Ouida

Pobre pero feliz, el joven Nello y su abuelo viven solos, entrega leche como sustento en las afueras de Amberes, una ciudad en Flandes (la parte flamenca o de habla holandesa de Bélgica moderna). Descubren a un perro golpeado (un bouvier, un gran perro robusto nativo de flandes), lo adoptó y cuidó hasta recuperar la salud. Lo llama Patrasche, el segundo nombre de la madre María de Nello, quien murió cuando Nello era muy joven. La madre de Nello era un artista talentosa, y como su madre, se deleita en el dibujo, y su amigo Aloise es su modelo y su mayor fan y partidario.

Melodrama de aventuras que manejaba los tópicos de la mitología sobre la Legión Francesa.

Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.

The drama of a girl who knew beauty's power.

An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.

Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White). Although Vere is in love with an opera singer, Lucien Correze (Harry Hilliard), Lady Dolly convinces her that marrying the dissolute Prince Zouroff (Walter Law) will save her father's honor. But the Prince makes her miserable and insists on having his mistress, Jeanne deSonnaz (Caille Torrez), live with them.

The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes the bullet herself.

Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion.

A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.

Ouida's novel made into a 1912 film -- released within days of another 2-reeler based on the same story.

Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa