John
A musical film directed by Geoffrey Benstead
Insp. Bedouin
A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
Reeder
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
Sleepwalker
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Tinker
A Sexton Blake mystery.
Beppo
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
General Walters
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
Fred Dorrit
A jailed debtor refuses to marry an heiress until she loses her fortune and he gains another. A roughly 20-minute condensation of the original British production survives.
Director
Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves only her pearls. Her husband, the Prince (E.F. Roseman), sells state secrets to a spy to pay her exorbitant bills, and her response is to report him to the secret police. Then she runs off to Monte Carlo with her lover, Count Zerstoff (Emil deVarney), but she poisons him after he racks up a load of gambling losses.
Matthew Northmore
A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
Mr. Peastone
A slum orphan, injured by a lady's car, becomes a dancer and marries the lady's brother.
Bob Cratchit
A miser is reformed by visions of past, present and future.
The cowardly son of a military family is cured by his wife's faith.
