George Majeroni

silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette

Beating the Odds

Based on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE FIGARO, Gaston Calmette was shot to death by Madame Caillaux, wife of the Minister of Finance for his exposè of her husband's traitorous activities on behalf of Germany.

Lucy Millington is an independent woman who looks upon men with contempt. Novelist Donald Prime, who has written a book on women, considers himself an authority on the subject. Both are lured into the desolate backwoods of Arcady by adventurers who plan to keep them in captivity until a fortune bequeathed to them has been safely deposited in the hands of their rivals.

Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District.

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.

While developing a powerful explosive, naval officer Paul Towne introduces his friend Richard Tracy to Judith Corbin, his friend since childhood. For years, Paul had assumed that he would marry Judith, but when Richard proposes, Judith, tired of waiting for Paul, accepts. Soon after the marriage, Richard becomes more interested in the new explosive than in his new wife, and to pay off gambling debts, he agrees to steal the formula and sell it to a foreign government.

Scandalous European temptress Lila Despard, travels to America to escape her lover, criminal Jack Firthenbras. On the ship, she meets Andrew Livingston, a United States Navy planner, and Senator and Mrs. Gales. Her new friends host a party for Lila in Washington, D.C., where a spy named Dromiroff threatens to expose her past unless she steals Andrew's secret naval plans. In order to secure the papers, Lila makes love to Andrew, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him.

The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy Dora, only to be turned down by the girl's mercenary mother. Several years later, Julian manages not only to obtain a huge fortune, but also a prominent position in the British diplomatic service. Now a suitable husband for Dora, Julian marries the girl. Alas, their happiness is short-lived.

Financial troubles force Nell Carroll, a thoroughbred, to seek employment in a detective agency which has just taken up the trail of a very baffling jewelry robbery in an exclusive summer colony. In order to work from the inside, she is sent to the place as the Baroness Du Vassey.

Bella Donna se enamora del exótico Baroudi y planea envenenar a su marido.

Una adinerada dama de la alta sociedad se enamora de un cantante de ópera de renombre mundial. El novio de la dama, celoso, al ver que su fuente de ingresos se le escapa, hipnotiza al cantante y lo deja mudo. Su estratagema funciona y el cantante, ahora desempleado, pronto se queda sin dinero y sin trabajo.

En el año 64 d.C., Marcus Superbus es prefecto de Roma. Cuando el emperador Nerón decide reanudar la persecución de los cristianos, Marco se le opone, temiendo por la seguridad de Mercia, la mujer cristiana a la que ama. A través de las maquinaciones de la emperatriz Poppaea y otras mujeres en la corte, Tigelino, el agente de Nerón en la guerra contra los cristianos, convence a Nerón de que arreste a Mercia. Marcus apela al emperador por misericordia, pero le dicen que solo puede salvarse renunciando al cristianismo. Mientras espera entrar a la arena para ser asesinada, Mercia se niega rotundamente a rechazar su religión, a pesar de las súplicas de Marcus. Finalmente, Marcus es convertido por ella y entran a la arena para enfrentar juntos la muerte.