Art Direction
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Art Direction
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Art Direction
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Set Decoration
Tony "Scarface" Camonte trabalha para Johnny Lovo, um ambicioso gangster que deseja criar um império do crime em Chicago. Nesta guerra pelo comando, o chefe da quadrilha rival fora assassinado por Tony e a polícia suspeita que Lovo o tenha pago para tal feito. Tony logo ganha respeito na quadrilha pelo feito e espera pacientemente pelo momento exato de liquidar com seu chefe e assumir o comando do bando. No comando, Tony ganha dinheiro como jamais sonhou e passa viver tranqüilo e luxuosamente. Mas sua tranqüilidade duraria pouco tempo, pois sua irmã Cesca Camonte, por quem tem paixões secretas, envolve-se com Guino Rinaldo, seu "braço direito", obrigando-o a tomar medidas drástic.
Art Direction
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.
Settings
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
Settings
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Art Direction
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
Art Direction
Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.
Set Decoration
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
Art Direction
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
Art Direction
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Settings
Chico trabalha arduamente nos esgotos de Paris. Ele encontra Diane, uma jovem mulher que foge da polícia e lhe pede ajuda para que a esconda. Os dois acabam se apaixonando e vivem um romance até que ele é convocado para a primeira guerra mundial.
Settings
Molly (Mary Pickford) é a mais velha dos órfãos que moram em uma fazenda. O dono do local, o malvado e manco Sr. Grimes (Gustave Von Seyffertitz), além de explorar a mão-de-obra infantil, vez ou outra ameaça jogar uma criança para que afunde no pântano. O que vai mudar tudo é o arriscado negócio que ele fez: combinar o sequestro de uma criança, a filha do rico Dennis Wayne (Roy Stewart), que fica sob os cuidados de Molly, que, assim como outras personagens de Mary, é sofredora, porém decidida e corajosa. Ela não hesita em enfrentar Ambrose (‘Spec’ O’Donnell), o mimado e glutão filho dos “patrões”.
