A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
Himself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Grandpa Spencer
Clay Spencer é um homem trabalhador que ama sua esposa e família numerosa. Ele é respeitado por seus vizinhos e sempre pronto para ajudá-los. Embora não seja um frequentador de igreja, ele até ajuda um ministro local recém-chegado a recuperar seu rebanho depois que ele e Clay se metem em problemas. Se ele tem um sonho na vida, é construir para sua esposa Olivia uma linda casa em um pedaço de terra que ele herdou na montanha de Spender. Quando seu filho mais velho, Clayboy, se forma no topo de sua turma do ensino médio e tem a oportunidade de ir para a faculdade, Clay tem apenas uma opção para ele. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
James Brown
Baseado num história real na Escócia em 1865 um velho Pastor e seu pequeno Skye terrier vão a Edimburgo. O pastor, doente, morre e o cão permanece fiel a ele, recusa-se a ser adotado por um novo dono, passa a viver nos arredores do cemitério e a dormir sobre o túmulo de seu dono todas as noites, desrespeitando a proibição da presença de cachorros imposta pelo coveiro. Quando Bobby é apanhado por não ter licença os moradores da vizinhança do cemitério que se afeiçoaram ao fiel cão intervêm pelo destino do pequeno companheiro.
Mayor Karl Warren
Numa pequena cidade do interior americano vive a jovem Pollyana, uma pequena órfã que ilumina a vida de todos que a conhecem. Sua tia Polly, preocupada com aparências, política e posses, tem problemas em aceitar a alegria da sobrinha. Somente quando a cidade quase perde a sua habitante mais querida é que tia Polly entende a importância do amor e da esperança.
Jehan Daas
A história emocional de um menino, seu avô e seu cachorro. O sonho do menino de se tornar um grande pintor clássico aparece quebrado quando seu avô amoroso morre.
The Cardinal
Em um mundo em mudança onde a televisão se tornou a principal fonte de informação, um jovem jornalista testemunha como seu tio, Frank Skeffington, um político veterano e honesto, prefeito de uma cidade da Nova Inglaterra, tenta ser reeleito enquanto banqueiros e empresários conspiram na sombra para colocar um candidato fraco e manejável no conselho da cidade.
Dennis Deneen
Concedido por um pequeno pedaço de terra em um vale exuberante e uma criação de gado pelo generoso proprietário de terras e barão do gado, Dennis Deneen, o antes temido pistoleiro, Steve Sinclair, renunciou à violência, com a intenção de manter a paz na comunidade.
Judge Allen
A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
Alec Waggoman
O misterioso Will Lockhart entrega suprimentos à lojista Barbara Waggoman em Coronado, uma cidade isolada em território Apache. Em pouco tempo, ele é confrontado por Dave Waggoman, o sádico filho do fazendeiro Alec e primo da bela Bárbara. Mas ele fica para a cidade, e sua presença é um catalisador de mudança na vida do povo, procurando alguém que não sabe quem ele é... mas que foi responsável pela venda de espingardas para os Apaches.
Self
A promotional film for United States Savings Bonds
Old Martin
A história de vida de um típico imigrante irlandês que se torna Sargento do Exército Americano e passa sua carreira de 50 anos na Academia Militar de West Point nos Estados Unidos. Isso inclui suas experiências relacionadas ao trabalho, bem como a sua vida familiar e as relações que ele desenvolve com os jovens cadetes com quem faz amizade. Martin "Marty" Maher morreu em 17 de janeiro de 1961, com 84 anos e está enterrado no cemitério de West Point. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
King Aguar
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
John MacFarland
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.
Major Singleton
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
'Jock' Gray
Quando o mestre de Lassie morre, um velho amigo tenta convencer um juiz de que a vida do cão deve ser poupada.
Executive Producer
Quando o estudioso e bem-educado Stanley Livingston concorda com o esquema insano do seu amigo Buzz Johnson, a dupla de trapalhões acaba participando de uma expedição às selvas africanas. Com Stanley se passando por caçador experiente, eles acompanham a exploradora Diana Emerson em busca de uma mina de diamantes escondidos. No entanto, muitos nativos e animais selvagens estão entre o caminho dos aventureiros e o tesouro.
Barney Rebstock
Allan Ladd participa dessa fascinante, elétrica e emocionante história de crime e punição. Luke Smith (Ladd) é um detetive que fica sabendo que seu amigo, Murray Sinclair (Robert Preston), está cansado do seu árduo e penoso trabalho nos trilhos. Procurando vingança, Sinclair começa a ajudar o foragido Barney Rebstock (Donald Crisp) a destruir trens. O que ele não sabe é que essa onda de atitudes fora da lei pode prejudica-lo, e muito, pelo resto de sua vida. Agora, Luke Smith, esse regrado e dedicado detetive tem uma tarefa nada fácil pela frente. Encontrar e trazer seu velho amigo para a justiça a qualquer custo, nessa aventura repleta de suspense, ação, belas imagens e muita, muita pólvora.
Drumsheugh
William McClure é o médico de uma vila portuária em um remoto vale escocês. Enganado para comprar Lassie, uma collie com medo de água, ele tenta ensiná-la a nadar. Ao mesmo tempo, seu maior problema é sua idade e quer garantir que o vale terá um novo médico local pronto para atender.
Jim Crew
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
William Scott
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Sam Carraclough
Joe Carraclough chegou a maioridade no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial, e se tornou piloto da RAF. Laddie, o filho de Lassie, é o seu animal de estimação, que secretamente alija-se em seu avião, quando esse parte para uma missão perigosa, para bombardear o inimigo. Quando o avião é atingido, sobrevoando a Noruega, ocupada pelos nazistas, Joe e Laddie saltam de pára-quedas da aeronave em chamas. A partir daí, começam as aventuras duplas. Peter Lawford e June Lockhart (que por vários anos estrelaram Lassie na Tv) são Joe e Priscila, anteriormente interpretados por Roddy McDowall e Elizabeth Taylor. Donald Crisp e Nigel Bruce são os treinadores dos cães deste filme. Uma bela e terna história de amor, que aliada a coragem ilimitada a afeto da Collie pelo seu dono, conquistará seu coração. Roteiro impar da série.
Mr. Herbert Brown
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
J.B. Pond
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Commander Beech
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
Sam Carraclough
A cadela Lassie é vendida por sua família, que está com sérios problemas financeiros. Não satisfeita, Lassie viaja 1.000 milhas para retornar à casa de seus verdadeiros donos. Baseado no romance de Eric Knight.
Captain Martin
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Main Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
O ataque japonês a ilha de Midway no oceano pacifico em junho de 1942, filmado no momento em que aconteceu.
Ralph Pedloch
The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married.
Gwilym Morgan
Aos 60 anos, Huw Morgan relembra sua vida quando garoto (Roddy McDowall) em uma pequena cidade mineradora. Suas reminiscências revelam a desintegração da unida família Morgan e de seus dedicados pais (Donald Crisp e Sara Allgood), enquanto capta os sentimentos e problemas daquele tempo. Maureen O’Hara e Walter Pidgeon co-estrelam este aclamado clássico das telas nesta história sobre sonhos, lutas e triunfos de uma família.
Sir Charles Emery
Na Londres do século XIX, o médico e pesquisador Harry Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) crê que bem e mal existam em todas as pessoas. Jekyll tem muita determinação para provar sua teoria, que é criticada por quase todos que conhece, inclusive Charles Emery (Donald Crisp), o pai de sua noiva Beatrix (Lana Turner). Após trabalhar incansavelmente em seu laboratório, Jekyll elabora uma fórmula. Não querendo colocar em risco a vida de ninguém, ele mesmo a bebe. Como resultado, seu lado demoníaco é revelado, que ele chama de Mr. Hyde. Mas o pior ainda estava por vir, pois inicialmente Jekyll acreditava poder controlar as aparições de Hyde e logo ele veria que estava completamente enganado.
Dr. Drewett
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Father John Callahan, C.S.C
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Scotty MacPherson
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Admiral Sir John Burleson
Enquanto a Espanha prepara um exército para invadir a Inglaterra, o pirata britânico Geoffrey Thorpe embarca em uma missão para saquear barcos espanhóis. Quando ele captura o barco que transportava o embaixador Don Jose Alvarez de Cordoba, o vistoso capitão apaixona-se por sua sobrinha, a bela Dona Maria, que se instala confortavelmente na Inglaterra. Dedicado a proteger os interesses ingleses, Thorpe vai para o mar em uma perigosa expedição que pode determinar o destino do país.
Brother Superior
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Minister Althoff
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Francis Bacon
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Doctor Lanskell
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Samuel 'Sam' Sloane
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Maréchal Bazaine
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Alexander McDougall
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
Dr. Kenneth
Humilhado por seu irmão de criação Hindley (Hugh Williams), Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) torna-se um homem rico e em busca de vingança. Ao mesmo tempo, porém, o rebelde nutre grande paixão por Cathy (Merle Oberon), irmã do homem que deseja matar e que, durante os anos em que esteve ausente da Inglaterra, casou-se com o nobre Edgar (David Niven). Certo dia, o Sr. Earnshaw retorna de viagem da cidade, trazendo consigo o pequeno órfão chamado Heathcliff. Porém, o filho de Earnshaw, Hindley, sente ciúmes do garoto, enquanto Catherine, sua filha, torna-se a paixão infantil e logo o amor de Heathcliff. As coisas mudam quando os pais dos garotos morrem, e Heathcliff começa a ser tratado como mero empregado. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Judge Hardwick
Trata-se de um acelerado e divertido western com James Cagney e Humphrey Bogart. Jim Kincaid (Cagney) é um pistoleiro notório que volta à sua cidade natal, Tulsa e descobre que seu pai foi linchado depois de ser acusado de um assassinato que não cometeu. Os verdadeiros culpados são Whip McCord (Bogart) e sua gangue. A melhor parte deste emocionante pacto de vingança é quando o personagem vivido por Cagney usa honky tonk piano e um par de pistolas para executar uma versão de "Eu não quero jogar no seu quintal."
Phipps
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
Grant
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Tim Hazelton
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Andy Stone
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Police Inspector Lewis Lane
Um brilhante médico da Park Avenue, interessado em estudar a fundo a mente criminosa, resolve então se tornar um criminoso.
Mr. Morgan
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
Dr. Livingstone
Em 1852, em Nova Orleans, uma jovem egocêntrica da aristocracia local provoca o rompimento do seu noivado ao usar um vestido vermelho, quando as moças deviam usar branco. Apesar de seu antigo noivo se casar com outra mulher, ela continua amando-o. Ela tem a grande chance de lhe provar que realmente deixou de ser uma jovem mimada quando uma peste se abate sobre a cidade. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Col. Todd Carruthers
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
Maitre Labori
O ator Paul Muni foi o rei das chamadas cinebiografias nos Anos Dourados de Hollywood, criando uma galeria de grande interpretações. Warner Bros era o estúdio de maior evidência na época entre o gosto popular, oferecendo ao público, produções arrebatadoras e polêmicas, banhadas de contestação social. Estas duas forças do estrelato e do humanitarismo se uniram em 1937, neste marco da cinematografia: Emile Zola foi a primeira produção da Warner a ganhar o Oscar de Melhor Filme (ainda recebeu outras 10 indicações e 3 estatuetas). O filme narra a ascensão do escritor francês Emile Zola e seu envolvimento na defesa do capitão Alfred Dreyfus, um militar condenado injustamente sob a acusação de traição apenas por ser judeu. Na verdade, ele passa a se interessar pelo caso somente quando procurado pela esposa de Dreyfus, e desafia os militares publicando o famoso J'accuse, um manifesto a favor do capitão.
Jack V. Merrick Sr.
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Presiding Judge
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Michael Davitt
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Police Captain Cromwell
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Liam Burke
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Judge Byron Thistlewaite
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
Colonel Campbell
Em 1853, enquanto os impérios britânico e russo competem para ganhar e manter seus lugares no terrível Grande Jogo de intrigas e alianças políticas cujo maior prêmio é o domínio da Índia e dos territórios fronteiriços, o Major Geoffrey Vickers deve suportar várias traições e infortúnios até poder se vingar nas Colinas de Balaclava, em 25 de outubro de 1854, o dia mais glorioso da Guerra da Crimeia.
Huntly
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Dr. Hunt
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
Thomas Burkitt
O marinheiro Roger Byam (Franchot Tone) acompanha o capitão Bligh (Charles Laughton) e Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) em uma viagem de navio ao Taiti. Bligh mostra ser um verdadeiro tirano e, depois de seis prazeirosos meses no Taiti, Christian lidera um motim entre a equipe para voltarem à casa.
Mr. McCarger
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
Mr. Pryor
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
George
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Docteur McQueen
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
David Wylie
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Mike Davey
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
Peadar Conlan
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
Mr. Anthony, District Attorney
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
Marcellus
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.
Darrall
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
Guidon
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, Gary, arrives along with his refined but sensual wife, Barbara, Dennis gets infatuated by her.
Sgt. Snyder
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
Garvey
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
The Laird
Svengali é um professor de canto, pianista e empresário de música em geral, vivendo em Paris. Ele possui um talento especial: é capaz de hipnotizar outras pessoas através de sua música e através de seus fortes poderes telepáticos. Ele usa esse talento especificamente para seduzir suas alunas para o seu próprio proveito financeiro. E as descarta facilmente quando elas já não possuem mais qualquer utilidade para ele. Mas, depois de ouvi-la e vê-la, Svengali se apaixona por uma jovem modelo chamada Trilby O'Farrell, que ele conhece no estúdio de alguns colegas artistas.
Charles Fox
A soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else.
Director
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
Colonel Moran
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
Roger Slater
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a native girl, her guardian, who is trying to bring her up as a 'proper' Christian, but who also lusts after her himself, plots to keep them apart.
Leif Ericsson
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
Director
Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.
Caxton
This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.
Sigsbee Manderson
Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
London Club Member (uncredited)
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all. We can just imagine his oily, purring accents all too well.
Director
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all. We can just imagine his oily, purring accents all too well.
Director
An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy and begins a rivalry for her affection.
Director
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.
Director
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.
Director
Silent romantic comedy...
Director
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
Director
Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
MacTavish
Um nobre promete se vingar de um bando de piratas que assassinou seu pai. Para atingir seu objetivo, ele se enfiltra no grupo de criminosos e, disfarçado, acaba ajudando na captura de um navio. As coisas se complicam quando chega a bordo do navio uma mulher que ele se sente no deve de proteger dos piratas.
Don Sebastian
Don Cesar, filho de Zorro, é acusado de assassinato enquanto visitava a Espanha, e se torna o fora da lei Don Q.
Director
Don Cesar, filho de Zorro, é acusado de assassinato enquanto visitava a Espanha, e se torna o fora da lei Don Q.
Director
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.
Director
Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
Director
A Lady stops her daughter from eloping with a farmer, takes away her baby, and makes her marry a Lord.
Lachlan Campbell
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.
Director
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.
Director
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
Director
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
Director
She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl.
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Henry Carpenter and his wife Millicent are the envy of their exclusive suburban set because of their abundant wine cellar, a blessing in the face of the recent prohibition against alcohol initiated by the Volstead Act. In reality, Henry is down to his last few bottles, and, faced with an impending dinner party, he decides to save face by denouncing the evils of drink. His impassioned speech earns him the support of the Prohibition party for a Congressional seat. Henry is relishing his popularity when his aunt discovers twenty-one cases of rare wine in the cellar, forcing the candidate to choose between political and social success.
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Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments. But he's really going on a cruise with Mrs. Dathis, who has purchased his yacht. To throw everyone off track, he uses the name Mr. Johnson. When he decides to repeat the trip, however, all hell breaks loose -- the jealous Mr. Dathis is out to get his hands on this Johnson character, while a real Mr. Johnson shows up in Mexico, and Mrs. Billings shows up with her mother, and the confusion continues from there.
Battling Burrows
Em Londres, um jovem chinês se envolve com uma pobre moça que sofre nas mãos de seu pai abusivo.
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Buddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot that he decides to leave Colorado with his newly inherited fortune, travel to New York, and win her heart. On the train, some gamblers, apparently aided by a pretty girl named Martha, cheat Buddy out of a large sum, and in New York, his lack of eastern polish makes him appear foolish.
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Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, after he saves her from a gang of thugs...
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Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who bears a remarkable resemblance to him. Lee is a worthless young chap whose father is anxious to have him return to the United States. On his death bed Lee turns his papers over to Vickers and begs him to assume his name. Arriving in New York, Vickers goes to the Lee home as Robert Lee, and discovers that the dead man has willed him a badly blotted past that includes a wife and two children and a large collection of debts. He also finds a beautiful adopted daughter in the Lee household and promptly falls in love with her. The only way he can stand any chance of winning the girl is by telling the truth about himself.
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The "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Dashing aviator Devereaux Bayne believes in Esme's innocence and accordingly dons civilian garb and heads to Paris' Latin Quarter to get the low-down on the Firefly's whereabouts.
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George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year. After he forges a check, George heads West and does escape arrest for nearly a year, despite the proliferation of police circulars bearing his name and his favorite expression, "Believe me, Xantippe." In a Colorado hunting lodge, he meets Sheriff Kamman's pretty daughter Dolly, who recognizes and tries to arrest him. According to the terms of the bet, however, he must be captured by a genuine officer of the law, which Dolly is not.
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Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copper strikes, Rimrock nonetheless forges ahead optimistically, hoping to strike it rich just once more. Unfortunately, he can't find anyone to finance his latest expedition -- except for a pretty public stenographer who uses her life savings to grubstake our hero. When Rimrock finally hits pay dirt, he tries to repay the girl for her generosity, only to find that she wants to be a full partner in his copper mine. While he mulls this over, Rimrock's rivals try to bamboozle him out of his mine with the help of a sexy "vamp".
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Stanley Jordan, a wealthy young bachelor, attends a Red Cross Benefit at the country club where he meets and falls in love with Betty Lovering and unwittingly offends Mrs. Vandergraft, the social leader.
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Guido and his wife Antoinetta wind up with the estate of Leo Marcellini, a wealthy oil and wine merchant who has died intestate. They move into the mansion but are at a loss when it comes to dealing with servants and other trappings of the rich.
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Pierre Duval is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques. One evening at the museum, Pierre finds a highly valuable painting missing, and since Jacques had just left, he believes his son stole it.
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Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
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A intolerância vista e analisada em quatro diferentes estágios da História: na Babilônia, onde uma garota vê-se entre o ódio religioso, levando uma cidade à ruína; na Judeia, onde os hipócritas condenam Jesus Cristo; na Paris de 1572, no Massacre da Noite de São Bartolomeu; e, finalmente, na América, onde reformadores acabam com a vida de um jovem casal.
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A.H. Monroe
A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
Steve Harland
May Blossom loves Richard Ashcroft, a Southern officer, and accepts his proposal of marriage immediately after receiving one from her father's choice, a suitor named Steve Harland, who loves her madly. She sorrowfully tells him she prefers Richard, nearly breaking Steve's heart. That night, without a chance to bid May good-bye, Richard is arrested
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Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by going in on preliminary bouts at the Athletic Club pugilistic exhibitions, and gains a local reputation as a boxer. When a big fighter is suddenly taken ill on the eve of a public contest, Patsy substitutes, wins the match, and suddenly finds himself in line for a bout with the champion of the world. On receipt of an offer for a long tour, he gets a swelled head and repudiates Hazel, who is forced to go back to work in the restaurant. She plans to get even with Patsy.
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Diversos pontos da história norte-americana são repassados sob a história de dois irmãos, chamados Phil e Ted Stoneman, que acabam em lados opostos a uma família amiga, os Camerons, durante a Guerra Civil.
Gen. U.S. Grant
Diversos pontos da história norte-americana são repassados sob a história de dois irmãos, chamados Phil e Ted Stoneman, que acabam em lados opostos a uma família amiga, os Camerons, durante a Guerra Civil.
Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes from the city to visit in the little town. Her charms prove too strong for Jared, who neglects Abigail to dance attendance upon the new belle. The country girl is broken-hearted, though she hides her sorrow from her erstwhile sweetheart. A wealthy young planter, however, soon cuts out Jared with Bertha.
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Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes from the city to visit in the little town. Her charms prove too strong for Jared, who neglects Abigail to dance attendance upon the new belle. The country girl is broken-hearted, though she hides her sorrow from her erstwhile sweetheart. A wealthy young planter, however, soon cuts out Jared with Bertha.
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Sykes, an American engaged to a poor girl, goes to the Philippines as a teacher, and the girl stays behind to await their marriage. Sykes, after some time has passed, has succumbed to the tropic influences, and is living with a native girl, when one day he hears from the girl back home that she is coming to join him and that she will arrive at dawn next day. An aunt has died and left her a lot of money. Caring more for this coin that the girl, Sykes tries to get rid of the native girl, but she makes a row, and he in fear of losing his girl and her cash, poisons the native girl, who dies. He is about to get rid of the body when a young lieutenant of the U.S. Army shows up with his sergeant, inquiring the way to the trail of Indians, and becomes suspicious of Sykes' uneasiness and finds the dead girl.
May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a city man, comes to town on a visit, falls in love with Carol and wins her away from Frank. Carol is pleased with his attentions and poor Frank is brokenhearted. Calling one day to see Carol, George meets May and falls madly in love with her, and finally runs away with her and they are married. Carol, in despair, turns back to Frank and they are married, and a year later a baby is born.
The Tramp
Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp, who, in trying to steal the boy's secret hoard, beats him up badly. Mason leaves the now helpless boy in care of his wife, and resumes his search for work.
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Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp, who, in trying to steal the boy's secret hoard, beats him up badly. Mason leaves the now helpless boy in care of his wife, and resumes his search for work.
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Country girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué's loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.
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Elmer Kent is a clerk in a large establishment, and earns fifteen dollars a week. He supports his sickly mother, and every cent of his salary is required to make both ends meet. The heaviest expense is the payments on the cottage which his father, before his death, partially paid for. Recently more money than usual has gone for necessities for his mother who has had an ill turn, and the real estate agent sends him word that payments overdue must be remitted the following day or the cottage will be seized. The next day is Saturday and pay day. Elmer hurries with the money to the agent's office only to learn he has gone to the beach. He follows, him but at the summer resort is waylaid by a fellow clerk. Wirt Hadley, who introduces him to two pretty girls.
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William Rock, assistant cashier in a business concern, has a sick daughter. The doctor urges that she be taken immediately to another climate, and Rock, unable to get an advance on his pay, is desperate. He has been in the habit of taking the deposits to the bank every Saturday, and then going direct from the bank home. He determines that week to steal the money. On Saturday Rock is followed on the street by a couple of crooks. He goes into a telephone booth to phone his daughter May and her fiancé, a young physician, that they can start south with the younger sister at once. Taking the money out of the bank satchel, he stuffs it in his inside vest pocket and leaves with the empty bag in his hand. He goes down an alleyway to get rid of the satchel, but is assaulted by the gunmen and the bag taken from him.
Mr. Edwards
Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety of the cities. She meets a man from city on vacation; he makes cavalier love to her. She is interested and becomes infatuated. Mother warns her against him and begs her to be contented in country life. Dorothy is petulant. She lies in a hammock under the trees, and wishes the city man would come and take her away from the life she hates. Dorothy falls asleep in the hammock. The city man appears and finds her asleep. He kisses her awake and makes more violent love to her. He urges her to flee with him to the city by recounting the pleasures he can give her.
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Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety of the cities. She meets a man from city on vacation; he makes cavalier love to her. She is interested and becomes infatuated. Mother warns her against him and begs her to be contented in country life. Dorothy is petulant. She lies in a hammock under the trees, and wishes the city man would come and take her away from the life she hates. Dorothy falls asleep in the hammock. The city man appears and finds her asleep. He kisses her awake and makes more violent love to her. He urges her to flee with him to the city by recounting the pleasures he can give her.
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Society man Arthur Lee is in love with society belle Helen Robinson, who is also admired by James Holden, a wealthy mine owner from the West. At her father's country place, Lee is unhappy because of her popularity but is appeased when she finally accepts his proposal and ring. Holden interrupts and claims a moment's talk. Telling Lee to wait for her in a favorite nook of the veranda, she goes with Holden while Lee strolls in the garden to await her. After proposing, Holden leaves her and hastens to the nook, seating himself with his back to the French windows. Lee is nearby in the garden finishing his smoke. He sees Holden in his chair, by the light of the latter's cigarette, and then sees Helen come from the lighted ballroom, approach the chair and throw her arms about Holden, sit in his lap and kiss him. Lee turns away in despair and anger and leaves the grounds.
Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie New and they are wed. Then Mamie shows him how simple it is to get things on the easy payment plan. At first everything is rosy and matters go very smoothly for the young couple. Then the collectors begin to get busy and finally Marcus has nothing left, not even his bride, for the parson comes to take her for his fee, which had been arranged for on a ten cents a day basis.
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Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie New and they are wed. Then Mamie shows him how simple it is to get things on the easy payment plan. At first everything is rosy and matters go very smoothly for the young couple. Then the collectors begin to get busy and finally Marcus has nothing left, not even his bride, for the parson comes to take her for his fee, which had been arranged for on a ten cents a day basis.
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merriam. who is a motorboat enthusiast. Unknown to anyone but her brother Frank, Ruth is an expert at fixing auto and motorboat engines as the estate is on the bay and Ruth has the use of two launches. With Joe she goes for a boat ride but the engine breaks down and he is unable to fix it, and afraid that it would lower his opinion of her if she should repair the engine, she lets him call another boat to tow them back to the wharf. Merriam, while in love with Ruth, cannot bring himself to propose, fearing that she would be too ornamental for a farmer's wife, and half of his visit passes while he attempts to make up his mind.
The Burglar
A two-reel story of domestic life.
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A two-reel story of domestic life.
Bob Jameson - the Spy
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn and stops overnight. He falls in love with the daughter of the innkeeper. She is infatuated with him, as he is the first human being who has ever been kind to her. He goes away but promises to return. While he is away a large reward is offered for his capture, dead or alive. The innkeeper tells the messenger of the news that if Bob ever comes back, he will put him into room seven and hold him. The daughter overhears this, and when Bob returns, unable to warn him, she changes the number on the door of room seven to that of six. When Bob is sent up to his room by Corto, he goes in what he thinks is seven but the daughter afterwards shifts the door numbers back to their original positions. Corto decides to kill Bob in his sleep and steals upstairs.
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Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn and stops overnight. He falls in love with the daughter of the innkeeper. She is infatuated with him, as he is the first human being who has ever been kind to her. He goes away but promises to return. While he is away a large reward is offered for his capture, dead or alive. The innkeeper tells the messenger of the news that if Bob ever comes back, he will put him into room seven and hold him. The daughter overhears this, and when Bob returns, unable to warn him, she changes the number on the door of room seven to that of six. When Bob is sent up to his room by Corto, he goes in what he thinks is seven but the daughter afterwards shifts the door numbers back to their original positions. Corto decides to kill Bob in his sleep and steals upstairs.
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; Paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him that evening for a real estate deal he had made in Talbot's absence. It was after banking hours and Talbot slept with the money under his pillow. The next morning he went off in a tearing hurry and forgot the roll of bills.
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Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him that evening for a real estate deal he had made in Talbot's absence. It was after banking hours and Talbot slept with the money under his pillow. The next morning he went off in a tearing hurry and forgot the roll of bills.
The Newer Woman is a 1914 silent film.
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The Newer Woman is a 1914 silent film.
'Bull' McGee
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.
The Mother's Son
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
The Ranch Foreman
The Different Man is a silent Western from 1914
Steve
A 1914 silent Western short
Frank Andrews
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails.
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A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches
Buck
A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches
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After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. His partner, however, won the girl's love, and threatened to expose the father if he attempted to break off the match. By a clever ruse the father set the gangsters against their leader. His plan did not prove altogether successful.
Southern Rival
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern girl's heart. The gallantry of the young southern swains, however, was more than manifest, when a drunken band of Unionists entered the house, among them her sweetheart. From him was protection needed most. His rival, a Confederate soldier, showed her that character is far above political principle, and true love came into its own.
Lee Calvert - Brother Owner
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of white slavers.
The Beggar
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to return her kindness when he overhears a plot to rob the settlers of their home. He alerts the couple and delays the would-be thieves long enough for the husband to file a claim on his land. Olaf is injured by the claim jumpers but he recovers, alone and forgotten by those he has helped. He then moves aimlessly along.
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger brother, Giuseppe, on a small truck farm in the west. Gato becomes so intent on his work that he neglects to show his wife the little attentions she demands. A foppish wandering Italian, Sandro, sees in this an opportunity to work his ends, but is prevented by the timely interference of Giuseppe.
Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the very mutineers themselves. Here fate intervenes with justice and the miscreant mate after a series of exciting adventures is outwitted through his own weakness.
Rival Gang Member (uncredited)
História de uma situação envolvendo troca de favores entre gangsters e um casal do subúrbio. Um dos primeiros filmes com temática gangster.
Bank Employee
A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind the scenes to help him recover his life, and eventually he realizes how steadfast she is.
Policeman
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
A Union soldier (uncredited)
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
A Servant / The Landlord
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
First Tramp
Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.
Actor / Backstage
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
Accident Witness
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attractive office worker.
At Club
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate.
Courtier
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the house gives a feast in honor of the arrival of a wealthy foreign noble, whom he expects to make his son-in-law. The daughter, however, has given her heart to the son of her father's enemy. That he may be present at the festival, she surreptitiously takes her father's signet ring, throwing it to him from the window, which, of course, admits him. The father, anticipating the intrusion of his enemies, orders death to any member who enters the hall. After the festivities the unwelcome betrothal takes place and the forbidden lover braves death to see his loved one. While they are in clandestine meeting a guard is seen to enter the corridor so the girl hides her sweetheart in a secret closet, turning the key and taking it with her. Not finding the intruder, the guard imagines he was mistaken.
The Valet
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the matter.
At Ball
Tony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a neighboring corner. He at once becomes smitten and can think of nothing else. Later they are betrothed and little Alice fancies she has made a good catch. However, clouds gather when Alice's sister Florence, who is a vaudeville artist, returns from her road tour with her sketch partner Bobby Mack, for the moment Tony sees Florence he transfers his affections to her. Poor Alice becomes aware of the waning of Tony's love for her and the heavy blow falls when on the night of the Barbers' Ball Tony escorts Florence thither. Alice being excessively romantic reasons that life without Tony is impossible so she is about to emulate the heroine of a novel she has been reading by terminating her unendurable existence with a pistol when Mack enters. The bullet she intended for her own lovelorn head passes through Mack's hat, scaring him stiff.
At Stage Door
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
Courtier/Monk
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel's grief knew no bounds when he heard "That low knell tolling his lady dead." "She had lain three days without a pulse all that look'd on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian's land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin." Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, "Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love."
Head of the Sweatshop
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
At the Club
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do likewise. She sneaks out to a dance and the child takes a turn for the worse. By the time she returns home the child is dead. After her husband leaves her, the mother realizes her selfishness and begs forgiveness at her daughter's grave.
A poor widow dies, leaving her two young children, Bob and Mabel, in the care of a poor neighbor, who later is forced by circumstances to give them to an asylum. Twenty years pass and Jack, who has been adopted by a good family, has now gone into business for himself and is a rising young broker. He has been searching the detective agencies for his sister, without success, for some years. Mabel ran away from the asylum and has been brought up by a poor family, is without education and is now employed as a servant, and on a certain day is hanging clothes on a roof nearby a large office building, in which Bob has his office, and a small boy is flying his kite from the same rooftop.
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A wealthy young criminologist Marcel Leviget is seen forcibly dragging his fellow clubman Dr. Rogers into a House of Ill Repute. In one of the back bedrooms of the bawdy house, an old friend of Marcel's, a prominent attorney, lies near death. Dr. Rogers is also acquainted with the dying attorney, and while Marcel's back is turned, Rogers discovers a distinctively designed hatpin embedded in the patient's heart.
