Frank Dayton Movies

A love triangle.

John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is the only existing example. Billy wants to be a B...

A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was his own brother.

A young woman's father arranges a loveless marriage for her to a banker to whom he owes money, but she is eventually reunited with the man she truly l...

A young man leaves his Southern home, his father and his sweetheart, and falls into bad company in the big city.

The Right of Way

Russell Shirley calls on Harriet Gorman, to whom he is engaged, and they happily plan for their wedding, which is to take place in a few days. On the...

The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk. They didn't want a regular guy to get "stepped on," so they...

Aunt Mahaley knew Uncle Brewster was sporty, and when he went to the city to pay off his mortgage she warned him about being too free with his coin. H...

A 15-episode dramatic action movie serial only two of which survive.

Frank Clayton, a young city chap, plans a vacation on Uncle Barnes' farm. Going to his friend, George Randall, Clayton shows him Barnes' letter asking...

Colonel de Valpeau lives alone with his negro servant, Zeno. Being pressed for funds, the Colonel is refused a loan on the hereditary estate, and is t...

An old man plots to have his enemy's son convicted of his own murder.

Stumbling into the squalor of her miserable tenement room the woman, a wretched victim of drink and dissipation, sinks down at the table and lights th...

American horror short from 1919.

A girl falls in love with a rich passerby. She breaks off her engagement, marries the rich man and moves to the city. After five years she feels very...

Forced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona Fairfax is known to farmers of her district as Young Mother...

A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself...

The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the happenings of their younger days. How the young man...

Ethel Vandiver and her friend, Marie Le Farve, arrive at the former's country home. Ethel's father objects to her seeing Douglas, whom he thinks is a...