The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.
Slim appears as a police court judge and Bobby as one of the jurors who is later given a job as bail...

A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to for...
Evil Red Sampson and his band of rustlers shoot up Mineral Point, the ranch of William Conway, owner...
Ruth Burroughs the daughter of a beleaguered rancher whose valuable property is threatened by a gree...
A drifter befriends wounded outlaw Lafe Wells. Having promised to deliver a sack of gold to the man'...

A timid bank clerk has to toughen up during the search for a gang of bank robbers.
Lightnin' Bill Williams, the owner of a 50,000-acre ranch near the town of Cactusville, takes a fall...

An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov...

The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S. government....

Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all ...

Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been wo...
Taxi driver Jim befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London. A p...

Samson Brown is a lazy and shiftless husband who lets his wife, Hannah, support the family. He is co...

Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to L...
The city chap arrives in a flivver and makes love to the daughter of the proprietor. The rival plays...

Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner'...

No prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original sc...

A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.

Dean Randall is a hero of the Great War who comes home to his horse and his father's ranch. When bac...