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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," featuring several characters on a patio investigating a body that has just fallen from the roof. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Murphy the cop (played by Fred Mace) kneels as he is tormented by his wife (Dot Farley) who chokes him with one hand and raps him on the head with the othe... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John Storm (played by Harry Benham) is in a heated discussion with a police chief or some other authority (played by Morgan Jones) in a scene still from th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young) stands in a doorway and gestures toward a bedroom to two police officers. The officer with his head thrown b... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Wallace Reid, dressed in white tie and tails, sits on a table and looks sheepish. He is surrounded by men, one without trousers, apparently after a fistfig... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Surrounded by a crowd of extras in evening clothes, a police officer (played by Arthur Bauer) holds out a wanted poster reading "Reward $50,000 Charles Bur... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In a scene still set in a police station for the 1915 Thanhouser silent drama "Bianca Forgets" are Bianca Wells (played by Florence La Badie wearing a whit... |
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