The Suicide Club

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.

A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper’s offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to…
A Gilbert M. Anderson film directed by , released in 1909.
Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks’, and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to make on this anniversary of their nativity suitable gifts, each to the other, Hardluck…

A neighbor visits her friend, taking with her her child, a little girl about the same age as the friend’s little girl. Both children being full of mischief, they immediately put into execution a number of startling and ingenious pranks.…

A Gilbert M. Anderson film directed by , released in 1909.

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby,…

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle’s fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns to his bachelor lifestyle but realizes he can’t get his wife’s face out of his thoughts.

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing…