Joseph Depew

In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

An insurance man's affair with a blonde leads to guilt, murder and a confession to his wife.

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

Эжен Видок, рожденный в тюрьме, посвятил первые тридцать лет своей жизни всевозможным преступлениям: особенно он преуспел в деле обольщения женщин, однажды украв подвязку с рубинами у любовницы шефа полиции. Проведя два года в наполеоновской армии, где он и его верный помощник Эмиль скрывались от преследований полиции, двое авантюристов замышляют ограбить старую маркизу де Пьермон, перед которой Эжен Франсуа разыгрывает истинного джентльмена, родственника некогда знакомого ей, а ныне почившего барона Видока. По иронии судьбы, зятем маркизы оказывается месье Рудольф, министр полиции Франции, что подает месье Видоку новую дерзкую идею: стать шефом полиции вместо недалекого месье Рише и устроить ограбление Парижского банка. Однако Тереза, дочь месье Рудольфа, убеждена, что человек с лицом святого не может быть отпетым негодяем - нужно лишь верить в лучшее...

Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?

Мадагаскар. Веками этот остров был самым кровавым местом среди всех морей - именно здесь пираты захватывали корабли идущие из Индии. Потом пираты собирались в потаенных местах и делили добычу. Среди них самым жестоким был капитан Кидд. Это его пиратская шхуна, пришвартовавшись как торговое судно к борту английского галиона «12 апостолов» варварски разграбила судно и уничтожила всю команду. Закопав награбленное в пещере, пират вернулся в Лондон и вошел в доверие к королю, выдав себя за богатого купца-морехода. Получив назначение капитаном на судно, которое должно сопровождать очередной галион из Индии, Кидд набрал команду из бывших пиратов с целью повторить нападение на охраняемый ими же корабль и умножить свои богатства. И это ему почти удалось, но как бы не был хитер флибустьер, последнее слово осталось за Адамом Мэрси - сыном капитана галиона «12 апостолов», который единственный остался в живых из команды. Он разоблачил двуличного «капитана» Кидда и сдал его властям.

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.

Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.

Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.

The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.

Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.

Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart and Orchid McGonigle, attempt to go straight, despite pressure to continue their lives of lawlessness.

Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.

A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothys Quest (1922) is a rare, cinematic gem based on a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), who was then known as Americas best loved author of stories about children.