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.
A story with a college background revolves around sprinter Charles Paddock, utilizing newsreel foota...

Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of dr...

An adventure tale set in the North Woods. The villain, smuggler Jules Payette, would give anything i...
A princess avoids a forced marriage by changing places with her double.

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

Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the ...
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...

While romancing the millinery store owner, Custer finds himself falsely accused of murdering his bos...
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...

Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to L...

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