Self (archive footage)
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Nagura, Oseka Chief
An Indian agent comes to the rescue when a local tribe's fishing rights are threatened by a greedy cannery owner.
Bent Creek
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Chief Red Shirt
Las tribus indias planean unirse para una guerra total contra los blancos. Brittles, un veterano capitán de caballería, recibe la orden de evitar las concentraciones de indios, al tiempo que debe escoltar a la esposa y a la sobrina de su comandante. Además, ha de impedir que un traficante venda una partida de armas a los indios. Esta triple misión será la última del capitán antes de su jubilación.
Chief Black Eagle
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
Hasson / Richard
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
Wassao
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
Trustee in Hell (uncredited)
El gangster E. Kagle ha sido asesinado por su socio y amigo S. Williams. Kagle acaba en el infierno, donde "Nick" le ofrece la oportunidad de vengarse, a cambio de su ayuda con un problema que tiene. Nick lo dispone todo para que Kagle ocupe el cuerpo del honrado juez Parker. En el transcurso de los acontecimientos, Kagle se ve involucrado con Bárbara Foster, la novia del juez, de la que se enamora, hecho que le hará replantearse todo lo que ha sido su vida.
Carib
A shipwreck victim washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island.
Carney
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Tecumseh
A comienzos del siglo XIX, el Congreso aprobó la financiación de la célebre Academia Militar de West Point. Sin embargo, hubo quienes se opusieron a la creación de esta institución, porque temían que diera lugar a una expansión ilegítima del poder del Gobierno Federal.
Sikh
Adaptación del famoso relato de Kipling ambientado en la India colonial británica que narra las aventuras de Mowgli, un niño abandonado en la selva, que se cría entre animales salvajes.
Native Chief Elan
A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
Chief Standing Bull
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Moukali
Un joven nativo de los Mares del Sur es enviado a EE UU para su educación, regresará a su isla después de que su padre muera para tratar de detener una revolución.
Chief Poison Arrow
In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.
Chief
Crosby es un promotor de barraca de feria algo golferas que engaña a los espectadores haciéndoles creer que Bob Hope es un prodigio de la naturaleza. Ambos marchan hasta Zanzíbar, donde encontrarán a una guapa nativa y buscarán una mina de diamantes. Entre sus momentos más surrealistas destaca el de Bob Hope luchando contra un gorila en plena jungla.
Irate Russian (uncredited)
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
Native American
En 1885, tres aventureros de la frontera (el maestro Riel, el traficante de whisky Corbeau y el trampero Duroc) fomentan en Canadá una rebelión contra la Corona. Sólo la Policía Montada permanece leal. El policía Ronnie Logan está enamorado de la hija de Corbeau, pero tiene que rivalizar con un ránger de Texas que busca a Corbeau por asesinato
Henchman El Lobo
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
The Zombie
Después de que la intrépida trabajadora Mary Carter se convierta en la nueva dueña de una mansión, presuntamente encantada, ubicada en Black Island, cerca de la costa cubana, un extraño le advierte de que se mantenga alejada del castillo. Sin desanimarse, Mary zarpa hacia Cuba con un polizón en su baúl, Larry Lawrence, un locutor de radio que ayuda a Mary a llegar al fondo de la magia vudú, los zombis y los fantasmas que parecen maldecir la propiedad fantasmal.
Hostile-Tribe Chief (uncredited)
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Native American (uncredited)
Albany, Nueva York, 1776. Después de casarse, Gil y Lana viajan al norte para instalarse en una pequeña granja en el valle del río Mohawk; pero pronto su creciente prosperidad y felicidad se ven amenazadas por el siniestro sonido de los tambores que anuncian oscuros tiempos de revolución y guerra.
Captured Delaware Native American
James Smith es un cazador de indios famoso en todo el territorio de Pennsylvania. Un día, merodeando por la frontera, descubre que los traficantes ingleses suministran armas a los indios, camuflándolas en los convoyes militares. Smith se propondrá entonces tomarse la justicia por su mano. Él y sus hombres, disfrazado de indios, interceptarán uno tras otro todos los convoyes.
Hannibal - Slave-Driver
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
General Regules (uncredited)
La lucha de Juárez contra Maximiliano I de Habsburgo, emperador de México por voluntad del emperador Napoleón III.
Native American Shooting Piano (uncredited)
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Luke Johnson
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
Mokuyi
An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.
Native Sergeant
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Native (uncredited)
Tres jóvenes hombres buscan al asesino que mató a su padre, un hombre al que admiraban mucho. Su viaje les lleva desde la India hasta América del Sur, Londres, Egipto, y EE.UU. Mientras avanzan en sus investigaciones, empiezan a descubrir la verdad oculta y perturbadora sobre la muerte de su padre
Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
Tattoo Artist
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
Bisco
Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman.
Amahaggar Chief
Un grupo de exploradores inician una expedición a una lejana ciudad en busca de la legendaria “Llama de la vida”, una misteriosa fuerza que dotará de inmortalidad a quien la posea.
Ram Singh
Ambientada en la frontera del noroeste de la India en tiempos de la dominación británica, narra las luchas del 41º regimiento de Bengala contra las tribus de Mohammed Khan.
Queechie
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spain trying to track down the leader of a gang of diamond smugglers. A trail, littered with murders, leads him to a crocodile-infested swamp.
Native Chief (uncredited)
Tras el desastroso final de su anterior aventura, Carl Denham monta otra expedición y parte de nuevo desde Nueva York para regresar a la isla de Kong. Allí descubre a su hijo, un gorila blanco que simpatizará con los exploradores.
Skull Island Native Chief
Un equipo de cine va a rodar una película a la misteriosa isla de Teschio, al este de Sumatra. Allí descubren la existencia de una civilización prehistórica y de una tribu ancestral que secuestra a la atractiva Ann, la actriz protagonista, para ofrecerla en sacrificio ritual a King, un gigantesco gorila.
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
Ivan
El conde Zaroff es un loco millonario que vive en una isla solitaria y se dedica a cazar a los náufragos como si fueran animales.
Mudo
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
Janos The Black One
A finales del siglo XIX, un sádico doctor de París se dedica a secuestrar a mujeres jóvenes para realizar experimentos que puedan ayudarle a confirmar sus teorías sobre la evolución del mono al hombre. Desgraciadamente, las víctimas no sobreviven a los estudios del científico, y éste se ve obligado a capturar a nuevas desafortunadas para continuar con su trabajo. Mientras, la joven pareja formada por Camille y el joven médico Pierre vive ajena a los planes del doctor, hasta que ella se convierte en el próximo objetivo del científico.
The Nubian Servant (uncredited)
Un grupo de arqueólogos británicos invaden la tumba de un cadáver momificado que resulta ser un sumo sacerdote del antiguo Egipto. La momia, que revivirá accidentalmente 3.700 años después de su muerte, intentará raptar a una joven de ascendencia egipcia que se parece a la princesa que amó en vida y que fue el motivo de su ejecución.
Bobo
Para evitar los rigores de la ley, Gilda huye de Nueva Orleans y se esconde en una isla caribeña donde los peores criminales pueden pedir asilo. Asediada por indeseables, Gilda descubrirá pronto que ha encontrado refugio en el mismísimo Infierno.
Guard (uncredited)
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
Osman
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
Youssef (uncredited)
Cuatro soldados de la Legión Francesa están en la cárcel por conducta impropia, pero se escapan y tendrán que luchar en el ejército antes de que sean capturados por deserción.
Queequeg
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
Pueblo Jim
Wing Foot (Richard Dix), is a Navaho educated in an otherwise all-white school. In the course of the story he experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navahos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin."
Li Po
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
Ahmed
Primera adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de A.E.W. Mason. Un oficial británico abandona el ejército antes que le manden a Egipto para luchar contra los rebeldes. Su prometida y tres amigos del regimiento le envían cuatro plumas blancas, símbolo de cobardía. A partir de ese momento, emprenderá una peligrosa misión, para devolver las plumas a sus dueños y recuperar su honor.
Jeelo
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Bit Role (uncredited)
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
Erickson's 1st Mate
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
Slave Broker
Narra la bíblica historia de Noé y el diluvio universal, con una historia paralela de unos soldados durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.
Soriano
John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, Anders Randolf, Lesle Fenton, and Noble Johnson.
The Captain of the Guard
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
Aggresive Apache (uncredited)
Francia, siglo XVIII. Un noble que estudia para ser sacerdote abandona su vocación cuando se enamora de una hermosa, pero reticente, cortesana.
Uncle Tom
Topsy is the main character in this movie. When the black girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned as a slave but nobody will bid on her, Little Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel. That's the one part of this movie that I found plausible: slaveholders often refused to buy children, since their upkeep in food usually exceeded any labour they performed. There's a gooey romantic subplot between Mariette (the niece of Simon Legree) and George Shelby, son of a prominent slaveholder.
Bimbo, ship's cook
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
Charioteer
Una de las primeras películas del cine mudo que abordaron la narración bíblica de Jesucristo. En esta ocasión, contada desde el punto de vista de María Magdalena (Dorothy Cumming), antigua cortesana al servicio de los romanos que es redimida por el amor de Jesús (H.B. Warner). En 1961, Nicholas Ray hizo un remake con Jeffrey Hunter en el papel principal.
Tax Collector
Basado en la pieza Hassan de James Elroy Flecker. Trata sobre los amores de una heroína cautiva y las intentonas por parte del galán para liberarla, oponiéndose a las fuerzas del califa con ayuda del ejército rebelde.
Chief Sitting Bull
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.
Martell
Crowd Member (uncredited)
En los años del Imperio Romano del reinado de Augusto y su sucesor Tiberio, Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, se han convertido en enemigos irreconciliables. Acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, Mesala le encarcela junto a su familia. Cuando se llevan a Ben-Hur a galeras, un joven llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber.
Googomy
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.
Ponfilo
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a saloon and dance hall. One of the dancers in his place, Maxine, falls in love with him, but Tony is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Una, although Una is now a "party girl" back in London and has forgotten about Tony. However, Tony comes into an unexpected inheritance, along with a title, and returns to London for Una. Although disappointed with Una's current lifestyle, he asks her to marry him despite her "indiscretions". However, the night before they are to be married Una confesses a deep, dark secret to Tony that could change their lives forever.
Cannibal Chief (uncredited)
Un armador, de cuya hija está enamorado Buster Keaton, vende uno de sus barcos a un país que está en guerra con otro. Sin embargo, los agentes de este último país tienen la misión de dejar el barco a la deriva para que naufrague. En medio de esta trama, Buster y su enamorada se embarcan en el navío, sin saber que éste va a la deriva.
Marimba (cannibal chief)
Cuando muere su padre, policía, Mickey debe viajar para encontrarse con su tía, que ha prometido cuidar de él. Pero el barco que le conduce a Australia está dirigido por alguien que no ve con buenos ojos la adopción del muchacho. Todo cambia cuando el barco naufraga y Mickey es el único superviviente
Deputy Sheriff
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack's car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer's pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.
The Indian Prince
Abú, un ladronzuelo que actúa por las calles de Bagdad, es detenido y encarcelado. Comparte la celda con el príncipe Ahmad, legítimo heredero del trono de Bagdad, a quien el Gran Visir Jaffar ha encarcelado para arrebatarle el poder.
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches fighting over Wildcat, a sultry stepper in a cafe. He becomes an apache himself, falls in love with Wildcat and paints her portrait--his masterpiece. Wildcat learns Paul's identity and restores him to his family, though realizing that she will lose him. Surgery restores Paul's memory, but some subconscious force guides him back to the cafe and Wildcat's love.
The Bronze Man - Prologue
Primera épica bíblica de la historia de Moisés dirigida por el propio Cecil B. DeMille, y que se superaría a sí mismo con creces en su remake de 1956. Se narra la historia de Moisés desde su enfrentamiento a Ramsés y la aparición de las plagas de Egipto, hasta su éxodo liderando al pueblo judío hacia la Tierra Prometida, así como la revelación de los Diez Mandamientos en el monte Sinaí. El film tiene una segunda parte que analiza la influencia práctica de los Diez Mandamientos en la vida moderna, en una historia ambientada en la contemporánea San Francisco (FILMAFFINITY)
Indian
First one stranger, then another, arrive at the presidio, each with a government pass and each claiming to have been robbed by the notorious Captain Fly-by-Night and his highwaymen. The soldiers and Señorita Anita believe the first to be Fly-by-Night and the second to be Señor Rocha, Anita's fiancée and emissary of the governor. But the first stranger, to whom Anita is drawn, proves to be on a government mission and exposes the second stranger as Captain Fly-by-Night.
Blackie Lopez
Bert Lyons returns to the Grainger spread from the "outside world" to find his former employer dead and the ranch in the possession of Calvert, a narcotics smuggler, and Blackie Lopez, a rustler who has his eyes on Molly Grainger, Lyons' sweetheart.
Friday
An 18-part silent American adventure film serial now considered to be lost. Chapter Titles: 1. The Sea Raiders 2. Shipwrecked 3. The Cannibals' Captives 4. Hidden Gold 5. The Ship of Despair 6. Friday's Faith 7. The Swamp of Terror 8. Marooned 9. The Jaguar Trap 10. A Prisoner of the Sun 11. No Greater Love 12. The Island of Happiness 13. The Sword of Courage 14. The Buccaneers 15. The Jolly Roger 16. The Idol's Bride 17. When the Heart Calls 18. Back to the Primitive
Capt. Ramirez
In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is appointed in his place. Ramón, son of the new governor, becomes infatuated with María. She repulses him, but he is encouraged by her mother.
Chatterji
In the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against the English colonial masters of India. However, since he is half-European himself, he can't bring himself to do it and flees to America, to live in obscurity. He finds, however, that he can't outrun his obligations
Espinol
John Wesley Pringle, aventurero en libertad, regresa a casa después de hacer su ataque y encuentra a su vieja amiga, Stella, comprometida con Christopher Foy, quien se postula para sheriff. Pringle frustra un intento del sheriff titular Matt Lisner de matar a Foy, pero cuando Foy es acusado de un asesinato, Pringle, en una astuta treta, captura a Foy, mantiene a la pandilla a punta de pistola y luego lo libera, explicando su motivo.
Conquest (uncredited)
En vísperas de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), las dos ramas de una acomodada familia argentina se dividen en dos bandos: los Desnoyers, oriundos de Francia, y los von Hartrott, de origen alemán. Julio Desnoyers, un joven irresponsable y bohemio, tiene un romance con Marguerite, una mujer casada. Cuando estalla la guerra, el esposo de Margueritte se va al frente. Poco despues, una serie de circunstancias hacen que Julio cambie radicalmente y decida trabajar para la Resistencia.
Chaké - Madame's Slave
An epic of passion, intrigue, and espionage set in the African Jungle.
The Crow
When Sunset Sprague saves Calico Barnes from a bandit, the two men become friends. Barnes is heading out to protect his niece, Rose Loring, whose father was murdered right after his mine struck gold. Sprague goes to help and finds himself up against the villainous Mace Dennison.
Ratu Madri
Norma Dawn silent tropical island Fiji rubber plantation romantic melodrama starring Edith Roberts, Jack Perrin, Richard Cummings, Noble Johnson, and Dr. Arthur Jervis. This is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
Baltimore Bucko
The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed up in a mutiny at sea and a revolution.
Dopey Sam's Henchman
Two prospectors, one the father of Skye "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate.
Spike
Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and proceeds to punish him then and there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had been in reality forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor."
Silent Andy
Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.
Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who has fallen under the evil influence of unscrupulous companions. The climax of the story comes when Helen learns that her brother is to take part in a stage hold-up. To save him she dons male attire and holds up the stage at a point several miles in advance of her brother's attempt.
Trovio Valdez
The Branded Man is a 1918 Western.
Native American
Billy Brooks, who exhibits an effeminate personality, leaves his Wall Street magnate father and goes on the road as a perfume salesman. In an effort to cure his son of his womanly ways, Brooks, Sr. wires Nebeker, an old rancher friend, to kidnap Billy from the train and "make a man of him."
Thomas Jefferson Jones
After his defeat at the hands of "Spider" Flynn, the welterweight champion of Europe, boxer Jimmie Dolan and his trainer, Thomas Jefferson Jones, leave for a principality near Paris. Having lost all their money on the fight, Jimmie accepts Count Conrad's offer to impersonate Prince Frederick in return for a large sum of money.
Mike Tregurtha
Gunman Chuck Connelly is hired to silence the new district attorney who has been pounding the graft organizations. Chuck goes to the D. A.'s home to threaten him, but is taken off guard when his victim's little daughter leans trustfully on his knee and looks up at him with a smile. The D. A. ignores Chuck's warning, and the gang orders the gunman to execute him. Chuck breaks into the house, but sees the little girl again and is unable to complete his task. Instead, he seeks out his girl friend, Annie Mangan, a Salvation Army reformer, and swears to end his life of crime.
Cannibal King
Jack Calvert bets four friends that he can travel from New York to Constantinople without a cent.
Johnny Little Bear
Two cowboys, Jim and Johnny Little Bear, discover a rich mine and decide to spend some of their money traveling. Their travels lead them to the kingdom of Queen Sylvia, who is being warred upon by the neighboring monarch Ferdinand because she will not marry him. Sympathetic to the Queen's plight, the cowboys wire to America for the rest of the gang, who arrive just in time to rout Ferdinand's attack.
A black U.S. Army cavalry unit in the early 1900s mounts an expedition against the forces of a renegade Mexican general along the Texas-Mexico border, leading to a full-scale battle.
Romero Valdez
Determined to maintain her status as a star detective, Nellie Gleason goes after Jim Kinkaid, who has fled to Mexico after robbing real estate magnate George Arnold.
Babylonian Soldier (uncredited)
Clásico del cine mudo que muestra a través de varios episodios históricos las injusticias provocadas por la intolerancia religiosa y social. La idea inicial de Griffith era narrar las sangrientas huelgas de 1912 en EE.UU. (un huelguista es acusado de la muerte de su patrón), pero después decidió rodar tres episodios más: "La caída de Babilonia, "La Pasión de Cristo" y "La noche de San Bartolomé" (sangriento episodio de las luchas entre hugonotes y católicos que tuvo lugar en París en 1572). De presupuesto y recursos desmesurados para la época -una sola escena reunió a 15.000 extras y 250 carros- aún hoy sigue asombrando por su espectacularidad.
Producer
A junior Negro oil engineer rescues a white woman and earns the chance to succeed in the oil business.
A junior Negro oil engineer rescues a white woman and earns the chance to succeed in the oil business.