she loves his money and she enters the primrose path with Garlan in order to sati...