The She Devil (1918)
Género : Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 0M
Director : J. Gordon Edwards
Escritor : George James Hopkins
Sinopsis
Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Although ardently courted by the native swains, and particularly a bandit called The Tiger, Lolette prefers Maurice Tabor, a French artist who has come to Juanguera to paint. Because he refuses to take her to Paris, Lolette accepts a gift of stolen jewels from The Tiger and follows Maurice to France.
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel takes Armand in after a botched robbery. Marie, a fiery Apache, swears revenge on Marcel for taking her lover away from her.
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
La vida de una geisha de mediana edad, cuyo adolescente hijo se avergüenza de su profesión, es puesta en contraste con la de una joven compañera, una chica encantadora a la que su familia empujó hacia ese tipo de vida.
Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of parts stolen from his neighbors. Rival egg companies want his invention, one of them stooping to sabotage to get it.
When Charley asks a young woman whom he is in love with to marry him, she tells him that he needs to get her father's consent. But when Charley then goes to see her father, who owns a restaurant, he ends up getting hired as a dishwasher instead. The rest of the kitchen staff soon find out that Charley is not a member of their union, and they go on strike. Charley is left by himself, leading to a series of upheavals in the restaurant, and a great invention.
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Starving children / Requisitioning of valuables possessed by the Russian Orthodox Church / Fundraising flights in support of the hungry / Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries.
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own appetites.
Chico (Charles Farrell) es un joven que trabaja en la limpieza de las alcantarillas de Paris. Diane es una chica muy desgraciada que es víctima de los abusos de su atrabiliaria hermana mayor. Un día, mientras ésta la golpea, Chico la rescata y se la lleva a vivir con él a su buhardilla, en el séptimo piso de un edificio de Montmartre.
Un marinero estadounidense se casa con una bella chica china, que le había salvado la vida, para abandonarla a continuación. Primera película rodada integramente en color (Technicolor bicromático).
A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the songbird and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not meant to be captive.
The Country Rat visits his friend the Town Rat, but finds that life in the great metropolis is rather too hectic (and dangerous - there's a live cat among all the puppet rodents!)
A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.
En la oscuridad de una habitación, un misterioso desconocido perturba el sueño de su víctima.
Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.
A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
Una hembra simula criar al niño huérfano (Tarzán) y lo cría en el transcurso de muchos años hasta que finalmente se lanza una misión de rescate y la partida de búsqueda peina la jungla por el desaparecido Lord Greystoke. Pero luego, uno de los miembros de la búsqueda, Jane Porter, se separa del grupo y se encuentra cara a cara con temibles animales salvajes. Tarzán la salva del daño justo a tiempo y el amor comienza a florecer.
Dos soldados norteamericanos, que luchan en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) se escapan de una prisión alemana para vivir aventuras en Arabia. (FILMAFFINITY)
