Old Lady
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
Woodcutter's Wife
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Emma
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
Mother (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.
Sandor's Houskeeper
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Frau Holf the Cook
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Ma Vangarick
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Mrs. Young (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Mrs. Sobieski
경제적으로 쪼들리던 소설가 토니는 아내와 뉴욕을 떠나 고향 농장으로 간다. 이웃의 폴라드인 얀 노박이 토니의 농장을 원하고, 농장을 팔아 돈이 생기자 아내는 뉴욕으로 가버린다. 한편, 노박 가족에게 흥미가 생긴 토니는 그들을 소재로 글을 쓰려고 고향에 남는데, 그는 얀의 딸 마냐와 사랑에 빠지고 만다. 비극적 결말이 예견되지만, 허락 받지 못할 사랑에 대한 색다른 시선을 담았다. 한때 ‘제2의 그레타 가르보, 마를렌 디트리히’라 불리며 기대를 모았으나 아쉽게도 할리우드에 정착하지 못했던 러시아 출신의 안나 스텐이 풍부한 잠재성을 보여준 작품이기도 하다.
Mrs. Agnew, Housekeeper (as Eleanor Wesselhoft)
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
Anna, the nursemaid
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Mistress of Novices
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Mrs. Donkenspeil
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
Anna
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
한여름, 뜨거운 뉴욕의 거리. 존스 부인은 이웃들과 모여 안나와 스티브의 관계에 대해 떠들어댄다. 한편, 출장을 갔던 안나의 남편 프랭크는 예정보다 일찍 돌아오는데, 잠시 후 비명과 총소리가 울리고 거리는 구경꾼들로 가득 찬다. 총을 든 프랭크가 붙잡히고, 안나는 병원으로 후송된다. 퓰리처상을 수상한 동명의 희곡을 영화화했으며, 작가 엘머 라이스가 직접 시나리오를 썼다. 하루 정도의 시간과 한정된 공간에서 킹 비더는 긴장감 넘치는 극적 분위기를 자유자재로 만들어냈다.
