Shifting Sands (1918)
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Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 0M
Director : Albert Parker
Sinopsis
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well.
A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
A young woman visiting in Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits, who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the country well. But when Bill cannot find a horse, his only available form of transportation is his roadster. Nevertheless, he is determined to come to her rescue, even though it means trying to drive the car across miles of rocky, broken terrain.
Tras una fuerte discusión con Bill Fadden, su novio de toda la vida, Ruth Brock lo deja plantado y se pasa toda la tarde con Romer Sheffield, un apuesto joven que conoce casualmente en la calle. Algún tiempo después, cuando, solucionados los problemas, Bill y Ruth están a punto de casarse, el fantasma de esa tarde reaparece. Tanto Bill como sus familiares y amigos creen que Ruth ese día le fue infiel. Al extenderse ese rumor, Ruth pierde incluso su trabajo. Entonces la joven decide buscar a Romer para que sea él quien explique lo que pasó de verdad esa maldita tarde. Solo así podrá lavar su reputación.
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
En un viejo pueblo americano, conviven el vago del pueblo, al que todos llaman Bim, y un niño huérfano y vagabundo, estableciéndose entre ellos una relación paternofilial. Bim está enamorado de una joven cuya vida en sociedad nada tiene que ver con el vagabundeo, y un día decide ayudarla con una cantidad de dinero desaparecida, algo que acarreará graves consecuencias.
Tres hombres y dos mujeres de distintos orígenes son llevados a un platillo volante donde un extraterrestre les explica que su pueblo vive en un planeta moribundo y necesita a la Tierra. Sin embargo, su código ético no les permite conquistarla. ¿La solución? Que sean los propios humanos quienes aceleren su propia destrucción. Para ello les da a cada uno tres cápsulas capaces de destruir la vida humana en un radio de 2.500 kilómetros. Los cinco elegidos disponen de 27 días para utilizarlas.
Esta película narra la historia de los trabajadores franceses que construían las vías de los trenes. Los valientes hombres fueron parte de una resistencia organizada durante la ocupación de los alemanes en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
El nominado al BAFTA René Clement (Juegos prohibidos, A pleno sol) escribe y dirige este drama bélico protagonizado por Marcel Barnault (I.F.1. no contesta), Jean Clarieux (La Vía Láctea, París, bajos fondos) y Jean Daurand (Alerta en el Mediterráneo, En legítima defensa), entre otros.
Wilson, un duro ex-presidiario inglés, viaja a Los Ángeles para vengar la muerte de su hija. En cuanto llega, se enfrenta a Valentine y a un ejército de criminales de Los Ángeles, con la esperanza de hallar pistas y armar el rompecabezas. Tras sobrevivir a una brutal paliza, después de ser lanzado desde lo alto de un edificio y perseguido en el descenso de una peligrosa carretera de montaña, Wilson decide reaccionar y, muy pronto, en Los Ángeles todos sabrán que el "Inglés" está en la ciudad.
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.