Villager (uncredited)
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
Charity Ball Guest (Uncredited)
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
Wedding Doorman (uncredited)
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Wilkes The Butler
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
Sir Harry
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
The Earl
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose the servants as the crooks.
Nobleman in 'Joan of Arc'
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
Jenkins
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Garden Party Guest Getting Sprayed (uncredited)
На этот раз гениальный лицедей открывает неожиданные стороны своего комического дара. Его герой завоевывает сердца и банковские счета богатых вдовушек и старых дев, а затем убивает своих несчастных жертв.
Fleming's Butler
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Barton (Uncredited)
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Jeffries (uncredited)
Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.
Train Passenger (uncredited)
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Butler
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
English Cartel Member (uncredited)
Легендарная Рита Хейворт опаляет чувственностью и магнетизмом, когда поет «Put the Blame on Mame» и блистает в роли манящей соблазнительницы Джильды. В истории «Джильды» Джонни Фаррелл поступает на работу к Баллину Мандсону, содержащему подпольное казино в южноамериканском городе, и быстро становится его правой рукой. Все идет хорошо, пока Мандсон не возвращается из поездки со своей невестой Джильдой – женщиной из прошлого Джонни. Мандсон, не зная об их бывшей любовной связи, дает Фарреллу задание охранять верность своей жены Джильды. Полная ненависти Джильда старается изо всех сил оттолкнуть, запугать и вызвать ревность у Фаррелла, пока обстоятельства не помогают ему расплатиться.
Burch, the Butler
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Footman (uncredited)
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Manby's Butler (Uncredited)
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Miner in Bar (uncredited)
Сорокалетняя учительница Лилли Моффат полна благородных идей. Она твердо намерена открыть в захолустном шахтерском поселке школу для детей шахтеров. Столкнувшись с сопротивлением владельцев шахт, Моффат открывает обучение у себя дома…
Michael, Stuart's Butler
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
Sardams's Butler
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
Backstage Manager (uncredited)
По рассказам Кеннет Эрл, М.М. Массельмэн, Кертис Кенион. Композитор Стив Эллиот (Ред Скелтон) влюблён в прекрасную Кэролин Брукс (Эстер Уильямс). Их свадьбу расстраивает коварный импресарио Джордж Адамс (Бэзил Рэтбоун), который боится, что Стив перестанет сочинять ему песни. Кэролин в слезах возвращается на прежнее место работы - колледж. Стив, горя желанием вернуть свою возлюбленную, решает туда поступить, но, проблема в том, что этот колледж - для девушек...
Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
Джоб Скеффингтон информирует Фанни Треллис о том, что ее брат Триппи присвоил себе значительную сумму денег, принадлежащих банку Скеффингтона. Чтобы спасти брата, Фанни выходит замуж за Джоба. Но брат, разозлившись на нее, отправляется на Первую мировую войну, где погибает. Фанни разводится и отсылает свою дочь к Джобу, чтобы та жила с ним в Европе.
После этого Фанни постоянно встречается с разными мужчинами. Но с началом Второй мировой войны к ней возвращается дочь. После дифтерии Фанни теряет свою красоту, а ее дочь сбегает с ее последним любовником. В это время в Америку возвращается Джоб, нищий и слепой…
Footman (uncredited)
Леди Сьюзен Эшвуд работает медсестрой в лондонском госпитале и беспокоится о своем сыне Джоне, ушедшем на войну. В ожидании прибытия раненых солдат Сьюзен вспоминает белые скалы, которые она впервые увидела еще совсем юной девушкой после своего прибытия в Англию в 1914 году, вспоминает свою жизнь со всеми ее радостями и горестями...
Club New Yorker Patron (uncredited)
Сержант Энди Мэйсон знакомится с танцовщицей ночного клуба Иди Аллен. Простое знакомство быстро переходит в романтические отношения. Вскоре Энди отправляется в Тихоокеанский регион для участия в военных действиях. Иди провожает возлюбленного на фронт и с нетерпением ждет его возвращения.Беда только в том, что в самом начале знакомства Энди, рассчитывая только на легкомысленное приключение, назвался чужим именем...
Butler
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Хроника впечатлений о Советском Союзе американского посла Дэвиса, его встреч со Сталиным, и его общая точка зрения на отношения Советского Союза и Соединенных Штатов.
Butler
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Englishman Questioning Casino's Honesty (uncredited)
Оставивший родину американец Рик Блэйн, владелец игорного клуба в Касабланке, случайно встречается с покинувшей его несколько лет назад возлюбленной, Ильзой, которая приехала в город вместе со своим нынешним мужем, борцом антифашистского сопротивления Виктором Лазло. По их следу идут немцы, и Ильза пытается упросить Рика отдать принадлежащие ему важные документы, которые позволят Виктору бежать из Касабланки, чтобы продолжить свою борьбу.
Фильм рассказывает об участии рядовых англичан в годы Второй мировой войны в обороне страны.
Air Raid Warden
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Butler
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
Evans - Rankin's Butler (uncredited)
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Reeves
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Henderson
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,
Parking Valet (uncredited)
Джон Джонс — американский корреспондент, направленный в Европу, чтобы побольше узнать о голландско-бельгийском договоре, имеющем большое политическое значение накануне предстоящей войны. В Европе он становится свидетелем похищения голландского дипломата Ван Меера, знающего некий тайный пункт в этом договоре.
Betsy's Butler (uncredited)
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
David (uncredited)
Барри Трэксел вместе с дочерью спешит в морской порт, чтобы встретить жену Сьюзен — светскую львицу, возвращающуюся из Европы. Но у трапа корабля супруг узнаёт, что супруга сошла в нескольких милях от дома, дабы проведать свою подругу Ирен Баррос. Посещение Европы странно подействовало на молодую женщину — она неожиданно уверовала в новое религиозное движение «Ближе к богу» и решила кардинально изменить свою жизнь. Сьюзен решает развестись с мужем, который изрядно пристрастился к алкоголю, отправить дочь в интернат и посвятить всю себя распространению новых истин о всеобъемлющей любви. Но кипучая пропагандистская деятельность не приносит положительных результатов.
Commissionaire (uncredited)
Во время бомбёжки Лондона, на мосту Ватерлоо знакомятся и влюбляются друг в друга молоденькая балерина Майра и красавец-офицер Рой Кронин. Он просит её руки, она даёт согласие, но внезапно его отсылают на фронт. За роман с военным строгая преподавательница исключает Майру из балетной труппы, а вскоре в одной из газет в списках погибших она видит фамилию Роя… Отчаяние, безденежье и безработица приводят несчастную на панель…
Livingstone's Footman
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Footman
История, основанная на германских сказаниях, как брат и сестра ищут Синюю птицу для исполнения своего желания и попадают в разные места и времена.
Professor Crampton (uncredited)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid (Stan in drag) for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. Predictable results ensue.
Patient with Straw Hat
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Bates
Потомственный граф Том Рэнсом — холостяк, ловелас и любитель виски. Уже семь лет он живет в Индии. Однажды со своим другом индийским майором-врачом по имени Рэма он посещает праздничный обед в Американской миссии штата Ранчипур. Там он знакомится с семнадцатилетней Ферн — дочерью руководителя миссии. В приватной беседе герой узнает, что девушка давно мечтает сбежать из чуждого ей дома, и желательно с самим Томом. Их разговор прерывает посланник от махараджи со срочным приглашением во дворец на прием в честь лорда и леди Эскет. Прибыв во дворец Сиш Махал, Том узнает, что леди Эскст ни кто иная как его прошлая любовь Эдвина, которая увидев Тома похоже решила вспомнить молодость. Но в одну воду нельзя вступить дважды, и, поняв это, Эдвина решает увлечься молодым индийским врачом. Начавшийся сезон дождей прерывает складывающуюся идиллию: землетрясение разрушает заградительную дамбу и тысячи тонн воды обрушиваются на город, сметая все на своем пути, разрушая дома и ломая судьбы героев…
Nightclub Patron
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Englishman (uncredited)
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Doctor
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
Orderly Chasing Sara
Лондон. Конец XIX века. Капитан Кру, отправляясь на войну, привозит свою любимую дочь Сару, которую он называет «маленькой принцессой», в один из лучших и самых дорогих пансионов, чтобы она получила хорошее образование. Добрая, отзывчивая Сара быстро находит новых подруг. Ее самостоятельность и уважительное отношение к людям покоряют всех. Однажды приходит страшная весть — отец Сары погибает, не оставив дочери средств к существованию. Юной героине предстоит пройти через ненависть и унижение, голод и нищету. Но ее доброта, ум и находчивость помогают преодолеть все невзгоды.
Fagin - the Carson Butler
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Scott's Mechanic
Действие фильма разворачивается во время Первой мировой войны. Майор Брэнд — командир эскадрона британского Королевского летного корпуса, размещенного во Франции. Капитан Кортни и его друг лейтенант Скотт называют своего командира мясником за то, что Брэнд поручает опасные задания неопытным пилотам и тем самым обрекает их на верную смерть.
Butler
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Richards' Chauffeur (uncredited)
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Bates
A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
Grady
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Mr. Hartley
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Simmons - Butler
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Townsman (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Mr. Rayford
Echo Mountain (1936) is a color musical short where they sing their songs in a mountains setting.
Porter (uncredited)
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.
Meggs
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Charles (uncredited)
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Evans
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Detective Evans (uncredited)
Во время поездки по Тибету ботаника Глендона кусает в руку гнусное создание. После находки таинственного растения, которое распускается только при лунном свете, он возвращается вместе со своей экспедицией в Лондон. Когда в своей лаборатории Глендон пытается оживить растение, к нему является доктор Йогами, который утверждает, что они встречались в Тибете. Йогами, как впоследствии оказывается, является тем гнусным созданием, которое укусило Глендона — оборотень. Он дает Глендону понять, что превратился в результате укуса в волка. Единственное противоядие — экстракт того растения, которое Глендон привез с собой из Тибета. Но это неправда — экстракт является только временной защитой. Глендон впадает в панику и концентрируется только на ботанических экспериментах. Но желание человеческой крови доводит его до того, что он превращается в волка и начинает охоту на свою жену Лизу и охотится до тех пор пока его не пристреливает полиция.
Peter Tosh
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.
British Official (uncredited)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Butler
A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
Waiter
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havisham and her niece, Estella, eventually becoming friends with the girl. Wealth comes to Pip via a mysterious benefactor and he goes off to London for an education. As adults, Pip and Estella become romantic, and Pip learns the identity of his patron.
English Coach
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Golfer
Walter Webb, thinking his gas station has been destroyed, describes a "super-deluxe" gas station run by chorus girls to his insurance agent.
Alfred
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.
Duke Finley
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.
Count Von Stainz
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
Lord Hurley
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
Mata's Butler (uncredited)
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
British Railway Officer (uncredited)
В Китае идет гражданская война, поезд Пекин-Шанхай заполнен опасными пассажирами, совершающими опасное путешествие в это полное опасностей время. Здесь и карточный шулер, и инвалид, перевозящий контрабандой наркотики, и миссионер-фанатик, и, наконец, знаменитая авантюристка и, как поговаривают, лучшая в Китае белая проститутка, Лили по прозвищу «Шанхайская Лилия». Среди попутчиков оказывается ее бывший возлюбленный и жених — капитан Дональд Харви. Лидер повстанцев Уорнер Оланд захватывает поезд и подыскивает подходящего заложника, чтобы обменять его на своего офицера, взятого в плен силами регулярной армии. Этим заложником оказывается Харви, ему хотят выжечь глаза, но Лили обещает Оланду стать его любовницей в обмен на жизнь капитана, которого она по-прежнему любит.
British Soldier at the Front (uncredited)
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
Tiffany Chauffeur (uncredited)
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Racing Fan at Derby (uncredited)
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
Ship's Officer
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
Restaurant Manager (uncredited)
Были времена, когда трамваи по Нью-Йорку двигались на конной тяге. Однако транспорт этот быстро устарел и, более того, пришёл монополист – Компания внутригородских железных дорог. И лишь Папаша Диллон не сдаётся, продолжая обслуживать один из маршрутов на своём анахронизме. Компания пытается выкупить его бизнес, но цена предложенная стариком им кажется неприемлимой. Тогда акулы капитализма задумали устроить "рейдерский захват". Диллон, конечно, стар, но жених его внучки, непутёвый парень, помешанный на бейсболе, которого все зовут Спиди, решает воспрепятствовать коварным планам врага, призвав на помощь всё ещё боевых ветеранов Гражданской войны…
Robert Underwood
An expose of the methods used by a police-department to extract a confession from a suspect, regardless of innocence or guilt, and the effect and consequences on a family when an innocent member breaks under the interrogation methods and confesses to a crime he did not commit.
Fritz von Meyring
During World War I, Louise, a French girl, refuses to leave her château after the invading Germans take it over for use as their headquarters. A German officer, Col. von Knorr, makes repeated advances on her, but she rebuffs him.
George Steele
Motion picture actress Doria Dane (Edna Goodrich) gives up her career to play muse to sculptor George Steele (Herbert Evans). With Doria's help, Steele overcomes his Bohemian excesses and stays away from the influence of the jealous but wealthy Mrs. Schuyler (Miriam Folger). He finally achieves success, but he also begins to neglect Doria. When she catches him kissing the dreaded Mrs. Schuyler, Doria decides to leave him. But when she goes to his studio to drop off her farewell note, she discovers another sculptor, Harry North, copying one of Steele's masterpieces. Later she comes over to Steele's studio and, in front of a crowd of people, smashes the statue to bits. Then she takes them over to North's studio and explains that she switched the two statues, and reveals North as a fraud. At the base of the real statue she has left a letter of reconciliation to Steele.
Leo
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate. The gypsy chief, aware of the girl's value, instructs Sabia, the tribe's matron, to dress and rear her as a boy. Years later, while the tribe is traveling in Virginia, Vosho, the chief's son, discovers the true sex of the girl, now called Firefly, and demands to marry her.
William Howe
This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Robert Warwick plays Nathan (and does a fine job) and Gail Kane the girl whom he loves (Alice Adams).