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- DirectorRichard OswaldArthur RobisonStarsEmil JanningsWerner KraussLorenz KöhlerAn extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsBernd AldorErnst PittschauErnst LudwigA variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.
- DirectorNorman DawnStarsGeorge HuppRaymond LeeA boy, who has been reading the adventures of Sinbad, falls asleep and, in his dreams, goes through Sinbad's experiences.
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- DirectorChester M. FranklinSidney FranklinStarsGeorgie StoneGertrude MessingerLewis SargentAli Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical phrase, "Open Sesame." Learning that the cave is filled with stolen treasure, he takes home as much as he can carry, but his greedy brother forces him to reveal the cave's location. After gaining admittance to the cave, Ali Baba's brother is seen by the thieves and killed. Meanwhile, Ali Baba falls in love with Morgianna, a slave girl forced to dance in the local inn, and by securing her freedom, he wins her love and loyalty. The leader of the band of robbers suspects that Ali Baba knows the secret of the treasure cave, and in the guise of an oil merchant, he visits Ali Baba with his forty thieves concealed in oil jars. When Morgianna discovers the robbers, she fills the jars with boiling oil, thereby killing them all. Ali Baba defeats the robber chief in combat and then marries his beautiful Morgianna.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsMargarita FischerMonroe SalisburyKathleen KirkhamWhen Marta marries John Lane, Dr. Lorenz, a former suitor, determines to take her away from her husband. A year later John and Marta's happiness over an expected event is turned to grief, for the child dies and Marta suffers intensely. Dr. Lorenz attends her and administers dope, until she becomes a confirmed "fiend." Marion, who loved John, conspires with the doctor, pretending to be Marta's friend, and attempts to win John. Driven desperate by her husband's apparent neglect of her, and craving the "dope" which the doctor withholds, she leaves with Lorenz. Taking refuge from the storm in a hut, the doctor attempts to take advantage of the situation, but lighting strikes the hut and they are buried in the ruins, The doctor is killed, but Marta is saved from the ruins by John and they start life anew.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsRobert Z. LeonardMargarita FischerThere is a mysterious flooding of the American market with gems of astonishing brilliancy which alarms the Kimberly interests controlling the output. Unable, through their own efforts, to locate the source of the new stones, they secure the services of Westerly, a detective. Westerly gets a clue on Shedah, who is always guarded by two Hindoo servants. Only through his double, disguised to represent himself, is he able to shadow Shedah to the sacred laboratory, where the alchemist manufactures the diamonds. He is found and a fight takes place. The detective is battered out of the place, as Shedah destroys the laboratory with all its secrets. They elude the detective and his assistants for some time. Westerly traces the Hindoo party to another seaport and at length rounds them up at a fashionable ball. Again they escape. Here the Hindoos are overpowered, and again they are followed to their private yacht, where the Hindoos are overpowered and as the alchemist is about to be taken in the custody of the law, he slips from his pocket a small bottle of poison and drinks it. A minute later he drops to the floor dead, taking with him the secret of the manufacturing of the fake diamonds.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsAnita BerberConrad VeidtWerner KraussDida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsBilly FraneyGale HenryLillian PeacockA burlesque of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsFannie WardJack DeanWinifred GreenwoodRose Jorgenson, a poor tenement dweller who lives with her daughters Rose and Norma in a slum and whose husband is in prison, finds out that he is to be electrocuted. Distraught, she commits suicide. The children are adopted--Rose by the wealthy Judge Keith, who brings her up in the lap of luxury, and Norma by a poor neighbor, who raises her in the squalid tenement she was born in. After they reach adulthood Norma is hired as an assistant to the shady hypnotist Caistro, who also knows Rose and notices the strong resemblance between the two. Complications ensue.
- DirectorHoward S. MossStarsMarguerite ClaytonJohn CossarRod La RocqueA cracked-brain chemist, appropriately named A. Knutt, in a big toy factory, claims the discovery of an elixir which will bring dolls to life. Ruby, the beautiful daughter of the toy king, overcome by the fumes of the fluid while the chemist is out summoning others to witness the work of his discovery. A doll the chemist has given life to seizes the elixir and pours it on Ruby. She is changed into a doll. Together the two leave the shop. The chemist, the toy king and Ruby's fiancé rush into the place and are horrified to find Ruby missing. They summon the police and a search is instituted. Meanwhile, the dolls journey to the display room of the factory, and with more elixir, bring a doll justice of the peace to life. He marries them and they speed off in a miniature automobile. After the honeymoon trip they select the kennel of Sherlock, the watchdog, as their home. The dog likes the dolls and keeps them supplied with food. Then, one evening, while strolling through the plant, they discover a bomb set by striking workingmen to destroy the building. The dolls realize their peril but it is too late to escape. The bomb explodes and Ruby comes to life. She is puzzled, then realizes that all was simply a dream, inspired by the ravings of the cracked-brain chemist.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMargaret BannermanOwen NaresEdward O'NeillA old occultist exchanges souls with a young man, whose friends force the souls to change back.
- DirectorRichard RidgelyStarsHelen StricklandHerbert PriorRobert ConnessThe nefarious Mother Morro is a disreputable innkeeper who charges smugglers protection money. After she procures an innocent young girl for Capt. Jose's pleasure, the girl's father puts a curse on the old woman. Soon after, Morro's beloved convent reared daughter Mercedes falls in love with the lecherous Jose. To avenge her daughter's stolen innocence, Morro arranges for Amadio to kill Jose, but Mercedes overhears the plan and offers her life to save Jose's. Upon learning that her daughter's body has been thrown over the cliff, Morro becomes demented and falls to her death. On moonlit nights her ghost haunts Morro Castle.
- DirectorPaul ScardonStarsEarle WilliamsCorinne GriffithWebster CampbellA doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.
- DirectorHarry RevierStarsLillian WalkerJack MowerHarry RevierLois Craig (Lillian Walker) is the daughter of a man, now dead, to whom money and power were all-important. While at school, she becomes engaged to Byron Masters (Jack Mowers), who is very much like her father. His company helps support the college Lois is attending, and at her graduation, when Professor Mason gives a speech warning of the evils of wealth, Masters becomes annoyed. He fires Mason in spite of Lois' protests, so she breaks up with him. But she also gives him an award-winning essay she has written called "The Lust of the Ages." It's an allegorical story that begins with a group of shepherds who are happy with their humble lives. They are driven out of their homes by invaders as part of a war in which the rulers of one country want to take over the world. When a Princess (also played by Walker) and an officer (Mowers) decide to stop them, the country's monarch puts them to death. The story causes Masters to reconsider his position, and he ultimately rehires Mason and reunites with Lois. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsPauline FrederickThomas MeighanFrank LoseeCharm and Valor fall in love and are married. Jealousy, however, is angry at their happiness and decides to ruin their marriage, so she arranges for Charm to find an old photograph of her husband's former sweetheart Forgotten. Valor is also led to mistrust Charm, and the two return to their respective parents: his, Finance and Display, and hers, Commerce and Pride. While Charm spends her days with Sorrow, Treachery endeavors to ruin Valor by luring him to a disreputable roadhouse, and when Valor's father tries to bring him home, the young man strikes his father with a bottle. The two sets of parents are in the midst of a financial battle when Charm gives birth to a child, Happiness. The child reunites the couple, and Madame Jealousy, along with her servants Mischief, Treachery and Rumor, finally are banished.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy DaltonHolmes HerbertPhilo McCulloughA country girl goes to visit friends in the big city, and observes a different kind of life.
- DirectorGregory La Cava
- DirectorÉmile CohlAn eccentric criminal trio make a series of unlikely escapes from the attentions of a hapless detective.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinSidney FranklinStarsFrancis CarpenterF.A. TurnerVirginia Lee CorbinThe story of Aladdin and the Princess Badr al-badr's adventures as told through child actors.
- DirectorArthur BertheletStarsBryant WashburnPat CalhounBert GloverJames Wilbur Scovill has a mine, but no capital with which to operate it. He comes east in search of backing, but finds that capital doesn't grow on trees. Soon the miner is among the city's down-and-outers. Then Scovill learns of a capitalist willing to listen to argument. Without clothes, however, he realizes he has little chance to impress a rich man. Ne returns to his room in despair, and, lo and behold! there is a complete outfit of high-priced clothing awaiting him. Scovill puts over the deal and immediately is arrested, charged with passing bogus checks on clothiers. It happens, though, that a youth is run down by a motor car, and makes a dying confession that he is a swindler who had passed the bogus checks.
- DirectorWilliam F. HaddockDonald MacKenzieStarsHerbert RawlinsonMarguerite MarshEthel Grey TerryShelby Carter, owner of big chemical works, whose secret formula are being stolen and given to his competitors abroad, is driven by fear from his secret observation tower and killed by the mysterious 'Avion." His daughter, Anita, despite the protests of her fiancé, Lester Mason, calls in Craig Kennedy to solve the mystery of the death of her father and of the missing formula.
- DirectorWalt DisneyHugh HarmanCarman MaxwellStarsVirginia DavisWalt DisneyHugh HarmanAlice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a (live) cat until it moves; a couple mice boxing, while the animators crowd around cheering and acting as corner-men. That night, she dreams of taking a train to cartoon-land, where a red carpet reception awaits. She appears in live action. They have a welcoming parade, with Alice riding on an elephant. The cartoons dance for her, and she dances for them. Meanwhile, the lions break out of the zoo. The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down a rabbit hole. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and awakes back in her bed.
- DirectorPhillip DyeStarsArt AcordTheda BaraGenevieve BlinnA video reconstruction of the lost film 'Cleopatra' starring Theda Bara, utilizing the last surviving clip and more than five hundred still photos taken during the original production.
- DirectorGuy McConnellStarsMary BurtonWhile lost in the woods, the prince of Drowse Castle is shown an image of his bride-to-be, Cinderella, by Titania, the queen of the fairies. Cinderella, who is virtually a servant in the home of her father, the Baron Balderdash, and her stepmother, is not permitted to accompany her two stepsisters to the royal ball at which the prince must choose a bride. After the rest of the family leaves for the ball, however, Cinderella's fairy godmother appears and creates for Cinderella the clothes and livery necessary for her to attend the ball. Cinderella and the prince fall in love at first sight, but in accordance with the fairy godmother's instructions, Cinderella leaves the ball at midnight. Because she has left her glass slipper behind, the prince searches the countryside for the woman who can wear it, eventually finding his beloved at the Balderdash home. The prince and Cinderella are married.
- DirectorBertram BrackenStarsGladys BrockwellMarjorie DawEugenie FordeIn a prologue, blind poet John Milton dictates Paradise Lost to his daughters. Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a reincarnation of Serama, prepares to marry Cecil Brooke, the wealthiest man of her set. Her guardian, Dr. Norton, an incarnation of Lucifer, constantly accompanies her. Ruth is summoned to the Court of Conscience, where the witnesses, Lust, Avarice, Hate, Revenge and Vanity, testify about Ruth's history of seducing and abandoning men. This behavior resulted in the suicide of Madge, the lover of Ned Langley, whom Ruth enthralled and promised to marry, and also the deaths of two rivals for her love. Ruth is ordered back to earth to learn her sentence. When Ned interrupts the wedding, Ruth scorns him and he shoots himself. After Brooke leaves her, the Court dooms Ruth to live with the torment of remembrance. Ruth sends Norton away, then kneels and repents.
- DirectorFrancis FordJohn FordStarsFrancis FordMae GastonPeter GeraldAn Indian scholar seeks an American colleague who is working on a powerful explosive, trying to get to his formula by taking advantage of his drinking problem.
- DirectorOtto RippertStarsKarl BernhardArnold CzempinFred GoebelIn this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.
- DirectorJohn H. CollinsStarsViola DanaRobert WalkerAugustus PhillipsWhen she was a baby, Patsy Smith's father quarreled with his wife and kidnapped Patsy. After her father died at sea, Captain Barnaby took Patsy to Mrs. Duff's boardinghouse for seafarers. Dissatisfied with drudgery, Patsy, inspired by Barnaby's tales of Aladdin, searches for her father's Oriental lamp which Mrs. Duff sold to a junk peddler. Patsy buys the lamp and after rubbing it, the Genie Jehaunarara appears. He beautifies her room, restores Barnaby's leg, and turns Mrs. Duff into a rag doll. Because love is beyond his magic, however, the Genie cannot reunite Patsy with her mother. At a masquerade ball, when the Genie's costume wins first prize, Patsy's applause unwittingly causes him to disappear. Clad only in her underwear, Patsy runs to her mother, and awakens from a dream. Disheartened, she throws the lamp out the window, and it nearly strikes her friend Harry, a grocer's boy who wants to become a lawyer, and then, like Lincoln, president. From letters found in the lamp, they locate Patsy's mother, who arrives with her brother, a distinguished judge. Taken under his wing, Harry now imagines himself president with Patsy as his first lady.
- DirectorDavid SmithStarsChet RyanWalter RodgersCharles WheelockSam, in love with Katie, drinks too much absinthe and dreams he is a hero saving Katie from danger.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsFlorence ReedWilliam E. ShayStephen GrattanGennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's dearest friends, Lucretia tortures the old men to death. Later, Gennaro and his companions journey to Lucretia's domain, and she sees her son for the first time. The Duke, who believes him to be her lover, poisons him, but Lucretia administers the antidote in time and saves his life. Then she schemes to poison her sons' five friends for their fathers' mistake. She succeeds in poisoning them all at a dinner at which Gennaro is an uninvited guest. In dismay, she pleads for him to take the antidote, but he refuses and in a fury avenges his friends by stabbing Lucretia. As he lies dying, he learns that she was his mother.
- DirectorLois WeberStarsBen F. WilsonMignon AndersonBertram GrassbyCarillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil. When he loses love, he finally crumbles until Loyalty regenerates him when Selma carves Repentance under the shadow of the cross. This causes Satan to recoil, and the couple start a new life without Youth and Honor, but enriched by Wisdom and Experience.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsTheodore RobertsViolet HemingClara HortonA girl auctioning a kiss at a charity bazaar is offered a chance to become an actress by two stage managers. After getting advice from three girlfriends, she awakens the next morning as Everywoman. Her friends have become Modesty, Youth, and Beauty, and the stage managers have become Bluff and Stuff. She turns down a proposal from a struggling physician after Flattery convinces her to go on the Stage of Life and seek Love. When she mistakes Passion, an actor, for Love, Modesty leaves her, but she rejects Passion when she discovers that he wants her only when Beauty and Youth are present. Passion has Dissipation steal Beauty, whereupon Bluff and Stuff desert Everywoman. After losing Youth to Time, Everywoman tries to sell herself to Wealth, a millionaire, but he spurns her. With Nobody as her only friend, she follows Truth home where she discovers the son of Truth, the physician, is the Love she seeks. Modesty returns soon followed by Beauty.
- DirectorCharles VilliersStarsD.B. O'ConnorAgnes DobsonClaude TurtonThe victims of a killer are distracted by a hideous face peering through the window.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsPearl WhiteEarle FoxeWarner OlandEpisode 1: "The Violet Diamond" Pearl Standish, bored with society and longing for excitement, is held up by a masked man who demands the violet diamond of The Daroon. He tells her that her father bought the diamond from a villainous priest in Arabia who stole it from its rightful owner. The masked man, Nicholas Knox, has been given three days to recover the diamond or die at the hands of the Secret Order at the head of which is a priestess who stops at nothing to gain her end. The only man that might know something about this diamond is Richard Carslake, her father's former secretary. In spite of the knowledge that her father and he had a disagreement, she requests him to give her what information he has concerning the violet diamond. Just then Knox enters, Pearl points to him and says, "There is the man who has the gold setting in which the stone belongs." Immediately Carslake moves toward the door. Locking it and drawing his revolver, he demands the setting for the diamond. Searching Knox he finds the setting and is about to escape when through the window comes the priestess, accompanied by two of her spies, who sneak behind Carslake and knock the revolver from his hand. In the struggle which follows, Knox recovers the setting. After a struggle Carslake escapes and Pearl finds herself alone with Knox. Wishing to know the identity of the mysterious woman who helped him, Pearl asks Knox. "I can tell you nothing," is his reply. "Well then if you can tell me nothing, I want you to hand over that apparently much-valued setting for the violet diamond," Pearl assures, covering him. Assisted by her butler, Pearl secures this setting, but the spies come to Knox's assistance again and Pearl is attacked by an Arab. In a struggle with him on the stairs, she is hurled over the rail but catches on to the chandelier and falls to the floor. Knox is finally overpowered by the butler. Standing by a window, Pearl discovers a knife stuck in the wall. Pearl pulls this knife from the wall and discovers a note on it. "Fifteen days are allotted to you to return the violet diamond or die," it reads. "What is this mysterious diamond, the possession of which means such dangers?" is the question which will bring audiences back for the next chapter.
- DirectorA.E. ColebyStarsH. Agar LyonsFred PaulJoan ClarksonIn this 10th episode, Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate by night 'The Gables' house where two mysterious deaths happened: two servants died of fear. Inspector Weymouth thinks they are connected to Fu-Manchu.
- DirectorLloyd HamiltonStarsLloyd HamiltonBud DuncanEthel Teare'Tis the morning after the night before. Silas Shakaleg, the fearless sheriff of Mushroom Manor, is sleeping alter his all-night vigil in the shrubbery surrounding the haunted mansion. The telephone rings. Thieves are robbing Millionaire Hawkin's hen roost. Hastily donning his hat, fearless Shakaleg hurries out to make his capture. The thieves prove to be our old friends Ham and Bud. Clapping them into his portable jail, which he hauls with him in his chase after thieves, the sheriff returns to his abode there to hold court and pronounce them guilty of stealing Farmer Hawkin's hen fruit to pay off a debt of $1,000. Deserted by all save the farmer's winsome daughter, the egg lifters are sentenced to spend a night in the haunted house. Their only consolation is the promise of the Girl to visit them. What the real thieves, who have made their rendezvous in the mansion, do to our poor unfortunates is a shame. As dawn breaks, after a night of terror, of ghosts and of dancing skeletons, our frazzled ghost hounds may be seen wending their way to the nearest railroad track.
- DirectorWilliam C. de MilleStarsJack PickfordLouise HuffOlga GreyThe old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head of a band of thieves that use the house for a hideout--does his best to keep the superstition alive. Despite the rumors, impoverished sisters Lois and Alice Atwell decide to move into the empty family home. They take possession the same night that Ted Rawson is ordered to explore the place as an initiation rite by his fraternity. That same night, Spud Foster, a member of his uncle's gang, hides there with his stolen loot. In the middle of the night, Lois apprehends Ted and takes him captive, believing that he's a burglar. The noise awakens Spud who, mistaking Lois for a ghost, flees the house. After much confusion, Lois' fears about Ted's character are allayed when he helps fight off the thieves; relieved, she confesses her love to the fraternity man.
- DirectorWilliam WorthingtonStarsBryant WashburnRhea MitchellJoseph J. DowlingJeffrey Wall, the dissipated grandson of a wealthy man, requests that a farewell party be given in his honor before he is disinherited. During the wild banquet, a Mexican dancer assaults Mary Drew and then shoots a man, but suspicion is cast on Jeffrey. At the death of her father, Mary is called home to her little village on the Mexican border but is followed by the lecherous dancer, who soon becomes the head of a gang of bandits. Jeffrey traces him and learns that the outlaws have taken control of a small rancho, shot its owner and kidnapped Mary. Jeffrey visits the rancho disguised as a ghost, and as the outlaws are fleeing in terror, the sheriff and his men arrive and arrest them all. Wall, Sr., pleased with the improvements in his son's character, comes West to bless the marriage of Jeffrey and Mary.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordNorman KerryKatherine GriffithLittle Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
- DirectorHenry OttoStarsTyrone Power Sr.Frances BurnhamHenry OttoIn the South Seas lives Lorelei, who decides to act out her fantasies and poses on the rocks as she sings. From his yacht, Dorian, hears Lorelei's song and goes to investigate. His boat is destroyed on the rocks, and Lorelei cares for him.
- DirectorMatthew BetzStarsEllis PaulJack PaulAgnes Paul
- StarsRalph Herz"Love Dope" tablets cause everyone from man, to dog, to lion to lose their grouchiness.
- DirectorRae BergerStarsHenry A. BarrowsClaire Du BreyZoe RaeDuring World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and daughter Shirley to accompany him on a long voyage because he fears that the ship may be torpedoed. Before his departure, he entrusts his life insurance policy to shipping agent Sam Bullard, who, unknown to John, once courted Mrs. Bowman. Shirley, a clairvoyant, has a vision in which her father's ship is torpedoed, and the next day, Sam reports that the ship has been sunk and John killed. As Sam, using indelicate tactics, tries to acquire both Mrs. Bowman and the insurance money, Shirley, who had seen her father rescued in her vision, sends a wireless message that leads to John's rescue. Upon his return, John releases his wife from the hotel room in which Sam has locked her, then puts the villain out of commission.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsDave MorrisGladys TennysonBartine BurkettDave, the swiftest waiter in Ho-Bohemia, is of a suspicious nature anyway and the whiskers of the two mysterious persons whispering nearby has already alerted him to the fact that they are anarchists. He cannot get it out of his head that their plotting means danger for the pretty girl at the next table. He is so distraught that he neglects his customers and is finally fired from the beanery. He follows the two mysterious men. They arrive at an athletic field where sports are taking place. The two men conceal themselves in the bushes and start to fire the magic Jazz-bo pellets they invented at the athletes by means of a small gun. The "dope" has the desired effect: the athletes are slowed to a walk and sail through the air over the hurdles. Dave hears them plan a meeting for that night. Dave is on hand. He fixes a board from a tree outside the window to the windowsill. He sees them hang a bottle containing the pellets to the chandelier. Skating down the board on his roller skates, he crashes into the room and snatches the bottle as he flies. Then he discovers that the house is the home of the pretty girl. He tells her that he has saved her from the deadly Jazz-Bo. But she calls him a thief and joins the chase after him. He loses one skate and they are gaining. Then it occurs to him to throw some Jazz-Bo at his pursuers. He does so and they are slowed down at once. Dave reaches the bank of the river just as the anarchists shoot the bottle of Jazz-Bo in his hand. It explodes in a cloud of smoke, and Dave is thrown into the water. He sinks and then rises so slowly that he is drowned on the way up. Moving Picture World, October 20, 1917
- StarsLeatrice Joy
- DirectorFrederick A. ThomsonStarsE.H. SothernCharlotte IvesGilda Varesi ArchibaldClara Angelo does not really love her husband, David, a distinguished Roman banker, who is old, ugly and bent. Unknown to her husband, her mother, Mrs. Brunschaut, has involved her in a foreign conspiracy, in order that she may add to the extravagance of her living. David Angelo becomes aware of the intrigue, but before he can discover just what it is, he is called to Naples on business. He leaves his fortune in care of his partner, Stroggi, to be given to Mrs. Angelo in case anything happens to him. On his trip back home he stops to see Vesuvius, and is caught by a sudden eruption and smothered under the hot ashes. He is, however, rescued, and under the treatment of a great scientist, is restored to health; his physical disabilities have also been removed, and he is straight and rejuvenated in appearance, so much so that the doctor tells him he would not be believed if he declared himself to be David Angelo, and he decides to let the world believe that he is dead. He returns to Rome and startles the national treasurer by his brilliant suggestions in connection with finance, spies on the conspirators who are seeking to compromise his wife, is introduced in his own home without being recognized, and prevents his wife's fortune being stolen by his former partner. He also wins his wife's love, and, upon consenting to marry him, she rejoices to learn that he is really the supposedly dead David Angelo.
- DirectorFrancis FordStarsFrancis FordRosemary ThebyPeter Gerald
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené CrestéMarcel LévesqueYvette AndréyorIs a continuation of the film series "Judex" the masked fighter for justice.
- DirectorAllen HolubarStarsAllen HolubarGeorge C. PearceLeah BairdThe toymaker came to America in which land he expected to make a fortune and then send for his wife and child. After toiling for many months he at last has the necessary sum. Meanwhile, he consoles himself with a doll which he has fashioned in the likeness of his child. He receives word that the ship upon which his loved ones have taken passage has been lost at sea. So the doll becomes a greater part of his life than hitherto. At night in his dreams it seems to come to life and speaks to him. Some time later he receives word from his sister asking him to return to the old home across the seas. He has saved up a little money but not enough for his passage. Seeing the advertisement of a mine promoter, he seeks him out and to him commits his savings. While at the promoter's office he sees Henry's wife and child. Henry absconds with the money, leaving his child ill. The child begs for the doll which the toymaker has refused to sell. The doctor thinks that if she can have her wish granted it may lead to her recovery. The mother goes to the toymaker's shop. The toymaker turns her away. That night the doll becomes the living child in his dreams, but accuses him of being selfish. The toymaker takes the doll to the child. He arrives at the same time as the father, who has had a change of heart, and returned to repay the money.
- DirectorVin MooreStarsPhil DunhamLucille HuttonVin MoorePhil has lost his job as a janitor, and is in search of another. He wanders into an opium joint, and is given a pipe. He wanders off in imagination to the realms of the Celestial Empire. Here he finds himself in the home of a Mandarin. The Chinks, who guard the great personage, begin to make it hot for Phil, but the most beautiful of all the maidens begs the Mandarin to spare his life. He does so, and makes Phil guardian of the fish pond. The home of the Mandarin is a magic place, and all sorts of visions keep appearing and disappearing before Phil. The beautiful maiden comes to him as he is engaged in fishing in the pond, and begs him to rescue her from the power of the Mandarin, who holds her captive against her will. He is delighted to help her, and gets an idea. They retire behind opposite sides of the ornamental shrubbery, and throw their clothes out to each other. Then they emerge, Phil as a Chinese maiden and Lucille as a janitor. The Chinks take charge of the veiled maiden, and take her back to the Mandarin. Lucille is left to assume the duties of the keeper of the fish pond. She has her own ideas as to the way to fish. Phil allows his veil to slip, and the Mandarin discovers the substitution. There is a fight, in which everyone becomes involved. At last Phil rolls from the bunk with a terrible thud and realizes that he has had a "pipe dream."
- DirectorLouis ChaudetStarsEddie LyonsLee MoranEdith Roberts"Honest" Harold has invented a chemical, one drop of which mixed with two gallons of water, will run a car for a thousand miles. "Dirty" Dan and Mike the "Murderer'' drop a sponge with chloroform through a hole in the ceiling and "Honest" Harold inhales the fumes. "Trustful" Tillie, beloved by both "Honest" Harold and "Dirty" Dan, but loving Harold only, rushes in, and is put in an old mill. "Honest" Harold regains consciousness and rescues her. There is a race for a $10,000 prize; Harold puts his chemical to work; the conspirators are blown to the top of telegraph poles and the lovers embrace.
- DirectorFritz FreislerStarsRaoul AslanFritz KortnerMagda SonjaA professor discovers a way to separate the soul from the body.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsJohnston Forbes-RobertsonAugusta HavilandAlfred HickmanTo a rooming house which has fallen on hard times comes The Stranger, an unknown but gentle man who is given the back room on the third floor. His arrival marks a change in the lives of all the boarders, from the girl resisting her parents' pleas that she marry the lecherous Mr. Wright, to an architect and a pianist, both of whose dreams are near destruction from their own discouragement.
- DirectorAlfréd DeésyStarsNorbert DánBela LugosiAnnie GóthA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- DirectorOtto RippertStarsErich BartelsTheodor BeckerKarl BernhardSuddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
- DirectorEdwin AugustStarsJune ElvidgeEarl MetcalfeJoseph W. SmileyA series of unsigned letters circulates in the village of Queenstead, accusing various upstanding citizens of less than stellar behavior. Two detectives try to discover the identity of the sender, but their task is complicated when the infant child of prominent Morton Wells is kidnapped. The detectives develop information that leads them to a mysterious robed figure, who they follow to the home of the town's religious leader, Bishop Filbert, whose daughter Allayne has received one of the "poison pen" letters.
- DirectorWillis H. O'BrienA caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMae MurrayTom MooreWinter HallMargaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to devote her life to caring for crippled children. She becomes a nurse in the children's ward of Dr. MacLean's hospital, but after the beloved doctor's death, his son Bob returns home from abroad and decrees that he is closing the ward and that Margaret's little charges must leave the hospital. Furious, Margaret quits her job and storms out, with Bob in pursuit. As he rushes across the street, Bob is struck by a car and must be hospitalized. During his convalescence, he realizes that he is in love with Margaret and decides to have a home built for her and her patients. Unable to locate Margaret, Bob hires detectives, who find her and bring her to the home. There Margaret finds that all her dreams have come true as she sees her little charges happily living in their new home and gladly accepts Bob's proposal of marriage.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMarguerite ClarkJules RaucourtHenry LeoneCarefully guarded by her three maiden aunts, Prim, Prude and Privacy, Prunella sees nothing of the world beyond her garden walls until a troupe of strolling players passes by. Peeping over the hedge, Prunella catches sight of the dashing Pierrot, and he, captivated by her beauty, leaps into the garden and makes love to her. That night, Prunella elopes with Pierrot, and soon she becomes a star of the Paris stage. Pierrot and his wife are happy for several years, but the fickle Pierrot finally deserts her for a new flame. Soon, however, he realizes the depth of his love for Prunella, and learning that she has left the stage, he returns to the garden to search for her and buys the little cottage from her only surviving aunt. At a party given for him by the mummers, Pierrot wanders distractedly into the garden, where he finds what he imagines is Prunella's ghost. Embracing her, he discovers to his joy that his Prunella is alive.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsTamara DuvanIvan MozzhukhinVera OrlovaWhile hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsAnnette KellermanHugh ThompsonMildred KeatsMerilla (Annette Kellerman), Queen of the Seas, finds a book among the wreckage at the bottom of the sea, that contains a prophecy that she shall save four human beings and then receive a human body of her own and an immortal soul. King Boreas (Walter Law), Master of the Storm, wrecks many ships and sends sea sirens to drag the victims to a certain death. Merilla saves the predicted number of lives and the fourth proves to be Prince Hero (Hugh Thompson), who is on his way to meet his betrothed, Princess Leanda (Mildred Keats). Merilla and the Prince fall in love with each other, but Ariela (Beth Irvine) tells them they must be unselfish and the Prince goes on to meet with Princess Leandra, who is really in love with one of her courtiers, Clovis (Fred Drucker). Boreas captures the Princess and puts her in a dungeon. Merilla has been rewarded with a human body and such a beautiful soul that she vows to rescue the Princess even though it means the loss of the Prince to her. She goes to the dungeon, encourages the Princess and walks out on a spider thread to warn the Prince of the great danger to the Princess. The Prince and his Knights come in time to save the Princess from a horrible fate. The Princess confesses her love for Clovis and the two couples are united.
- DirectorGeorge TerwilligerRaymond L. DitmarsStarsOrmi HawleyEarl MetcalfeKempton GreeneFollowing a prologue which shows that animals frequently desert their young, a jilted prehistoric suitor murders the child of the woman he loves. During the age of the Roman Empire, a soldier has a brief affair with a shepherdess, and long after he has left, she has their child. The shepherdess looks for the father, but returns brokenhearted after finding him with another woman, and then dies while saving her child from a poisonous snake. During the Elizabethan era, a wayward son seeks spiritual redemption through war, and is killed in battle. In modern times, a young, impoverished husband refuses to start a family, despite the pleadings of his wife. Then, when he finally starts earning enough money to consider children, his wife has an accident that makes it impossible for her to become pregnant.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsHank MannLynn StaleyJohn LancasterIt hasn't rained for week and there are no symptoms of coming rain to be found. An itinerant artist carrying a huge canvas rambles along a country road. He reaches the hut of a hermit inventor who is dying of thirst. The artist paints a picture of a reservoir so realistically that the water overflows and fills a cup which he holds in his hand. To reward his benefactor, the hermit gives the artist a number of rifle shells which when fired at the sky will produce rain. In the meantime, Al. K. Hall, the village villain, attempts to kidnap the heroine, but is prevented by the artist. To try out the invention the artist fires a shell at the sky and brings on a sun shower. The villain steals the rest of the shells, puts them in a cannon and ties the heroine to the cannonball. When this charge is fired, a cloudburst descends upon the village and wipes it off the map. The heroine who has been carried to the clouds is rescued by the artist who converts himself into an airship by using an electric fan as a propeller. The villain is foiled and the artist and maiden are wed in the water-soaked village.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsTheda BaraGlen WhiteWalter LawA gypsy girl with her foster-mother arrive in the French Capital where her beauty attracts the attention of the Apaches, and she becomes a member of their band. Her beauty attracts Claude Frallo, a scientist of note. She repulses him, as she has already fallen in love with Captain Phoebus. During a visit of the gypsy girl in the apartment of the handsome captain, Frallo kills the captain and makes his escape. Upon the arrival of the Gendarmes, Esmaralda is placed under arrest charged with the murder. Esmaralda is subjected to torture to make her confess, but is defiant, knowing that she is innocent. The bell ringer of the cathedral, Quasimodo, who secretly worships the Gypsy girl, becomes her protector. When Frallo visits the prisoner the bell ringer interferes. There is a struggle and the former is hurled from a parapet and killed. Again the girl appears before the tribunal. Put on the rack, she admits the murder of the captain. Just as Esmaralda is to be guillotined, the bell ringer gives the true version of the murder, implicating Frallo whom he killed. Quasimodo, the plucky bell ringer, who was Esmaralda's protector, and her liberator, becomes her husband.
- DirectorArthur AshleyStarsMontagu LoveHenry HullJune ElvidgeThe story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution.
- DirectorHerr ArnoStarsBasthorstMax HillerFritz Hofbauer
- StarsLeatrice Joy
- DirectorRex IngramStarsClaire Du BreyBetty SchadeWedgwood NowellGuido Capanelli is an adventurer, his good looks and courtly bearing helping him through many successes. He has gained entrance to the best society, incidentally making the acquaintance of Princess Dione, whose father. Prince Paul Ragosin, is in feeble health. Prince Ragosin has expressed a wish that Princess Dione shall marry Feodor Strogoff, and on his death bed gains the promise from Dione that his wish shall be gratified. Feodor allows Guido Capanelli to be Dione's greatest source of sympathy in the hours of her grief, and in consequence, Guido so ingratiates himself with the Princess that she marries the adventurer, regardless of her pledge. Previous to Prince Ragosin's death Dione became interested in Katerina Vlasoff, a girl who is a street vendor of crude images and daughter of Peter Vlasoff, a drunken beast. When the girl returns home one evening without having made a sale all day Vlasoff sends her into the streets, threatening her with harm if she does not return with money to buy him wine. Katerina is accosted by Guido Capanelli, and; submits to his advances that she may have money to take home. She is so humiliated that she is glad to take her brother's advice to visit Princess Dione, the friend of everybody who is poor and in distress. Touched by Katerina's story, Princess Dione sends the girl to a convent, having gained Prince Paul Ragosin's consent to thus befriend the outcast. After Dione and Guido are married, Katerina returns from, the convent to make her home with her benefactress. Guido, under threat of exposing Katerina, demands a renewal of their relations and the deceitful couple start at once to plot against Princess Dione. When the Princess falls ill, they appoint themselves her nurses and in neglecting to administer medicines properly create a comatose condition that closely resembles death. The Princess is buried and Guido and Katerina establish themselves in control of her lands and fortune. When Dione had married Guido she received a book from Feodor Strogoff with an inscription in effect that he would always stand ready to befriend the woman he loved, but had discarded Slim for another. After the Princess is entombed, Feodor visits the sepulcher and discovers that Dione is alive, having simply been in a trance. Convinced, by what she herself witnessed of the treachery of her husband and Katerina, the Princess goes with Feodor to Rome, for the purpose of biding their time for vengeance. Guido and Katerina visit Rome and Guido becomes enamored of a famous beauty who has become the toast of the town. The woman is slow to accept Guido's advances, but finally tells him that a famous ring that has been buried with the Princess Dione will be the price of her affection. When Guido returns to the sepulcher to rob his wife's corpse, he finds the coffin empty. As he turns away from the tomb, he sees what he believes to be the ghost of the Princess. The apparition drives him insane and he runs to a nearby cliff and throws himself into the ocean. Katerina returns to the street from whence she came and Princess Dione and Feodor find happiness in marriage.
- DirectorWard LascelleStarsThomas JeffersonMilla DavenportDaisy JeffersonThe story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsCharles DudleyFay HoldernessMonte BriceAfter a strenuous set-to with his domineering spouse, Rip Van Winkle is driven from his home and seeks solace in the neighboring mountains. He meets some dwarfs and helps them push a huge cask up a steep hill only to find, after his labor, he has given a free ride to some lazy dwarfs concealed therein. He engages in a game of bowls with them, but they bewitch the pins and he loses. Consoling himself with quaffing some of their potent ale, he falls asleep and wakes up twenty years afterwards. He and his dog - both with beards - seek out their former haunts. They find times have changed. Mrs. Van Winkle is still a flapper, the children are full-grown and the village is a thriving town. He is welcomed back to the family hearth, however, and all ends happily.
- DirectorWilfred LucasStarsElmo LincolnEnid MarkeyThomas JeffersonTarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed.
- DirectorAbraham S. SchomerStarsJulia DeanEdwin ArdenClaire WhitneyResentful millionaire John Walton, suffers a nervous breakdown, but because of his violent temper, each of his nurses resigns until Eveline Roland accepts the job. From Lew the butler, Eveline learns that John, some years earlier, had saved a young man named Alexander Vernon from suicide and then took him into his business firm as a partner. John planned to marry Louise Palmer, a schoolteacher, but upon meeting Alexander, she fell deeply in love and married him instead. The partnership dissolved, John then became consumed with the desire for revenge. Armed with this knowledge and a great understanding of human nature, Eveline gradually effects a change in John, and in the end, he forgives his old enemies and happily marries his nurse.
- This animated insight into silent cinema-going is more fanciful than factual, and relishes in poking fun at the films of its time. Ever wondered what it was like to run a cinema in the 1920s? Well it was probably nothing like how it is shown in this film, but who cares when it is such great fun? Dudley Buxton was a comic illustrator and postcard artist who started making cartoon propaganda films in WW1. His "Memoirs of Miffy" series was an attempt to continue his success into the 1920s, but like most other British animators the competition of American animation proved too strong. Dudley Buxton's contribution to the development of film cartoons in Britain is sadly little known. He tried to move the industry on from cut-out animation to using the cel technique so common in the US. However lack of investment in the UK and favourable distribution terms for American series like Felix the Cat made it impossible to compete on level terms. Buxton continued as a key but anonymous figure in British animation into the mid-1930s, but is today better known for his saucy postcards.
- StarsBigelow CooperFreddie VerdiAn absorbing and beautifully illustrated story of man's progress and civilization up to the present time in spite of Satan's efforts.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoPolycarpe PavloffPastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.
- DirectorNino OxiliaStarsLyda BorelliAndrea HabayUgo BazziniA Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, in return she must stay away from love. After the deal she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsWladyslaw StarewiczNina StarA drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his agents on Earth.
- DirectorCharles SwickardStarsHerbert RawlinsonBetty SchadeDorothy DavenportPriscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, a typical society butterfly, who has sent for her, thinking her child-like simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor, and man about town. The plan works well. Vincent marries Priscilla, and takes her on a tour around the world. However, one of his sweethearts, Marie Delys, a vampire chorus girl, resents being cast aside; and after Vincent returns, although he struggles with his better nature, he again succumbs to her charm. Priscilla grieves, but the memory of his love keeps alive her faith. Maxfield Durant, an artist, who painted her portrait when she first came to the city, had also fallen in love with her, but before he declared his love, she accepted Vincent. He advertises for a model who is beautiful, but not of the brazen type, and secures Peggy Lovel, a girl from the slums. Both Vincent, who is having Marie's picture painted, and his friend, Billy Van Duyn, become interested in Peggy. This arouses Marie's jealousy. Priscilla, remembering her portrait, requests Durant to bring it to her. He cannot refrain from showing his great love. Vincent, seeing this, flies into a terrible rage. Priscilla, conscious of no wrong, seeks consolation in the coming of her child. She gazes into a crystal which they brought from Egypt, and views scenes of horror, but her love for her husband renews her faith in him. Durant, unable to longer endure being so near Priscilla, closes his studio and becomes a wanderer. This throws Peggy out of employment, and she goes to Vincent, seeking help for herself and invalid mother. Billy, intoxicated, wants her, but Vincent sends her away, and takes Billie to his home. Peggy, knowing her mother's need of food, returns to Vincent's apartment, where he finds her asleep. As Vincent removes the glass stopper from a bottle of liquor, he sees, as in a crystal; Peggy sacrificing herself, and being sneered at by Billy. She returns home, finds her mother is dead, and takes to drugs to forget her dishonor. Finally she goes to a café where Marie and Vincent are drinking, and falls dead at the foot of the stairs, while Marie stabs Vincent and herself. The horror of this vision awakens Vincent's better nature and he sends Peggy home unharmed. Priscilla, who has been waiting with her baby, sees in the crystal, the fight for Vincent's soul, and when the face of the Christus appears, she knows the victory is won. Soon after, Vincent returns repentant.
- DirectorLeander De CordovaBurton L. KingStarsRuth BuddRalph KellardEdna BrittonA professor aims to prove the Darwinian theory correct with a wild beast brought up in the jungles. The creature, named Darwa, is taken to civilization where society accepts her as a woman and a young aristocrat falls in love with her. As the creature is not a woman, but rather the result of experimentation and only half human, the professor declares the project a success. But will it hold up to the final test when Darwa is pitted against a wild ape?
- DirectorPerry N. VekroffStarsOlga PetrovaArthur HoopsWilliam HinckleyHagar, a gypsy woman, is determined that her child, Eve, shall have a better chance for happiness than her wandering life has afforded her. She leaves her baby on the doorstep of a Quaker family, the Fothergills and little Eve is brought up as their daughter. The ways of the Quakers pall upon Eve when she grows up. She sees merrymaking in the home of the Brandons one evening, and lured by the lights, peers in at the window. The gay crowd notice the Quaker girl, draw her into the house, and amuse themselves by dressing her up in finery. She confesses her loneliness to Arthur Brandon, who tells her of the fascinations of a great city. As their friendship grows, he asks her to marry him. She consents, and for a time revels in gaiety. But it finally becomes clear to her that there is no real happiness in such a life. Brandon is a factory owner, and he is conscienceless in his treatment of his workers. Eve is humiliated by the denunciations of her husband that appear in the newspapers. He also drinks heavily. Richard Blair, a young philanthropist, starts an investigation. While he is visiting Brandon's factory an Italian child, Rosa, is blinded by an accident. Rosa is granted a miserable pittance in compensation for the accident, and Blair tries to force Brandon to do more for her. He refuses. Blair finds work for Beppo, Rosa's father, and sends the child to an institute for the blind. Eve admires the nobility of Blair's nature. Brandon, misunderstanding the friendship of the two, insults her in the presence of Blair, who knocks him down. Eve offers to go away with Blair. He says he loves her. but he will not take her unlawfully. She will not return to her husband, so she goes to the city to fight her own way. She soon finds out, however, that she is unfit for the rough work she undertakes. Deciding that suicide is her only way out, she goes to a park lake intending to drown herself. She hears a girl calling out in distress, and sees the child, who is blind, walking toward the lake. Eve goes to her and finds it is Rosa, who has wandered away from the other children. Eve takes her back to the Institute. Beppo has never ceased to seek for revenge against Brandon. He follows him on board his motorboat, and when the boat is well away from shore he attacks Brandon and tries to kill him. An oil lamp is overturned. It sets fire to the boat, and both men, fearfully burned, sink to the bottom of the bay locked in a death grasp. Blair goes to Eve and tells her the news of her husband's death, saying that the way is now open for them to marry. But Eve's heart is bound up in the welfare of the blind children among whom she has cast her lot. She accepts a position as an attendant at the institute, to give her life to the little ones through whom she has at last discovered the secret of true happiness.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsMarguerite ClarkWilliam E. DanforthAugusta AndersonOnce upon a time there was a beautiful little Princess, Tweedledee, who lived with her father and seven brothers in 'The Kingdom of the Seven Dials'. The Wicked Queen, the Witch of the Bouncing Ball, turns Tweedledee's brothers into seven swans. From film advertisement, 'Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate', 18 January 1919.
- DirectorKenean BuelStarsValeska SurattBen TaggartMiriam Fouche
- DirectorFrancis FordStarsFrancis FordMae GastonRosemary ThebyWhile visiting Egypt, Mrs. Graham steals a famous jewel called "The Eye of the World" from a mummy's sarcophagus and returns to the United States, planning to use the gem as collateral for a loan. Kah, the priestess in charge of protecting the tombs of Egyptian nobility, is soon on her trail , determined to retrieve the gem. Mrs. Graham's lovely daughter, Betty, agrees to marry a suitor for money to prop up her father's failing business. When the bridegroom is murdered on the couple's wedding night, and the body disappears, Phil Kelly decides to lend a hand in solving the crimes.
- DirectorPaul LeniStarsMabel KaulHarry LiedtkeKäthe DorschSilent adaptation of the famous fairy tale 'Sleeping Beauty'.
- DirectorCharles WestonStarsAimee EhrlichRuth RichieEleanor Assmus"Mirror, mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all?" The Wicked Queen knows that the looking glass will always answer, "you are." But one day, the magic mirror has something new to say: Snow White, the Queen's stepdaughter, has grown into the most beautiful woman in the land. Enraged by this news, the Wicked Queen orders one of her underlings to murder the girl. But the assassin does not have the heart to hurt such a lovely and innocent creature. Instead, he tells Snow White of the Queen's evil plot, and urges her to escape. Frightened by the news, Snow White flees the castle and finds a new home with a family of gold-mining dwarfs. But her jealous stepmother possesses powers that may still bring harm to the sweet and generous girl...
- ShortStarsElsie AlbertWilliam CliffordKatherine GriffithThe story opens in the ante-room of the royal bed-chamber. The queen dies. She was the mother of Snow White. A year later the king brings home a wicked queen. Snow White is presented to her stepmother. The queen sees in her magic mirror a message that Snow White will be prettier than she. The king leaves the country for a short period. No sooner is the king gone, than the queen compels a hunter to carry Snow White to the woods and slay her. The hunter weakens and sets Snow White free. He kills a rabbit, and in the blood of the slaughtered animal dips his handkerchief, which he shows to the queen as proof that he has carried out his mission. Snow White sees a cottage in the distance, and goes to it. Finding it apparently vacant, she enters and searches through the rooms, in the fireplace a pot is boiling. The table is spread. The beds are made. She lies on one of the beds and falls asleep. Seven little men are at work in a mine. At the close of the day they stop their labor and march home in military fashion. The leader finds Snow White. He summons his mates and they awaken the sleeper. Snow White agrees to keep house for the little folks. The queen, through her mirror, has learned that the hunter has played her false. The next day she goes in disguise to the hut. She gives Snow White a poisoned comb. Snow White falls unconscious. When the dwarfs return they soon discover the trouble and remove the comb, restoring Snow White. The next day the queen returns. In spite of the warnings of the dwarfs the queen is admitted by Snow White. The queen induces her to eat of a poisoned apple. Snow White falls dead. The dwarfs bemoan the loss of their princess. The queen learns of the death of Snow White. The glass tells her, "Oh, queen, there is none in the land so beautiful as thou." A prince now comes upon the scene. From a hill he sees a strange sight. He dismounts and approaches a casket of glass, surrounded by seven mourning little men. He leans over the casket and kisses the face of the still figure within. Immediately Snow White comes to life. The king and queen are at the head of the court assembling to greet a new prince and his bride. It is the prince and Snow White. The queen is exposed and turned out. The king welcomes his restored daughter and her prince and gives the two his blessing.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinAlbert AustinHenry BergmanProfessor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc.
- DirectorNils Olaf Chrisander
- DirectorAlexander ButlerStarsMaudie DunhamHebden FosterFred MorganA beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMatheson LangLillah McCarthyMeggie AlbanesiA Chinese merchant kills his daughter, kidnaps her seducer, and demands that the young man's mother choose either death for her son or her own daughter as payment for the disgrace to his family.