Alfred Sutro

Movies

The dangerous game
Writer
When Ellen Brenton takes a swim too far from the shore she is be saved by the lifeguard Bob. While her husband is away on business Bob gets drunk and try to romance Ellen in her hotel room. There's a scandal in the media.
The Laughing Lady
Theatre Play
A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of her child.
A Society Scandal
Theatre Play
Hector Colbert sues his wife Marjorie for a divorce after Peters, an admirer of Marjorie, deliberately compromises her. Colbert's lawyer, Daniel Farr, believing that Marjorie's behavior was wrong, gets the divorce, but he ruins the reputation of a fun-loving woman who was simply bored with her husband. Later, she and Farr meet; she plots a revenge against the lawyer but confesses her fabrication when she realizes that she loves him.
The Great Well
Theatre Play
In India a major tries to cash in on a dry oil well but shoots himself when the oil returns.
John Glayde's Honor
Theatre Play
John Glayde is a stone-hearted man intent on wealth to elevate his family, losing his wife to another man in the process.
The Builder of Bridges
Theatre Play
Edward Thursfield, chief engineer of the bridge building firm of Henry Killick and Company, is building the largest concrete bridge in the world. Employed in the New York office is a young man named Arnold Faringay. Arnold sees an opportunity of using money from the payroll for a big deal.