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.
12th release in Lubin's "Patsy Bolivar" 1-reel comedy series.
Cigar counter girl Tessie tips off her mechanic boyfriend that a wealthy women is going to buy a car...

Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family...

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

Curley Smith, a lieutenant of the Texas Rangers, gets chased by a band of smugglers after getting ca...

To her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the butler's...
A band of desperadoes employed as cow punchers take advantage of an ordinance prohibiting the carryi...

Martin, the heroine's father is falsely believed to be in league with fur thieves, but the real vill...

Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Be...
When a bank is robbed, the cashier is killed and suspicion for the murder unjustly falls on Jim Mard...
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...
Slim appears as a police court judge and Bobby as one of the jurors who is later given a job as bail...
Two cowboys are in love with a single lass. A hypnotist shows up one as a sheik which turns her affe...

Plot concerns happy-go-lucky rancher who decides to spruce up in order to win the affection of a gir...

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...