Edmund Breese

Edmund Breese

Nacimiento : 1871-06-18, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Muerte : 1936-04-06

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From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.

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Presiding Judge
El señor Higgins tiene cuatro hijas y tres yernos. Cada uno de ellos gestiona una de sus empresas. Dan Brooks odia dirigir la compañía de fabricación de papel. Él prefiere dedicar su atención a su caballo de carreras "Broadway Bill". Alice, la hija preferida de Higgins, animará a Dan cuando la esposa de éste se niegue a apoyarlo en las carreras. Higgins obliga a Dan a vender su caballo y a asumir sus obligaciones en la fábrica. A pesar de ello, Dan sigue obsesionado por las carreras, y Alice se enamora de él.
Lost in the Stratosphere
Col. Brooks
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
La isla del tesoro
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Jim Hawkins es un joven inglés que trabaja en la posada de sus padres. Un día llega al establecimiento un viejo bucanero llamado Billy Bones, que trae consigo un cofre con el mapa de “La isla del Tesoro”, que revela el paradero de las formidables riquezas acumuladas por el Capitán Flint. Los piratas de la tripulación de Flint, entre ellos Perro Negro, están buscando el mapa. Pero antes de conseguirlo, el joven Jim, aprovechando que Billy Bones muere, roba el cofre y escapa. Jim pide ayuda al doctor Livesey y al squire Trelawney, y deciden ir a la isla a por el tesoro. Tras adquirir la fragata “La Hispaniola”, la equipa con todo lo necesario y contrata a una tripulación. Entre ellos está Long John Silver, que embarca como cocinero, pero que en realidad es un capitán pirata que, tras ganarse la confianza del squire, consigue que un grupo de marineros a sus órdenes componga la tripulación.
Return of the Terror
Editor
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Come On, Marines!
General Cabot
'Lucky Davis', un sargento de los Marines, es un hombre mujeriego y sin escrúpulos. Es asignado para liderar a un escuadrón que deberá adentrarse en la jungla filipina, donde un forajido encabeza a un grupo de peligrosos guerrilleros.
Dancing Man
J.C. Trevor
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
Beloved
Maj. Tarrant
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Above the Clouds
Crusty
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
Sopa de ganso
Zander
Un imaginario país en bancarrota requiere el apoyo económico de una acaudalada viuda (Margaret Dumont) para salir adelante. Como condición para extender el financiamiento, la acreedora exige que el excéntrico Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) tome las riendas de la nación. Deseando sacar partida de la crisis, el ambicioso embajador de una potencia vecina (Louis Calhern) hará cuanto sea posible para desprestigiar al nuevo líder y para ello echará mano de dos inusuales espías (Harpo y Chico Marx).
Hembra
Board Member (Uncredited)
Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) administra una empresa de automóviles y mantiene una buena relación con sus empleados, en especial con los hombres, con los que suele tener fugaces relaciones sexuales. Un día, llega a su empresa el ingeniero Jim Thorne, un hombre independiente por el que se siente atraída.
Parece que fue ayer
Investor (Uncredited)
Película inspirada en la novela de Stefan Zweig “Carta de una desconocida”. La protagonista es una mujer que es seducida en dos ocasiones por el mismo hombre, sin que éste la reconozca la segunda vez.
A Man of Sentiment
John Russell Sr.
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
Laughing at Life
Cabinet Officer
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Fighting With Kit Carson
Matt Fargo
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.
Casa internacional
Doctor Wong
El profesor Wong ha inventado un televisor e invita a todo el mundo a verlo durante una feria china. Cada vez que Tommy Nash intenta casarse con su novia cae enfermo, y cuando irrumpe en el hotel se decreta la cuarentena. A este hotel llega el profesor Quail en su autogiro...
Torchy Turns Turtle
Mr. Ellins
One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
On Your Guard
Prison Warden
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
Torchy's Kitty Coup
Edward (Hickory) Ellins
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Mr. Haddock
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
The Match King
Olaf Christofsen
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho's Grandfather
Un oficial norteamericano se siente enormemente atraído por una bella geisha.
Women Won't Tell
Attorney for the Defense
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
The Golden West
Sam Lynch
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Torchy Rolls His Own
Mr. Ellins
In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short comedies, people believe the most peculiar things because it serves the unimportant plot. Cooke, of course, has never been on a horse so we have comedy sequences of him preparing for the big match, and his inevitable triumph which will offend those who hold polo so dear..
Torchy's Busy Day
Hickory Ellins
Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the owner. This ends in the two of them playing a round of office gold to see whether the payment gets made in cash or stock.
Esclavos de la tierra
Holmes Scott
Primera de las muchas colaboraciones entre el director Michael Curtiz y la actriz Bette Davis, dos de los máximos exponentes de la Warner Bros. En esta ocasión las críticas no fueron excesivamente buenas ante la propuesta de drama social, si bien la actriz -todavía en los albores de su impresionante carrera- salió bien parada de todas ellas. La novela de Harry Harrison Kroll en que se basa, narra la historia de un honrado agricultor llamado Marvin (Richard Barthelmess) contratado en una plantación. Al ascender al puesto de contable descubre que su jefe ha estado robando dinero. Es entonces cuando este hombre inicia una lucha de clases liderando al pueblo oprimido contra el poder establecido. También Marvin tiene tiempo para un romance con la hija del jefe y con una amiga de la infancia.
Drifting Souls
Brad Martin
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
The Hurricane Express
The Secretary's Father
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
Alias Mary Smith
Mr. Hayes
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
Torchy's Two Toots
Hickory Ellins
When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
Como tú me deseas
Friar
Zara es una mujer que sufre amnesia desde hace años y se reencuentra con su marido Bruno sin saber la relación que les une. Poco a poco ella vuelve a enamorarse de él.
Torchy Raises the Auntie
Mr. Ellins
Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
Young Bride
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
Una bibliotecaria tímida e ingenua de Nueva York debe volverse más fuerte y más sabia después de descubrir que su nuevo esposo es un mentiroso, un tramposo y un fraude.
Torchy's Night Cap
Hickory Ellins
Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
Love Bound
J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
Police Court
Judge Robert Webster
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
The Reckoning
Doc
Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.
Cross-Examination
Dwight Simpson
Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
Torchy Turns the Trick
Hickory Ellins
When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
The Hatchet Man
Yu Chang
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Mata Hari
Warden
Año 1917. Mata Hari es una seductora bailarina que vive en París y que ejerce de espía para los alemanes.
Torchy Passes the Buck
Mr. Ellins
Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
La jaula de oro
Conroy
Stew Smith (Robert Williams) es un singular periodista que se caracteriza por su notable lucidez y sarcasmo. Absolutamente abstraído en su trabajo, es enviado por su jefe a la mansión de los Schuyler para ratificar cierta historia relacionada con Michael (Don Dillaway), el hijo de la familia, que ha tenido que pagar para desembarazarse de una desaprensiva amante, aunque ésta pretende chantajearlo con unas cartas de amor.
Morals for Women
Mr. Hutson
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
Chinatown After Dark
Le Fong
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Torchy
Hickory Ellins
Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
The Public Defender
Frank Wells
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Defenders of the Law
Capt. Bill Houston
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
The Good Bad Girl
J.P. Henderson
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Young Sinners
Trent
The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
The She-Wolf
An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
Millie
Defense Attorney
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men-- Men who once devoted their time to her mother.
El desierto pintado
Judge Matthews
Jeff y Cash encuentran un bebé, y es Cash quien decide hacerse cargo de él. Con el paso del tiempo los dos amigos llegan a ser propietarios de dos ranchos vecinos, pero entre ellos surgen problemas: la hermosa hija Jeff es uno de ellos (FILMAFFINITY)
Chiselers of Hollywood
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
Tol'able David
Hunter Kinemon
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Kismet
Jawan
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Playboy of Paris
General
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Bright Lights
Franklin Harris
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
A toda marcha
Spencer Colgate
Un humilde empleado que sueña con ser millonario y conseguir las cosas que nunca ha tenido. Su suerte parece cambiar cuando gana el premio de un crucero, encontrando allí al amor de su vida.
The Sea Bat
Maddocks
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Rough Waters
Captain Thomas
A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
The Czar of Broadway
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
Sin novedad en el frente
Herr Meyer
Mítica película antibélica que plasma los sentimientos, sensaciones y desilusiones de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes que son enviados al frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Es una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor alemán Erich María Remarque. Su estreno provocó enfrentamientos entre nazis y comunistas.
Hold Everything
Pop O'Keefe
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Girl Overboard
Jim Keefe
A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars. He goes to live on an old ship in the harbor with an old sea captain. One day a homeless girl is fished out of the water and brought to live on the boat, soon marrying the young man. All is well until his parole officer finds out.
Sonny Boy
Thorpe
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Fancy Baggage
John Hardin
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Conquest
William Holden
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.
On Trial
Judge
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
The Haunted House
Uncle Herbert
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
The Wright Idea
The Perfect Crime
Wilmot
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
Burning Daylight
John Dossett
Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
Finders Keepers
Hastings
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
Back to Liberty
Tom Devon
Paradise for Two
Uncle Howard
Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.
Stepping Along
Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age.
The Brown Derby
John J. Caldwell
Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns that an eccentric uncle has died, leaving him a brown derby said to bring good luck to its wearer. Meanwhile Edith Worthing and her Aunt Anna are expecting Edith's wealthy uncle, Adolph Plummer, from Australia. On a call to their house, Tommy is mistaken for the uncle, being announced as "a plumber," and soon a mutual romance develops with Edith. They are wedded by mistake when serving as witnesses to marriage by elopement. Farrell, a rival for Edith, learns of Tommy's deception and persuades Edith to elope with him; but Tommy follows in hot pursuit, in his pajamas and derby. At the last minute, a message arrives telling Edith that she and Tommy are already married.
The Highbinders
Mike Harrigan
The Highbinders
Womanhandled
Uncle Lester
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
The Live Wire
Sawdust Sam
The Great Maranelli, a stunting circus clown, falls instantly in love when he sees Dorothy Langdon, who does not think too much of him and lets him know it. He is so smitten that his works suffers to the extent that he is soon just a hobo drifting along the open road. When he again encounters Dorothy, she gets him a job as a salesman with her father's light-and-power company, and proves to be a a real "live-wire" salesman. He is then put in charge of the lighting in an amusement park being built under Dorothy's supervision, and trouble comes many directions, guided by Dorothy's cad fiancée who wants to make the stock in the project worthless so he can buy it cheaply.
The Speed Spook
Chuck Brady
An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
The Sixth Commandment
Col. Saunders
John Brant, a devoted minister, is in love with Marian Calhoun, but must keep it a secret because she is engaged to Robert Fields. However is playing around with a variety of different women.
Damaged Hearts
Innkeeper
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with hostility, David now an adult, goes on a mission to seek vengeance on the adopting family.
Restless Wives
Hobart Richards
1924 picture directed by Gregory La Cava.
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Mr. Winthrop
Impulsive flapper Elizabeth Winthrop, rebels against her parents and moves to New York after breaking with her fiance, Clayton Webster. Hugo Von Strohm, a wealthy playboy, procures Elizabeth a job as a chorus dancer and secretly pays her salary. After he tries to seduce her, Elizabeth sees through his kindnesses and returns to her parents and Clayton.
Bright Lights of Broadway
Reverend Graham Drake
An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality
Luck
Alan Crosby
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Beyond the Rainbow
Insp. Richardson
Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
A Man's Home
Theatre Play
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
King Cole
Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.
Chains of Evidence
Judge Frank Sturgis
Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge Sturgis, but now working as a reporter while still maintaining an association with the Brownlow gang. Quarrelling with her stepmother, Edith leaves home, meets Dick and falls in love.
Someone Must Pay
Charles Bryant
Broker Henry Taylor is furious at the attention his wife Regina receives from Charles Bryant, an elderly bachelor. When he comes home one night and finds Regina in Bryant's arms, he orders him to leave. Bryant obliges, but he doesn't go away -- when the Taylors' daughter, Vivian, has a birthday, Bryant gives her a Shetland pony.
The Weakness of Strength
Daniel Gaynor
Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen.
The Song of the Wage Slave