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.
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'...
A young man in love with a cabaret dancer is refused money by his father. He joins the dancer and he...

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

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college stude...

A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost. In this black comedy sce...
A princess avoids a forced marriage by changing places with her double.

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.

A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy ...

A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger k...
Cigar counter girl Tessie tips off her mechanic boyfriend that a wealthy women is going to buy a car...
Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself on...

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

“This hilarious bit of foolishness has for its theme the gradual rise of a hard-working plumber and ...

Abby Hopkins, the eldest of a small-town newspaper-owner's five daughters, is urged by her family to...

Jones is a traveling salesman -- or drummer, as they were known in those days -- who peddles Bibles ...