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- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsAlice JoyceGuy CoombsMarguerite CourtotFoster sister of the Duchess d'Aubeterre, Madeline, marries Jean Renaud, a French soldier, and has a daughter named Adrienne. Five years later, on a battlefield, Renaud is entrusted by the Count de Moray with jewels and papers proving that Adrienne is his heir. After Moray's death, Renaud gives everything to Madeline and then returns to the battle. Lazarre, who had followed Renaud, then goes to Madeline and demands the jewels. Madeline's refusal awakens Adrienne, but Madeline quiets her by saying that her father is home. When Madeline still refuses Lazarre's request, he stabs her. Later, Adrienne tells the neighbors that her father had just been with her mother. Renaud is sentenced to prison for life, after which the Duchess adopts Adrienne. Many years later, Adrienne re-encounters her father and eventually the true murderer is revealed and Renaud is pardoned.
- DirectorTheodore WhartonStarsThurlow BergenElsie EsmondM.O. PennJames Mason has fallen in with bad companions and becomes known to the police as "Handsome Harry." He has just finished a five-year term in prison. Though inclined to reform, he listens to the plea of his pals and consents to renew operations. Under the name of the Morgan Syndicate they carry on their "get-rich-quick" business. The police receive complaints concerning the syndicate. They decide to change the name to the National Investment Company, and offer new inducements. Thus they send out accounts of their oil properties and the large profits which may be expected. Helen Lewis, an elderly widow in the country, who has five thousand dollars, receives one. She writes the confidence men that she is interested and is coming to the city. She requests one of them to meet her at the station. Mason is delegated by his pals to meet her. The unsophisticated woman falls an easy prey to the bunco men and gives them her five thousand dollars and receives certificates of stock. She sees in Mason's watch a photograph of an elderly woman. He tells her it is a picture of his mother who died ten years before. The old lady tells Mason it is too bad that his mother is dead since she would have been proud of her boy. This penetrates the bunco man's conscience and in a flash he sees himself as he is. Going into his partners' office he begs them to give him back the money they have taken. They laugh him to scorn. He escorts Mrs. Lewis back to the station and sees her off. On the way back to his office he determines to be through with the shady business. He again demands the money and when they refuse, he takes it by force. A fight follows, in which he is the victor. He takes the next train for Mrs. Lewis' home that night. She is surprised to see him. Determined to make a clean breast of it, he asks for her stock which he tears up. He tells her the stock is worthless and that the National Investment Company is made up of a gang of crooks, of whom he is one. He goes back to the railroad station but discovers his capital is represented by a few pennies. Further search discloses the fact that Mrs. Lewis has slipped a bill of large denomination in bis vest pocket. He puts the money in an envelope, and mails it to her. Empty of pocket, but high of purpose, he sets off for the city on foot.
- StarsHalfang NeffViola WhittenEdwin NewmanHenry and Alfred Dumaine are brothers of entirely different habits. Henry, cashier of the National Bank, is highly respected, while Alfred is a gambler. Henry, working late in his office, is visited by his brother, who shows him a check for money which he cannot pay. The safe door, being open, is Alfred's opportunity for stealing money while Henry is looking over the check. Alfred is refused and leaves, without Henry discovering the loss. The bank president observes a shortage and asks about it. Henry, to shield his brother, is silent, and the president, believing him guilty, has him arrested. He is sentenced to prison for fifteen years. Ten years later Henry sees an opportunity to escape from the fort. In making his dash for liberty he is seen by the guards, who open fire on him. Diving into the river, he makes good his escape by swimming under the water. During his imprisonment his wife dies and Alfred takes charge of his daughter, Jennie, now a young lady. Going from bad to worse. Alfred and Jennie drift into the camp of roving gypsies. Jennie is forced to go from door to door selling the baskets made by the gypsies, while Alfred drinks all the money and makes her life miserable with his brutality. One day, while pulling a child from beneath the wheels of a speeding automobile, Jennie is injured and taken in the car to the camp. The young journalist who accompanies her, seeing her surroundings, forces her to tell her story. His interest turns to love, and she runs away to become his wife. Henry, beginning life anew, becomes prosperous and is anxious to find his daughter. His advertisement in the papers is seen by Jennie and Alfred. The journalist, thinking it is a scheme to locate and kidnap his wife, advises her to take no notice of it. Alfred, not knowing the whereabouts of Jennie, schemes with one of the gypsies to substitute his daughter for Jennie. Alfred then calls at the hotel, but when he sees his brother he fears for his own safety and sneaks away. He writes a letter to Henry, asking him to call at the camp. Henry arrives and Alfred falls on his knees and begs for mercy, producing the girl who substitutes for Jennie, making him believe it is his own flesh and blood. The journalist, to satisfy his own curiosity, decides to answer the advertisement and sends Jennie to see banker Parker, Henry's assumed name, but finds he has left to sail for America. Jennie's husband visits the gypsy camp and is seen approaching by Alfred. Walking to the wagon, he knocks at the door, and receiving no answer, he enters. Alfred locks him in and pushes the wagon over the steep cliff. Jennie's husband is horribly mangled in the smash and being in such a precarious condition after his arrival at the hospital, Jennie is not allowed to speak to him. Banker Parker, believing he has found his daughter, takes passage for New York, taking along Alfred. After making inquiries, Jennie finds when they are to sail and decides to follow them on the Imperator, disguised as a man. Finding out a scheme, she later obtains an invitation to a masked ball at Parker's home. She makes an exact duplicate of the costume she wore at the gypsy camp and attends the ball. Alfred is dumbfounded when he recognizes Jennie and she adds to his discomfort at every opportunity. Jennie, entering Parker's private office, is followed by Alfred. Opening a drawer she discovers proof. When Alfred enters the room, Jennie, to escape, turns off the light. The false Jennie, thinking something is wrong, follows, and coming into the room just as the lights are turned off, is seized by Alfred. Thinking it is Jennie, he chokes her to death. The guests rush in and Jennie explains all to her father, and Alfred is taken away to his just punishment.
- DirectorElwood Fleet BostwickStarsEdyth TottenThe story tells of the sorrows of Angie Smith the "Magdalen," caused through her betrayal by Walter Williams, the manager of the mill in which Angie is employed. In the beginning of his acquaintance with Angie, Williams proposes marriage to her, but later decides that it would be more to his temporal advantage to marry Mercy Mackey, the daughter of the owner of the mill. As the time approaches when Angie is to become a mother, Williams is accused of his perfidy by Mr. Mackey. The result is a violent, altercation during which Williams strikes Mr. Mackey and kills him, Angie being the only witness. The murder takes place in the mill yard, and as Mackey falls prostrate at the feet of Williams, Angie looks through the window of the mill and sees the crime. Due to her love for Williams she keeps the knowledge to herself. After the murder Williams forges Mr. Mackey's name to a paper, the purport of which is that it is Mr. Mackey's wish that Williams remain at the mill as the permanent manager. The forged testament also contains the wish that Mercy Mackey and Williams marry. Mercy has been secretly admired and loved by one of the mill foremen, Rufus Sweet, who, on account of the disparity in their stations in life, has not declared nor shown his love. At the time of the murder Rufus is accused by Williams. He is arrested, but is exonerated, and on his release he disappears. About the same time Angie goes away and leaves no trace. Meanwhile, Williams persuades Mercy to marry him. Rufus, who, in his new environment, has become an inventor of note and has amassed considerable wealth, reads an announcement of the marriage. He finds Angie, and together they return to their native town, arriving on the day that Williams is to marry Mercy. As the ceremony is about to be solemnized Angie interrupts the wedding and declares Williams is the father of her child, and thus makes it impossible for the marriage to take place. Williams then declines rapidly in the moral scale and his next misdemeanor is the robbery of the mill safe. He also decides to be revenged on Angie, and with this end in view he hires a gang of cutthroats to murder Angie and her baby. Angie is thrown into the rushing mill sluice, thereby being apparently doomed to certain and swift death. Rex, a wonderful police dog, belonging to Rufus, rescues Angie. At this part of the story Rex takes a leading role, as he not only is the means of rescuing Angie, but he also recovers the missing mill cash box. He is seen taking this box from under a pile of heavy stones, where it has been hidden by the robber. Rex is then seen as the chief factor in a most exciting cross country chase, in which he finds the gang of thugs in their retreat, which is a hut in the midst of the woods. He holds the men until the posse arrives, when they are arrested under circumstances of the most exciting sort. Williams is finally called to account for his various misdeeds, is arrested and sent to prison to pay the penalty which is exacted for all evil-doing. The story closes with the death of Angie, her last wish being that Rufus and Mercy marry. She clasps their hands together and her brave spirit departs, glad of its release from the pain-rack body.
- DirectorFord SterlingStarsFord SterlingAlice DavenportRube Miller
- StarsFraunie FraunholzClaire WhitneyJames O'NeillSlowly and painfully a long line of suffering political prisoners were being brutally driven through the blinding snow to the barren wastes of Siberia, where they were destined to spend the balance of their lives in toil and sorrow. At the rear of the line patiently trudged a feeble old man, who in spite of his advanced years had brought the cruel vengeance of Russia down upon his head by daring to speak his mind in the interests of freedom. In the distance could be seen a small sleigh driven by an aged woman at whose side sat a strikingly beautiful girl. They were the wife and daughter of the exile, who were sharing his sad lot. In the camp of the prisoners they were allowed to live in a small hut, where they tried in vain to make the father comfortable, and soon realized that unless he could be taken back to civilization he would surely die. They sawed a hole in the floor of their hut and placed a trunk with a movable bottom over it. Then placing the old man beneath the floor they put some of his clothes and a note telling of his suicide on the riverbank and waited. For weeks they fed and cared for him secretly while the officials thought him dead. Finally they were given passports and told to return to Russia. The trunk was searched and found to contain clothes, but it was no sooner locked than the exile dropped the clothes into the cellar, and taking their place, was safely on his way across the border. In Russia, General Romanoff had ordered a massacre and his son had been stripped of his uniform for refusing to carry out the general's orders to slay the innocent. Sadly he left his father's house resolved never to return. On the road he met the exile, whose sleigh had been overturned and while helping him, fell under the spell of the large serious eyes of his beautiful daughter. Together they joined a revolutionary society, and when lots were drawn to destroy General Romanoff, the girl found herself called upon to do the dangerous work. Not knowing that the general was the father of her gallant lover, and embittered by her own father's death she consented. A bronze statue was presented to the general, who received it as a token of appreciation of his work, little dreaming that it contained the girl who was bent upon his destruction. But her lover had decided to save his father and the girl at all costs, and the deed was prevented at the very last moment with the general still innocent of his near approach to death. Mourning his son, the general wrote him a letter of forgiveness, but tore it to bits when he learned of his application to the revolutionists. Likewise the son wrote his father begging forgiveness, but destroyed the letter when the general ordered a new massacre. A terrific battle was fought in the streets, the father leading his troops in person against the forces of his sun. In the thick of the fight the general, seriously wounded, experienced a strange realization of the equality of man as he gave his last drink of water to a common revolutionary soldier and clasped his hand in brotherly love ere his soul had fled. So the general's son and the exile's daughter found the two old soldiers peacefully sleeping in each other's arms and their grief was tempered by the mute evidence of the general's change of heart as they smiled tenderly through their tears.
- DirectorSidney DrewStarsSidney DrewEdith StoreyCharles KentA young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.
- DirectorGeorge L. SargentStarsThomas A. WiseChester BarnettEvelyn BrentWilliam H. Langdon has been elected senator from Mississippi, and reaches the national capital with the experience in big politics that might be expected of a man who has lived his life on a plantation forty miles from a railroad. With him are his two fair daughters, Carolina and Hope. He has scarcely reached his hotel when he hires "Bud" Haines, a newspaper man, as his secretary. Charles Norton, representative from Mississippi, James Stevens, senior Senator, and Horatio Peabody, senator from Pennsylvania, are interested in a scheme to have a naval station located at Altacola, Miss., and they need the assistance of the new senator. They have purchased all the land in the neighborhood and plan to dispose of it to the government at their own price after the bill is put through. In order to insure his support Norton induces Langdon's son to invest $30,000 in Altacola and also puts in the fortune left the Senator's daughter by her mother. He is the girl's accepted suitor, by the way. Haines, in the meantime, has been a thorn in the side of the crooks, but by reporting to each that the other has played false and invested money in the land project, they bring about an estrangement between him and Langdon, which is set right by Hope Langdon telling Haines, with whom she is in love, of the plot. Langdon and Haines find they have been duped and the man from Mississippi decides to balk the thieves, even if it ruins his family. The story comes to a right ending by Langdon stepping into the Senate to make his maiden speech, denouncing the intended fraud, and declaring that he and the conspirators bought up the land to save the national treasury from being looted after having discovered a conspiracy in another quarter to commit the holdup. Before this important event he has compelled the two rascally senators to come to his way of thinking through fear of exposure. Congressman Norton is sent on his way in disgrace. Haines, again secretary, is engaged to wed Hope.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary PickfordErnest TruexWilliam NorrisCharles MacLance, a mischievous little boy sent to live with his cruel aunt, Mrs. MacMiche, takes his happiness from the make-believe world of fairies which he has created with Juliet, a little blind girl. When Charles' aristocratic grandfather dies, however, he is sent away to an expensive school, in preparation for his adult life as a lord. As he grows up, he forgets Juliet and his make-believe friends, and becomes engaged to a fashionable society girl, but the soul of his former self leaves him to rejoin the good fairies. Meanwhile, Mrs. MacMiche has come to believe in fairies, and in her new goodness, she asks Charles to come and live with her again. At first reluctant, Charles soon resurrects fond memories of the past. Juliet, whose sight has been restored, helps him to complete his change, and he asks her to marry him. In the end, the couple live happily with Mrs. MacMiche in their fantasy world.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsAnita StewartE.K. LincolnCharles KentThe story concerns a mercenary and managing mother and her daughter, Agnes. The young lady loves a youthful doctor, but a match is frustrated by the mother, who seeks to marry the daughter to the highest bidder. The mother's extravagance ruins the father, who, being in ill health, succumbs to heart failure. With poverty staring them in the face, the mother takes Agnes abroad, finally forcing her into a marriage with an Australian millionaire. To do so, the mother intercepts all letters between Agnes and the young doctor, with the result that each feels that the other has ceased to care. The millionaire and his young wife, while on their honeymoon on his yacht, are shipwrecked. He is dealt a terrible blow on the head, and it completely destroys his memory. The young wife is saved and returns to America, while her husband is picked up by a French fisherman. His memory gone, he does not recall his previous existence in America. Agnes and the doctor renew their love affair and finally marry, excellent proof having been furnished that her former husband had drowned in the shipwreck. There is no opposition to the marriage now, as the mother also had perished in the catastrophe. Five years later, the young doctor has become a famous brain specialist. To him, Agnes' former husband comes for an operation in the hope of restoring his lost memory. The two men, never having met, fail to learn they are both married to the same woman. She discovers it, however, and with her happiness at stake, does not tell her surgeon-husband the truth, but attempts to dissuade him from operating on her first husband, fearful that the operation will prove successful and her first husband regain his lost memory and recognize her as his wife. The humanity in the surgeon surmounts his wife's pleas, but the patient fails to withstand the operation and Agnes' happiness is assured, despite the terrible situations which confronted her.
- StarsMaud Hall MacyRobert VaughnL. Hampton, a young lawyer, being in very poor health, is advised by his physician to go to the Canadian wilds on a hunting trip. In accordance with this advice he makes the trip, and under the assumed name of Iveson, joins a hunter's colony. He is introduced to the hunter's daughter, and in a comparatively short time falls in love with her. With the consent of her father, the two are married. Sometime later Hampton is called back to the city by one of his clients to conduct a very important case. He takes leave of the hunter and his wife, giving as a reason for not taking her with him that her customs and crude speech would act against him in the city. He promises, however, to return for her upon completion of the trial. Upon returning to the city, he is informed by his friends that the trip made a new man of him. He at once takes charge of the case, and in due time, wins it for his client, a beautiful lady, whom he decides to marry, completely forgetting about the wife whom he married under the assumed name of Iveson. Time passes, the unfortunate daughter of the hunter ever thinking of her husband. After a lapse of fifteen years, her son, tired of life in the woods, decides to go to the city and seek employment. On arrival, he makes the acquaintance of the captain of a barge, the two become fast friends, and young Iveson is engaged by his friend to work on the barge. One day, while the two were in a saloon, the captain happens to flash a big roll of bills, which immediately attracts the attention of one of a number of ruffians. The ruffian kills the captain. In the mix-up which ensues, the assailant makes good his escape, while a general tumult follows, after which young Iveson is charged with murder he did not commit. He is held, tried and convicted on so-called "Circumstantial Evidence." Sentence of death is passed by his own father, who had since been elevated to the judiciary. Being quite a popular judge, he is nominated for the office of Governor. In the meantime, Mrs. Iveson, through a newspaper, learns of the predicament her son is in, and resolves to go to the city in an effort to save him from the death chair. In pleading with the judge for leniency she recognizes in him the man who had deserted her. The recognition becomes mutual. Hampton realizes that a word from the woman would ruin his political career, and endeavors to come to terms with her. There is only one condition on which the woman will maintain silence regarding the unlawful second marriage of the judge, and that is that he sets her son at liberty. This the judge has no power to do, but promises, that after his election to the Governorship, he will pardon young Iveson. Hampton is elected Governor, but neglects to fulfill his promise as to the pardon. Iveson's mother, who left for her home, now returns to the city with the intention of exposing the Governor. While on her way to the executive chambers, she meets the second wife of the Governor and their daughter. After a conversation, the unfortunate mother decides not to ruin the lives of Mrs. Hampton and her daughter, but asks them to use their influence in the securing of the pardon. The pardon is eventually granted and young Iveson is restored to his now-happy mother.
- DirectorLeopold WhartonTheodore WhartonStarsM.O. PennThurlow BergenBilly MasonAn Indian rajah determines to give the prince, his son, the advantages of an American university education, and brings him to the United States. Arriving at the university town they stop at the hotel there and are immediately besieged by the reporters who scent a good story, especially as it is reported that the rajah brings with him one of the famous jewels of the world, a magnificent diamond. Among the reporters is a young man on his first assignment who at once makes friends with the prince. In the meantime Nell Reardon, the "badger queen," is approached by Moreland, a "gentleman" crook, and threatened with exposure if she does not aid him to obtain possession of the rajah's jewel. She promises her aid and as a first step registers at the same hotel as the rajah, under the alias of the "Countess Mirska." Billy is assigned to interview her. The prince is struck with the woman's charms and persuades Billy to introduce him. At the instigation of Moreland. the woman persuades the prince to show her the diamond. Fearing his father's displeasure the young man secretly takes the jewel from the strong box. Seeing their opportunity, Moreland and Harley, his "pal," invite the prince to have some refreshments at the hotel café and the prince asks to have Billy included in the party. The jewel is passed around and admired. By accident, and while no one is looking, it falls from the case and lodges in the cuff of the reporter's trousers. Later, while in his own room, he discovers it and immediately runs back to the hotel to return it to the prince. Unable to find him, he decides to stay at the hotel for the night, takes a room and throws himself upon the bed, fully clothed. The anxiety of his responsibility preys upon his mind so that his slumbers are disturbed and his rest is a nightmare. In the meantime the prince discovers the loss, tells the crooks of it and they search the café together. The crooks secretly believe each other guilty, but when they tax one another with the crime they mutually prove their innocence. Without saying anything to each other they visit the reporter's home and search his room. Finding one another in the room their mutual distrust deepens. Billy's distraught mind causes him to talk in his sleep and while doing so he drops the jewel over the hotel balcony. It falls at the feet of the prince, but he does not enjoy its possession long. Harley, who has been spying upon him, knocks him out and escapes with the diamond. The further vicissitudes of the diamond are intensely interesting and lead up to the superb climax where the prince recovers it and sees the baffled crook, Moreland, go over the bridge into the ravine below in the trolley car in which he has tried to escape.
- DirectorAlexander F. FrankStarsK.M. TurnerDorothy GwynneCharles PerleyThe story opens with a full view of the Brooklyn Bridge with a woman in a nervous state stealing along. A policeman, noticing something amiss, approaches her, but too late. The woman jumps to the river below. A sailor on a passing tug dives overboard and rescues her. A harbor police-boats puts out from shore and they are both taken aboard. Dr. Warren, who is among the crowd on the shore, offers his assistance, but ordinary methods of resuscitation fail, and a call is given for a lung motor. This revives the woman and she is taken to a hospital where the doctor and his wife are her only visitors. They take a general interest in her, not realizing she is addicted to drugs. The woman, fully recovered, is brought to court and charged with attempted suicide. She is about to be committed to Blackwell's Island, but on the doctor's and his wife's promise, she is paroled. She is made assistant nurse to the doctor and later becomes infatuated with him. He is not aware of it, but some of his patients notice it and send Mrs. Warren an anonymous letter which she at the time ignores, still believing in her husband. However, on entering her husband's office just as the woman in the throes of an overdose of cocaine and is confessing her love for him, she perceives that something is wrong. Not being satisfied with her husband's explanation, she decides to install a dictograph from his office to her bedroom. Shortly after the dictograph is installed, she hears the woman again avowing her love, also her husband's repulses. Furious she enters the office and orders the woman to leave the house. She leaves vowing vengeance. The wife confesses about installing the dictograph. Forgiveness is granted, and the dictograph is disconnected. Mrs. Warren attends a reception where she meets Mrs. Halley, who has an opera cloak similar to the one worn by her, and upon leaving the maids give them the wrong cloaks. Mrs. Halley decides to return Mrs. Warren's cloak personally and orders her chauffeur to drive her to the Warren home. Arriving there she is ushered into the doctor's office. The woman, in the meantime, is prowling about the grounds, and mistaking Mrs. Halley for Mrs. Warren, shoots her from a window of the office. The police are notified of the murder, and in searching the house find the wires that were attached to the dictograph as well as the anonymous letter. Tracing the wires, they find they lead into Mrs. Warren's bedroom, thereby giving a motive, and Mrs. Warren is placed under arrest. The woman, reading in the paper that she has reaped vengeance on the wrong woman, is terror stricken, but as she reads further that Mrs. Warren has been arrested for the crime, she gloats over it. Being out of funds, the woman in seeking employment, enters the building where the dictograph offices are situated. Being unable to secure employment and in a state of prostration from lack of cocaine, she starts muttering and gloating over Mrs. Warren's predicament. Her voice is heard through the dictograph and an attempt is made to capture the woman, but as the men arrive in the corridor, the woman is seen descending in the elevator. The woman is finally caught by detectives who engage a room in the same house and in her absence a dictograph is installed connecting both rooms over which the detectives and the police hear her re-enact her crime. She is immediately arrested, her reason entirely gone. Mrs. Warren is released and husband and wife are happily reunited.
- A young woman named Katherine works hard in the office of a promising young attorney, Harry Buch, to support herself and to care for her mother. The latter has been ill for some time and is treated regularly by a young doctor. Katherine falls in love with the doctor, and it is on this account that she refuses to marry her employer who had proposed to her. During one of the visits of the doctor, Katherine notices a picture in his possession which he says is that of his sweetheart. The condition of Katherine's mother becomes worse, and the doctor decides that an expensive operation is necessary to save her or prolong her life. The girl learns of this, and decides to marry her wealthy employer in order to raise the necessary money, but she voices her true sentiments to the doctor. She promises however, to try to learn to love her prospective husband. Buch and Katherine are married and it is through the aid of the lawyer that the operation is performed and the life of the girl's mother is saved. The couple live happily until Buch becomes entangled in a financial difficulty and loses money which was entrusted to him and for which he was to give an accounting in three years, when the rightful owner would become of age. Not seeing his way clear to make good the loss, the young attorney decided to commit suicide, but is prevented from doing so by his wife who urges him to go to the mining fields, there try to regain the fortune he lost. Meanwhile the doctor's fiancée, tired of the length of the engagement, breaks it and marries another man. The doctor, grieved at the loss, takes to drink, loses his practice, and after a series of wanderings, lands in the place to which the lawyer had gone. In the meantime the lawyer's wife gives birth to a son, and having lost her mother, decides to go to her husband. On her arrival, the baby takes sick, and the mother applies to the doctor for medical aid, which is refused because of his hatred for women. As a result the baby dies. Harry Buch, now a prospector, informs his wife that he has been fortunate in making a good strike. This is overheard by George Fiske, another prospector, who decided to rob Harry of it. Fiske follows him to the mine and there induces him to accept him as a partner, the two to work the mine together, it being Fiske's intention to explode the mine while working it. Harry, however, catches him in the act. A fight ensues which terminates in the explosion of the mine, the death of Harry, and serious injury to Fiske. Harry's wife, on hearing the explosion, goes out looking for her husband, and finds both him and Fiske in one mess. She has her husband buried, but takes George to the house and nurses him. She leaves the house to get aid, but on returning with Dr. Black finds George dead. Dr. Black persuades her to return to the city and allow him to take care of the mine. Two years elapse. Dr. Black sends Katherine enough money to pay the debts that her husband, the lawyer, had contracted on bonds which were entrusted to him as guardian. Dr. Black, upon receipt of a good offer for the mine, sells it. He writes Katherine, advising her that his profession and heart are calling him to the city. He returns, tells her of his love for her, and they are married.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsLaura SawyerBetty HarteGeorge MossBeanie and Effie Deans are the two daughters of old David Deans, a thrifty Scotchman and strict church member, living near Edinburgh. David has reared his daughters in accordance with his rigid and austere ideas of life. The two sisters are as different in appearance and mind as two people could possibly be. Jeanie is steady, calm, noble and unaffected in dress and manner, while little Effie is gay and flighty, fond of finery and flirtations. Arriving at womanhood, Effie falls in love with young Georgie Robertson, the profligate son of a rich minister. Georgie has wandered far from his father's home and fold, and in his love for adventure becomes entangled with a band of smugglers. Under promise of marriage, Georgie often meets Effie secretly and gains her love and trust, but on his way to their prospective marriage is waylaid and arrested, in company with the leader of the smugglers, and thrown into prison. Effie has kept her family in ignorance of her love and betrothal, and has withheld from Jeanie even a greater secret, that she is to become a mother. Crushed by her misfortune, little Effie manages to secure a position in Edinburgh, and there receives word from Georgie, in prison, to go in her hour of trouble to friends of his who will care for her. She goes to these people, Madge Wildfire and her mother, a strange, eccentric pair, the mother a wicked old hag, the daughter demented through grief over her dead babe. They shelter Effie while her own little one is born, but the crazed Madge steals the young infant, leaving it alone by the roadside. The child is rescued by strangers, but is lost to Effie, who finally returns home, still guarding her sad secret. And there, for a time, she finds peace and quiet. But the old hag, fearing lest Effie accuse Madge of stealing the child, determines to accuse Effie of killing her own babe. Effie is torn from her dazed and grief-stricken family and thrust into prison, awaiting trial. During this lapse of time Robertson has escaped from prison, and incited a riot to rescue the smuggler-leader, who is popular among the town folks. Learning that Effie, too, is in the prison, Robertson also strives to effect her release. To his alarm and surprise, Effie refuses to leave the prison until her innocence is proved, and he is forced to leave without her. Desperate, he remembers the old Scotch law to the effect that if the accused has told any of her family that she is to become a mother, the statement is accepted as an evidence that she does not intend the death of her child. Robertson therefore writes Jeanie, begging her to meet him at midnight at an old church, and bidding her tell no one why he wishes to see her. This note he gives to Mr. Butler, a young minister, who loves Jeanie and is loved by her. Butler bears the note to Jeanie, demanding to know the reason for this appointment, but she steadfastly refuses to tell him, causing an estrangement between them. Jeanie meets Robertson, and he pleads with her to lie in court and thus save her sister. Meanwhile, Butler has been questioned by the authorities, on the occasion of a visit to Effie, as to his acquaintance with the escaped prisoner, Robertson, and is forced to reveal the contents of the note he bore to Jeanie. A searching party goes in pursuit of Robertson, led by Madge Wildfire, who knows the district better than the others. Madge divines the men mean danger to Robertson, whom she admires, and warns him with a wild song, so that he escapes in time, but without having secured Jeanie's promise. Jeanie visits Effie in prison, and is again begged to tell one little lie to save her sister's life, but she cannot escape her slavery to truth and honor, and refuses. At the trial Effie is condemned to die. Jeanie then goes barefoot to London and begs the Queen for her sister's life, telling her all. Though they offer the pardon in exchange for Robertson's hiding place, she staunchly refuses to reveal it. Her loyalty and strength appeal to the Queen's sympathies, and she grants the pardon. Stopping for nothing, she hastens back to the prison, and reaches the place of execution just in time. And so Jeanie saves her sister's life without the blight of having told a lie.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsDorothy DaltonSamuel E. HinesMillarThe Escott family, on their way to Montana, is attacked by Indians. Army Lt. Joe Lanier afterwards finds little Elsie Escott, the only survivor, and brings her to his mother, who takes in the girl and raises her. Joe later leaves the army and becomes a successful miner, and over the years as he sees Elsie grow into a woman, he falls in love with her. Soon, however, a handsome stranger named Bob Stanton becomes his rival for Elsie's affections, and when Joe becomes jealous Elsie gets angry and makes plans to elope with Stanton. However, a war with Spain complicates everything.
- DirectorPierce KingsleyStarsHerbert KelceyEffie ShannonRobert VaughnA little maiden / Climbed an old man's knee, / Begged for a story. / Oh, Uncle please. / Why are you single? / Why live alone? / Have you no babies? / Have you no home? The story he tells her follows: John Dale is an eminent bachelor lawyer who has never felt the sting of Cupid's dart. A millionaire friend of John's invites him to join a yachting party. The girl that John may have been waiting for appears in the person of Louise Tate, who is accompanied by her father, James Tate; it is love at first sight. John is made a welcome visitor at the Tate home. The family consists of four persons: Mr. and Mrs. Tate, their daughter Louise, and their son Gerald. While at college Gerald played card games with the other students which caused them to be expelled from the institution. Gerald's father, learning of his son's disgrace, is enraged beyond measure and is about to order Gerald from his home when Louise and her mother intercede for him. Gerald finds his mother's necklace upon the library floor where it had fallen in her attempts to shield her son from the father s attack. Gerald takes the necklace to a pawnbroker and pledges it, intending to gamble and try to win enough money to pay his debts and have sufficient left to redeem the necklace. Gerald soon loses the money on the races. After missing her jewels the mother summons detectives, who find the missing jewels in the pawnshop. While the pawnbroker is receiving his check from Mr. Tate, Gerald walks into the room and is recognized as the one who pawned the necklace. He is ordered from his father's house forever. For his reckless dissipation he is sent to prison for four years. After escaping from prison, he returns to the city to obtain honest employment but is found by one of his former pals, who forces him by threats of exposure to join them again. In the meantime John Dale and Louise have become engaged. The annual Charity Ball is announced. This item comes to the attention of Gerald's underworld friends who select him to go to the ball to play his supposed trade of a thief, yet in his heart, he had made up his mind not to do anything dishonest. He goes to the ball where he meets his sister, Louise, who nearly faints when she sees him. As she totters Gerald places his fingers to his lips to indicate silence, and John just turns in time to catch Louise and assist her to an ante-room. While he goes for a glass of water Gerald appears, and while fondly kissing his sister, is discovered by John, who becomes so enraged that the glass falls from his hand and breaks to shards. Having never met her brother, John stands rooted to the ground by his sweetheart's supposed infidelity and demands to know why the strange man was kissing her. John takes Louise home where the quarrel is renewed and the couple, misunderstanding each other, never met again. John turns over his office to a junior partner and sails for a tour of the world. In the meantime Louise has slowly been dying of a broken heart. Gerald again breaks away from the gang, and under an assumed name, obtains employment in a large factory, where he is discovered and brought back to the prison, where he saves the life of a keeper and his term is shortened for the deed. Returning to the city, he learns of his sister's illness and, without being seen by his parents, he gains admission to her room, and soon he learns for the first time that he had been the cause of the lovers' quarrel. Louise, before she dies, exacts a promise from her brother that he will explain the scene at the ball to John. The death of his sister kills all the ambition in Gerald, who drifts again to his underworld friends, one of whom has selected a place for good pickings, as the owner of the house is away. It happens to be the home of John Dale, who has unexpectedly returned to his native country. John dispatches Briggs, his valet, with a note to Louise, asking if he may call, but is met by an old servant who tells him that Louise is dead. John is stunned by the news. The night of the robbery, Gerald is forced to climb into the window first where he discovers the photograph of Louise and, picking it up exclaims, "My sister," which is heard by John Dale, who draws his revolver and compels Gerald to hold up his hands. In that position he is found by the next member of the gang. He cries to his chum to stand aside as he levels his gun at John, but Gerald sacrifices his own life by jumping in front of John, who, tearing the mask from his visitor's face, discovers it is the man whom he saw kissing his sweetheart that night at the ball. With his last dying breath Gerald says to John "My sister shielded me that night at the ball, because I was an escaped convict." John is thunderstruck, "My God, her brother. What a fool I was not to have listened to her explanation." The scene dissolves back to the little child with her arms around her Uncle John, who murmured, "That's why I'm lonely, / No home at all. / I broke her heart, pet. / After the ball."
- StarsOwen MooreVirginia PearsonYoung Ruth Morgan, an orphan, decides to leave her small town to make her fortune in the big city. Meanwhile, in another small down, young doctor Allan Buchannan also decides to strike out for the big city. Unfortunately, Ruth falls in love with a rich playboy who soon betrays her, and Allan makes a tragic mistake by accidentally prescribing a drug that results in a child's death. Soon afterwards he learns that his sister has died in a train accident. Despondent and grief-stricken, he walks to a nearby river, intending to end it all by jumping in. There he meets Ruth, who is there for the same purpose.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsJohn BarrymoreEvelyn MoorePeter LangBerresford Cruger, junior partner of the New York brokerage firm of Barbury, Brown and Cruger, is left a fortune of 60,000 pounds, by an English uncle, Carew, on the condition that he renounce his American citizenship, become a British subject, and marry an Englishwoman, the money otherwise being assigned to the Archaeological Society of England. Cruger patriotically refuses the fortune on these conditions, when his pretty English cousin, Beatrice Carew, who has been disinherited in favor of Cruger, because of a past romance with an American, suggests to him that they marry, and so keep the money in the family. Cruger's American chivalry, and a strong interest in his attractive cousin are aroused. At this critical moment the disappearance of Brown, with $80,000 which he had had in trust for a Miss Georgia Chapin, is discovered. Cruger and Barbury feel responsible for their partner's defalcation, which adds another incentive to Cruger's consent to a hasty marriage with Beatrice, who immediately returns to England, after both have agreed to leave each other absolutely free. With his newly acquired money Cruger secretly replaces the missing funds, and invests in the Opera House block of a Wyoming "boom" town, proceeding to forget all about it. Later, he and Barbury go to Nice, where Cruger again meets his cousin-wife. Here they fall seriously in love with each other, and many complications, pathetic and comic, ensue. The situation is further confused by the sudden reappearance of Brown, who, it transpires, is the missing ex-fiancé of Beatrice, believed by her to have been accidentally killed. Beatrice is now fully recovered from her love affair with Brown, but his former affection for her is revived when he learns that her fortune, after all, has not been lost. Brown's utter lack of character and manliness is evidenced by his efforts to part Cruger and Beatrice. Cruger realizes that Brown's design is to secure Beatrice's fortune by marrying her himself, and, in a dramatic scene, tells Brown that he had induced himself to marry Beatrice in order to restore Miss Chapin's stolen funds, and that he would consent to a divorce from Beatrice, if Brown would agree to return her portion of the estate in the event that be married her. Brown's ardor cools at this proposal, and he verifies Cruger's scant opinion of him by again disappearing. Beatrice misunderstands Cruger's motive, and condemns him as mercenary. Cruger can offer no defense and secretly bears the pang of Beatrice's innocent misjudgment. Beatrice leaves Cruger in anger and resentment. With a comic irony, the Archaeological Society at this juncture, which has sued to recover the money on the grounds that Cruger was not to share the behest with Beatrice, Carew's disinherited daughter, wins the action, and Cruger and Beatrice are forced to surrender their fortune and are left without funds or resources. With noble devotion, Cruger stints himself to send Beatrice money without her knowledge of the sacrifice, and is himself on the verge of starvation, when joyful word arrives that his Wyoming Opera House lot has really "boomed," and made him $50,000. Meanwhile, Georgia Chapin has learned of his unselfish replacement of her stolen funds, and his sacrifices for Beatrice, with which she loses no time in acquainting her. Awakened to a new realization of Cruger's real worth. Beatrice hastens to him to ask forgiveness, and is received with open arms by her hero, who has managed, through all his difficulties, to regain his American citizenship without losing wife or fortune.
- DirectorHobart BosworthStarsHobart BosworthRhea HainesGordon SackvilleTo Cal Galbraith's cabin in the Klondike, one winter night, comes a starving, frost-bitten figure. Cal recognizes it as Naass, an Esquimau dog-driver, to whom he had lent sixty ounces of gold dust that he might buy release from the service, and who thereupon had left for a prospecting trip with Axel Gunderson and his wife many weeks before. Crouching by the fire, Naass tells his story. We see the feud in the Esquimau village between the descendants of two shipwrecked sailors, which terminates at the wedding plotlach of the last of the two lines, Naass and Unga. We see Axel carry Unga off to his ship, where he later wins her love and marries her. Knowing nothing of this, but always remembering the last appeal in Unga's eyes. Naass follows as best he can. From city to city he journeys, till a clue carries him to the sealing grounds. With Axel's ship in sight. Naass' ship is captured by Russians in waters forbidden to sealers, and he is sent to Siberia. Not even the horrors of the salt mines and the knout daunt him and he escapes, to make his way hack through Alaska to San Francisco. There he learns that Axel and Unga had left the day before for the Klondike, but at least he has a definite clue and a bait to trap Axel with in the shape of a map leading to a wonderful mine in the unknown mountains of interior Alaska, given him by a dying prospector, so with renewed courage he starts out again. At Dawson the long search is ended, but they do not remember one who had paid for Unga's love an untold price, and he easily persuades them to go with him in search of the mine in the mountains. The odyssey is over, the never-forgotten appeal in Unga's eyes will now be answered, and Axel is in his power. He destroys the caches for the return trip, kills the dogs, and watches with the exultation of the just avenger Axel's slow death from starvation and frost. Then when death has come to Axel and is very near himself and Unga, he reveals his identity, "I am Naass, the last of the blood, as you are the last of the blood." To his bewilderment, Unga laughs wildly, then denouncing him in a passionate outburst, throws herself beside the dead body of her husband and refuses to leave him. "But upon me there lay your debt, which would not let me rest. I repay." And giving Cal a bag of gold, taken from the far mountains, Naass turns again to the fire.
- DirectorThomas N. HeffronStarsTyrone Power Sr.Marguerite SkirvinEdna MayoVirginia Stockton, daughter of railroad magnate Jefferson Stockton of San Francisco, gets engaged to Stuyvesant Lawrence, scion of an "old-money" New York family. The Lawrence family patriarch journeys west to put a halt to the wedding, as he believes his son is marrying beneath his station. Virginia's father persuades her to accompany him and his new wife to England, where they have rented an estate. Although Virginia and Stuyvesant write each other often, his mother intercepts her letters. Believing that Stuyvesant has become engaged to another woman, Virginia marries a shady fortune-hunting nobleman, Prince Emil von Haldenwald. Complications ensue.
- DirectorFrank Hall CraneStarsAlice BradyW.D. FischterDouglas MacLeanDora, the daughter of a wealthy man, marries a good-looking young fellow from the country who has made an auspicious start in New York business life. Having won the girl by trickery, he proceeds to reveal a baseness of disposition that makes his young wife's life a terrible burden. He becomes a drunkard who abuses his wife and baby. Dora resents his cruelty and he robs her of the child, surreptitiously conveying it to his mother, then going away to sea on a fishing schooner. Bereft of husband and child, Dora falls prey to grief. Fresh suffering awaits her when news comes that her vicious young husband was drowned at sea. Concealing her identity, she makes her way to the fishing village where her husband was born, becomes his mother's paying guest, recognizes her child, and inspires the love of her husband's brother, now a clergyman. Dora's troubles are about to recommence with undiminished severity. Her husband married her under a false name, so she is in ignorance of his relatives, and in this state of ignorance she lends a willing ear to the wooing of the Rev. John St. John, her late husband's brother. The wedding ceremony is about to take place when a storm at sea arises, a ship in distress is sighted, there is a call to man the life-boat, and Dora's fiancé volunteers. Among the rescued is Dora's legal husband Frank, who re-asserts his claim to wife and child, grows jealous of his brother, and once more becomes a drunkard. One of his New York reprobate companions appears to demand money. There is a quarrel and both men are killed. The sinful man has reaped as he sowed, and like so many of his kind has made others suffer for his misdeeds, particularly the fond girl who married him.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- DirectorRomaine FieldingStarsRomaine Fielding
- DirectorCaryl S. FlemingStarsAl J. JenningsJ. Morris FosterFrank FarringtonOklahoma lawyer Al Jennings, whose father was a famous and respected judge, is enraged at the murder of his brother Ed, shot in the back by two killers. As if that wasn't enough, he finds himself falsely accused of robbery, and while escaping those phony charges he is chased and shot by a posse. Although wounded, he manages to elude the posse but takes his revenge by robbing a country store. It's not long before he has his own outlaw gang, with headquarters at the Spike S Ranch. A local sheriff is determined to capture him, so Al and his brother Frank make plans for one last, big robbery before leaving Oklahoma forever.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsMary PickfordJames KirkwoodLowell ShermanYoung Dolly Lane has committed herself to becoming a star on the stage, but when she meets handsome and wealthy farmer Steve Hunter, she falls in love and marries him. Unfortunately, Steve soon loses his fortune and the couple is forced to move in with a friend, Teddy Harrington. Not long afterwards Steve's rich uncle dies, leaving him wealthy, but on that same day Dolly is asked to take the place of a stage star who has taken ill. She does and becomes the toast of Broadway, but now Steve wants her to return with him to the West and become a farmer's wife. She relents, but soon becomes bored with that role and longs to return to the stage.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsClaire WhitneyFraunie FraunholzThe story revolves about a young woman who is forced to enter the Russian Secret Service on the threat that if she did not do so her father, an active Nihilist, would be put to death. Before her own eyes he is tortured in the prison and to stop these inhuman tortures, she falls in with the plan to rout out the Nihilist organization. In the furtherance of their designs, the Secret Service authorities introduce her into the home of Prince Cyril, who is suspected of being in sympathy with the Revolutionists. She unwillingly does her task, which is made very easy by Prince Cyril's admiration for her personally and his sympathy with her father's plight. He introduces her into his circle of radicals, but before very long a dramatic scene develops that places her under suspicion. During a meeting of the radicals, she disappears in the secret recesses of their subterranean meeting-place and the most vigorous search for her proves of no avail. After the meeting breaks up and the conspirators leave in a spirit of unrest, she emerges from her hiding-place in a well and guided by an image of her father suffering in his prison, she purloins evidence for the Government. In the meantime, Prince Cyril, guided by traces she had left, follows her to her home and persuades her to return the incriminating papers. However, when Government officials arrive and are told that she had been unsuccessful in her attempt to aid them, her servant, who is spying on her, betrays Prince Cyril's visit. They bind her and leave her in charge of two soldiers, while the others in haste gallop off after the Prince. In the meantime, one of the soldiers, who is secretly in league with the Revolutionists, aids her in making escape. Prince Cyril, after a very sensational chase, is captured and imprisoned. With the aid of this soldier she is able later on to meet the Government General, who, completely disarmed by her innocent charms, falls a victim to her scheme to liberate her father and the Prince. However, before she succeeds in this plan, she undergoes considerable suffering and agonizing suspense. The Cossacks trace her and those whom she had liberated from prison to their subterranean hiding-place, but by vigilance and careful planning they make their escape to America after blowing up their former abode with bombs planted by the Russian soldiers.
- StarsBeulah PoynterJohn BowersMrs. E. WaltonDorothy Grey has a quarrel with her stepmother and goes on the stage. She meets with immediate success, but is disgusted with her surroundings. A theatrical manager makes himself obnoxious by his attentions, and when George Dunbar, a wealthy man, proposes to her Dorothy accepts him. The next day, immediately after the ceremony, Dunbar gives a dinner to a few friends at his country home. It is a fast crowd, and too much wine is drunk. In his intoxicated condition Dunbar is a revolting sight to Dorothy. Seeing that Dorothy is displeased, Dunbar orders the people to leave. In his maudlin state he tries to make up with Dorothy but she will not permit him to touch her. Filled with revulsion she determines to leave her husband, but he catches her and throws her back into the room, her head striking on a chair. Dorothy later makes her escape. Dorothy wanders aimlessly until sunrise, and is half delirious when she reaches the farm of the widow Marsh and her son Jeff. Dorothy becomes hysterical and Dr. Morrow is compelled to give her a hypodermic injection. She awakens the next morning with her mind completely blank, the blow on the head having caused aphasia. She has the mind of a child, though she learns with astounding rapidity. With her matured brain, however, she acquires knowledge hourly, and soon her mind is completely restored, though her memory prior to her arrival at the farmhouse, when she gave a fictitious name, is entirety blank. Jeff falls in love with Dorothy and the two are married. On the night of the wedding Dr. Morrow is called away. Dr. Morrow finally comes back and the wedding takes place. A year later a baby is born and Dorothy's memory is completely restored. In visions she lives again the incidents which made her twice a bride and she turns from her baby in horror and refuses to see Jeff. To the doctor she tells her story and the shame of her first husband. The doctor then tells her what occurred on the night of her marriage. Dunbar had gone out in his racing car in an intoxicated condition, and falling over a high cliff, had been killed. The call for the doctor came when he was at the Marsh home, and he hurried to the scene of the accident. It therefore developed that Dunbar died thirty minutes before Dorothy's second marriage. The doctor calls Jeff, and he is joyfully received by his wife.
- DirectorOscar ApfelCecil B. DeMilleStarsEdward AbelesJoseph SingletonSydney DeaneRobert Brewster, scion of a well-to-do family, elopes with Louise Sedgewick. Peter Brewster disinherits Robert and refuses to be reconciled to the marriage, and later drives the young couple from their home. A little son, "Monty," blesses the union. When Monty is a full-grown man, Peter Brewster dies and bequeaths a million dollars to him. The newly-acquired wealth staggers young Monty Brewster, and he is about to launch into the new life as one of the predatory rich when he receives a communication from an attorney in the West, advising him that his uncle, George Brewster, has left him $7 million, contingent upon his getting ride of the million dollars left him by Peter Brewster. "Peter Brewster mistreated your mother and father and I do not want you to touch a dollar of his money. If you spend the million left to you by him and can, at the end of a year, show by receipts that you have judiciously spent, not squandered this million dollars, my attorneys will turn over to you my worldly possessions, aggregating seven millions. You must own nothing of value at the end of the year," said George Brewster, and Monty, learning for the first time that Peter Brewster had mistreated his parents, begins to spend the million. He invests the money in a sure losing proposition in Wall Street in an effort to dispose of some of his unwelcome money, and the proposition turns out a winner. He backs a flabby fat pugilist, hoping to lose, and wins. There is a clause in the will of George Brewster which says that Monty must not tell anyone of his desire to spend the million and his friends think he has suddenly lost his mind. Everything Monty touches with the hope of losing some of his money, turns out just the reverse, and he wins. He has a most terrible time disposing of the undesired millions. Finally, in a desperate attempt at magnificent spending, Monty hires a palatial yacht, invites several dozen friends to accompany him and goes on a long cruise. The friends mutiny in mid-ocean, thinking him suddenly insane the way he is squandering his wealth, and threaten to lock Monty up, but Monty, to frustrate them, runs up a signal of distress. It costs him two hundred thousand dollars to be salvaged by a passing steamer, and the end of the year rolls around with Monty flat broke. He has squandered the entire million dollars, possesses a room full of receipts to show for every dollar spent, and his sweetheart, Peggy, believing him to be a pauper, consents to marry him. His friends, believing him broke, endeavor to press money and jewelry upon him, all of which he must not have in his possession or he loses the seven million. He dodges his friends, is met by the attorney and presented with seven million dollars, and everything turns out happily.
- StarsW.R. SeymourLillian WorthCharles E. BunnellBunks, the unfortunate hero and would-be Teddy Roosevelt, is shown to be a fraud as a "great hunter" after it's found out that he faked a photograph showing him triumphantly having killed a lion. So Bunks decides to go abroad to pursue a real lion, but there he finds lions pursuing him instead. A native princess saves Bunks from a lion's clutches, but the princess then pursues Bunks home to America with a captive lion and releases the lion at Bunks' welcome-home party. The party guests take refuge on the roof and Bunks has to make amends to avoid a disaster.
- DirectorHobart BosworthStarsHobart BosworthAn adventurer, who goes by the nickname "Burning Daylight", strikes it rich during the Alaskan Gold Rush. After he achieves wealth and success in the Klondike, he sets out towards 'the lower 48' (the continental U.S.) to find new challenges, but his money making abilities do not prepare him for the vicious cons and manipulation of Wall Street. He is soon cheated out of his entire fortune, but the 'hero' now has learned the lessons 'of the street', and fights to become a success again, with the knowledge that it takes a scoundrel to beat a scoundrel.
- DirectorHobart BosworthStarsHobart BosworthRhea HainesJ. Charles HaydonElam Harnish, known as "Burning Daylight," is a leader among the men of Circle City, Alaska in the days before the gold rush.
- DirectorTefft JohnsonStarsHarry DavenportHughie MackCharles Brown
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsHerbert RawlinsonAnn LittleAllan ForrestYoung Anthony March, living in London, inherits a considerable amount of money, but his crooked uncle Dr. Manuel Ceneri steals it. When Anthony gets suspicious, Ceneri's partner in crime, Macari, persuades Ceneri to kill him. However, just as they commit the murder a blind man, Gilbert Vaughan, mistakenly enters the house. Anthony's sister Pauline sees the murder, faints and loses her memory. Thinking they have gotten away with the murder, Ceneri and Macari soon find out that they're in for a shock.
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsDustin FarnumWinifred KingstonJames Neill"Cameo" Kirby, so called because of his fondness for cameos, is the son of a New Orleans plantation owner who dies insolvent. When the plantation and slaves are sold at auction, Cameo's favorite body-servant is bought at auction by one of his father's friends, John Randall. John and Kirby head north on a Mississippi river boat where Randall meets Colonel Moreau. There he loses heavily on a wager and consents to a game of poker hoping to get back his losses. Kirby, through his friendship with another gambler, is adept at the manipulation of cards and suspects that Moreau is not an honest player. He joins the game and soon Randall, having lost all of his money, wagers the old homestead. Kirby wins the hand and Moreau accuses him of cheating while Randall, unappreciative of the fact that Kirby won the hand to keep Randall's estate falling into Moreau's hands, shoots himself. When his body is taken ashore, Kirby meets Randall's daughter, Adele, and instantly falls in love with her. But Kirby is on very shaky ground as he is known as the man who caused Adele's father to commit suicide, and she treats him to some southern disdain. Her brother, Tom, vows to take revenge on Kirby. He and Moreau have an un-witnessed duel and Colonel is shot dead by Kirby, who is somewhat of a dead shot among his many other talents. But Tom takes the gun from Moreau's hand so it will appear he was unarmed. Kirby, slave-owner becomes a fugitive from justice. This also deals a blow to his courtship of Adele. But, a true-blue southern gentleman such as Kirby should be able to win the day, sooner or later.
- DirectorRollin S. SturgeonStarsWilliam Desmond TaylorEdith StoreyGeorge StanleyRobert Wainwright, arriving in the Argentine Republic to look after his father's business, finds himself in a hotbed of revolution. Stopping at the home of Don Arana, foreign minister to Rosas, the tyrant, he meets and falls in love with Bonita, Don Arana's niece. Bonita favors the rebels and through Wainwright's love for her, wins him to their cause. He communicates with General Urguiza, the rebel leader, but the messenger is intercepted by Tirzo, Rosas' spy. As Tirzo also aspires to the hand of Bonita, he schemes to get Wainwright out of the way, and insinuatingly suggests that he leave the country at once. Wainwright arranges for passage on the first ship leaving for the north, but contrives to escape, after the vessel leaves port. He returns to Don Arana's home, meets Bonita and acquaints her with his plan to join the rebels. She makes him a present of Mephisto, a wonderful horse, and suggests he change his name to Alvarez. Wainwright, now a rebel under the name of Captain Alvarez, so distinguishes himself that he becomes the scourge of the Federals. He is commissioned by General Urguiza to get in communication with Don Arana, who is secretly in sympathy with the rebels, and arrange for the capture of a convoy of a million in currency dispatched to the Federal forces. Captain Alvarez and Don Arana are arranging for the delivery of the convoy when the house is surrounded by the Federals through the work of Tirzo. Captain Alvarez is captured and led off a prisoner. Tirzo remains and promises Bonita to save Alvarez's life is she will marry him. She is about to consent when word comes that the prisoner has escaped. Alvarez returns to Bonita's home, fearful that harm has befallen her, and promises to return again at midnight to make sure of her further safety. Alvarez returns to his command, and captures the million in currency and is on his way to keep his midnight appointment with his sweetheart, when he hears Tirzo plotting with a band of gypsies to kidnap Bonita. Alvarez arrives at Don Arana's first, waits for Tirzo, who comes alone, and in a fight kills the spy whose body is carried off by the gypsies. A band of Federals intercept them, recognize Tirzo, and rush to Don Arana's house, where they capture Alvarez, and he is to be shot at sunrise. In the meantime the Federals are defeated and Rosas, the tyrant, flees for his life. Alvarez, by a trick, induces the Federals guarding him to flee. The rebel forces arrive opportunely, and all ends happily in a picture emblematic of the birth of a new republic.
- DirectorEdgar LewisStarsDavid WallGeorge De CarltonWilliam H. TookerIn order to avoid exposure attendant upon the birth of Harold Gage, the fatherless son of Constance, he, through arrangements made by Lady Staunton, the haughty sister of Constance, is placed under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, who are paid to rear the boy as their own, cautioned against revealing to him or the outside world his true identity. Mrs. Marshall's real son, in the early years of his life, acquainted with the doubtful parentage of Harold, taunts him. The two engage in a boys' fight, Harold being severely cut on his left arm by a scythe in the hands of his young foster brother, the wound leaving an ugly scar. The lad, sensitive of the treatment of his foster brother, finally migrates to Australia as a stowaway, where, by reason of forced circumstances and his near starvation to death, become a bush-ranger. Because of the rapidity of his operations, and his ability to escape detection and arrest, he, as the unknown bushranger, received the sobriquet of "Capt. Swift." He attempts to hold up a traveler, George Gardner, who is willing to suffer death rather than part with his gold. "Capt. Swift," hesitating to take a human life, compels him to alight and rides away with the wayfarer's mount. Swift, after having robbed the Queensland bank, suffers remorse, and determines to reform. Under the name of William Wilding, being the name of his companion in Australia, who died of starvation and thirst on the desert, he returns to London, where, at an opportune moment, he saves James Seabrook. whose life is in jeopardy by reason of a runaway horse. "Capt. Swift," invited by Seabrook to his home, there meets Mrs. Seabrook, their daughter Mabel and their niece Stella Darbisher. Harry Seabrook. brother of Mabel, a whole-hearted but impetuous young man, takes immediate dislike to Swift, whereas Stella Darbisher, a girl of romantic disposition, admiring the brave spirit inherent in Swift, becomes strongly attached to him. Marshall, the foster brother of Swift, is now employed as butler in the home of the Seabrooks. At a gathering the conversation is directed toward the escapades of one, "Capt. Swift," in Australia, whose name had become almost a household word throughout England. In the course of conversation, George Gardner, who is a friend of the Seabrooks, having returned from Australia, calls at their home, and there identifies Wilding as the notorious "Capt. Swift," and is in turn recognized by Swift, but his identity is not revealed to the others. Mrs. Seabrook recognizes a strong similarity between the man Swift and her boy, given away in adoption to the Marshalls. Her fears are later justified, when, at a dramatic and tense moment, she proves the fact to him. Swift, however, in order not to stigmatize his mother, determines to leave the household of the Seabrooks. Stella Darbisher's infatuation for Swift has progressed to such a point as to cause a strong reciprocal feeling on his part for the girl. The rivalry of Harry Seabrook for the hand of Stella causes a violent quarrel between him and Swift, the consequences of which are avoided by the timely intervention of Gardner. Marshall, eavesdropping during a conversation between Swift and his mother, Mrs. Seabrook, learns of the identity of Swift, and further proves it by a scar on Swift's arm, the result of the wound inflicted by Marshall when the two were boys. With this knowledge Marshall attempts to blackmail Swift, and being repulsed, acquaints the police with his whereabouts. A detective from Australia has arrived in London to apprehend Swift, having traced his movements to that place. Gardner, strongly admiring the manhood of Swift, determining if possible to save him, warns him. Swift, cornered in the home of his mother, rather than suffer arrest, together with the attendant exposure, and the possible revelation of his real identity, and to save the girl he loves and his mother the disgrace that would necessarily follow, jumps out of a window, knowing that the possibility of escape is meager. Marshall, working in league with the detective, is hidden in the shrubbery, and seeing Swift, fires, mortally wounding him, at the same moment that the detective from a window above shoots, the cross shot which strikes Marshall, puts an end to him. The denouement ends without the identity of "Capt. Swift" being revealed to the others.
- DirectorEugene MooreStarsJames CruzeFlorence La BadieJ. Morris FosterJulie de Mortemar, the ward of Cardinal Richelieu, is in love with Adrian de Mauprat, a soldier of fortune. Louis the Thirteenth is in love with her himself, as is also his favorite, Count de Baradas. Cardinal Richelieu, in order to protect his ward from the King, marries her to de Mauprat. Under the influence of Baradas, King Louis issues an order for the annulment of the marriage and demands that she return to court. Baradas conspires with Gaston, Duke d'Orleans, a brother of Louis the Thirteenth, to dethrone the King and murder his prime minister, Cardinal Richelieu. Baradas poisons de Mauprat's mind against Richelieu and induces him to join in the conspiracy against the King. The conspirators attempt to murder Richelieu. De Mauprat enters his chambers at night, but he meets Richelieu, who proves to de Mauprat that Baradas has lied to him in showing that the Cardinal was de Mauprat's enemy. The conspirators are at the door to murder Richelieu, but the Cardinal and de Mauprat trick him by pretending that Richelieu has been strangled in his sleep. The conspirators have sent a document to Count de Baradas, who, at the head of his army, is on the French frontier. This document contains the names of all concerned in the conspiracy. Richelieu, by the aid of his spies, obtains possession of that document, exposes the conspirators to the monarch and assumes his old position at court as the Prime Minister of Louis Thirteenth. The husband of his ward is made to have no regrets for his loyalty in the Cardinal's great time of need.
- StarsConstance CrawleyArthur MaudeHarry GriffithIn the magnificent grounds surrounding her home in Normandy, Charlotte Corday and Barbaroux are happy in their love-making, unwarned of the stormy events that fate has decreed should end their dreams. Marat, the leader of the French revolutionists, having plotted the death of the King, arrives at the home of Charlotte. Her beauty attracts his fancy, and finding her in love with Barbaroux, he tells them of his plans for the wholesale slaughter of the French nobility, and by cleverly insinuating that both Charlotte and her lover may be included in the list of those to be executed unless they embrace the cause of the revolution, he succeeds in inducing Barbaroux to accompany him to Paris. A year later, the revolution is at its height. The aristocrats are being brought to the guillotine by the thousands, and Barbaroux, expressing his disgust of outrages committed by Marat, is overheard by Danton, who betrays him to Marat. Barbaroux, hearing that Marat has ordered his arrest, escapes under a mass of rubbish in a cart, and is pursued by the soldiers. Charlotte, in reading her Bible, feels called upon by a Divine command to do something to restore peace to unhappy France, and sets out for Paris; on the road she is attacked by a mob of peasants. Later she meets the cart in which Barbaroux is escaping just as it breaks down, and Barbaroux emerges from hiding under the rubbish. They are clasped in an embrace as Marat's soldiers arrive and take Barbaroux a prisoner. Marat, hearing that Charlotte was seen on the road, orders the soldiers to find her, but she avoids them, and later while addressing the multitude from his balcony, Marat sees Charlotte in the crowd. Fearing to point her out lest the mob mistake it for an order to do her harm, he stops his speech and hastens down to get her himself, but she has disappeared. Charlotte, witnessing the guillotine, is horrified. She writes a note to Barbaroux, telling him of her determination to do a big deed to help restore peace. She allows the prison guard to kiss her in exchange for a promise to deliver the note to her love, and Marat, arriving a moment later, takes the note from the guard's hand, and discovering it is from Charlotte, goes to Barbaroux's cell and promises him his liberty if he will tell where Charlotte can be found. Barbaroux, unable to give the information, is brutally beaten. Marat, feeling, that the purpose mentioned in Charlotte's note is a vengeance about to fall upon him, is terror stricken, and in his panic is confronted by the vision of the people he has executed. The next day, Charlotte goes to Marat's house. Marat signs two orders, one for the immediate release and one for the immediate execution of Barbaroux. Showing them to Charlotte, he tells her she is the price of the one for his release. Charlotte pretends to agree to his terms, and Marat, after destroying the death warrant, calls upon Charlotte to embrace him, which she does, and at the same time kills him with a dagger which she had concealed under her cloak. Danton entering at that moment arrests Charlotte, and finds the order of release. Barbaroux is set free. Believing her mission fulfilled and that in causing the death of one man she had saved the lives of thousands. Charlotte mounts the scaffold and gives up her life that quiet may again reign in France.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsMary PickfordOwen MooreIsabel VernonThough mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a fairy godmother.
- DirectorFrancis PowersStarsCharlotte IvesHouse PetersEdward MacKayOlive Sherwood, a pretty western girl living in Omaha, is very fond of finery. Young and inexperienced, she knows nothing of the deeper currents of life, but the refinements of society and its polished exteriors appeals to her strongly, and the crude west does not seem to provide what her fastidious nature craves. Her loving old father sighs over her extravagances, but is too indulgent to curb them, and in order to gratify her expensive whims invests in some Red Star mining stock that West, a crafty, unscrupulous New York broker, induces him to buy. On a business trip to Omaha, West sees Olive, and casts an admiring and covetous eye upon her. Horace Watling, his wife Anna, and their child, Ruth, are firm friends of Olive, and Mrs. Watling's love for clothes creates a strong bond between both women. Mr. Watling, who is a small publisher, is induced to come to New York and establish himself there as a partner in a big publishing concern. Olive envies the Watlings' gay life in the metropolis, so that when her father dies and West advises her to come to New York. Olive is easily persuaded to do so. For a time Olive is delighted with the gaiety of metropolitan society, but she has only one "party gown," and its frequent appearances soon cause sly amusement and concealed scorn. Olive, left in straitened circumstances by her father's death, grieves over her lack of money for pretty clothes. At this juncture West comes forward and tells her that the Red Star raining stock owned by her father has boomed, giving her money in the form of "dividends." Olive innocently accepts the funds, unaware that the stock is worthless. A young clerk in West's office, whose father had been ruined by the broker, watches West's dealings closely, and enters in a diary all the evidence of West's crimes, hoping thereby to finally convict him. Watling, though prosperous, is weighed down by business cares, has little use for the society his wife worships, and secretly longs for the simplicity and happiness of his former life; and little Ruth, who is the devoted friend of Olive, is sadly neglected by her ambitious mother. Mrs. Watling invites Olive to a society circus. Olive has already met her ideal, Richard Burbank, a rich young society man who is weary of the sham and artificiality of the life about him, and who has fallen ardently in love with Olive. He, too, attends the house party, and there declares his love for Olive. Olive accepts him and is very happy. West, who observes a tender scene between the two, is furious with jealousy, and enters Olive's room in a drunken frenzy, telling her that she will be his or he will expose her. Olive stares at him in mingled bewilderment and fright, when another guest suddenly enters the room. West hastily leaves, but later, in the presence of all the guests, and amid the gaieties of the society circus, West denounces Olive, and dramatically tells the assemblage that he has been supporting her, and that she would sell her soul for clothes. In proof of this, he displays the receipt for the clothes she wears, for which he had advanced the money in the guise of dividends. Olive, shamed by the disgrace into which her innocent ignorance and love of finery has led her, is too overwhelmed and humiliated to speak, and Burbank is reluctantly forced, in a bitter moment of doubt, to believe her silent admission of West's claims. During this episode, Watling learns that the Red Star mining stock, in which he had heavily invested on the advice of Olive, is worthless. Mrs. Watling also turns against Olive, who, brokenhearted, returns to Omaha, glad to do the sewing for the neighbors she once despised. When it is learned that the Watlings have lost their fortune, they are shunned, and they too see the hollowness and mockery of society, and decide to return to Omaha and begin life anew. Burbank cannot forget Olive, and with returning love comes the conviction that she is innocent. He goes to West's office, determined to learn where she is, just as West is contemplating a trip abroad on his ill-gotten gains. West tries to escape, but the vengeful clerk aids Burbank in detaining him. The clerk produces the evidence of West's villainies, and the rogue, confronted by exposure and disgrace, and weakened by worry and dissipation, falls dead of heart failure. Little Ruth sees Olive in Omaha, and at once writes Burbank of her presence there. Burbank goes to Omaha, and the lovers are happily reunited. And Olive at last realizes the value of love and the folly of pride in clothes.
- DirectorHarry MyersStarsEdwin DeWolfJoseph KaufmanRosemary ThebyAndrews, a former shipping clerk, has amassed a fortune in cocaine and therefore discourages his daughter May's romance with Joe, a policeman. Andrews prefers socialite Roger Hastings, whom May marries but soon discovers is a drug addict. While May is recovering from a nervous breakdown precipitated by the knowledge of Roger's addiction, he slips cocaine into her medication. Soon she also is addicted, a fact which Roger delightedly reports to Andrews. Andrews then commits May to a sanitarium and Roger becomes a procurer for a gang of white slavers. When the gang abducts his sister Julia and takes her to Roger's brothel, he turns against them. Julia is released, and after many complications, Roger returns to Andrews' house and, during a struggle, sets the house on fire, killing them both. Finally, Joe rescues a newly cured May and the two are reunited.
- StarsJulian Eltinge
- StarsJulian Eltinge
- 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.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsWilliam WorthingtonHerbert RawlinsonCleo MadisonAfter a prologue which shows several aerial views of the Acropolis, the story begins. The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse. Because the general Dionysius is infatuated with Calanthe, Pythias' sweetheart, he sends the soldier to fight the Carthaginians at the Battle of Agrigentum. Pythias returns in triumph, and then angers Dionysius even further when he defeats Aristle, the general's favorite, in a chariot race. During the wedding ceremony for Pythias and Calanthe, Dionysius has himself proclaimed sovereign while Damon is absent from the Senate. Shocked, Damon attempts to assassinate Dionysius, but he fails and is sentenced to death. In order for Damon to say goodbye to his wife and son, Pythias leaves Calanthe and takes his friend's place in prison, offering to die in Damon's place if he does not return. Despite several tests of the strength of their friendship, they remain loyal to each other and so impress Dionysius that he allows them both Free.
- DirectorGeorge IrvingJack PrattStarsLew DockstaderHal ReidGail KaneLoyal slave of the aristocratic Dabney family, Dan is overjoyed when Raoul becomes engaged to Northerner Elsie Hammond and his sister Grace becomes engaged to Elsie's brother John. When the Civil War breaks out, the heartbroken Hammonds return North and John joins the Union army. Raoul joins the Confederacy, but his vindictive overseer, Jonas Watts, becomes a Union officer. Watts takes Grace prisoner, but before he can act on his desires, John rescues her. He then encounters Raoul and is obliged to arrest him, but Dan comes to his aid by throwing red peppers into his captors' eyes. When John is arrested by Confederates, Raoul frees him for Grace's sake, but when his superiors discover his treason, he is sentenced to death. Stonewall Jackson, a family friend, tries to obtain a stay of execution for Raoul, but in the meantime, Dan visits him and convinces his master to blacken his face and take the slave's place. He does, and Dan is executed. After the war, Raoul and Elsie, and John and Grace marry and settle on the Dabney estate.
- DirectorDonald MacKenzieStarsFrancis CarlylePearl SindelarJack StandingGovernment sleuths, headed by Detective Craig, have succeeded in running down a gang of Metropolitan counterfeiters. Although their information as regards the location of the gang's hangout and its plans is complete, they are unable to produce evidence against the man circulating bad money. Suspicion rests, however, on James Dalton, a clever crook, who rarely visits the counterfeiters' room. Dalton gets rid of his bad money through unsuspected "fences." He has just succeeded in using Bob Brierly, a young prodigal from the west, who dropped his money on the great white way for this purpose. When the bartender who took the bad money discovers it he calls in the police. Dalton, as usual, escapes while Bob, innocent of the part he has played, is caught and convicted. Released from jail he meets Mae Edwards whom he had formerly befriended. She recommends him to her employer, a banker, and Brierly secures a responsible position. Thinking he has eluded the detectives, Dalton comes to the bank to look the ground over preparatory to a robbery which he is planning. He runs into Brierly and tries to make him an accomplice. Bob, who has married Mae Edwards and wishes to lead an honest life, relaxes. Dalton advises the banker that Bob is an ex-convict and Bob loses his position. Dalton's persistent efforts make it impossible for Bob to get work and he is forced to join the crook. Craig has been shadowing Dalton and knows that Bob is taking part in the proposed robbery against his will. Having made his plans beforehand Craig frustrates the robbery. Dalton alone gets away by going hand over hand across an electric cable between two skyscrapers. He is later caught in an exciting motor-boat chase. Craig then vindicates Bob and the banker gives him back his old position Bob goes home and tells Mae, and their cup of happiness is filled to overflowing.
- DirectorJoe MayThe mystery surrounding the temple of Buddha which contains many priceless gems attracts the attention of two adventurers. They plan and eventually steal the holy pearl from the head of the idol. Next morning the theft is discovered by the Brahmins, and the high priest curses the thief, calling on Buddha to wreak vengeance on everyone into whose possession the jewel falls. The thieves hasten to Europe to sell their ill-gotten prize and offer it to Degory Priest, a well-known collector of rare gems, for $10,000. Priest invites one of the thieves, a man named Allen, to stay at his home over night and he will buy the pearl and pay for it next morning. The other man. Walker, decides to keep watch and wait in the grounds of the mansion. During the night, the evil influence of the pearl causes Allen to see strange visions. He has a paralytic stroke from which he dies. Priest, who had a motive for inviting Allen to stay the night, visits his room and finding him dead, takes the pearl. Three days later, Priest meets with a fatal accident while hunting. After his death the pearl is handed over to his son and heir, Charles Priest, who has gotten into financial difficulties and is in the power of a money lender named Lewis. Lewis brings pressure to bear on young Priest who, unable to raise the money and under the fatal influences of the pearl, commits suicide, before doing so, telling his wife to rid herself of the pearl which has brought so much misfortune on his family. She consequently sells it to Lewis. Violet Lewis seeing the beautiful gem in her father's possession, asks to be allowed to wear it for one day only at her coming of age reception. He consents, but as a precaution, has it insured for $100,000. At the reception three Hindoo performers give a show in which the famous William Tell shooting act forms one of the items. Instead of shooting the apple, the Hindoo shoots the pearl out of its setting without destroying it. This supposed accident causes a sensation and a scuffle takes place to find the missing pearl. Finally the manager of the insurance brokers, who is at the reception to guard the interests of his firm, finds the pearl, but on close examination discovers it to be a clever imitation of the original stone. And now the question arises, "Who Has the Genuine Pearl?"
- StarsSydney SeawardHerbert BostwickCyril ChadwickAs the result of an accident due to the carelessness of Bill Travers the engineer of the Blue Top Quarries, two of the workmen are seriously injured by the falling of a hoist. The engineer, who was under the influence of liquor at the time is discharged by Mr. Eastman, the owner of the quarries. In revenge Bill and his pal steal Mr. Eastman's baby boy. Bill's pal is shot by Mr. Eastman as he is making off and is seriously wounded. Mrs. Eastman is overcome by the shock of the loss of the baby, and Mr. Eastman sends for "Doc," as he is popularly known by everyone in the village. "Doc" is a young surgeon who has made a name for himself among the residents of the town. He has a hard time financially and when he received a call from the owner of Blue Top he feels that he has at last an opportunity to make good and possibly a chance to secure the berth of doctor at the quarries. After attending Mrs. Eastman he is curtly dismissed by Mr. Eastman and his hopes for a lucrative position are dashed to the ground. His sweetheart Betty bids him be brave, saying that his turn will surely come. In the meantime Mr. Eastman has had the sheriff's posse out hunting for the lost child but to no avail. Bill's pal suffers tremendously from the wound and Bill makes the journey from the mountain cabin to the village on a mule. He persuades "Doc" to return with him to attend to his injured friend. He insists on blindfolding "Doc" so that "Doc" cannot reveal the location of the cabin. "Doc," through Betty, suspects that Bill may have the stolen child hidden in the cabin and on his second trip to the cabin his suspicions prove correct. He tells Mr. Eastman who foolishly advises the sheriff who lays a trap for Bill. Bill is captured but refuses to lead the men to the cabin, with the result that Mrs. Eastman is prostrated with sorrow. "Doc" finally decides to trust to Betty's horse, which he has ridden to the cabin on the occasions of his visits. The horse, which has been fed each time at the cabin, leads the way and the baby is found and restored to his mother's arms. "Doc" is rewarded by the coveted berth at the quarries and is enabled to marry his heart's desire.
- DirectorFred HuntleyStarsHarold LockwoodMabel Van BurenHenry OttoA husband and father falls in love with an unscrupulous actress.
- The story opens in a typical Russian Kaback, or inn. The peasantry are enjoying a rollicking country dance. It is attended by a dissolute Russian officer and his companion who, under the influence of Vodka, insult the daughter of the Jewish innkeeper. The young Count Borris, son of the Governor-General of Kiev, happens to be there seeking shelter from the storm which is raging outside. He protects the young Jewess from the insult of the drunken officers, and throws them out. They return during the night to make trouble for the innkeeper, and Count Borris, rising from his bed, again saves them from persecution. Love springs up between the young girl and Count Borris. In the meantime Ossip, the son of the innkeeper, has joined the secret order of the Nihilists. When the order is raided by the secret police Ossip is entrusted with the papers of the organization. When taken to task by his father for becoming a member of the organization, he admits that he is a Nihilist. The Russian officer, who Count Borris drove from the inn, spreads the report which reaches the Governor-General that the innkeeper's family are suspected of being Nihilists; he is instructed to act as spy in the Nihilist's den. He brings the news to the Governor that there is a secret order of Nihilists in Kiev. The place is raided, but the son of the innkeeper manages to save the papers which he gives to his father. The father and son are arrested and brought before the Governor. The father takes the blame, and is sentenced to hard labor in Siberia. In the meantime, Count Borris has become very much in love with the daughter of the sentenced innkeeper and meets her clandestinely. He is spied upon by some of his father's officers, who tell the Governor that Count Borris is being bewitched by a Jewess. The Governor-General accuses his son, who admits that he loves the girl. He is then degraded by having the insignia of his rank torn from his uniform. Burning his bridges behind him, he seeks out Ossip, his sweetheart's brother, and asks him to enlist him in the cause. They put him through a terrible test, but he shows his manhood by refusing to turn informer on his new friends. The scene changes to the terrible march of the Nihilist prisoners under the guard of Russian soldiers across the frozen steppes. The Nihilists, acting on the information they received by secret means, draw lots to assassinate the Minister of Interior, who is to be in attendance at the coming Embassy Ball. The Nihilists successfully carry out a spectacular explosion, causing a fire to break out in the palace. After awful privations, some of them through the assistance of Count Borris escape. Among the fortunate ones are the innkeeper, his wife and daughter, who reach a place of comparative safety. With the aid of a loyal family servant, who drives them at breakneck speed across the snow, they reach a port and embark on a ship which takes them safely to God's Land of Liberty.
- DirectorGilbert P. HamiltonStarsDot FarleyJack LivingstonJack ConwayA clergyman saves a young woman from drowning in a whirlpool, where they both fall in love. However, her despicable brother is determined to tear them apart.
- Gill Howe, while riding on a business trip through the country for Mr. Stacey, his employer, accidentally falls from his horse and is seriously injured. John Adams and his daughter are driving along the roadside and discover Gill Howe lying in the snow drift. They take him to their home and nurse him. Gill requests Kate Adams to notify his sister of his accident and to come to him. The two girls meet and become friends. Gill falls in love with Kate. He is the chief advisor of Samuel Stacey, a millionaire promoter. Kate's father is a big contractor for the great dam in the wilderness and meets with financial difficulty. He thrashes a thieving man for trying to steal from the works. The man becomes very angry and threatens to have revenge. John Adams is very much worried over the works being shut down and not being able to pay any money to the laborers, who have become very angry, and threaten to blow up the dam. Through a stray bullet John Adams is accidentally shot. Unable to go to the city to borrow money on securities, he sends his daughter. She arrives in the city and seeks to borrow from Stacey, who insults her in his office. Gill, overhearing the insult to the girl who has been so kind to him. resents it. Through his interference, he is discharged by Stacey. Gill then assists Kate in borrowing the money. They are continually blocked through Stacey's interference, so finally Gill arranges with several friends to detain Stacey until they get the money. Being tricked, Stacey swears revenge and follows the girl and Gill to the dam. Gill, who has proven himself to be loyal, is now made manager of the dam. This displeases the present foreman, who conspires with Stacey to overthrow Gill. The laborers continue rioting and howling for their money. Through Mr. Adams, Gill secures aid from the governor of the state, to protect their large holdings and investments. Gill pleads with the rioters and begs them to keep quiet and promises that all salaries will be paid in due time. Through jealousy, Stacey with the assistance of the foreman urges the crowd to wreck the great dam. The militia arrive in time with their Gattling Guns. Gill instructs the militia that if they are forced to fire, to use only blank shells to frighten the mob away. Stacey, who overhears Gill, surreptitiously substitutes real bullets, and then incites the men to riot. A moving picture man, scouting for scenes of interest, is photographing the dam where these labor disturbances are taking place. He sees Stacey substituting the bullets and photographs the dastardly deed. He runs off, to hide his camera and, returning to the spot, sees the militia firing upon the rioters. He hastens to Stacey's office and accuses him of murder through his substitution of the bullets for blanks. Stacey and the foreman attack the cameraman, carry him into the dam and turn on the water. Gill hears his cries and rushes to the rescue. Being unable to turn off the water, he secures dynamite and blasts the dam. He succeeds in rescuing the cameraman, and takes him to his home. Gill is arrested and accused of being responsible for the murder of the rioters. While the trial is proceeding the cameraman enters the court with a moving picture machine, and after darkening the courtroom, shows the picture of Stacey substituting the bullets. He then tells the story to the court, resulting in the freeing of Gill and the militia officers, and the conviction of Stacey.
- DirectorCharles M. SeayStarsEdwin ClarkeMarie La MannaWilliam T. CarletonPrince Arthur is in love with the fair princess Lena. He asks for her hand, and is accepted. Zamaliel, supreme monarch of all that is evil, decides to come upon earth from the lower regions to prey upon mankind, in his peregrinations, his first victims are the joyous Prince Arthur and the Princess Lena. His evil eye covets the beauteous damsel, and he begins his cruel machinations to accomplish his selfish purpose. Fantasma, the fairy queen, Queen of Good and Light, whose realm is not far distant, has her subjects safeguard the lives of young lovers. They observe Zamaliel's coming upon earth with two of his infernal sprites, quickly the news is sped to Fantasma. All Fairyland is in a turmoil, and the Queen, with her retinue, goes forth to protect the Prince and princess and pay Zamaliel his deserts. We follow Arthur through his wanderings over hill and dale, and finally to his descent beneath the sea, before he rescues his betrothed. Fantasma has created Pico as Arthur's companion in the rescue, and with their faithful goat, they pass through many and varied experiences. Good finally triumphs over evil, and we see the two lovers sailing away on the Sea of Happiness.
- DirectorHerbert BlachéStarsClaire WhitneyRodman LawConstance BennettClara, a pretty little school teacher, is courted by two young mountaineers. She favors Jim Mason, who is the postmaster of the village, and Harry Barford, his rival, determines to get Jim out of the way, so that he can win her. Jim and Clara decide to marry as soon as Jim has enough money. Harry sees his chance and offers Jim $500 to manage an illicit whiskey still during his absence. Clara's scruples are overcome by the thought of an early marriage and Jim reluctantly consents. Harry immediately informs the sheriff and a posse is sent to arrest Jim. But Billy, the village idiot, who has fallen asleep while playing his little tin flute, overhears the conversation between Harry and the sheriff and informs Clara of Jim's danger. Jim hides in the woods upon the approach of the posse and, meeting Clara, they flee, both riding on the same horse. A long chase through the snow-covered mountains in which they are closely pressed by the sheriff's posse, forces them to a spot among the jagged cliffs, where their only means of escaping their pursuers is a fifty-eight foot plunge into a raging torrent full of broken ice. They urge their horse over the edge of the cliff and plunge to the depths below miraculously escaping with their lives and safely reaching the shore. They take refuge in an Indian village and the chief, a giant Indian over seven feet tall, appoints himself a committee of one to compel the little fat parson to marry them. Clara returns to the village and Jim goes to New York to prepare a home for her. Barford is appointed postmaster and succeeds in intercepting Jim's mail, meanwhile forcing his attentions upon Jim's wife. Not hearing from Clara, Jim decides to take a desperate chance and return to the village by a dangerous route, which will enable him to elude the guardians of the law. In order to do this he is forced to walk hand over hand across a cable 250 feet long, placed by a lumber company over a deep ravine. Arriving at Clara's house he finds her in the arms of Barford, not knowing he has forcibly placed his arms around her. Jim leaves broken-hearted and is seen by Barford, who follows him at a distance. As Jim is re-crossing the 250 feet of cable, Barford shoots him in the arm, in spite of which he succeeds in escaping and returns to New York. A baby is born to Clara, and she determines to find Jim at all costs and tell him that he is a proud father. She goes to New York, and being in need of money, accepts the offer of a motion picture company to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge for $10,000. Jim, who is desperate and out of work, accepts the offer of the same company to also make the leap, and is horror-struck by recognizing his wife, just as she throws herself from the giant structure into the icy waters below. He leaps after her and succeeds in aiding her to reach a tug-boat, where she rests happily in her lost husband's arms. They make a new attempt to get possession of their baby, but are caught in their cabin by Barford and the posse, where a fierce fight is interrupted by a misdirected blow, which fells the poor village fool, Billy. He is revived and it is discovered that the blow has restored his sanity. He tells of Harford's villainy and produces evidence that brands him as the real criminal and leaves Jim and Clara free to enjoy each other's love.
- DirectorT. Hayes HunterStarsTom McEvoyIsabel Rea
- DirectorWilliam Robert DalyStarsEdwin ForsbergFrederick BurtonLuke J. LoringWhile on a winter's trip in Florida, sailing on the St. John River, John Diamond with the sobriquet of the Jack of Diamonds, has as a traveling companion Daniel Peabody, known as Denver Dan, a type of the old-time western gentleman gambler. Jack discovers some card sharks cheating Willard Graham. Taking a hand in the game, he wins back and returns to Graham his money. Annie Dennison and her Aunt Cordelia are on a southern trip. Willard Graham is a suitor for Annie's hand. Jack becomes the hero of the trip by heroically plunging overboard and saving a little child, Virginia Bell. This attracts Annie's attention to Jack. Later at St. Augustine Jack and Annie see much of each other to the chagrin of Graham and Aunt Cordelia, who does not like Jack, and who constantly snubs Denver Dan, who tries to win her love. Graham receives a letter from Texas, warning him to look out for Frank Popham. Some years before, Graham, while a guest at Popham's house, had robbed Popham of his wife and then cast her aside. Popham, who has become a derelict, sees Graham in the park of the hotel with Annie and tries to stab him. Graham overpowers Popham and gives him money to return to Texas, pretending to Popham that his wife still lives. Graham sends a note to Annie that her lover is the notorious Jack O'Diamonds. This is a shock to Annie, but Jack begs of her to hear his story. Jack recites, and in a dissolve we see how his parents lost their fortune in a Wall Street panic. Jack is lucky at cards and becomes wealthy. He promises that if Annie will marry him he will swear off gambling forever. Annie accepts. Seven years later Jack is at home in Jacksonville, and they are blessed with a daughter, Leonie. Fortune, however, has been against him, but he steadily holds to his promise not to gamble. Graham has been a frequent visitor, awaiting the chance to ruin Jack. This he does by exposing him to the head of the railroad company, of which Jack is an employee, as the former notorious gambler, Jack O'Diamonds. Jack is discharged. He refuses financial aid from Graham and Denver Dan, and secures a job as night watchman, but is ashamed to tell Annie. Receiving an offer to go into the cattle business in Texas, Jack starts from home, but misses his train. Graham, meanwhile, has told Annie that Jack has gambled each night, and persuades Annie to go with him and he will prove this. As they are about to leave, Jack returns and, believing that Annie is faithless, draws his pistol to shoot Graham, but decides to give him his life and Graham departs. Jack goes upstairs while Annie takes Leonie and leaves. Ten years later Jack is wealthy and owns a cattle ranch in Texas, and has Denver Dan as his companion. When on their way with cattle to Santa Clara, Jack saves a young woman from an attack of a Mexican named Pedro, though he fails to recognize that she is his daughter. Pedro is sent from the village store with a package to the school teacher, Leonie's mother. Stopping at his shack on the way, he, while eating, reads a newspaper personal, offering a reward for information about Mrs. Annie Diamond and signed by Willard Graham, of Jacksonville. Noticing the same name on the package, he inquires when delivering the package to Annie if she is not the Mrs. Annie Diamond of Jacksonville. Seeing her recoil from the query, Pedro writes to Graham that the one he advertises for is at Santa Clara. When Graham receives this letter he departs for Santa Clara at once. Jack and Dan, while at the Santa Clara Hotel, meet Popham, who is an outcast and wreck. Jack gives him money after hearing his story of how Graham had ruined Popham's life and home. Graham arrives at Santa Clara some time later, and meets Pedro. He leaves hotel tor Pedro's shack and is followed by Popham, who recognizes Graham at the hotel. He follows and tries to stab Graham at Pedro's shack, but the Mexican intervenes and assaults Popham, who staggers into a settler's cabin exhausted. Graham calls upon Annie at her home, and she is frightened on seeing him. Jack, when making a second trip to town, again aids Leonie, who has fallen from her horse. Jack is surprised when she says her name is Leonie Diamond, and he then recognizes her as his daughter. Leonie brings him to the gate of her home and enters the house to tell her mother how she was saved and to come out and meet her rescuer. Graham is still in the parlor. There is mutual recognition, but Jack holds the loving advances of his wife in abeyance. Half crazed at Jack's treatment, and that Graham is in the house. He goes, but says he will return again. Jack and Graham reach the house late that afternoon at the same time; they draw their guns to shoot each other. Denver Dan intervenes. Jack challenges Graham to a duel at sunset. Graham arranges with Pedro to stab Jack on the dueling ground. Denver Dan goes to Annie's home and demands that she stop the duel. Annie sees Jack at the hotel, but Jack will not agree to stop the fight. Dan is left alone with Aunt Cordelia, and gets her consent to wed. Graham and Pedro on the way to the duel pass the settle's cabin, when Popham, near death, sees Graham, struggles from the couch, takes the shotgun from the wall and follows Graham and Pedro. Annie arrives home distracted, and leaves with Dan and Cordelia for the scene of the duel. Jack has proceeded there, meets Graham and they pace off to turn and fire. Pedro is seen sneaking up to stab Jack in the back. Denver Dan arrives at the dueling grounds at this time, sees Pedro and draws his revolver and shoots the Mexican in the wrist. Popham is then seen dragging a shotgun through the brush. Jack turns when hearing the sound of Denver Dan's gun, and as he does, Graham starts to fire at Jack. Popham fires and hits Graham. Before dying, Graham confesses that Annie is innocent and Annie is forgiven by Jack.
- DirectorEugene MooreStarsMaude FealyHarry BenhamPhyllis BostwickComte Paul De Valreas is attracted to Frou Frou, the frivolous wife of Henri De Sartorys and the indifferent mother of their young son Georges. Paul persuades Frou Frou to bring her somber sister Louise, who secretly loves Henri, into the household, thus freeing her from any domestic duties. Frou Frou returns Paul's affections and neglects her husband and son even more than before. Louise quickly assumes direction of Henri's home and innocently supplants Frou Frou in the eyes of her husband and child. Sensing that her presence is no longer needed at the Sartorys estate, Frou Frou bitterly denounces Louise and then elopes with Paul to Venice. Henri pursues them and slays his rival in a duel. Alone in Venice, Frou Frou becomes gravely ill. She is found on her deathbed by Louise, who summons Henri and Georges. As she dies, Frou Frou gives the three her blessing.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsMary PickfordHarold LockwoodA man and a woman are shipwrecked on a desert island. It doesn't take long before they fall in love and, figuring that they would never see civilization again, declare themselves married and eventually have a child. One day, however, the man's wife--who had been looking for him--finally finds him. Complications ensue.
- DirectorN.E. MilliganStarsEdwin B. TiltonFrances CummingsEdward LaRenzAllen Dodd, Professor of Ethnology in an eastern college, succeeds in locating Robert Harris, son of an old college chum, and invites him to come east for a visit. Professor Dodd's secret wish is that Robert Harris and his daughter Alma will become sweethearts. Robert's heart is weak, and owing to the excitement of preparation for his long journey he collapses. His death suggests an opportunity to Robert Haines, a gambler, whose similarity to Robert Harris has often mystified their home town. Haines decides to impersonate the dead man, and try for the hand of Alma, who is an heiress to a large fortune. Professor Dodd and Alma unsuspectingly accept him as Robert Harris, but the girl has already given her affection to Joe Craig, her father's chauffeur. Haines discovers this, convinces Alma that Joe is a married man, and she curtly dismisses him. Deeply wounded by her refusal, Joe starts for the northwest in search of a reported lost mine. Alma discovers the trick, and goes to Joe's house, only to find that he has already departed. As the professor has often desired to study the northwest Indians, Alma succeeds in getting him to take her near the place where Joe is located. Haines, learning of their plans, disguises himself as a professor, and meets Dodd and his daughter. In the meantime Joe has been well received by the Indians, and saves the chief's daughter, Waterlily, from death. Alma discovers Haines' identity, and exposes him. Haines then attempts to abduct her, but her father arrives on the scene, and after a lively flight Haines throws him over a cliff into the river. Alma, by a well-aimed rock, stuns Haines and flees to Joe's cabin. Joe rescues Professor Dodd, and Haines succeeds in paying some ruffians to attack Joe's cabin. A doctor who is attending the professor gallantly aids in the defense. Waterlily discovers the situation and goes for help to her father. The defenders are overcome by the outlaws. Haines offers to save all the lives if Alma will but marry him. In the nick of time Waterlily comes back leading her Indians. The gambler Haines is killed, and the outlaws made prisoners. Alma and Joe find happiness in their love.
- DirectorJoseph A. GoldenStarsMrs. Thomas WhiffenBeulah PoynterTom, the son of John and Mary Landers, an old-fashioned country couple is in love with a pretty country girl, who is also being courted by Walter Terry. Tom surprises the latter making violent love to her and, crazed with jealousy, strikes Walter and in the fight that ensues Tom accidentally pushes Walter over the edge of a cliff. Fearing that he had killed his rival, Tom leaves the farm for the city. Unable to secure a position there, he appeals to his mother, who sends him money. He finally secures a position with Grant and Co., stockbrokers. The Wall Street fever soon gets the better of him and he tries his luck in the stock market. Being successful in his first venture, he plans to make a fortune. He writes his mother informing her that he has an opportunity to go into a good business for himself and begs of her a loan of $1,000. The devoted mother having faith in Tom's promise of a speedy return of the money, takes the money which they had saved to pay off the mortgage on the farm. Tom loses it in speculations and is ashamed to reply to his mother's appeals for the promised return of the money. Meanwhile, Pa Landers is killed by an accidental discharge of his gun while out hunting. The poor widow is now unable to meet the payment of the mortgage and is forced to leave the old home. Miss Elsa Norman, a society girl in the city, is attacked by a thief, but is rescued by Tom and a close friendship is the result of this incident, which later develops into mutual love. Tom's mother arriving in the city visits him in his office. He is ashamed of her appearance and takes her to a boarding house in the suburbs and asks her not to call on him. Terribly hurt at the indifference of her son, she resolves never to annoy him again. Alone in her grief she is forced to move to a poor tenement house. She visits daily the lobby of Tom's office building, where she is seen one day by Elsa Norman, who in deep sympathy for the poor old woman gives her a bunch of violets, not knowing she is the mother of the man she loves. Ma Landers' money gone, she is in actual want and is overcome one day by weakness and faints in front of the building, where she is picked up by Elsa and her chauffeur and carried to her miserable lodging. There she tells her story to Elsa, who is horrified to learn that the old lady is Tom's mother; Elsa 'phones Tom to come at once and he is brought face to face with the terrible result of the neglect of his mother. Elsa touched by the heroic acceptance of the old lady's sad fate, purchases the old farm and presents it to her. Tom returns to the old homestead and in a touching love scene which follows Ma Landers forgives Tom, who wins back Elsa's love.
- DirectorWray Bartlett PhysiocStarsRalph StewartWilbur HudsonFrederick RolandMaine fisherman "Old Luke," in the last stages of smallpox, sends his little daughter Crystal to the grist mill owned by Terry Dennison for aid. Two of the millers shrink from the child, but Terry hastens to the bedside of Luke, who has died in the meantime. Terry takes the child to the cabin of Owen, another old fisherman, and keeps her there until it is certain that she has not been infected with the disease. Then he takes care of her in his own home and later adopts an orphan boy, Ned Fairweather, as a companion for little Crystal. Ned and Crystal become inseparable companions and when they grow up they fall in love with each other and become engaged. While Ned is away on a trip to Boston, Crystal is standing on the rocks, looking at a photograph of Ned. Owen mistakes it for a photograph of Terry, and convinces Terry that Crystal is really in love with him. When Terry is finally persuaded to make a proposal of marriage, Crystal is dumbfounded, as her love for him is that of a devoted daughter, but she manages to conceal her surprise, and, out of sheer gratitude and a mistaken sense of duty, she throws her arms around him, and consents to be his wife. Ned returns from Boston. Crystal talks over with him the great debt of gratitude they owe Terry, and they both agree to sacrifice their love on the altar of duty. Two years elapse. Terry and Crystal are married and have a little daughter, Crystal. Ned, who left home shortly after their marriage, has not returned. Owen, who has been shyly courting Aunt Becky, is a guest at dinner in the Dennison household and insists, as always, that an extra place be set at the table in the event of Ned's unexpected return. When Ned actually bursts in upon them he receives a warm welcome. His return has been prompted by his uncontrollable love for Crystal and, after dinner, while strolling along the beach, he urges her to go away with him. Crystal's answer is to point to her wedding ring. Terry, standing on the rocks above the beach, has heard all. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that Ned and Crystal have sacrificed their own happiness in his behalf, he decides to go away forever. He makes a confidant of Owen, but pretends to others that business complications make it necessary for him to leave his home town. Before leaving, however, he exacts an oath from Ned that in case he should not return or not be heard from after an elapse of five years, he (Ned) will make Crystal his wife. Five years elapse. A vessel is wrecked and blows up on a reef. A sailor, who is washed upon the beach in an exhausted condition, is nursed back to life by an old beachcomber. The sailor proves to be Terry, who is now totally blind. Ned and Crystal, with Terry's little daughter, enter a churchyard. The child picks flowers to place on the monument that has been erected to the memory of Terry Dennison. Crystal and Ned, accompanied by their friends, enter the church. It is the day of their wedding. Terry enters the churchyard, feeling his way with a cane, and sinks exhausted by the side of his own monument. Little Crystal approaches and chats in a friendly manner with the old sailor. He tells her that he is blind, and asks her to spell out the name on the monument for him. When he realizes from what she says that he has been talking to his own child, he is greatly overcome with emotion. While the child tries to comfort him, the wedding party emerges from the church. Crystal does not recognize Terry, but Owen is not deceived, and, promising to look after the old sailor, tells Crystal he will be at her house later on. By this time Owen and Aunt Becky have been married, and in order not to sadden Ned and Crystal's wedding day, Owen takes Terry to his own home, where he puts him to bed. But he soon has to break the sad news to them as Terry is nearing his end. Thereupon Crystal, Ned and Terry's little daughter hasten to Owen's cabin, where they are seen weeping around the bedside of poor old Terry, who smiles with happiness at the fulfillment of his most cherished wish.
- Brewster, a millionaire, and his daughter, Ruth, were out for a walk. Brewster stopped to shake hands with a friend, while Ruth loitered behind and played with her dog. The millionaire turned just in time to see his daughter driven away in an automobile. Hailing another he gave chase, but in vain. He engages Detective Byrnes, and shows him an anonymous letter he has received. The captors of Ruth learn of Byrnes' connection with the case, and devise a plan to capture him. Later three men in a car are detected watching Byrnes' house, and the detective suspects a trap. By a clever ruse he captures two of the crooks, and forces them to tell him the location of their den. He advises Brewster to meet the crooks at the place named in their letter. Disguised as one of the crooks Byrnes is successful in entering their den, but they were warned to be on the lookout by one of the crooks who escaped capture by the detective. As the daring detective enters the room a man springs from behind a door. The detective, on the alert, jumps back, only to fall into a trap. Leaving him, the crooks go to the appointed meeting place with Brewster. By means of a small pocket mirror the detective reflects the sun's rays and attracts the attention of two of his men waiting outside. At the meeting place Brewster is induced by the crooks to enter their car. As they are about to drive away a motorcycle with a chair attachment passes. As it passes the man in the chair, unnoticed by the crooks, drops a mysterious looking bag, from which a dwarf of a man wriggles, and climbs onto the back of the car. At the end of the ride the dwarf sends a note to the detective by means of a carrier pigeon. In the house where they take Brewster his daughter is shown to him, imprisoned in a small cell-like room. The crooks demand $10,000 for her release. Just as Brewster delivers the money, the detective and his men break into the room. In the scuffle which follows Barney Lee, the Master Crook, escapes. A thrilling chase ensues between the crook in his auto, and the detective on his motorcycle. A clever scheme to elude the detective fails. By means of a rope, which his chauffeur lowers from a high bridge, Barney Lee escapes from a motor boat. The detective arrives on the bridge and cuts the rope, and so foils the escape of one of Lee's accomplices. He then follows Barney Lee, who seeks refuge in the Eiffel Tower." The chase up the tower, and the crook, in desperation, climbing out onto the beams, is intensely thrilling, and then, retribution is meted out to the Master Crook, when his foot slips, and his body falls from the dizzy height. The detective recovers the money and restores it to Brewster. Ruth is delighted when Byrnes hands her the beautiful carrier pigeon which enacted such an important part in this thrilling adventure.
- DirectorFrank PowellStarsDavid HigginsBetty GrayHal ClarendonFormer newsboy and jockey Joe Braxton, becomes a millionaire rancher and decides to visit New York. He soon becomes the prey of swindler Tom Linson and socialite Viola Grayson. Linson defrauds Braxton's old employer, Colonel Downs, and attempts to corrupt Eleanor, the colonel's daughter. When Eleanor learns that Linson intends to destroy Joe on the stock exchange, she warns him, disregarding Linson's threat to ruin her reputation. Eleanor is too late, but Joe recovers his losses by riding Mongrel to victory in the Kentucky Futurity, after having stacked his last dollar on the horse's success.
- DirectorJ. Farrell MacDonaldStarsViolet MacMillanFrank MoorePierre CoudercThe wicked king wants his daughter, Princess Gloria, to marry a horrid courtier though she loves the gardener's boy Pon. After encountering Dorothy, Pon and her team up to defeat the evil witch Mombi and to rescue the princess.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsHenry B. WalthallJosephine CrowellLillian GishJohn Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
- DirectorHerbert BlachéThe leading character, nicknamed "Hook and Hand," is a crook who operates with a hook which he had substituted for a lost left hand. "Hook" is associated in crime with Philip Sleek, a stepson of William Hartman, a banker. Hartman, the old millionaire, does not know of Philip's existence, his wife, for personal reasons, having omitted to mention him. He is a good for nothing, and for a time lives on his mother's generosity. She meets the boy secretly and does whatever she can to give him new starts in life, but all her efforts are of no avail. After "Hook" robs Hartman's establishment, at Philip's instigation, the mother, not knowing where her son had secured a big sum of money, prevails upon her husband to take his stepson into partnership, telling him that he is a cousin returned from abroad. In the meantime the crime is cleverly fastened upon Mr. Hartman's confidential secretary. This upsets the household arrangements because the secretary was to have married Mr. Hartman's adopted daughter. The story is still further complicated by "Hook and Hand's" refusal to enter into a conspiracy that would lead to the destruction of Miss Hartman. Here the clever operations of William Fox, a very crafty detective, who is engaged by Miss Hartman to unravel the mystery surrounding the accusations against her sweetheart, are productive of sensational results. A good many encounters take place between the gang and the police. The young detective finds himself in many tight places. The hero, not knowing at the last moment that he had been vindicated by a deathbed confession by "Hook and Hand," makes a spectacular escape from the officers in charge of his removal from the court to the State Penitentiary. The young man jumps from the window of a very fast moving train into the river, and thus makes on unnecessary getaway. The final scenes are full of thrill, showing the round-up of the gang and the burning of their dive, in which Miss Hartman is imprisoned and from which she is rescued by the police and Detective Fox.
- Elsa Delgarth, a retired actress married to a rich politician, returns to the stage to act in a series of charity shows. The glamour of the footlights causes her to become tired of domestic life and she leaves her husband and child to return to the stage. Paul Greville, an actor, with whom Elsa runs away, loses his memory while appearing in a production, and as a result the couple find themselves face to face with ruin. Unable to obtain engagements, Greville sinks lower and lower in the social scale until meeting a criminal named Gaston St. Croix, he agrees to join the latter's gang. The commissioner of police is informed of a number of mysterious thefts, and immediately stations his squad of officers on the river bank to track the mysterious gang. That night the crooks are tracked, and a battle on the water ensues, but they make their escape. Elsa is unaware of the double life Greville is leading and for some months the man takes part in the crimes of the riverside gang. Meanwhile Delgarth has received an important government appointment and the St. Croix gang plot to gain possession of valuable documents he holds. Greville and an accomplice break into Delgarth's home, but are disturbed before they can accomplish their purpose. However, they carry off Delgarth's little daughter, intending to use the child as a weapon against him. They next engage rooms at a hotel in the town and write Delgarth , telling him he will receive news of his daughter if he visits them alone. When Delgarth keeps the appointment he is overpowered and carried away from the hotel. Delgarth's groom, who followed his master to the hotel, becomes suspicious and succeeds in tracking down the criminals to a lonely spot where they seek to force Delgarth to reveal the hiding place of the papers. When Delgarth is obdurate they threaten to place his child on a nearby railway line in the path of the advancing express. They carry the child to the railway line, but their vile purpose is frustrated by Elsa, who has learned of Greville's villainy. She rushes to the track just in time to snatch her child from danger, but she herself is knocked down and fatally hurt. Greville is also killed and the other members of the gang are captured by the police.
- DirectorCharles SimoneStarsAgnes MapesJulia HurleyJean Thrall
- DirectorSherwood MacDonaldStarsJackie SaundersThe wife of Peter Conway died in giving birth to a baby girl. Babbie, the motherless child, grew up to be beautiful and vivacious, her liveliness and innocent pranks were the joy and despair of her rough-handed but tender-hearted father, while Hannah, her elder sister, mothered and idolized the impulsive girl. But Babbie became the wife of a drunken wretch. Her husband died and back she fled to her father's arms. Hannah learned to love Ned Higgins, a newcomer, who at first did not like Babbie, but later found himself captivated by her artless charms, but the gathering clouds of an impending strike brought Asa Robins, a reporter, to the coal fields. After saving Asa from a beating at the hands of the strikers, Babbie refused his offer of marriage and the newspaperman was compelled to flee the town. Ned's jealousy was aroused by this incident and he unwillingly realized that he loved Babbie. With faltering voice he told Hannah the truth. She was crushed by the blow, but calmly replied, "Then you shall marry Babbie." Babbie appreciating the sterling worth of Ned, loved him deeply, but for her sister's sake rebuffed his advances and admonished him to remain true to Hannah. At last the strike was declared and the company imported trainloads of heavily armed guards to protect the mine property. Egged on by Dominick Kenelly, a drunken miner, the strikers prepared to attack the newcomers, but Babbie foreseeing its fatal consequences, summoned the priest, who averted the clash and rebuked the intoxicated leader. Enraged because Babbie foiled his plan, Kenelly attacked her in a lonely glen, and if it had not been for the timely interference of Ned, the girl would have been severely beaten. Ned again uttered his pleas, but Babbie remained unmoved. While crossing a railroad trestle, they were overtaken by an onrushing train. Seizing Babbie, he leaped and was rendered unconscious while Babbie was unhurt. She looked into his face and murmured, "Oh, my love, say that you are not dead." Ned opened his eyes. "Babbie, I love you. I can't live without you. Give me your promise." She impulsively threw her arms about his neck in an ecstasy of joy, when suddenly her sister's face flashed across her mind. "God of Mercy," she cried in anguish, "Everything I touch withers and is snatched from me. I am ill-starred; take away the curse." Convulsed with tears she fled, and prepared to leave home to forget her unfortunate love, when she heard that her father had been captured by the authorities and was to be court-martialed and executed. Stealing through the lines she rescued her father, and mounted on a horse they fled under a hail of bullets from the guards. Babbie was hit and fell from weakness from the horse, and for the first time her father learned of her wound. Ned and Hannah soon discovered the two at the roadside. Babbie fast nearing death, smiled at them, and taking the weeping Hannah's hand, placed it in Ned's. "I am going," she said almost inaudibly, "my star is sinking, and soon all will be over, but for my sake. Ned, love and cherish Hannah, as I have loved and cherished you." Babbie's lips ceased to move, and the little group bowed their heads and wept.
- DirectorJohn B. O'BrienStarsWilliam GarwoodImar the Servitor rescues an American tourist who has lost his way in the desert and the two men become friends. Before he leaves, the American gives his friend a picture of his fiancée. When the tourist returns home, he discovers that his girlfriend has married a horseman, both of whom have journeyed to the Arabian desert. Imar's master attacks the trader's wife. Her husband then accuses her of infidelity and starts to beat her. Imar recognizes her from the picture given to him by his American friend and rescues her. They both traverse the desert and meet her former fiancé, who has been sent for. Her husband and Imar's master are slain, leaving the three friends free of any retribution.
- DirectorLawrence B. McGillStarsBurr McIntoshRaymond BondWilliam ConklinIn the town of Bowling Green, Missouri, there lives Jo Vernon, a village blacksmith, his wife and daughters. Kate and Elizabeth. Jim Radburn, a native and resident of the same town, is sheriff of Pike County. Since childhood he has planned that some day he and Kate Vernon are to be married, and unbeknown to her, although with the sanction of her father, he pays for her tuition through college. Sam Fowler an express messenger on the Missouri Pacific R.R., is in love with Jim Radburn's sister, Emily, and with the beginning of the story he becomes engaged to her. Robert Travers, alias "Jim Cummings," a holdup man, forges the signature of the railroad division superintendent to an order permitting the bearer to ride in the express car with the express messenger, Fowler. As the train speeds on its way, Travers attacks and overpowers Fowler and robs the car. Travers makes his escape and Sam, accused by the express company of having been an accomplice, is thrown in jail. The hold-up happens in Pike County, and Radburn, the sheriff, sets out to run down the criminal. Through newspaper accounts of the robbery, Travers learns that Fowler has been unjustly imprisoned, and in accordance with his usual practice, writes to the editor advising him of Fowler's innocence, enclosing one of the express envelopes which were stolen as proof. Shortly after Travers drifts to the town of Bowling Green and by chance becomes acquainted with the Vernon family. He becomes enamored of Kate, who in turn gives him her love, discarding Jim Radburn for the thought of the bigger, gayer and brighter life which Travers has pictured. A letter sent to Kate by Travers planning their elopement comes to Kate's mother's attention, and she demands to see it. She shows it to Jim, who immediately recognizes a similarity in the handwriting of this note and the forged order which was delivered to the express messenger, Fowler, at the time of the robbery. Jim immediately begins to run down the clue to get his man. Through the efforts of Jim, Sam is exonerated and reinstated by the railroad company, and during one of his trips to Bowling Green he accidentally meets up with and recognizes Travers in the village drug store. Travers makes his getaway in a wild fight, and jumping through the window, turns toward Kate's home for a hiding-place. Her father and family joining the mob in search of Travers, have left her alone. Jim, close on the trail of his man, traces him to the Vernon home, and there corners him. Because of his love for Kate, and to prevent possible injury to her name, he permits the escape of Travers, aiding him by giving him his own horse to ride across the border. Through a strange coincidence, shortly after the robbery while working for Sam's release, Jim, in caring for a homeless pup which has had its leg broken, discovers that the mud of the river bottom, or gumbo, if baked, would make a wonderful railroad red ballast. He visits the railroad officials at St. Louis and closes a most profitable contract. Because of his newer fields he resigns his position as sheriff a day before he meets up with Travers. Travers is arrested in a neighboring town by two countrymen, who recognize Jim's horse. Jim is telegraphed, and replies that everything is all right and that he has given the horse to the man Travers. Questioning Jim's explanation, the two men prepare to take Travers back to Bowling Green. He attempts escape and is shot. Jim has been nominated for legislator, and when his action in permitting Travers to escape becomes known, he is denounced in a public meeting by Col. Bollinger for having failed to fulfill his duties as sheriff. Jo Vernon, knowing of Jim's resignation, addresses the meeting and exonerates him. The townspeople, incited by Bollinger's speech, turn against Jim and start for his house to seek their vengeance. Jim meets them at the gate and warns them off, just as Jo arrives to explain to them that Jim Radburn had resigned as sheriff the day before. The better way is evidenced to Kate, and she learns that her love belongs to Jim.
- DirectorColin CampbellFrancis J. GrandonStarsTom MixBessie EytonWheeler OakmanTom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
- DirectorEdward S. CurtisStarsStanley HuntSarah Constance Smith HuntMrs. George WalkusCombining fact and fabrication, Edward S. Curtis' dramatization of the life of the Kwakiutl peoples of British Columbia revolves around a chief's son, who must contend with an evil sorcerer in order to win the hand of a beautiful maiden.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsRobert BroderickLaura SawyerGeorge StillwellWaldo, son of Baron von Kraft, comes home from college and finds a reception in progress. All of the rooms are occupied, as Waldo braves old legends by offering to sleep in a room which is said to be haunted. His sister and her girl friends decide to play a prank on him. They borrow a skeleton from one of the medical students nearby and place it in the room. Waldo leaves his sweetheart to go upstairs. He comes face to face with the skeleton and the shock causes him to lose his mind. The girls in fright tell the Baron of their prank and its result. As the Baron goes up, the boy's door opens and he comes down, with staring eyes and his hair white as snow. The boy does not recognize his father and the agony in his face crushes the father and the thoughtless girl. The girl tries to atone for her sin by retirement to a convent. War is declared between Germany and France, and the father leaves to join his regiment. Into the tent of the Baron is brought a French spy. The Baron changes clothes and impersonates him to steal important information. The convent of St. Agnes is taken by the French as a fortification. The Baron is caught as a spy in the convent. His daughter recognizes him and tries to give him a message, but is discovered. They force her to swear on the crucifix that he is a German and his execution is ordered. The Germans finds out about the Baron and attempt to rescue him, but arrive too late. The spirits of the heroes slain in the conflict are seen rising from their earthly bodies with arms outstretched on the way to that land where "war" is unknown.
- StarsBarry O'BrienPatrick EnnisDominick ReillyThe story of Ireland and her fight for Home Rule, as seen through the experiences of Father Tom Murphy, a patriot with a price on his head, and the famous Irish leader Robert Emmet.
- DirectorMartin FaustStarsAlberta RoyLisbeth BlackstoneJohn CharlesAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- StarsConstance CrawleyArthur MaudeSilas Croft, an Englishman, has taken up farming in South Africa and has been unusually successful. His sister in England, ill, widowed, and left with two little girls, Jess and Bess, starts for South Africa to make her home with him. The sister, however, is stricken with death just after landing from the steamer and the two little girls are sent on to the brother. Jess is the older of the two children and when the mother dies she entrusts the care and happiness of the younger child to the sister, scarcely older. Gladly received and tenderly reared by their uncle, Silas Croft, the girls grow to beautiful and gracious young womanhood on his farm. Sixteen years after their arrival in South Africa, John Neil, a young Englishman who has been an army officer, comes from England to learn South Africa farming and selects Silas Croft as his schoolmaster. Both Jess and Bess fall in love with John Neil. Neil really loves Jess, but she, believing herself bound by the promise given her dead mother, makes John thing she cares nothing for him and goes on a visit to Pretoria, then the principal city of South Africa, so that John may forget her and turn to Bess. Shortly after the departure of Bess for Pretoria occurs the first revolution of the Boers against the British Government. Bess has an admirer, Frank Mueller, a wealthy and influential Boer, whom she hates and fears. Mueller knows that Bess is in love with John and plans to get rid of him. Pretoria, held by the English, is surrounded by Boer troops and Mueller, now a high officer of the Boer Army, writes to Jess that her uncle is ill and needs her. John Neil has gone to Pretoria and Mueller is sure that he will accompany Jess on the trip home. Mueller sends a pass and two of his men to act as an escort. Jess and Neil start, but once outside of the British lines, they are taken captive by Mueller, who laughs at the way they have fallen into his simple trap. Mueller attempts to kill both, but both escape. While in danger Jess has confessed her love for John. Now upon the screen is shown the fighting which took place around Pretoria. For week after week the Boers besieged and the British defended the city. The fighting is shown with strict regard for historical accuracy. In 1877 the Transvaal was annexed to Great Britain and in December, of 1880, occurred the rising of the Boers. This was rather an internecine war than a rebellion. Many Boers took the side of England and not a few Englishmen fought on the side of the Boers. The fighting, for the most part, was done by volunteers on both sides, men without uniforms and with but little discipline, but trained to the use of arms since childhood and inured to hardship. At Majuba Hill the English regular soldiers met with a crushing defeat at the hands of the Boers, and in March, of 1881, a treaty was concluded which left the Boers practically independent. Failing in his plan to kill John Neil, Mueller captures Silas Croft and gives Bess the alternative of seeing her uncle die or of marrying him. She chooses to save her uncle, but before the marriage is performed Jess surprises Mueller, while he is asleep, and stabs him to death, releasing her uncle and Bess. Flying, Jess rejoins John in a cave near the farm. John is asleep when she returns to him and does not awaken until morning and when he does awake Jess is dead of exhaustion. The British troops arrive, saving Bess and her uncle and John Neil as well. Bess and John are married and return to England. The drama closes with a view of the English home of the Neil's, which is all happiness, but in a tableau it is shown that no matter what comes, Jess will never be forgotten by either her sister, to whom she gave all, or by John Neil, who loved her very truly.
- StarsAlfred BoydMarion EmmonsWillard GardnerJack Gibbons, disappointed in love, decides to go to the camp of his friend, "Shorty" Grandon, to live down his feelings. Not far from camp lives Jess, whose father has died and left her with nothing except the small cabin in which she lives. While riding, Jack meets with an accident and is found by Jess, with whom he falls desperately in love. An engagement takes place after Jack has rescued Jess from her burning home and taken her safely from a raging forest fire. Jack's sister Fay, in response to a wire, visits the camp to meet her new sister. At first she dislikes her ragged appearance, but is soon convinced of the sterling qualities of the noble girl. A visit to Jack's home is planned, to show the future member of the family. She is met with snubs, but lives down her pride and is finally taken into the bosom of the family. A dance is given at which Jack pays his attentions to his first love. Jess, heartbroken, escapes in the night and returns to her mountain country. Hearing the news, "Shorty," with his fast automobile, dashes his friend to the home of his love, where a reconciliation takes place and the new daughter is received with open arms.
- DirectorHobart BosworthJ. Charles HaydonStarsElmer CliftonAntrim ShortMatty RoubertA tale following a boys relationship with alcohol.
- DirectorEugene MooreStarsJames CruzeMarguerite SnowJohn LehnbergThe second of "Thanhouser Big Productions," a monthly schedule, Joseph in the Land of Egypt was a true "feature" film, a new class of film which came to dominate the market by the end of 1914. A feature was an hour or more, heavily advertised, with elaborate production values, often with higher ticket prices, longer runs per theater, strongly promoted star cast and was always a drama. Thanhouser followed up on the enormous success one year earlier of THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM with a familiar Biblical story, large and highly decorated (and highly populated) sets, elaborate costumes and (something new) star promotion. Only a few "Thanhouser Big Productions" in early 1914 included specially-commissioned scores from Tams Music Library. It had been common for accompanists to improvise or use standard selections from theater and classical music, or "cue sheets" of compilations tailored specifically to the film. Beginning in 1915, the biggest features included original scores commissioned by the production studio. The performed score for JOSEPH IN THE LAND OF EGYPT is a combination of the written original music and the musician's improvisation based on its themes. This original music is a transition to the fully-composed scores introduced in Europe and the U.S. a year later. Whether it is another Thanhouser innovation is a subject for research. As in all the other titles in this Thanhouser collection, organist Ben Model exhibits the demanding and skillful art of improvisation.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBlanche SweetHenry B. WalthallMae MarshA religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
- StarsBeulah PoynterLizzie ConwayRobert TaberLena Rivers is the orphaned granddaughter of Granny Nichols. Lena's mother Helena had gone to the city and secretly married Harry Graham, a young Southerner who assumed the name of Rivers as a prank. He was falsely accused of murder and sent to prison. Helena, thinking he deserted her, returns home to give birth and die of a broken heart. Granny rears Lena, but poverty compels them to seek a home with Granny's son John in Kentucky. Lena's cousin Caroline makes her life miserable with her jealousy, contriving to blacken her reputation when Durward Belmont falls in love with Lena instead of Caroline. Durward's mother has married Graham, who realizes upon meeting Lena that she is his daughter, but makes her promise not to tell his secret. Lena's happiness is very nearly wrecked before the truth is revealed, but Graham finally makes known his relationship to her and all ends well.