All Movies From 1912 to 1915 - Part 3
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- DirectorOreste GherardiniStarsPeppino CallettiBianchina De CrescenzoSalvatore LovittThe story tells of the adventures of an Italian nobleman in the time of the Venetian republic. He was denounced as a traitor to the Council of Ten and had to flee for his life. He took the family treasure with him, burying it in an old well in the courtyard of a neighboring village. The prologue, which tells of this adventure, is provided with titles in the old Venetian script harmonizing with the costumes and the buildings of the day. Centuries elapsed between the prologue and the story proper. The latter is laid in modern Venice. A descendant of the Italian nobleman, a beautiful woman named Foscarina comes back to the halls of her ancestors and quite by accident discovers the secret of the buried family jewels. A prowling band of outlaws hears about the existence of the jewels at the same time and by a series of clever maneuvers gets possession of the precious heirlooms. Foscarina thereupon engages the services of a world-famous detective named Argo to ferret out the evildoers and to recover the property. A keen battle of the wits ensues, first the plotters gain an advantage and then the detective overmatches them, but the end finds justice triumphant. The gems are found and restored to the owner, while the schemers are turned over to the police.
- DirectorAlberto MarroStarsJaime BorrásLuisa Oliván
- DirectorRicardo de BañosAlberto Marro
- DirectorJosé de TogoresStarsLuis AlcaldeLola OjalLola París
- DirectorFrederick SullivanStarsJames CruzeFlorence La BadieAn inter-related series of four individual two-reel films, each story complete in itself. Individual titles are: #1: A Leak in the Foreign Office; #2: The Cat's Paw; #3: A Debut in the Secret Service; #4: The Mohammedan Conspiracy.
- StarsRaymond FabreRenée SylvaireHenri GougetA doctor discovers a new serum, which when used right by any physician, is a preventative of madness.
- DirectorFranz HoferStarsLissi LindMartin Wolff
- DirectorJulio Roesset
- DirectorRobert PéguyStarsYvette Andréyor
- DirectorGiuseppe Gray
- DirectorAdrià GualStarsAurora BaróEmilia BaróJoaquín Carrasco
- DirectorFranz HoferStarsFelix BaschFrau OttoFrida RichardChristmas 1914 in Germany - in a village the whole community is attending the mass, almost everybody has relatives in the trenches, from the Earls down to the farmer. Countess Lo's brother is lieutenant, the son of the widow next door is Seargent in the same company. He writes her, that he's coming home for Christmas with a seargent who saved his live - a Christmas present for the family. Lo also invites the widow for Christmas dinner. Her brother arrives with the seargent, everybody is very happy and soon, Lo falls in love with the seargent, but the trouble is, he's from a lower class and a marriage seems rather impossible, but the war has already changed quite a lot...
- DirectorRicardo de BañosAlberto Marro
- DirectorAndré Hugon
- DirectorEnrique BlancoCinematographic presentation of the Infanta Isabel's theatre company.
- DirectorEugen IllésStarsErna Morena
- StarsCleo MadisonWilliam DyerFrancis McDonaldThere is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or distributed by Universal at this time. It seems to be another bogus creation from the prolific pen of error-prone researcher Richard E. Braff, author of The Universal Silents. Most likely, it's the working title of Black Orchids, produced by Universal's Bluebird unit, which included Madison, Dyer and McDonald among its cast members and was released 1 January 1917 (not 1915).
- DirectorTheodore MarstonStarsMary MauriceJames MorrisonFrank CurrierWall Street financier John Morrison is in the habit of bringing home to his wife daily a bunch of beautiful roses. Delevan, a recognized Money King, meets Helen, the financier's daughter, upon whom he immediately exerts a hypnotic influence, and she becomes infatuated with him. Payne Morrison, Helen's brother, recognizes Delevan as the man who forcibly took the last life-preserver from a woman in a shipwreck, and warns her against the man. She ignores the warning and Delevan secures her promise to elope with him. The sudden illness and death of her mother prevents this. The shock of Mrs. Morrison's death deranges John Morrison's mind, and the business is carried on by Payne. Delevan again tries to get Helen to elope, but at the critical moment her mother's face appears to her in a vision and she refuses. The rascal then schemes to ruin the Morrisons through their holdings in railroad stocks. He discovers they hold a thousand shares less than his company in a certain stock and plans to have himself elected president of the road. Delevan's stenographer, whom he professed to love, prior to his attachment for Helen Morrison, hears of his engagement, and in revenge, informs Payne of the scheme to ruin him. Remembering that his father had once presented Mrs. Morrison with a block of that particular stock, Payne realizes if he can locate them, it will throw the balance of power into his hands. He seeks his father about them, but John Morrison remembers nothing of it. In despair, Payne is about to give up when the spirit of his mother appears and points straight at the family Bible. Between its leaves are found the five thousand shares and the excitement of it all clears John Morrison's mind. At the directors' meeting, the Morrisons vote in the extra shares, completely defeating Delevan, and John Morrison, now himself again, is asked to take the president's chair, while a beautiful vision of Mother appears and smiles upon them.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsMabel Van BurenTheodore RobertsHouse PetersRoad agent Ramerrez hides out in his girlfriend's store where the Sheriff knows him to be. The Sheriff plays The Girl a game of cards to decide Ramerrez's future. She wins. She later saves him from a hanging. She rides off with him.
- DirectorHarry HandworthStarsGordon De MainWilliam A. WilliamsHarry HandworthTom Ward visits his college chum, Bob Bell, and while hunting, is wounded by his friend by mistake. During his convalescence he falls in love with Bob's sister, Grace. The two young men leave tor college. Bob is a model student and the leader in the college athletics, while Tom neglects his studies, spending most of his time in idleness and over the gambling table. The college authorities object to his wild ways, and he is summoned to the Dean's office, where he is severely reprimanded. An altercation follows, and the Dean orders the hotheaded student from the office. In the meanwhile, Bob, knowing of Tom's financial difficulties, posts a challenge on the board in the name of the Masked Wonder, to meet all comers, "winner take all." The notice attracts Tom's attention, and he accepts in the name of the Masked Unknown. An unfortunate blow knocks out Bob, and Tom is horror-stricken when he finds that his masked opponent is his dearest friend, and learns that the blow will probably prove fatal. To make matters worse, while the boxing match is in progress, the Dean has been attacked and robbed, and Tom is accused of this by the Dean's housekeeper. Tom's first impulse is to stand and face the music, but the students prevail upon him to hide and then flee. Tom is pursued by the police, but makes his escape, first by rail and then by hydroplane motorboat, closely followed by his pursuers. He finally shakes them off. In an exhausted condition, Tom is fed and cared for by the fisher girl whom he chances to meet. Mr. Bell, investigating an abandoned mine, takes his daughter Grace with him. While admiring the beauties of the scenery, Grace is approached by a snake, and it viciously buries its fangs in her foot. Grace's outcry brings Nellie, the fisher girl, to her aid. Grace assures her deliverer of her profound gratitude. Bob recovers from the blow received in the fight, and starts out to find Tom, of whom all traces have been lost. He is unsuccessful in this, but during his search happens upon Nellie, the fisher girl, who tells him that Tom, fearing pursuit, has wandered on. Bob falls in love with Nellie and takes her home to introduce her to his father and sister, and makes new plans to find Tom. On reaching his home, Bob finds the entire household much excited over the nocturnal visits of a mysterious "Shadow." Nellie is taken into the conference, and Grace immediately recognizes her as the girl who saved her life. Bob suspects that her "Shadow" evidently is not bent on theft, and lays a trap to ascertain why the "Shadow" prowls around the house, and distributing the members of the family in advantageous positions, turns out the lights and awaits the coming of the mysterious visitor. In due time the "Shadow" arrives. Bob springs upon him, the lights are turned on, and all present are overjoyed to find that the "Shadow" is none other than the long-sought Tom. Tom is happy to find that Bob is alive, and when Bob tells him that he is no longer under the suspicion of the assault of the Dean, Tom turns to Grace, and Bob turns to Nellie. You know the rest.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsNeva GerberWilliam Desmond TaylorHarriet JansonElsie and her sister live on a ranch with their father, Robert Duncan, a wealthy city man, comes to stay at their house while on a hunting trip. He becomes infatuated with Elsie's sister and persuades her to run away with him and marries her. Through a telegram, Elsie and her father learn than Duncan is already married and has a child. This news kills the father and Elsie sets out for the city and finds her sister. She tells her that Duncan has another wife and pleads with her sister to return home. The sister, feeling the disgrace, disappears. Elsie later finds her in a hospital as she lies dying and plans to trap Duncan so as to avenge the wrong he has done her sister. She becomes an entertainer at a café which Duncan frequents. Being masked Duncan does not recognize her but becomes quite fascinated and shows her marked attention. Elsie instructs the chief of police that she may soon need his services as a married man is annoying her. One night when Duncan calls Elsie springs the trap she has set for him. She tells the story of her wronged sister and then for the first time tears off her mask and he recognizes her. She holds him off at the point of a revolver, tells him that she has sent copies of his letters to the newspapers, and the originals to his wife, and then telephones to the police who come and arrest him. Elsie then returns to the ranch and the foreman whom she loves.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsFlorence ReedFuller MellishLorraine HulingDrusilla Ives, a young Quaker girl living on an isolated island, leaves to become the servant of the spendthrift Duke of Guisenberry in London, who is the Lord of her village. She finds that she is attracted to the bustling city's night life, and when the duke discovers that she is a fine dancer, he helps her turn professional. In short order she becomes known as Diana Valrose, the city's favorite dancer. Unfortunately, her strict father and her Quaker fiancee, John Christison, back on the island find out about her newfound fame and career and strongly disapprove--her father places a curse on her and her boyfriend marries her sister Faith. Complications ensue.
- DirectorJames YoungStarsClara Kimball YoungEdward KimballMilton SillsDoris Moore is the daughter of a minister living at a small country town a few hours' distance from New York. She helps her father in his work among his congregation, teaches in the Sunday school and plays the wheezy old organ in the church. The household is thrown into a mild state of excitement on receipt of a letter purporting to come from an organ supply company in New York, but which in reality is from a band of crooks who use this as one of the fraudulent schemes whereby they obtain money from the unwary. The letter offers to supply a beautiful pipe organ on receipt of an installment of one third of the cost, the balance to be paid on time. The matter is laid before the deacons and they decide to consider the offer. The minister writes to the organ company and the chief of the crooks, Harry Leland, a handsome, dashing man of the world, arrives and explains in glowing terms the advantages of the organ. While waiting for the deacons to collect the first installment of two hundred dollars, Leland pays considerable attention to Doris, who is much fascinated by him, representing as he does a totally different type of man to what she has been used to. In the meantime, the crooks in New York have received information from out west that Will Lake, a young eastern college man who in two years has made a fortune of fifty thousand dollars, is returning east, and will stay in New York for a week. They decide to try to blackmail Lake on his arrival and at once communicate with Leland, who replies that he will return immediately as soon as he gets the organ money. Leland has become attracted by the freshness and beauty of Doris and decides to lure her to New York and then make use of her in the crooks' nefarious schemes. He protests violent love for her and proposes marriage, and Doris consents. Immediately after receiving the two hundred dollars from the deacons, he approaches Doris as she leaves Sunday school and with well-simulated despair tells her he has received very bad news and that he is threatened with ruin and begs her to go to New York with him as she alone can save him. After much persuasion, Doris' scruples are overcome and she returns with Leland who takes her to the boarding house run by 'Frisco Kate, a house which is used by the crooks as a meeting place. It is decided to have Doris act as a decoy and to get Lake to visit a flat which has been prepared beforehand. She is therefore told that Lake has defrauded her lover Leland of a considerable sum of money and that if he could be seen, things might be arranged satisfactorily. She is told to speak to Lake, who will be pointed out to her in the hotel, and tell him that her mother who has friends in Goldfield wishes to ask his advice about mining stock. The plan succeeds and Lake unsuspectingly goes to the flat and while alone with Doris, Leland with two other crooks rush in and accuse him of being in a compromising position with Doris whom he calls his wife, much to her amazement, and says that Lake must pay in money to avoid scandal. Lake intuitively feels that Doris is innocent and refuses. A furious fight ensues in which Lake is knocked unconscious, robbed of all his money and locked in the room, the crooks making good their escape with Doris, whom they take to their hiding place. Their plans are defeated, however, by one of their own band, Laylock and 'Frisco Kate, who, hardened crooks though they have been, refused to be parties to the dragging down of an innocent girl. They release Lake and go along with him to the police and lead a raid on the crooks' hiding place who are all captured and receive their just deserts. Doris meets her father at the police station, he having come to New York to trace her. Lake, who is much interested in them, invites them to his hotel to meet his mother and sister. There is a pretty ending to the story when Will Lake, who to celebrate his good fortune and has made the church a present of a beautiful organ, pays a visit to Doris and her father, and a love romance, the seeds of which were set when she innocently acted as a decoy, is happily consummated.
- StarsBeulah PoynterJune Holly, an orphan, lives in the lumber district of Missouri with her Uncle Jim and her grandmother. She is possessed of a beautiful face and affectionate nature. David Stone, a manly young lumberman, is in love with June, but Uptergraft, another lumberman, devoid of character or principle, also admires June, but she resents his rough embraces by slapping his face, and he becomes her bitter enemy. A new and romantic interest comes into June's life, when she meets Alan Powell, the only son of a wealthy St. Louis lumber merchant, who has sent him to the lumber region to buy lumber. Alan and June fall in love with each other. He is young and thoughtless and she ignorant of life. David surprises the lovers in the woods and attacks Alan, who, thinking to save the girl's reputation, tells David that he was not in love with June, but that there was only a harmless flirtation between them. Shortly after, Alan is called back to St. Louis. In a letter which Alan sends to June, he assures her of his true and devoted love and that he is coming to take her to their own home as soon as he returns from an extended business trip. This letter gets into the hands of David, who destroys it. June is greatly worried by the failure to hear from her lover and decides to leave home during the night to seek Alan. At his office, she learns that he has left on a business trip and is not expected back for several months. Disheartened, she starts for her home. On the way the starving girl sinks exhausted on the doorstep of a farmhouse and the kindhearted farmer's wife takes the destitute girl in and gives her a home. Later June's baby is born, and as soon as able the young mother determines to return to her people. Tramping wearily along the road, carrying her child, she falls and the baby striking its head on a rock, is instantly killed. Shocked with grief and horror, June leaves her dead baby in some bushes on the roadside. She has, however, been seen by two men who had been following her; they find the dead child and inform the sheriff. The distracted mother is arrested, despite the heroic attempt of David Stone to save her. She is accused of child murder and thrown into prison. Martha Green, a friend of June's, a member of the Salvation Army, dispensing comfort amongst the poor, learns of June's terrible plight and writes Alan to hurry to June's rescue. Alan reaches Lumberville as June is being examined in court. He rushes into the court room and explains to the judge and jury that he is the cause of the girl's misfortune and begs their mercy. The jury, however, finds June guilty of murder and she is sentenced to be hanged. Alan goes to the governor of the state to plead for her life, but the governor refuses to interfere with the sentence of the court. On the day set for the execution, June, overwhelmed by the thought of the awful death that awaits her, breaks down utterly and in her agony shrieks and pleads for mercy. When the warden and sheriff come to conduct her to the scaffold and all hope appears to be gone, a telephone message comes from the governor staying the execution. Alan's impassioned second pleading before the governor for his sweetheart's life having won a pardon for her.
- DirectorA.W. SandbergStarsGyda AllerVita BlichfeldtFr. Bondesen
- DirectorLawrence B. McGill
- DirectorFrank PowellStarsTheda BaraEdward JoséMabel FrenyearA married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.
- DirectorOscar EagleStarsNorma PhillipsJack W. JohnstonDora Mills AdamsEpisode 1: "The Runaway Bride" It is June Moore's wedding day, and the entire household is all confusion, excitement, and bustle, from June's pet collie Donnie to her father, uncomfortable and perspiring in his Prince Albert. Her bosom friend Iris Blethering, accompanied by her husband Bobbie, arrives to help June with her toilette, and a few moments later Ned Warner, the happy bridegroom, arrives. There is a short duration of nervous expectancy as Ned awaits the bride in the parlor, then June enters at the head of the bridal procession, and the ceremony commences. Just at the finish, Donnie, the collie, escaping from confinement in the woodshed, races into the parlor and June, regardless of her spotless white wedding gown, throws her arms about him. After the wedding June's wedding garment is hastily put aside and she dons a traveling suit, while Ned. seeking to avoid the pranks of the guests, steals out onto the porch to await her. Upstairs, Mrs. Moore tearfully embraces June, in the last sacred moment of parting, then presses a purse filled with money into her hands. June, surprised, pouts, "Why do I have to think of money on my wedding day?" but hurries out to Ned, who has been discovered by the guests and is being teased unmercifully. June and Ned make a dash for their limousine and escape amid a shower of rice. In a drawing room on the train rapidly bearing the happy bride and groom off on their honeymoon, June contentedly nestles in Ned's arms. By accident, June discovers that she has lost her purse, and when Ned hears her exclamation of dismay he laughingly produces his bulky "roll" with bluff heartiness, and quiets her fears. The porter, catching sight of Ned's roll, almost loses his eyes staring at it, and Ned, smiling, tips him a dollar bill. Ned tries to force some money into June's hand, but she draws away. In fancy she sees herself a beggar, helpless, dependent upon Ned's generosity to supply her every want and necessity, and the thought is repugnant to her. Ned leaves the drawing room to dress as June falls asleep. Her dreams are troubled, and continually picture the woman absolutely dependent for money upon the man. She wakes as the train jars to a stop at Tarnville, and in a daze rushes from the train, pausing long enough just to take her coat and hat, and stands trembling and confused on the platform as the train rushes away. Gilbert Blye was about to board the train when he saw June get off. He immediately drew back, and now, as June stands afraid, he stands aside, watching her sharply. June decides to return to New York, and finds the time of the next train on the bulletin board. Blye attempts to engage June in conversation, but is repulsed. Meanwhile, Ned discovers June's absence, and learns from a passenger that she left the train at Tarnville. Distracted, he gets off at the next station and takes an express back to New York, first learning over the telephone from the operator at Tarnville that June was seen to board the New York local, followed by a man with a black Vandyke. The operator tells Ned that the express sometimes passes the local just outside of New York. On the local, June finds she has no money, and sells her watch to an elderly couple. With this money, June pays her fare. The mysterious man with the black Vandyke buys the watch from the couple, and tenders it to June as a gift. She refuses to accept it, and he tells her that she may purchase it back when she is able. She takes the card he hands her, pockets it, and then refuses to notice him further. Smiling mysteriously, he takes the seat behind her and watches her. Just outside New York the express catches the local and they race along, side by side. Through a window, Ned sees the figure of June. Over her bends the black Vandyked man, assisting her on with her coat. In the station Ned frantically runs out to the street, just in time to have the door of Blye's taxi slammed in his face, and see June's taxi disappearing up the street. He jumps into a third taxi, and frantically orders his driver, "Follow them!" Episode 2: "The Man with the Black Vandyke" Through the busy streets of New York, Gilbert Blye, the mysterious man with the black Vandyke, pursues June, and in pursuit of both races the taxi of Ned Warner, June's distracted husband. In the maze of traffic, Blye loses track of June's taxi, and Ned, getting caught in a congestion of traffic, also loses the trail. To the home of Iris Blethering, her bosom friend, goes June for safety. Iris and her husband, Bobbie, cannot understand June's reason for leaving Ned, just because he offered her money, and poor June looks at Iris with a helpless gesture and half sobs, "I can't explain, it made me feel like a beggar taking alms." Still Iris does not appreciate June's viewpoint. At the club lives Cunningham, a comrade of Blye's, and, like him, a man of mystery. To Cunningham Blye goes and relates the account of his meeting with June, and shows the watch which June sold on the train. Ned Warner goes to the apartment that was to have been the home of his bride and himself. Meanwhile, Iris Blethering offers June some money, but June refuses it, and tells Iris that her purse is at home. Iris and Bobbie go to the Moore home to get June's purse, telling Mrs. Moore that June wired them to get her purse and forward it. Soon after the Bletherings leave, Ned calls at the Moore home, and June's parents are surprised to learn that June is not with him. They tell him of the Blethering's visit, and all hurry there, seeking a solution of the mystery. They arrive at the Blethering home, but Bobbie and Iris deny the presence of June. Ned, however, finds one of Blye's cards, and June's gloves, and furiously accuses the Bletherings of hiding both June and Blye. At Rectors Blye, Cunningham, Tommy Thomas, a girl companion of Blye, and several others form a merry party, drinking and dancing. The diners seek to arouse Tommy Thomas' jealousy by describing June's watch, which Blye has in his possession. Meantime, at the Blethering home, events have followed rapidly. While Ned and Bobbie are arguing in the hall downstairs, June escapes through a window. A few moments later Ned and the rest break into the room. There is no trace of June, so the next move is a visit to the Blye home, where Mrs. Blye is questioned. Mr. Moore indignantly demands, "I want my daughter." This arouses Mrs. Blye's suspicion. She calls up Cunningham's club and learns that she is with Blye at Rectors. Thereupon the party rushes to Rectors. Mrs. Blye bursts in, followed by the others, and catches her husband dancing with Tommy Thomas. She furiously demands, "Who is that woman?" but Blye flares up and refuses to answer her. Blye makes his way to the street and escapes in Cunningham's car, giving the chauffeur a mysterious address. June, meanwhile, has made her way to the Moore home and after petting her pet collie for a few moments, awakens Marie, her maid, collects her wardrobe together, and steals away with Marie. June and Marie get into a taxi at the Moore gate, and just drive away as Blye, in Cunningham's car, drives up, then follows in hot pursuit. A moment later Ned, and the rest, in two autos, drive up and are directed after Blye's car by Aunt Debby, the Moore's old colored servant. Through the darkness the pursued and pursuing autos race. Episode 3: "Discharged" In the preceding Installment, June, the runaway bride, escaped from her parents' home with Marie, her maid, and some of her wardrobe. Close in pursuit of June's taxi came Gilbert Blye, the man with the black Vandyke, and away in the rear followed Ned Warner, June's deserted husband, and several others. Speeding at a breakneck pace, Blye, in the Cunningham limousine, passes June's taxi, and then breaks up a bottle which he has in the car and drops the bits of broken glass to the roadway. The ruse works; the taxi has a blowout. Blye's car backs to the scene, and Blye gallantly offers June the use of his machine. After some hesitation, June accepts the offer, and has Marie take the clothes from the taxi and put them into the other car. The taxi is wheeled to the side of the road, to be out of the way, then the limousine drives off. Blye, in the car, pretends to just recognize June as the little girl he met on the train, and he feigns pleasant surprise. June, doubtful, wishes to buy her watch back immediately, but Blye tells her that he left it home. At his club, Blye alights and puts the car at June's service, but mysteriously whispers instructions to Scatti, the driver. Scatti nods, and in answer to June's orders to drive her to a boarding house, takes her to Mother Russell's, a mysterious house of gaiety and bright lights. But June decides that the place is too conspicuous, and gives Scatti the address of an obscure boarding house which she is familiar with. There they go, and June engages a room for herself and Marie. Scatti, grinning slyly, takes note of the place and drives away. Meanwhile, the cars containing Ned and his party pursuing June and Blye, encounter the glass-strewn section of the roadway and are delayed by blowouts, and hopelessly lose the trail. They finally come to the city and disperse to their various homes, Ned summoning private detectives to put on the case. Mrs. Blye reaches her home in time to see her husband going away with his effects, and, realizing that she is deserted, summons private detectives to watch her husband. Blye and Cunningham go to Mother Russell's, and there hold a conference with Tommy Thomas, showing her June's watch with her picture and name, Tommy sulks, but finally agrees to do their bidding. Tommy Thomas calls at June's boarding house on the following morning, tells that a friend of June's sent her to June about a position, and takes June to a department store and introduces her to the manageress of the gown department, whispering to her, "This is the girl Mr. Blye spoke about for the model." The woman smiles in approval as she looks at June, and immediately employs her. June grows interested in her work, parading before the wealthy customers, but through a prearranged plan of Cunningham, Blye and Tommy Thomas, she is discharged, charged with neglecting her duty, for, interested in an argument over money matters between a man and his wife, the eternal "money question" which was the cause of her running away from Ned, she neglects to heed Cunningham's request to be shown a gown. Dejected, she returns to her boarding house. Meanwhile, the private detectives of Ned and Mrs. Blye have been sadly mixing things up, and Ned, disgusted, goes for a walk. He sees Marie and tracks her to the boarding house. Blye has preceded him there and is in the hall. Marie, conscious that Ned is following her, rushes into the house. Ned is admitted in time to see Blye rushing up the stairway, but the man of mystery eludes Ned and leaves the house, close on June's trail, leaving Ned frantic and heartbroken. Episode 4 "The New Governess" June's headquarters at Mrs. Beales' boarding-house became known to both Ned Warner and Gilbert BIye. Fortunately June realizes this. Leaving Marie to gather up their belongings, the runaway bride hurries to a nearby hotel, telling her maid to follow. She is pursued at a safe distance by Blye. As June enters the Hotel Daniel "Shanks" McGee, the newsboy in the lobby, scents "detecatiff" stuff. Later, when both Blye and Ned in turn appear, the latter demanding to see her, the boy decides to use his wits in the game at the first opportunity. Meanwhile, the bell-boy also has been catching on to things. So he goes up to June's room and suggests his mother's home as a safe retreat. June gladly accepts the plan, and with the bell-boy's help she escapes through the servants' entrance. Below stairs Ned's and Mrs. Blye's detectives have insulted a Frenchman with a black Vandyke, whom they mistake for Gilbert Blye. After they are gone "Shanks" McGee, seeing Blye himself enter the hotel with "Tommy" Thomas on his arm, puts two and two together, tears after the detectives and tells them that the man they are seeking is now in the lobby. But Blye, though taken by surprise, is more than a match for the detectives. With three well-directed piston-like blows he sends them sprawling, and then he and "Tommy" Thomas, having learned of June's escape, leave the place. June, meanwhile, through an employment agency has found a position as governess to little Dolly Wiles. She is very happily occupied until Mr. Wiles, through the extravagance of Mrs. Wiles, who is a pretty, vapid, money-loving sort of wife, goes bankrupt. Then she returns to the employment agency. Entering, she does not see Gilbert Blye, who quickly steps behind a screen. The address given her by the manageress is one which the man with the black Vandyke has handed to the woman with explicit instructions only five minutes previously. Episode 5: "A Woman in Trouble" In the preceding installment June, the runaway bride, was sent to a mysterious house by an employment agency, and followed by Gilbert Blye, the man with the black Vandyke. June is shown into what was apparently once the parlor of a gambling house, but is now fitted up as an office. Blye and the keeper of the house peer smilingly at her through the hall door. Then the keeper enters, and after a short chat with June, hires her. Aunt Debby, the Moore's cook, goes marketing, and meets Marie, June's maid, who is also marketing. There is a scene in the market, Marie denying that she knows Aunt Debby. But the old servant will not easily be put off, and she wrestles with Marie, knocks her down, and sits on her. Several policemen, hearing the commotion, enter, and arrest Aunt Debby. The patrol is summoned, but the policemen, to their great chagrin, find that the door of the wagon is not of ample size to permit of the free passage of Aunt Debby's corpulent frame. Marie does not like to see Aunt Debby arrested, and when Officer Dowd. Marie's friend, appears, she whispers to him, and he gets the other officers to let Aunt Debby go free. Aunt Debby hurries to Ned, the deserted husband of June, and he, summoning his detectives, rushes to the market to endeavor to take up Marie's trial, but to no avail. June is instructed in her duties by the keeper, and is horrified when it dawns upon her that the place is a gambling establishment. Mrs. Gwen Perry, a patron of the place, finds herself hopelessly in debt, and her husband will not give her any money over her allowance. The keeper duns her for her debt, but Mrs. Perry cannot pay. The keeper then calls up Mr. Perry, but he, furious, threatens to raid the place. The keeper informs Blye of the threat, and one of the girl employees is sent to the basement to be in readiness to start a fire, if a raid takes place. Mr. Perry enters, and has an argument with the keeper, at length telling him to call Mrs. Perry. It is evident that he is through with his wife, but June, summoning her courage, takes an active interest in this new phase of the eternal money question which caused her to leave Ned, and pleads with Mr. Perry. He at length relents, but Mrs. Perry, entering the room and seeing him, is seized with sudden panic, flees, and is about to shoot herself, when June intervenes. Mr. Perry takes her into his arms, and there is a happy reconciliation. At this moment some policemen appear at the door, and the fire is started. A mad rush from the house follows, June escaping with the rest in the confusion. But Blye picks up her trail, and follows her through the streets. Ned, on a streetcar, sees June running along, and Blye pursuing her, and he hastily alights from the car and pursues. Episode 6: "The Siege of the House of O'Keefe" As June is fleeing from the gambling house, she is glimpsed by Ned from a streetcar. But the conductor refuses to stop in the middle of the block, and by the time Warner has alighted and rushed back, the runaway bride is nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile she has reached in safety the home of Mrs. O'Keefe, the hotel bellboy's mother, and her protector. Mrs. O'Keefe, being the widow of the most popular patrolman on New York's police force, instructs some of her departed husband's friends, whose beats are in that neighborhood, that Marie and June are good friends of hers, who do not wish to be found. When Blye and Warner appear in the vicinity and question the policemen about a young girl, they are deliberately sent on a wild goose chase. But, as so often before, Blye at length calls upon Tommy Thomas. She drives around to the neighborhood, in which the man with the black Vandyke has reason to believe his quarry is in hiding, and is lucky enough to see June coming out of Mrs. O'Keefe's. Already Tommy Thomas has arranged with a Mrs. Villard, who wants a companion, to let her bring June to her. She invites the runaway bride into her car, and they drive to an employment agency with which Tommy Thomas has had an understanding. The farce is put through, and June is taken to the magnificent estate of Mrs. Villard, a young and handsome woman of clearly good intentions. That same evening June has an adventure. She overhears some tenants of Mrs. Villard's quarreling, and hurries over to the squalid home of the Groggs. She finds Groggs in a drunken frenzy, his wife beside herself, hurling pots and pans. And then June lets herself go and her fiery denunciation of the drunkard soon sobers Groggs. He promises to reform, and the runaway bride realizes that there was but another symptom of the man-wife-money problem, which so besets her. Returning to Mr. Villard's house to dinner, June meets Charles Cunningham. Tommy Thomas also is one of the guests. Once, she fancies, she sees through the velvet curtains of the room the somber visage of the man with black Vandyke. Episode 7: "The Tormentors" June returns to Mrs. O'Keefe's for her clothing and Marie. Scarcely have they taken their farewells of the widow when Ned Warner, the Moores and the Bletherings arrive to find the detectives and the policemen battling on the stoop, and no sign of the runaway bride. Meanwhile the two girls have driven to Mrs. Villard's. Unknown to them, Gilbert Blye is in the house. He observes their arrival with satisfaction, and as soon as the girls have gone upstairs he instructs their hostess and leaves. That afternoon Mrs. Villard tells June that they are going downtown. She takes her unsuspecting companion to Garrigue and Co., marine brokers. There she explains to her that Mr. Blye is planning a yachting trip to southern waters and that he has invited them to join the party. This announcement throws June into a panic. She refuses to go. Presently Blye, Cunningham and Edwards reach the office, Tommy Thomas with them. All their efforts to persuade June, however, are vain. Across the court, Bobby Blethering from his office window sees June arguing with the man with the black Vandyke. He phones Ned. Before the distraught bridegroom can get there, June and Mrs. Villard are fleeing in a taxi, pursued by Blye and his companions in Cunningham's limousine. Episode 8: "Her Enemies" The taxi, in which June and Mrs. Villard were escaping kept steadily ahead of Cunningham's car. Suddenly the conspirators saw it plunge across a sidewalk and down a steep embankment. They sped to overtake the demolished machine. Blye and Cunningham went to the rescue of June. Edwards and Tommy Thomas helped Mrs. Villard. Both women were unconscious and were carried to a sanitarium, where a Dr. Remert took them in charge. When June recovered she found a confidante in Mary, the head nurse. Finding that she was suffering mainly from shock, her spirits revived, began to talk with the nurse about the possibility of her entering Mary's vocation. Dr. Remert approved and promised to speak to the chief about June. It developed that "the chief" was none other than Gilbert Blye. June refused to have anything to do with the hospital and was persuaded to return home with Mrs. Villard, as her companion. Meanwhile, Ned's detective, Burton, had been putting in some good work. He had traced Blve to his club, seen him in conference with Mr. Villard, who suddenly returned to New York, and the result was that on the evening the Villard party was motoring home Ned Warner lay in wait near the estate. Just as he would have intercepted the automobile in which rode Blye, June, Mrs. Villard and the others, two pairs of strong arms reached out and seized him. The motor rushed past. Episode 9: "Kidnapped" Concealed in the shrubbery outside of the Villard home, Ned rises to snatch his bride from the man with the black Van Dyke when he is seized by the Villard chauffeur and the gardener and Marie, June's maid. He is quickly bound and gagged and thrown into the Villard garage. He struggles to free himself as he sees June chatting sociably with Gilbert Blye and Orin Cunningham. Bert Villard, husband of June's employer, arrives unexpectedly from abroad. Ned's captors indulge in a card game and drinking bout which enables him to wriggle free from his bonds and escape when they sink into a drunken stupor. Meanwhile June has finally consented to go on the proposed yachting trip. Marie, stricken with remorse over Ned's fate, tries to tell June of his capture, but cannot. Mrs. Villard's husband, finding June alone, seizes her in a wild embrace and covers her face with kisses. "Bouncer," June's faithful collie, comes to the rescue, fells Villard, bites him and would kill him but for June's interference. She makes Villard promise not to go on the yachting trip, the price of her silence to his wife. Ned escapes just in time to see June driving away with the gay yachting party, tracing them to a restaurant, where June is forced from the room, while she is trying to go to Ned, afterward being rapidly conveyed on a motorboat to a large yacht lying in the river. Episode 10: "Trapped on a Liner" Gilbert Blye and his party go aboard the steamer which they have chartered for the trip to Bermuda. Ned Warner and Burton, his detective, also board the boat. They practice the policy of watchful waiting. Soon Ned is informed by Burton that June is sitting alone on the lower deck. He hurries below. Suddenly Blye, from where he is sitting, sees the runaway bride in her husband's arms. He goes to the captain and tells him that a crazy man has attacked one of the ladies of his party. The next thing Ned knows he is struggling in the grasp of two husky sailors. June is in hysterics. Ned, locked in his stateroom, is unable to escape until just before the landing in Hamilton Harbor, Bermuda. Here he is seized by two sailors. The three men fight furiously. Finally Warner is backed up against the rail. and then, by accident, pushed overboard. A practiced swimmer, he strikes out toward a small fishing craft, calling for help. The fishermen take him aboard. When first they hear that Ned is over the side of the ship, June and Blye are about equally horror-stricken. The news of his rescue, however, calms them both. June is inspired to refuse to land, but Blye compels her to do so. Burton, following them, learns the name of their yacht and their route. This he confides to Ned as soon as that unfortunate young man sets foot on the pier. But how are they to board the yacht? Episode 11: "In the Clutch of the River Thieves" On arriving at Bermuda, June and Blye's party leave the steamer for Blye's yacht, but Blye, the man with the black Van Dyke, returns to the dock, where he encounters Ned, the deserted husband, who was rescued by fishermen after jumping off the steamer to avoid capture. Ned violently attacks him and is getting the better of him when the local police arrest Ned on Blye's statement that he is a dangerous maniac and place him in a small jail near the water. June escapes from the yacht at night in a tender and rows for the shore, but is discovered and pursued by the yachting party. Fearful of capture, June signals a sailboat, which is manned by an old Italian, Giovanni, who takes her aboard. He points out an old wreck and says he was wrecked there twenty years ago. She reminds him of Marietta, back in Italy. He tells her the story of Marietta and her two lovers, how she favored Tony, the one who spent the most money on her. Tony quarreled with Beppo, another of Marietta's admirers, and in a duel with knives succeeded in killing him, after which he ran away with Marietta. Blye's yacht gives chase under full sail, and Ned, who has escaped from jail, hires a motorboat and also gives chase. Giovanni steers his boat through a narrow opening into an inlet, where Blye's yacht cannot follow, whereupon Blye produces a pistol and shoots Giovanni. June grasps the helm and runs the boat into the inlet with the aid of Giovanni's negro assistant and lands near a house where some river pirates live. Among them are Tony and Marietta. They quarrel over a division of their spoils, in which one of the pirates stabs Tony and escapes. As June rushes up, she, Marietta and the wounded Tony are all struck with the resemblance between the two women. Before he dies Tony tells June where to find his buried treasure for Marietta and she undertakes to do so. The other pirates pursue her. Marietta follows June to help her and as they get the treasure, the two pirates attack them. Ned rescues the two girls and Marietta starts after them, knife in hand, on vengeance bent. As they turn on her, Blye and his party interfere and save her, and learning from her of June's whereabouts, Blye arrives just in time to snatch June away from Ned and make a prisoner of him. Episode 12: "The Spirit of the Marsh" Ned, after a sharp, heroic struggle with Blye's hirelings, was borne off to one of the strongly barred cabins of the yacht. The next day he was brought, like a prisoner before a judge, into the presence of the man with the black Vandyke, who promised the unhappy young husband that if he would leave June unmolested for five days, at the end of that time he should have her back safe and sound. Ned gulped and pledged his word. Then he was set free, to go and come as he pleased. Meanwhile, June had made the acquaintance of Durban, the artist, who, with his rich wife, had taken a handsome villa in Bermuda for the winter. He made no secret of the fact that he had married this woman for her money. Also, in a cottage apart, he supported a pretty little model, Mimi, upon whom, for the time being, he had settled his changeable affections. The day before, Durban had had a rather upsetting scene with Amy, a girl of the neighborhood, whom he had engaged to pose for a picture that was not in Mimi's line. Because of this he was all the more willing to allow himself to be attracted to June; in her he could forget his recent chagrin. One morning early he chanced to come upon June as she stood drinking in the sun and air on the beach, and induced her to pose. Suddenly she found herself struggling in his close embrace. She fought herself free and fled. Realizing presently that he no longer was following her, she turned and saw that he had been caught in the quicksands. Nothing more awful than the end of this self-indulgent man ever was witnessed by the runaway bride. Episode 13: "Trapped" June, returning to the hotel with Gilbert Blye, immediately after witnessing the tragic end of Durban, the artist, is conscious that the man with the black Vandyke has become suddenly a dangerous companion. She flees from the protecting arm with which he has encircled her all too tightly, and running down to the shore, takes refuge under a net in a fishing boat. Blye loses track of her. But, from a distance, Ned Warner witnesses the incident, also the arrival of a strange fellow, long-haired and in rags, who jumps into June's boat and pushes off with her to sea. Hiring two sailors to go with him, he gets a small craft and gives pursuit. Blye also is soon scouring the bay. Meanwhile, June struggles with her boatman, who turns out to be a half-witted barbarian, and the boat is capsized. She is rescued by a girl, attired like a dryad, who takes her to an island, where Hierophant, a charlatan mystic, celebrates mild orgies. June joins the dance of his captive maidens. Some time later Hierophant attempts to put the newcomer through an initiation dance of a kind which outrages her modesty, and with the help of one of the other girls, she flees the island. She succeeds in rejoining Ned on the bay and he boards her raft. But the man with the black Vandyke also comes alongside. He fells Ned unconscious, and dragging the fainting June into his boat, heads his rapidly moving craft for shore. Episode 14: "In the Grip of Poverty" June is taken from her husband on the raft and carried away in a boat by Gilbert Blye. On the mainland, however, they are met by Gascon, the leader of a band of Apaches. On seeing the runaway bride, Gascon signals to his confederates, two men and two women, whom he instructs to follow and capture June. The thing is accomplished and June is compelled to put on the Apache dress and perfect herself in their famous dance. Meanwhile, Marie, the sweetheart of Pierre, one of the band, is driven by jealousy of the pretty newcomer to betray the Apache quarter to the commandant of the military guard. A fierce fight ensues between the Parisian thieves and the local soldiery in which the former are killed and routed. Pierre pursues Marie to the top of a cliff. He realizes that she has turned traitor. In a frenzy of rage he flings the girl over the crag into the sea. June is found, hiding among the rocks, by Gilbert Blye. He leads her safely away. Episode 15: "At Last, My Love" June leaves Bermuda with Blye and his associates. She is followed by Ned, who boards the same boat, unobserved. Once at sea, Ned tries to devise some plan for rescuing June from Blye. But in the end he realizes that he is powerless against Blye. He remembers his previous experience when he was held a prisoner on the boat as a maniac and determines to use cunning. He is certain that Blye knows he is aboard, and so hides in the hold. Blye discovers his presence on the steamer and bribes sailors to close the hatch. Ned is thus imprisoned and is unable to interfere for the remainder of the voyage. The steamer reaches New York and Blye gives instructions for the release of Ned. Then with June and the rest of the party, Blye goes ashore. As June, Blye and the others of the Blye party leave the pier and are about to enter their autos, Bill Wolf, Mrs. BIye's detective, rushes up. Blye knocks Wolf down and drives away. Wolf follows in a taxicab. He trails the entire party to a large building whose roof and some of whose sides are of glass. He then hurries to report to Mrs. Blye. When Ned comes out of the hold he is able to find no trace of June or Blye. Thinking that he may gain some information at Mrs. BIye's house he hurries there. He arrives in time to hear Bill Wolf tell Mrs. Blye of the large glass building and BIye's presence there. Mrs. Blye and Wolf start for the large building while Ned follows in another machine. On the way Ned sends a telegram to Mr. and Mrs. Moore, June's parents, explaining the situation. The Moores start at once to assist Ned in his rescue of June. Ned finds a sturdy doorkeeper at the large glass building and fights with him to get in. Detective Wolf, who arrives on the scene with Mrs. Blye, assists Ned in his struggle with the doorkeeper. The two overpower the guardian of the entrance and force their way into the hallway of the building. Ned finds a locked door at the end of the hallway barring further progress. Peering through an opening of the door Ned sees that June, Blye and others are in the room. As Ned watches, June, Blye and his associates go into another room. Ned breaks down the door, but finds that the only egress, however, is through another barred door. The Moores arrive on the scene in time to see Ned breaking down the second door. Ned, the Moores, Mrs. Blye and Bill Wolf force their way into the presence of Blye, June and the others. The Blye party is grouped about Edwards, who is seated at a small table and is handling money to the various members of the group, in turn. As Edwards hands some money to June, Ned seizes Blye. Cunningham and the other men of the party separate the two and then explain the situation to Ned. The building in which they are, Blye tells Ned, is a moving picture studio. When June left her husband in order not to be financially dependent upon him she joined the motion picture company of Blye. The many strange adventures through which she passes and which mystifies the Moores and Ned, Blye explains, were scenes in various motion picture dramas in which June was leading woman. June has now won her independence and her contract with Blye has been fulfilled. Edwards is paymaster and was paying salaries. Ned is at last convinced and makes very humble apology to June. June forgives him and introduces him formally to Blye and the other members of the company. Everybody joins in a big farewell dinner to June and Ned. The situation has been explained to Mrs. Blye and she forgives her husband for his seeming disloyalty. June and Ned are toasted at the dinner and at its end resume their, interrupted honeymoon. END
- DirectorVassil GendovStarsVassil GendovMara Miyateva-LipinaAngelovThe elegant and fun-loving Bulgarian meets a young lady in the street and begins to flirt with her.She decides to teach the stranger a lesson and suggests that he should accompany her round the market-place where she goes on a spending spree. To her surprise she discovers that she has no money with her and asks her escort to lend her some. He agrees. The lady takes Bulgarian to the posh restaurant where she order expensive drinks and refreshments at his expense. Then she loads her escort down with the parcels and leads the way home. On the way she meets her husband and proposes that he should hire a cab so that they can relieve "the porter". The couple leave Bulgarian in a state of shock. He is tipped a small coin for the services rendered.
- DirectorVladimir GardinStarsPavel Orlenev
- DirectorLois WeberStarsMacklyn ArbuckleCora DrewMyrtle StedmanHi Judd, poet, postmaster and philosopher, is the sunshine of the village, a veritable doctor of happiness. His right arm the little world of the village leans on, the kind words he scatters broadcast reap their harvest of love for the old postmaster and the verses he writes (sometimes when he should be working) proclaims him the wit of the village. And because of the verse writing Mrs. Judd is often discouraged. Hi confides in his daughter, Bess, that he often stands in awe of Mrs. Judd when she catches him pencil in hand, with the woodpile untouched and the chores not done. But Bess is consoling and when Hi is not around she makes a collection of the verses and sends them on to a great newspaper. Theirs is a peaceful life that must have its dramatic climax and it all descends upon them at once. Jim Skinner, an unscrupulous, grasping old miser, holds the mortgage on the house and also has designs upon Hi's position as postmaster. Then the bank fails and shadows hang low. In the meantime drama is stirring within their home. Bess who had thought she cared for Hal, the station master is under the spell of Sam who has come from the city to be the new ticket agent. Hi, dubious of his character and regretting his daughter's change of heart, before it is too late, finds a picture of Sam, his wife and their baby. Hi recognizes in the wife, Belle, the long-missing daughter of Mother Wilkins, a widow of the village whose home has burned and who would have suffered privation had it not been for the generosity of Hi. He sends for Belle, making her believe the money and message come from Sam and when Sam is confronted with the wife and baby he sees there is nothing to be done but face the unexpected situation. The mortgage is due. Heartbroken, they are preparing to leave the little home when word comes from the newspaper: "Verses accepted, send them as fast as you can write them." Thus ends the story. Hi, with his $500 check from the newspaper pays off the mortgage, the future holds its promise; Mother Wilkins is happy with her daughter and the little baby, and Hal and Bess are engaged to be married.
- Based on the novel length poem by the english poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- DirectorPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenStarsPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenLyda SalmonovaAn antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.
- DirectorGiuseppe GiustiStarsValeria CretiDomenico Pardi
- DirectorWill LouisStarsOliver HardyWill LouisVincente DePascaleAntonio and Pascale spend the last of their money on a lottery ticket. Then they go to a restaurant for a big meal of spaghetti. When the restaurant owner realizes they can't pay, a fight breaks out and Antonio and Pascale run for their lives.
- DirectorWilfrid NorthStarsLillian WalkerDarwin KarrDonald HallThe Earl of Clanranald, obliged against his will to attend a meeting of conspirators against King James (II) of England, is arrested. His death warrant is signed by the King and dispatched to Edinburgh by Sir Harry Richmond of the King's Bodyguard. Lady Katherine, the Earl's daughter, dresses up as a highwayman meets and later holds up the King's messenger. She receives a sword wound in her shoulder, but secures the warrant and burns it. Upon hearing her story, Sir Harry promises to do all in his power to secure the release of Lady Katherine's father.
- DirectorAlexander E. BeyfussStarsBeatriz MichelenaHouse PetersClara BeyersThe picture opens with the Gypsy camp and the assignation made there between Lothario and Musette, the daughter of Giarno, the leader of the Gypsies. Learning of their proposed meeting, Giarno declares vengeance on Lothario, to whom Musette hastens to give warning. At his palace the Gypsy girl learns for the first time that her lover is already married and is the father of baby Mignon. Her wild despair in consequence causes her to throw herself over the cliffs into the ocean. In the midst of the excitement, following this suicide, baby Mignon slips unobserved from the palace and, wandering too near the brink, also falls over the cliff, but is providentially saved by an out-jetting bush. Meanwhile Giarno has gone to the water's edge to reclaim the dead body of Musette from the waves and here sees Mignon's fall. Thinking to revenge himself on Lothario, he scrambles up the rocks and steals the child. This rapid succession of tragic events hastens the death of Lothario's wife, and Lothario, observing the disaster that follows his one moment's indiscretion, rushes insanely from the palace to begin his mad wanderings over western Europe. At this point the thread of the story is dropped to be picked up again years later, when Mignon has blossomed into maidenhood of 16 years. She follows Giarno's Gypsy train. He delights in cruelty toward her. He prizes her, however, because her exquisite dancing has become a source of revenue. One day she refuses to dance before a party of ladies and gentlemen, but Giarno, blacksnake in hand, is driving her to it, when Lothario, who is wandering by in rags, and carrying his old harp, tries to interfere. The Gypsy leader is too much for him, however. Shortly afterward Wilhelm Meister rides into the scene and succeeds in quelling Giarno from whom he later buys Mignon. The Gypsy-stolen maiden falls in love with Wilhelm, but finds a rival in Filina, the celebrated actress. Having spied upon a love-scene between the two, Mignon becomes convinced that Wilhelm is not intended for her, so starts to wander away with Lothario, but she cannot so easily tear her affections from the man who rescued her from Giarno. Leading Lothario, she follows Wilhelm again to a grand reception given by Frederick, one of Filina's suitors, in honor of the actress. She manages to smuggle herself and Lothario into the palace, again sees Filina making love to Wilhelm and, hoping to win favor and strengthen her own cause, steals to Filina's room and dresses herself in one of Filina's gowns. When she presents herself to Wilhelm in this attire, he commands her to take it off, but he shortly follows her up the stairs to soothe her wounded feelings. This gives Filina an idea. The old count, Frederick's uncle, objects to the youth's infatuation for Filina. It is agreed, therefore, that Filina is to follow Wilhelm into her room, the count is to discover the two of them there and is to demand an explanation, after which the only course left open for Wilhelm is to marry the actress. The plot seems to work nicely. Wilhelm declares that Filina is to be his wife. It was thought that Mignon had left the room. Instead she had secreted herself behind some curtains and hears Wilhelm's words. Filina discovers the Gypsy after Wilhelm and the count have taken their departure, and locks Mignon in the room. Wilhelm escorts Filina into the ballroom to announce their engagement, but scarcely have the words left his mouth when he detects the plot between the actress and the count. He therefore declares a change of mind and Frederick, in an impetuous desire to defend Filina's honor, challenges him to a duel. Some time before Mignon, in a burst of despair, has made a wish that the place might burn down. These thoughtless words take possession of Lothario's mad brain, and he proceeds to put the wish into execution. Wilhelm, who is in the midst of his duel with Frederick, sees the flames and rushes to learn that Mignon is locked in Filina's room. He makes his way through the fire to the doomed room, but Mignon. who wishes nothing better than death, now that she knows Wilhelm is to marry another, goes to the window and threatens to dash herself to the ground if he comes near her. Only after Wilhelm assures her that he loves but her, does she consent to the rescue. When they reach the courtyard, Wilhelm falls in a half-faint and submits to Filina's caresses, thinking that they are Mignon's. Mignon, observing this, believes Wilhelm's promises to her false and so again wanders away with Lothario. The two of them eventually happen near Lothario's former palace. The inn-keeper remembers him and leads him home. Here the recognition is consummated. The cloud rolls bark from Lothario's mind. He is once again the master, and Mignon his daughter. Wilhelm who has ridden out in search of the supposed Gypsy girl, finds her in new splendor and the romance has its ending in their plighted vows.
- DirectorHugh FordEdwin S. PorterStarsMarie DoroEugene OrmondeIda DarlingCarlotta grows up in a Turkish harem and upon turning 18 finds out that her foster father plans to sell her to an old Turk. An Englishman helps her escape to Britain, but he is arrested upon their arrival.
- DirectorW.W. YoungStarsViola SavoyHerbert RiceElmo LincolnAlice goes with her sister to a picnic and then she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a wonderland full of talking animals and walking playing cards.
- DirectorLois WeberStarsCourtenay FooteMyrtle StedmanHerbert StandingThe parallel stories of a modern preacher and a medieval monk, Gabriel the Ascetic, who is killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Truth, which is also represented by a ghostly naked girl who flits throughout the film.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsEdith TaliaferroFlorence DagmarTom FormanTwo people working in the same department store pretend to be aristocracy at a fancy resort, intending to pull a wealthy spouse, but end up falling in love with each other instead.
- DirectorRobert DinesenStarsAlf BlütecherAxel BoesenErik Holberg
- DirectorKonstadinos BahatorisStarsVirginia DiamadiDionysios VenierisOlympia DamaskouIn the shadow of Mount Chelmos, Golfo and Tasos exchange vows of eternal devotion. But, when he breaks his vow for a spiteful admirer, hopeless Golfo contemplates death, and no one can stop her. Can he see that she's his one true love?
- Robert Clark falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant. He rescues her from her burning home by climbing up between two buildings. When her parents object to his attentions, claiming that his social position is beneath that of the rich merchant, they elope, and a year later, when their baby comes, they are reduced to poverty. Robert continues at his trade, that of a chimney sweep and steeple jack, and undertakes to clean the tallest chimney in the city, when no one else will dare attempt it. He loses one of his scaling ladders just at the top, and hangs, between heaven and earth, while flames and smoke belch from the chimney. His wife manages to repay her debt to him by rescuing Robert from the very brink of death, when all other efforts of the fire department and the city authorities failed. While Robert is ill, following this terrible ordeal, she takes up the burden of his work and by her winning personality wins success as great as his. They come across an advertisement of a circus manager who wishes a ladder trick, and offering a good salary. This they eagerly accept, and work up, between themselves and little Robert, who is now five years old, an unusual and thrilling scaling act. Their success is instantaneous and "The Three Black Trumps" soon become known throughout the country. Fame and increasing salary come to the daring performers. In their journeys they come back to Martha's home town and when the stern but loving father sees his little grandson his heart softens, and Martha and her husband are received back into the home circle.
- DirectorFrederick A. ThomsonStarsMarguerite ClarkMonroe SalisburySydney DeaneCount von Herbeck, chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps it a secret because of his high ambitions. His dying wife writes him a letter urging him to make their young daughter a great lady. To this end, he arranges to have Torpete, a gypsy, to kidnap Gretchen, the daughter of the GRand Duke. He takes the coat and locket belonging to the little Princess and then sends his own daughter, Hildegarde, away. During the abduction of Gretchen she is wounded in the shoulder by a bullet. Fifteen years later Von Herbeck tells the Grand Duke he has found the Princess, and produces the coat, locket and Hildegarde as proof. Meanwhile, the real Princess has been abandoned by the gypsies and adopted by peasants, and has grown up as a "Goose Girl." The young King Fredrick of Jugendheit is officially betrothed to the fake Princess but he does not wish to marry a woman he has never met. He disguises himself as a Vinter and travels around the countryside, meets the Goose Girl, and rescues her from the insulting attentions of a vicious Count, and longs to marry her. But since he can not marry a peasant, true love seems doomed. Or does it?
- DirectorEdwin MiddletonStarsLionel BarrymoreWilliam C. ChamberlinJames J. GormanThe story relates how Bob Barrington conducts a racing stable on Long Island without the knowledge of his daughters, Henrietta and Myrtle. Barrington is traveling in the west and meets John Keefe, a gambler. They play cards alone and Keefe kills Barrington and steals the bill of sale to his racing stable, leaving a sheet of the inventory on the floor, together with a curious cigarette holder, taking all the papers of the dead man. There is an inquiry as to the cause of the death conducted by John Garrison, the young sheriff. The verdict is suicide, the body being unidentified. Gorman, a pal of Keefe's, is the only person who knows the truth. Keefe goes east and claims the stables, but Matt Donovan, the trainer, suspects foul play. Keefe changes his name to Buffy and becomes infatuated with Henrietta. John Garrison also goes east and sees Henrietta and thinks he recognizes in her a striking resemblance to the picture found in the watch of the dead man. Keefe and Garrison meet at the home of Henrietta. Keefe denied his identity, but Garrison incidentally shows him the curious cigarette holder and Keefe betrays himself. Garrison sends west for the watch and the missing sheet of the bill of sale. He starts with the watch for the home of Henrietta but loses it en route. It is found by a street beggar and pawned. Henrietta happens to be passing the pawnshop and is attracted by an article in the window. She enters and finds her father's watch with her picture in it. She overhears Keefe tell Donovan that he bought the stable of her father and her suspicions are aroused. She shows Keefe the watch and picture and he again betrays himself and she is certain her father met with foul play. While playing tennis with Henrietta the missing sheet of the bill of sale falls from the pocket of Garrison and she finds it and the mystery deepens. Henrietta resolves to take no one into her confidence. She visits the office of Keefe, secretes herself outside the window, and overhears a conversation between Keefe and Gorman. They leave the office and she finds the complete bill of sale and compares it with the missing sheet. Ralph Woodhurst, the fiancé of Myrtle, has been induced by Keefe to bet large sums at his pool room. The day of the big handicap is approaching and Wildfire, the crack filly in the Keefe stable, is being backed to win. Keefe sends Donovan to rob Henrietta of the missing sheet, but she covers Gorman with a gun and the plan is frustrated. Henrietta, on the day of the big race, seeks out John Garrison, and accuses him of being in collusion with Keefe or Duffy. She shows Garrison her proofs, the watch and the missing sheet. Garrison tells her the truth. Keefe realizes that he must flee the country and he prepares for a final coup. He backs another horse to win, bribes Chappy Raster, the rider of Wildfire, to use the whip on the mare, which will cause her to sulk, if the flag on the racing stable is up when the horses start. Henrietta overhears the plot and goes to the office, where she has a terrific struggle with Keefe. She succeeds in pulling down the flag while fighting Keefe, Garrison coming to her assistance and dragging Keefe down the stairway, where a furious struggle ensues. The story closes with Henrietta on the roof, the flag down, in the arms of her lover, Wildfire having won the race.
- DirectorA.W. SandbergStarsAgnes AndersenPeter JørgensenAgnes LorentzenMeyer the merchant is having a grand old time while his wife is away at a seaside resort. When Mrs. Meyer returns home unannounced to nurse her poor, overworked husband, she finds the house empty, as Meyer is out at a party.
- DirectorA.W. SandbergStarsHugo BruunAlma HindingBertel Krause
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsRuth RolandCleo RidgelyMarin SaisA series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her unique talents can help to solve crimes. Each episode is complete in itself.
- DirectorOscar ApfelCecil B. DeMilleStarsEdward AbelesSessue HayakawaBetty SchadeTed Ewing, a young New Yorker, is the guardian of Nora Hildreth, with whom he is in love. He invests her fortune of $50,000 and an equal amount of his own money (constituting almost his entire property) in a stock exchange speculation. When this speculation apparently fails he seeks to reimburse the girl by taking out a life insurance policy in her favor and then killing himself. But, as the policy has a clause invalidating it in case of suicide, he has to arrange an "accidental death" for himself, and, to this end, enters into an arrangement with the chief of the S.S.S., a blackmailing society which has already threatened his life. The humorous complications really begin when it develops that the money has not been lost but doubled, so that Ted, instead of wishing to die, has every reason imaginable for wishing to live. It is, however, almost impossible to break his sworn pact with the S.S.S. and his own Japanese valet, to whom he gave the money to pay for his death, refuses to divert the money from the one use to which it has been pledged. The manner in which Ted manages to escape from his own plots against his own life, and the details of his romance with Nora form the concluding episodes of this highly amusing photodrama.
- DirectorFranz HoferStarsFranz SchwaigerDorrit Weixler
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsGeorge BebanClara WilliamsJ. Frank BurkeAn Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsJane GailHayford HobbsGerald AmesA German captain demands a woman in return for her husband's liberty.
- DirectorEdgar LewisStarsWilliam FarnumMaude GilbertEdgar L. DavenportMurice Brachard, a dock laborer, rises to be a "Samson" of finance with terrific power and a primordial ferocity, which he needs when his wife spurns his devotion, and people he trusts try to pull down the structure of wealth he has erected.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsCharles HawtreyElisabeth RisdonFred GrovesAn incognito prince foils detectives by switching identities with a newlywed American millionaire.
- DirectorThomas BentleyCecil M. HepworthStarsTom PowersViolet HopsonStewart RomeA murderer's idiot son, jailed as an anti-Catholic rioter, is pardoned on the scaffold.
- DirectorHarry DavenportStarsEdith StoreyBobby ConnellyAntonio MorenoThe Charnocks, a wealthy landowner family from Virginia, take their yacht on a cruise to the South Pacific. The yacht catches fire near a desert island, and while John Sr. dies in the fire, his wife and son make it to the island, where she soon dies. Twenty years later Katherine Brenton, a wealthy young woman, is on a yacht trip in the South Pacific with playboy Valentine Langford, testing her theory that men and women can have platonic relationships under any conditions. When Langford makes a pass at her she knocks him out and flees the yacht for a nearby desert island--which happens to be the same one that young John Charnock was stranded on 20 years earlier. They soon find each other. Complications--and an earthquake--ensue.
- DirectorLloyd B. CarletonStarsRobert EdesonStuart HolmesIrene WarfieldAt a lonely army post in the West, a dance marking the engagement announcement of the general's daughter to Lieutenant Hawkesworth is interrupted when word arrives that the hostile Blackfoot tribe is on the warpath. Hawkesworth and the rival for his fiancee's affection, Lieutenant Parlow, are sent with the regiment to repress the uprising. Parlow turns out to be a coward at a critical moment, and after the regiment is routed, he blames Hawkesworth for the defeat. The general then orders his daughter to break her engagement and become Parlow's fiancee. The Blackfeet surround the fort, and Hawkesworth makes a daring ride through them to a neighboring fort. He brings the U.S. 6th Cavalry, who subdue the Blackfeet. Parlow's cowardice is then learned, and it is also revealed that earlier he eloped with the wife of an officer and then abandoned her. Hawkesworth and the general's daughter become married.
- DirectorFred EvansJoe EvansStarsFred EvansJoe EvansPimple poses as a crook's wife and borrows children to extort a cheque from his rich relations.