The 20 Best Films of Tom Ricketts
The twenty of the best films from Tom Ricketts.
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- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithConway TearleTom RickettsA Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first, he thinks it's just pure coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's currently romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished years before, but he soon starts to believe that it's not such a coincidence after all.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsCharles RayTom RickettsEthel GrandinJohn Paul Bart, a presser who has high respect for the favorable impression created by expensive clothes, "borrows" a suit to wear to an exclusive reception. There he attracts the attention of shipping magnate Abraham Nathan, who hires John Paul to handle his company's labor problems. Against great odds and despite Gustavus Sonntag's scheming, John Paul is successful, but he returns to Anton Huber's shop when he is exposed by Sonntag. Nathan, however, finds him and gives him a permanent position, and John Paul then marries Tanya Huber.
- DirectorKing BaggotStarsGladys WaltonCharlotte PierceEdmund BurnsYoung shop girl Mamie Conroy, and wealthy Jeanette Gregory become close friends. When Mamie foils an attempted abduction of Jeanette, the latter's grandfather, Simon Gregory, brings Mamie into his home and treats her like a member of the family. But she is again involved in a kidnapping attempt and is herself accused of robbery. Explanations resolve everything, and Mamie falls in love with David Bruce, a detective passing as a crook.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsFlorence VidorClaude GillingwaterHarold GoodwinAlice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonJosephine DittAfter inheriting his grandfather's estate, John Wright rides through a wooded area and sees Martha Hobbs struggling with Ralph, the man whom her heartless father wants her to marry. John beats Ralph and returns Martha to her shabby home. After Martha's mother dies, Martha goes to the city and is befriended by an aged woman. When Wright, investigating his inherited property, finds the women living in a squalid tenement, he builds the Wright Industrial Home, an ideal community-oriented workplace. After Wright hears Greta Carr lecture about ancient Greek life, he convinces Carr to create with him a modern Grecian colony on his estate. The villagers are shocked by the colony's scantily clad dancers. Learning that Martha lives there, Ralph leads a mob to destroy the house. John catches Ralph setting off dynamite and after knocking him out, warns everyone to leave. After the explosion, the mob sobers upon finding Ralph's body. Now tolerated, the colony constructs new buildings, and John and Martha marry.Tom Ricketts adapts and directs this drama from a story from Theodosia Harris.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeAdolphe MenjouWedgwood NowellThe Duchess de Langeais has a love affair, as in the novel by H. de Balzac.
- DirectorGrover JonesStarsRichard TalmadgeDoris PawnTom RickettsState political power James Merritt gives his wayward son, Bob, a 13th chance to make good by defeating Arnold Norton in the coming Carterville mayoral election. Bob tries his mightiest until he meets Norton's daughter, Barbara, and learns of the underhanded efforts being made against Norton by Mark Durkham, the elder Merritt's political henchman. Switching to the other side, Bob successfully works for Norton's victory and Barbara's favor--thereby getting involved in a prizefight and other exciting events.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeLew CodyJack MulhallWhen Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsMatt MooreEnid BennettBarbara La MarrA rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when the two Russian thieves Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
- DirectorLouis ChaudetStarsFrank DillRussell SimpsonTully MarshallChuck Warner and three friends go east and try to pass Chuck off as the long-lost son of millionaire Milton DePuyster. When DePuyster avers that he never had a son, the group causes a commotion sufficient to bring out the police. Chuck admits his ruse, but he is revealed to be Mrs. DePuyster's son by an earlier marriage.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonNell FranzenAfter becoming Adam Keating's partner in a ranching venture, Walt Landis hopes to become his son-in-law as well. Adam's daughter Helen, however, has different ideas, and marries the dissipated Fred Sherwood. Tired of his solitary rancher's life, a disappointed Walt then marries Rose McKee after answering the lonely-hearts letter that she placed in a box of collars. Meanwhile, Adam grows weary of Fred's chronic laziness, and so, hoping that the change of scenery will prove therapeutic, he sends Fred and Helen to Walt's ranch. Thrown together, Fred and Rose soon fall in love, while Helen, bored with her shiftless husband, starts a flirtation with Walt. Then, Rose and Fred get caught in quicksand, and for a moment Walt and Helen, seeing their chance to get married, consider letting them die. They finally rescue them, however, after which Helen and Fred return to Adam's ranch, while Walt and Rose continue their loveless marriage.Ricketts writes and directs this feature from American Film.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonWilliam StowellPaul Harvard, who is the son of a wealthy Northerner, is invited for an indefinite stay to the Carolina Pines. Arriving at the Pines, he meets Judge Bulstring, who commissions Dr. Sterling Duke to show the young fellow about, and find him a place to live among the mountaineers. Paul forms the acquaintance of Grace Wilson, and the two are mutually attracted. Another young Northerner arrives on the scene. He is a Federal agent who has come to investigate the fact that there has been much counterfeiting and moonshining. This newcomer is Wilbur Grant, and during the weeks of his stay he simulates drunkenness in order that he may better work himself into the confidence of those whom he suspects. Grant quickly takes up with one Richard Quigg, who professes to deal in real estate, and he actually does hold a mortgage over Magnolia Hall, the name of the Wilson home. This mortgage is fast coming due and Grace is frantic at her inability to raise funds to meet the debt. Quigg offers to cancel the mortgage if Miss Wilson will consent to become his wife. Grace refuses and orders Quigg from the house. Young Harvard takes up his residence in the mountains with the Tollivers. Caroline Tolliver becomes one of his acquaintances. Paul oversees the girl admiring a frock which an itinerant Jew has offered for sale. Paul gives the girl the money and she makes her coveted purchase. The act is overseen and becomes food for gossip. It develops that Caroline has been secretly married to Richard Quigg and that an interesting event is soon to transpire. Jack Tolliver, Caroline's brother, becomes furious when his sister's condition is learned. She will not reveal the name of the man, and as gossip has linked Caroline's name with that of young Harvard, Jack at once assumes that he is the guilty one. The scene shifts to the mountains, where the moonshiners are at work. Within the shack that houses the illicit still are Richard Quigg, Jack Tolliver and others. With the men, too, are Caroline Tolliver and her mother. Outside it is pouring rain. There comes a knock on the door. It is Paul Harvard. He is roughly handled, but manages to hold his own. In an apparently drunken condition, Wilbur Grant enters. He is pushed carelessly to one side, and at length is locked in an unused chamber. A bolt of lightning strikes nearby. A huge dam bursts and the loosened waters bear down upon the moonshiners' abode. All escape miraculously, and Harvard, casting aside personal enmity, effects the rescue of Jack Tolliver. The Tollivers learn that Paul is not responsible for Caroline's condition. Jack and his sister come, shamefaced, to the house to publicly declare the young man's innocence. Meanwhile, the mortgage has fallen due on Magnolia Hall. Richard Quigg has come to collect. Paul Harvard seeks to buy over the head of Quigg. His check is refused, for the document stipulates cash is to be paid. The hands of the clock creep toward the appointed hour as Paul gallops away over the hills to the nearest bank. He obtains the cash and arrives barely in time. All are astounded however, when Quigg overbids the young millionaire. The multitude is plunged into gloom; then Wilbur Grant takes a hand in the affair. Tipping the wink to men who secretly are his aids, he jumps in and arrests Quigg in the name of the Federal Government. The fellow is branded as a counterfeiter and moonshiner and submits to shackles on his wrists. Amid waving of hands and dances of joy, Magnolia Hall is sold to Paul Harvard, who promptly presents it to the wide-eyed young girl, Grace Wilson, who stands at his side. The two gaze in each other's eyes. Harvard's strong arms encompass the girl, and all is happy ever after.Ricketts directs this feature that was adapted from Grattan Donnelly's play.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonWilliam StowellAt a remote army fort in the desert, Alice Corbett--a widow with a small daughter--makes money by doing laundry and cooking for the soldiers. Sgt. Barnes, a scout at the post, gradually falls in love with her. One night at a party for the commanding officer, Col. Sears, Barnes sees Dr. Deschamps, the post physician, making a pass at Mrs. Sears. The next day he spots the two riding together, and later confronts Deschamps, demanding that he resign his commission or be exposed for his attempt to seduce the colonel's wife. Deshamps has no intention of resigning, and together with half-breed Unitah, who hates Barnes for beating him in a fight, comes up with a plan to get rid of Barnes without the crime being traced back to him.Ricketts directs this feature starring May Allison and Harry Lockwood.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonWilliam StowellJohn Montgomery, young, rich and of fine family, is eagerly sought after by the elite of old San Francisco. He and Ellie Fenwick meet for a moment at a hall, and are mutually attracted. Montgomery's impulsiveness and generosity cause him to fall an easy prey to Willie Felton, leader of a fast set, who introduces the young man to Martin Rood's gambling house. Rood, seeing in Montgomery a lamb to be shorn, quickly fleeces him of a large part of his fortune and then persuades him to invest the rest in a bogus mining deal. The young San Franciscan finds himself penniless. Meanwhile, he has met Carlotta Valencia, mistress of Rood, who develops for Montgomery the first real affection she has ever felt for any man. He is infatuated with her beauty and cleverness, and when he begins to hear evil stories against her, he stoutly defends this Spanish woman of doubtful arts. Montgomery's own reputation is sullied because of his associates, and only Ellie Fenwick continues to have faith in his inherent nobility. She believes Montgomery more sinned against than sinning. Her father, however, will not permit her to have anything to do with the man she loves. Montgomery, denied the companionship of the one woman who might have redeemed him, turns for consolation to Carlotta. One morning early, Ellie is returning from the market to prepare a birthday breakfast for her father. Passing Rood's gambling house, she hears a pistol shot. Through the swinging doors of the bar-room, the proprietor of the resort falls out dead. Montgomery, with a smoking revolver in his hand, leaps out after him, and the next instant, flinging away the weapon, has fled. Ellie, panic-stricken, hurries home, where she tells her father and District Attorney Dingley what she has seen. Nobody else has witnessed the incident, and Ellie, violently against her own will, is obliged to serve as chief witness for the state. Carlotta lures the girl to her house and tries to bribe her into silence. When this fails, she attempts to induce her to drink a cup of poisoned wine. Ellie, however, is on her guard. Her father has made her feel that it is her duty to God and to society to testify against the man she loves. Montgomery is convicted of the murder. As he is leaving the courthouse a band of Mexican horsemen, hirelings of Carlotta, enact his rescue. He and the Spanish woman plot to flee the country together. A chance meeting with Ellie, however, causes Montgomery to resolve to leave the city alone and start life over again. He writes Carlotta his intention. Ellie is driving him in her carriage to the borders of the town when both are arrested by the sheriff's posse. The girl flees, taking refuge in Carlotta's house. She finds the beautiful Spaniard sitting erect in a chair, dead. A written confession in her own hand reveals that it was she who murdered Rood. Later, Perez, Carlotta's servant, corroborates the story, throwing light on Montgomery's heroism in shielding the guilty woman. Montgomery is exonerated. He begins life anew, with Ellie as his wife.Rickett's directs this feature adapted from Lucia Chamberlain's novel.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsRichard BennettAdrienne MorrisonMaud Milton"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure life before marriage, in order to make impossible the transmission of unhealthy hereditary traits to future generations.Ricketts first feature film was a morality story adapted from a play from Eugene Brieux.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsTom MooreHazel DalyDeWitt JenningsProfessional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman than a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things won't be quite as easy as he thought.
- DirectorVictor HeermanStarsConstance TalmadgeConway TearleMorgan WallaceIn seventeenth-century England, Barbara Winslow helps her rebellious brother, Rupert, to escape the King's forces. Barbara is captured while disguised as Rupert, but Captain Prothero becomes enamored with her and sets her free. Later, when Barbara and the captain are imprisoned, they discover a secret passage that enables them and their fellow captives to escape. Barbara then secures a pardon for herself and the captain by revealing a plot against the king. Prothero is exiled from England, and Barbara goes with him.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonEugenie FordeWhile on a summer's outing, Forest becomes engaged to Aileen, a wealthy young woman staying at the same hotel. One day he is accosted by a woman who claims Forrest to be the father of her child. Forrest declares the woman to be a stranger to him. and convinces Aileen and her parents until Mary produces a photograph of Forrest. Later Forrest sees a likeness of himself in a newspaper, and then realizes that somewhere in the world there exists his physical counterpart, and in this solution he sees the key to the story so convincingly told by Mary. Time elapses, and through this strange likeness and on circumstantial evidence, Forrest is convicted and about to be hanged for murder. He is offered a pardon if he will impersonate the Governor's son Paul, whose double he is, and who is guilty of the murder for which Forrest was convicted, until after the election. Ignorant of the exact facts, he consents. Meantime, Paul has married a chorus girl, who threatens the Governor's social ambitions. Forrest falls in love with Kathie, but would renounce his pardon rather than marry her fraudulently. Paul finds his wedding has been illegal, the supposed lover of the girl whom he killed in a jealous quarrel, having been in reality her husband. He returns to denounce Forrest as an impostor, but he is followed by the chorus girl, who, in revenge for her husband's death, stabs him fatally, and Forrest's innocence is established.Ricketts writes and directs this short starring May Allison and Harry Lockwood.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonHarry von MeterHarold Locke is a "trouble shooter" employed by a telephone company to keep its lines in order. He is sent by his "boss" to install a telephone extension in the room of Vera Strong, the pampered daughter of Milton Strong, millionaire. He is attracted by the fresh beauty of the girl, while she is impressed with the handsome vigor of the young lineman. It is Vera's birthday, and as a gift to his daughter Milton Strong purchases a high priced motor car. Jed King, who sells the car to Strong, is an auto salesman by day and an auto bandit by night. He decides that his patron shall also be his victim, and he and his gang lay plans accordingly. King volunteers to teach Vera to drive the car. She accepts his proffered services, and King drives to a secluded spot where, by prearranged plan, his fellow bandits pounce upon them. Vera is seized and is to be held for ransom. Locke is sent to locate a secret wire which long has baffled the telephone officials. It is a connection between Jed King's auto office and the rendezvous of the crooks. While searching for the connection, Locke is a witness to the kidnapping of Vera. He summons the police, then, single-handed, he flies to the girl's rescue. After a revolver fight in speeding autos, the bandits escape with the captured girl, Locke trails them to an abandoned shack, where he is overpowered, bound hand and foot and cast into an attic room with Vera, who also is bound by her captors. In a fit of wrath, King, the bandit leader, sets fire to the house. The bandits flee and Locke and Vera are left to a tortuous death in the flames. But the police arrive unexpectedly. The crooks are engaged in a hand-to-hand fight and eventually are overpowered. Then the burning house is entered. Locke and Vera emerge through the smoke and flame, he having been able to loosen the ropes and carry the half-conscious girl to safety. The adventures of the day are the start of romance. Friendship ripens into love. The young lineman proves his worth, and Vera becomes his wife. Before the two opens the rosy vista of a long and happy life together.Ricketts writes and directs this film starring Harry Lockwood and May Allison.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonHarry von MeterPrior to his marriage it behooves every man to destroy mementos of his cast-off loves, else they become ghosts of his future life. Bagley sits before the open fire in his apartments, and in burning the souvenirs of former days, has visions of each of the charmers. A series of dissolves ends with the showing of his flirtation with Lois Valerie in a brilliant café, followed by the enactment of the story portraying her inroads on the heart of young Bagley. Realizing her motive, Bagley, Sr. buys her off for $20,000. After his first fit of anger at what he considers an intrusion on the part of his father, the younger man appreciates the wisdom of the act, and goes west to his father's ranch to think it over and begin over. His meeting with Flora Donner, the daughter of a rancher, soon ripens into love. The young people are married and live in New York. On tango night at Bagley's club, his wife discovers, to her sorrow, the duplicity and artificiality of both men and women of New York's high society. Through an innocent indiscretion, she is estranged from her husband and is victimized and imprisoned by society vultures who thrive on family discord. Finally succeeding in getting word of her imprisonment to her repentant husband, he rescues her. They go directly to the station, pausing only long enough to dispatch a letter to his father, telling him that they are going back to the ranch; that the city with its lusts and riches spells nothing but misery and ruin for them.Ricketts wrote and directed this American Film short starring May Allison.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodDorothy DavenportDaniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is. She knows the house well and can go about it without making a break. Clara proposes to get the valuable for him. He agrees, but inwardly decides to watch her every move. Feverishly Clara goes to her dresser and draws forth all her jewels. The patient grows restless and she soothes and caresses him till he's quiet again, then she glides silently out of the room in search of the burglar. The midnight visitor, however, is not a bad sort. He has seen, and the woman's brave deed brings back to him that spark of manhood long since departed. He refuses to accept her sacrifice, and vanishes into the night ashamed of himself and determined to lead a better life. Clara returns to her husband's side and hugs him for very joy.Ricketts writes and directs this drama for Nestor.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsEdward CoxenWinifred GreenwoodGeorge FieldGeorge Lytton and Mary Lang ton, guests at the home of Mrs. Westley, Mary's sister, are strangely influenced while canoeing on the moonlit waters of a lagoon. Hours seem like minutes. When the two return to the house and Mary learns that Lytton is married, she upbraids her sister for having withheld this information. She realizes at once that she has been deceived by Lytton and the thought of his presence is unbearable to her, so she makes a hurried departure and endeavors to forget her troubles in travels. Lytton expresses surprise and pretends to be unable to offer a solution of the strange and unusual conduct of Mary. Mrs. Westley has had a business acquaintance with Lytton for years and this continues and grows into a warmer friendship as the children of the two families come into maturity. Several years pass. Dora gives a house party for her daughter, Sunshine, and Frank, the son of Lytton is invited, his father to come also for a week-end. Frank and Sunshine fall in love. Then Mary unexpectedly returns from abroad and Dora looks at her in astonishment, "Sorrow has made you beautiful, sister." Mary alone cares to go canoeing in the moonlight, with Frank, and the moon plays Cupid, so that Frank proposes (having been rejected by Sunshine) and, after great insistence, is accepted. And then "Sunshine shatters fond illusions" and Mary, in the light of the sun, does not bear comparison with her younger rival, Sunshine. Mary realizes that Frank is not for her and she returns the ring. Lytton has arrived and been presented to Mary by Frank as her new father-in-law, however. Just before this, and when Lytton searches her out he does not know of her renunciation. Still believing her the demimonde, he pleads with her "Spare my son," and again offers money. Mary's heart is broken. She rushes to the lagoon and paddles out. In the library Sunshine and Frank find happiness before the fireplace. Flashing back to the lagoon the empty canoe is seen drifting before the moon, which again breaks through the clouds that would cover its face.Ricketts directs, and writes, this short for American Film.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsHarold LockwoodDorothy DavenportRussell BassettAn Easterner wins the girl of his choice in a Western ploughing contest.Tom Ricketts makes a short for Nestor that stars Harry Lockwood and Dorothy Davenport. Ricketts also made his writing debut with this film.
- DirectorDallas M. FitzgeraldStarsViola DanaFrancis McDonaldJackie SaundersGabriel Palombra, who operates a Punchinello street show in Venice, decides to fulfill his ambition of going to America. He leaves behind his wife, Sorrentina, promising to send for her. In the United States, disillusioned, he takes a job as porter in a barbershop, but when he is rewarded for returning a lost pocketbook, manicurist "Babe" Reynolds persuades him to bet on a winning horse. Under her influence he rises to wealth. Meanwhile, Sorrentina arrives in New York and takes work as a flower girl. Having married Gabriel, "Babe" brings charges of bigamy against him, but the judge, perceiving her game, sentences Gabriel, then paroles him to Sorrentina for life.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJohn St. PolisClaire AdamsJohn DavidsonEthel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer. Paurel becomes enchanted with Ethel, arousing the jealousy of the company's prima donna, Sabotini. When, after the first act, Ethel hears that Paurel has suffered an attack of the throat, she rushes backstage. Carlo, urged by Sabotini, follows and makes a scene, whereupon Ethel indignantly announces her engagement to Paurel. Paurel is unable to perform in the second act, and Carlo, taking his place, is vaulted to stardom. After Paurel is diagnosed as never being able to sing again, Bianca, a retired singer and Paurel's first love, reveals that Carlo is their son and pleads with the singer to give up Ethel for the boy's sake. After much soul-searching, Paurel refutes his selfish ways and agrees, thus freeing Ethel from her pledge to marry him.
- DirectorJoseph FranzStarsWilliam DesmondTom RickettsCarl MillerJohn Whalen is ordained into the priesthood and assumes the leadership of a small-town New Jersey parish. His dying mother's last wish is for young doctor Edward Welsh and his sweetheart to be married. Rev. Whalen devotes much time and effort to overcoming the obstacles to the union, managing along the way to solve the problems of other townspeople.2nd billed
- DirectorWalter EdwardsStarsMarguerite ClarkMary WarrenHelene ChadwickMan-haters Pamela Gordon, Violet and Kate West, each disappointed in love, vow never to marry, and room together with a sign above their door reading "No man shall cross this threshold." When Edgar Holt enters their room to escape an irate husband whose jealousy he mistakenly aroused, he falls in love with Pamela, but she makes him leave through a window across an ironing board over a courtyard. Edgar woos Pamela but he is unsuccessful in breaking down her resolve, even though she privately softens and develops a love for him. To help her, Edgar secretly gets her a position as a confidential secretary with his firm. When Pamela discovers that Kate had been married for some time and that Violet is engaged, she finally succumbs to Edgar when she rescues him in his attempt to enter her apartment through the courtyard window, and yields to his embrace.
- DirectorThomas N. HeffronStarsEthel ClaytonClyde FillmoreWalter HiersKatherine Van Riper, a society girl with extravagant tastes, is left with only a few dollars by her spendthrift father and is unable to pay her creditors. She is refused help by her wealthy aunts, who insist that she marry Monte Buck, son of an oil king. When her situation becomes desperate, Katherine decides to sell the Van Riper pearls. She discovers, however, that her father substituted imitations and sold the real jewels, and in despair she refuses to marry Tom Jaffrey, whom she loves. To keep the family honor intact, the aunts cover her loss with a check, and Katherine then promises to marry Tom.
- DirectorTom RickettsStarsMay AllisonHarold LockwoodCarol HollowayLoulie, suddenly impoverished, becomes Mrs. Hazard's social secretary, her chief duties being to separate Mrs. Hazard's son and daughter from undesirable matrimonial choices they have made. Loulie pleases everyone, but several mysterious thefts cast suspicion on her. These thefts are finally traced to Winthrop, the young author engaged to Miss Hazard. He denies them, but is chased by the authorities in his motorboat. Meanwhile, Hap has transferred his affections from Natalie, who is older than he, to Loulie. Loulie hears a noise at night and goes downstairs in her kimona. She surprises some picture thieves at work, is overpowered and kidnapped. Hap goes to her rescue, but is injured. The chase becomes very exciting. Loulie is locked in a deserted house, but shoots at the guard through the door and escapes only to faint on the beach, where Hap discovers and rescues her. Back in the house Thomas, the new footman, discovers the Duc de Trouville and a gang of thieves at work cutting the paintings from their frames. The Duc and Thomas fight. The new footman, who turns out to be a detective, is saved by the party returning with Loulie. It is now made clear that Mrs. Cutler, a guest in the house, belongs to the gang and by a trick fastened guilt on Winthrop who is restored to favor. Loulie accents Hap.Ricketts directs May Allison and Harry Lockwood.
- DirectorAllen HolubarStarsDorothy PhillipsJames KirkwoodRalph LewisRebelling against a forced engagement to Schuyler, Victoria falls in love with young attorney David Courtney and marries him. At first they are happy, but when David is drawn into political corruption and accepts the attentions of other women, she tries to compete with them, then denounces him. When he runs for U.S. Senator, she is nominated as a dark-horse candidate against him and wins. He is indicted for bribery during the campaign and while in prison is redeemed through her visits. In each crisis Victoria dreams of the women of corresponding ages: the stone age, the age of chivalry, Amazons and their supremacy over men, the life of debauchery in the Roman era, and the dawn of Christianity in her dream of David as Constantine and herself as a Christian slave who converts the pagan world.
- DirectorJack ConwayHoward HickmanStarsClaire AdamsJack ConwayFrankie LeeHenry Hooper, suspected of murder, is living on the Arizona-Mexican border and persuades his partner, Emory, to visit him there with his children, Ruth and Bobby. He steals the written evidence of their partnership and has Emory killed by his Mexican henchman. A neighboring rancher, William Sanborn, perceives the peril of the children when he visits the ranch and returns to rescue them. Hooper is killed.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsClaire AdamsRobert McKimJoseph J. DowlingThe Bines family of Montana City comes into money on the death of millionaire builder Daniel J. Bines. Daniel's son and daughter, Percy and Psyche, want to move to New York City to experience life, and Percy's interest in New York increases when he meets Avice Milbrey, who is passing through Montana City in the private car of Wall Street financier Rulon Shepler. Over the objections of Uncle Peter Bines, the founder of the fortune, the rest of the family leaves for New York, where the malevolent Shepler, jealous of Avice's interest in Percy, devises a plan to ruin Percy financially and destroy his moral reputation. Uncle Peter gets wind of this plot and heads to New York, where he hedges Percy's bad investments and amasses enough money to free Avice's father from his obligations to Shepler. When the financial crash comes, Percy, believing himself to be bankrupt, takes a job in a garage, but Uncle Peter's gamble pays off and restores the Bines fortune. Percy marries Avice, Psyche is united with her English sweetheart Lord Mauburn, and all head back to the serenity of Montana City.