Dialogue
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
Theatre Play
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Writer
In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
Writer
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
Screenplay
A group of Canadian Royal Mounted Police officers arrive home after serving overseas with the Allied Army. After enjoying a birthday banquet for the aged Major Manners amid much singing and revelry, Inspector Turner reveals suspicions about a new recruit, John Smith, whom he knows to be using a pseudonym and whose war record contains something potentially damaging.
Story
A group of Canadian Royal Mounted Police officers arrive home after serving overseas with the Allied Army. After enjoying a birthday banquet for the aged Major Manners amid much singing and revelry, Inspector Turner reveals suspicions about a new recruit, John Smith, whom he knows to be using a pseudonym and whose war record contains something potentially damaging.
Story
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
Writer
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
Dialogue
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
Adaptation
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
Writer
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.
Writer
Несомненная классика мирового кино. Кинокартина, во время съемок которой режиссер Рауль Уолш лишился глаза. Первый в истории мирового кинематографа вестерн, со звуком записанным не в интерьерах студии, а на натуре. Кассовый хит, снятый по мотивам рассказа классика американской прозы О'Генри. Фильм послуживший началом в длинном ряду лент о приключениях благородного бандита Циско Кида. Кинолента, за участие в которой Уорнер Бакстер получил золотую статуэтку на второй церемонии премии "Оскар" в номинации лучшая мужская роль.
Theatre Play
One day Coventry Petmore leaves his wife and child to go out in the world and fight the social evils of divorce and loveless marriage. Circumstances lead him to the home of Judge Mitchell, where the judge's son, a minister, and his wife Beatrice reside. The minister does not believe in expressing affection to his wife, and Beatrice becomes enamored of her chauffeur Larry Price.