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- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsJames KirkwoodMarion LeonardAdele DeGardeA society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do likewise. She sneaks out to a dance and the child takes a turn for the worse. By the time she returns home the child is dead. After her husband leaves her, the mother realizes her selfishness and begs forgiveness at her daughter's grave.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMarion SunshineW. Chrystie MillerClara T. BracySue is the sunshine of the old home, ever smiling, singing, and lifting the burden from her parents' shoulders in their declining years. She is beloved by honest country lad Tom, who is at a loss to know how to show it, and she is too carefree to understand. He was content to sit for hours and listen to her sing and play the old songs on the parlor organ. Fate seemed to be taking good care of affairs, until one day a summer boarder pays the homestead a visit. Good looking, easy of manner, and the owner of an automobile, Sue feels quite elated when he pays her some attention. She readily consents to taking a ride with him, which meets the approval of her parents, who look upon the young man as highly reputable. Ah. Here is the time-honored trick of fate; the playing with fire, so often the beginning of the end. Some miles away from the village, the auto becomes conveniently disabled, and as it is assumed it will be some time before it is righted, the young man suggests that they go to the roadhouse nearby for rest and refreshments. So well entertained is she that the time flies swiftly and when she suggests returning home she is made to believe that it is too late to return home that night. Stunned at first by this intelligence, she awakens to the full realization of the situation and excluding the young man from the room, she passes the night alone in dreadful anxiety, for she imagines the disquietude her dear old folks are suffering. And rightly, too, for at dawn her poor old father is with faithful Tom, after an all-night vigil at the front gate sorrowfully dragging himself up to the cottage door. The young man returns to Sue in the morning and persuades her to go with him to the city, promising to marry her upon arrival. To this she consents and he installs her in a furnished room while he ostensibly goes to make arrangements for their marriage. While he is away she writes this news to her father. But, alas, the poor girl is later made to appreciate the cruel truth of the situation when the young man pretends his father objects to his marrying just at present. He, of course, reasons that she has gone too far to turn back; she fully realizes her awful predicament, for she knows how the world will regard her apparent indiscretion. Ashamed to return home, she seeks employment. In this direction she meets with the indignities often afforded the innocent by those human vultures who call themselves men. Her experience is enough to convince her of the falseness of the world she would enter, so back home she goes the same day to be received with open arms by her dear old daddy, whose searching gaze she has met with a smile.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMary PickfordKate BruceW. Chrystie MillerEdith is a salesgirl in the department store and toils most arduously to eke the lives of her decrepit mother and blind father. Quasi-poverty is their condition, as Edith's meager pittance is all there is to depend on for the existence. Sadly she compares her own loneliness with the condition of her store-mates, as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, lighthearted and happy. Hence it is small wonder that she feels highly flattered and pleased at the attentions of a traveling repertoire manager who enters the store advertising his show, and presents Edith with two complimentary tickets for that evening's performance. The next day the manager appears again at the store and invites her to take a stroll with him. This is the first attention the poor girl has ever experienced, and when the manager tries to persuade her to go away with him it is a supreme struggle with inclination that prevents her leaving her old folks. The manager leaves her with ill-concealed displeasure and the next time he visits the store he tries to win her through jealousy by flirting with one of the other girls. This has the effect, and she yields to the great temptation of meeting him after store hours. With renewed endeavor he persuades her and she at last consents to go away with him, leaving a letter for her parents to the effect that she is tired of the drudgery, and longing for pleasure, has gone away. Arriving at the railroad station, where she is to meet her tempter, she sees a party of old folks on their way to the almshouse. "Remember thy father and thy mother." And she does remember, seeing them most vividly in her mind's eye. This thought so impels that she at last realizes that she is playing with fire, and turning on her heel, runs back home to find that the letter she bad written is gone from the table where she left it. However, her fears are allayed when she finds the letter in possession of her blind father, who, of course, cannot read it. Taking it and tearing it to bits, she folds her dear old papa in her arms as her mother enters to share in the embrace. Her eyes opened to the falseness of the world, she is now more than ever determined to perform her sacrificial duty of caring for the old folks.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsEdwin AugustStephanie LongfellowGladys EganMrs. Walton is one of those jealous-natured women who misconstrues every act of civility on the part of her husband towards any one of the female sex. In truth, she has no grounds for such feelings, as Mr. Walton is the most devoted of husbands and the kindest of fathers. Every trivial matter that can be construed circumstantial is the food for a quarrel. These quarrels are always in the presence of their little ten year old daughter. So frequent are these discussions that the child, though young, begins to fear for the future. The worst comes when one evening a party of lady friends call on Mrs. Walton; one of them deliberately tries to elicit Mr. Walton's attentions. He quite innocently and courteously acknowledges her, what he merely assumes cordiality. However, Mrs. Walton's eye is ever on the designing lady, and foolishly imagines her husband attracted. After the visitors have departed there is the worst storm yet, and a separation seems inevitable. All this transpires with the child as a witness. Next morning Mrs. Walton packs her trunk and leaves a note to her husband on the breakfast table to the effect that she is determined to begin divorce proceedings. The little one now intervenes, but with poor success. Young as she is, she appreciates the enormity of the affair and is at a loss to prevent it. While she is sitting pondering at the table, an article in the newspaper concerning a Black Hand kidnapping strikes her gaze. The very thing! Supposing something could happen to her, everybody would become alarmed and excited and mamma and papa would no doubt forget their own differences in their efforts to lift the veil of mystery from her. Fine! She at once puts the scheme into effect by writing a letter to her mamma and another to her papa ostensibly from the Black Hand to the effect that she has been kidnapped. Dispatching the letter, she goes to hide at her aunt's home. Arriving at her aunt's house, she finds the place vacant, the aunt having moved. There is nothing for her do put to stroll and kill time. This she does, but wandering so far she loses her way, and falls into the company of some poor but honest folk. Telling them her address, Jimmy, the newsboy, volunteers to escort her home. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Walton are thrown into a state of wild excitement and in their endeavors to locate their missing child forget all else. Hither, thither the search is made, but in vain, and they are both on the verge of mental collapse, when the little one, escorted by the gallant newsboy, enters. She then makes clear the reason tor her escapade. The parents now realize how foolish they have been and what their little tot has taught them.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDorothy WestEdwin AugustCharles WestJulian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel's grief knew no bounds when he heard "That low knell tolling his lady dead." "She had lain three days without a pulse all that look'd on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian's land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin." Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, "Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love." So after the train had departed from the vault, Julian enters "and at the far end of the vault he saw Camilla with the moonlight on her face: All the rest of her drowned in the gloom and horror of the vault." Rending over, he kisses her hand, and 'tis then he finds her supposed death is but as sleep, for she revives from out the trance. "He raised her softly, and wrapping her all over with the cloak he wore, bore her through the solitary land hack to the mother's house where she was born." Conquering his desire, he goes to bring back Lionel, her husband. Meanwhile Lionel, grief-stricken, determines to become a recluse, going to the deserted cliffs overlooking the sea, where he secures from an old mendicant his thatched hut. After a search, Lionel is located through the meeting of the old man and the searching party. He refuses to go back as he is yet ignorant of Camilla's resuscitation, and so is taken by force. To effect a meeting of Lionel and Camilla without a shock, Julian arranges the Golden Supper, a custom in the East when a man bestowed upon his honored guest his most valued treasure, and acting upon Camilla's injunction, "You have given me life and love again, and none but you yourself shall tell him of it, and you shall give me back when he returns." Julian presents Camilla to Lionel during this supper. Lionel at first cannot realize the truth; he seems to be dreaming, but positive material manifestations awaken him to the reality. Julian's duty performed, he leaves forever.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWilfred LucasStephanie LongfellowVivian PrescottMrs. Wallace is possessed of a disturbing premonition that her husband's love is waning, and truth to say her fears are well grounded, for although she doesn't know of anything conclusively, still there is a reason, and that reason is Vera Blair, a show girl, who, believing Frederick Wallace to be a single man, is attracted by him and successfully fascinates him. He has spent several evenings in her company and now finds her irresistible. Hence, when he receives a note asking him to accompany her to a little after-the-show supper, he hastens to comply. This note falls into the hands of the wife, who is beside herself with grief, when Bob Martin, a friend of the family, appears. Upon learning the cause of her woe, he suggests a plan to cure Fred of his folly. This remedy is to pay him back in his own coin, to wit: visit the café in his company and pretend a reckless abandon, thereby putting the "shoe on the other foot." Repugnant as this procedure is to her, she is induced to consent as it will mean one thing or the other decisively. Fred has arrived at the stage door and meeting the girl, he is just leaving for the café when the wife and friend appear in the distance. They follow and secure the adjoining private booth to that occupied by Fred and the girl. It isn't long before Fred hears the clink of glasses and a hilarious laugh that is unmistakably his wife's. Stealthily drawing the curtain dividing the booths aside the sight that greets him freezes his blood, for there is his wife, with an empty wine glass in her hand, apparently in a state of mild intoxication, accompanied by their dearest friend, in an instant he is towering with rage. His wife in such a place drinking with his friend, outrageous! Ah! but he doesn't yet appreciate the enormity of his own fault. Getting the girl into another room by subterfuge, he bursts in upon what he deems the guilty pair. Urged by the friend, the wife continues to play her part, though her heart is well near breaking, and almost rebels. At this point the girl returns for her gloves which she dropped and learns now that he is a married man. She scorns him with even more vehemence than his wife appears to do, and departs, the wife leaving at the same time. Left alone, he now realizes his profligacy and the value of his wife's love, which he imagines he has lost. As he sits there alone, he is in the depths of desperation when he espies on the table a water glass filled with wine, it is now clear to him. His wife did not drink, but poured the wine into this glass and pretended intoxication to show him the error of his way, which he now sees only too clearly. What a wretch he has been. What a jewel she is to suffer indignity for his sake. Jumping up from the table, he rushes home with a firm purpose of amendment, bestowing upon her the love and attention she hungered for.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDorothy BernardWilfred LucasAdolph LestinaFlorence and Nellie are dressmakers, sewing to eke an existence. A wealthy woman calls for a gown they have just finished. She is accompanied by an unconscionable profligate, who, tempting the girls in turn, points out the "easy way." Nellie spurns him but Florence hearkens to his persuasions and accompanies him to where all is pleasure. He brings her to his mansion, a palace of pleasure during a Bacchanal orgy. She at once becomes obsessed with the spirit of revelry and it swept on to the inevitable goal, the morass of moral indifference. Nellie, however, is content in the house of toil and "She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff," marrying her honest, manly sweetheart, receiving as the years roll on the greatest of God's blessings, a family of three children. How terrible is the one's fate in contrast with the other's. Steeped in the toxin of gaiety she goes down, down until there is no chance for retreat. She, up to now, the toy of the tempter, grows unattractive to him and he unceremoniously discards her, putting her out to shift as best she can. An outcast, she now realizes the reward of worldliness. "For her home inclineth unto death and her path unto the dead." Hence, in the squalor of her hovel death comes and she has reached the inevitable. Nellie has been guided by the Proverb, "The path of the just is as a shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." We realize the result of this as we leave the happy little family sitting by their fireside.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsJoseph GraybillMary PickfordMarion SunshineTony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a neighboring corner. He at once becomes smitten and can think of nothing else. Later they are betrothed and little Alice fancies she has made a good catch. However, clouds gather when Alice's sister Florence, who is a vaudeville artist, returns from her road tour with her sketch partner Bobby Mack, for the moment Tony sees Florence he transfers his affections to her. Poor Alice becomes aware of the waning of Tony's love for her and the heavy blow falls when on the night of the Barbers' Ball Tony escorts Florence thither. Alice being excessively romantic reasons that life without Tony is impossible so she is about to emulate the heroine of a novel she has been reading by terminating her unendurable existence with a pistol when Mack enters. The bullet she intended for her own lovelorn head passes through Mack's hat, scaring him stiff. Recovering himself, he wants to know the cause of this rash attempt at self-slaughter, and Alice tells him in detail of the inconstancy of Florence and Tony. At first Mack is wild with rage, but on second thought, he realizes that Florence is not worth worrying over as far as he is concerned, and convinces Alice of the same of Tony, so then and there a new vaudeville team is formed, with prospects of something even more serious. Mack invites Alice to go to the ball with him, which invitation she most willingly accepts. At the ball the two couples meet and for a moment it looks as if there is going to be something doing. However, the ruffled condition of the situation is smoothed out and each swain is well satisfied with the change of hearts and the quartette find significance in the dancing master's call "Hands all around." "Change your partner." Hence it is now certain that Alice and Mack the celebrated protean artists will now delight the hearts of the vaudeville fans, while Tony will lather and shave to maintain a home for the ex-vaudeville artist Florence.
- DirectorFrank PowellStarsJoseph GraybillDell HendersonMarion SunshineJack was in dire distress when he made a desperate appeal to his uncle for money. On account of his reckless habits Jack's allowance from his uncle is cut off. His pleas for restitution have been received with a deaf ear by his uncle, until he is forced to resort to some extreme measure in order to make uncle loosen up. A great idea strikes him and he at once proceeds to put it into effect by writing the following letter: "Dear Uncle, Since you have cut off my allowance I face starvation. Unless we can make peace before 8:00 I shall commit suicide and the family name will be disgraced." The uncle receives this letter while he is superintending the decoration of the reception room preparatory to his daughter's birthday party, and in his excitement he forgets it. Meanwhile, the clock's hands are moving slowly but surely towards the fatal hour, while Jack is preparing for his fake shuffle. First he considers hanging, but that don't seem dignified; poison would be better, hence he fills a bottle labeled "Poison" with water from which he drinks copiously. Still uncle doesn't come. Of course, the reason is clear. It is 8:30 when he remembers the letter, and after reading the contents, he makes a mad dash for his nephew's rooms, only to discover, with the aid of a doctor, the hoax Jack has perpetrated. So instead of giving him financial help, he hands him the "Help Wanted" page of the morning paper.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsCharles WestStephanie LongfellowGrace HendersonA young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman, and before she knows it, she's pregnant.
- DirectorFrank PowellStarsDell HendersonGrace HendersonMarion SunshineMrs. Wilson secures seats for the theater as does also her daughter Pearl, each expecting their respective hubbies to accompany them thereto. The men, however, have other fish to fry, both having a weakness, each unknown to the other, for the green baize covered table, a quiet game of draw, so when they learn of the plan of their wives they at once scheme to avoid what would now be an ordeal. The subterfuge is illness. Mr. Wilson pretends to suffer rheumatism of the foot, while son-in-law has a violent headache. Of course, neither of the men know why the other is so anxious to avoid going to the theater with the ladies. Steeped with abject sympathy, they consent to go unescorted. Now the men are up against another problem, that is, how to avoid each other. Wilson is the first to make the getaway and makes hurried tracks for the club room where he is deeply engrossed in the game when son-in-law arrives. Consternation besets both at this meeting and when Wilson exclaims, "what are you doing here?" Son-in-law answers, "I came after you." Well, the truth of the situation prevails, and they make the best of it by becoming partners in the little indiscretion, both taking hands. They have hardly started in when there is a cry of alarm occasioned by the butting-in of the police and the majority of the players are "pinched." Wilson and his son-in-law elude the cops by getting out on the fire-escape, not, however, without losing their coats and hats which they left in their hurried decamping. Coming back to the room they find the entrance still guarded, so a disguise is their only hope, as they must resort to desperate means. Climbing up the fire-escape, the son-in-law enters a room above and pilfers a small boy's suit which when donned makes him look like a ten-year-old. Father manages to get a policeman's coat, belt and hat from a flat kitchen where Biddy is entertaining her "copper" sweetheart. This way they manage to get by the guards, but their trouble has only just begun for the father is taken for a real cop and placed to guard a street corner and the son-in-law, mistaken for a "mamma's pet," is set upon by a gang of hoodlums. However, they manage to get home just ahead of their wives who are excessing in their sympathy for the poor sick men who had to remain at home and suffer from their illness, while they enjoyed an evening at the theater. You may imagine that the episode proved a lasting lesson.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsEdwin AugustFlorence BarkerGrace HendersonThe dressmaker's pretty daughter meets the son of her mother's patron while on an errand to deliver a dress. The son is attracted by the girl and later proposes marriage, which she, greatly flattered, accepts. This seems to be a dream to her, but its realization is in marrying the young man. Although the mother of the boy strongly objects to the marriage, still she makes the best of it, and receives the girl in her home as her daughter-in-law. The girl, coming from her humble surroundings, is dazzled by her new experience and, being rather attractive, elicits the attentions of many of the male acquaintances of her husband's family. One in particular is rather more direct than the others and loses no opportunity to place himself in her way. The simple girl is, of course, pleased with these little attentions, particularly as her husband is in a mild state of depression owing to business difficulties. The tempter knows this and becomes assiduous in his advances, which are more mildly repulsed by the wife who feels that her husband is neglecting her. At length the crash comes, and the husband is ruined. Everything lost, they are forced to move to cheaper quarters. This is decidedly irksome to the wife as the taste of luxury has, in a measure, spoiled her. She is in the throes of desperation when the tempter again appears and she becomes an easy prey, consenting to his plea for her to go away with him. Going up to her room to pack her grip, she, while gathering her effects, comes upon the wreath of orange blossoms she wore when she was married. The sight of these blossoms awakens memories of the past and impresses her with the enormity of the step she is thinking of taking. In her mind's eye she sees herself arrayed in her wedding attire, standing beside the man who loves her with an unselfish, honest love she could not hope to find in the man she would take this awful step with. This decides her and she dismisses the tempter and all thoughts of him. Meanwhile, the husband has been downtown where he gets a chance to recoup. Promise of sunshine now hovers over the little home, where a few hours before all was gloom.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsGeorge NicholsDorothy WestWilfred LucasA feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the house gives a feast in honor of the arrival of a wealthy foreign noble, whom he expects to make his son-in-law. The daughter, however, has given her heart to the son of her father's enemy. That he may be present at the festival, she surreptitiously takes her father's signet ring, throwing it to him from the window, which, of course, admits him. The father, anticipating the intrusion of his enemies, orders death to any member who enters the hall. After the festivities the unwelcome betrothal takes place and the forbidden lover braves death to see his loved one. While they are in clandestine meeting a guard is seen to enter the corridor so the girl hides her sweetheart in a secret closet, turning the key and taking it with her. Not finding the intruder, the guard imagines he was mistaken. The favored suitor, however, is suspicious and determines to watch. At this moment the father is called away for a time and as an honor to his son-in-law-elect leaves the household in his absolute charge. This move works in favor of the nobleman to more effectively pursue his watch, and going into the corridor finds the forbidden lover's cap on the floor outside the closet. This situation if exposed would make the nobleman the laughing-stock of the entire courts of Europe, so he vows vengeance. The girl realizes her lover's danger in the air-tight closet and makes a desperate attempt to release him, but in this she is surprised by the noble who secures from her the key, and despite her order sends the guards off whom she has called to break open the door. The guards, of course, must respect his orders as he has been placed in charge by the master. Latter the master of the house returns and the nobleman tells the story to him, and sure that the imprisoned lover has met his fate by this time, opens the door. His anticipation was correct for the lifeless form of the forbidden lover falls headlong across the corridor
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsW. Chrystie MillerClaire McDowellAdolph LestinaAn elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDorothy WestClara T. BracyW. Chrystie MillerHere we find a youthful toiler at a sewing machine eking the lives of her poor old mother and father. She receives a mere pittance for her labor, and this barely gives them plain food without having much for the rent of their cheerless rooms. The owner of the tenements calls for payment, and being a man of unconscionable principles offers her a means of ameliorating her condition and giving aid and ease to her and her own instead of the hopeless toil she is subjected to. The temptation is great, but her pure soul rebels against this contemptible assault and she sends him away, promising to pay the next day. What a rash promise, for she has no hopes aside from that which would be miraculous. Upon the owner's return to his office he is met by his son who is just back from college. This son is the father's one real love. He has built great hopes for him and at once makes him a member of the firm. The next day the owner goes to re-offer his proposition, feeling that by this time she has weakened in her determination. He feels assured when the girl in her hopeless condition seems compelled to make a sacrifice of herself. She, however, promises to give her decision next day. He has just left when she receives from the clothier a large order of sewing and so goes to beg for mercy and time in which to pay her rent. At the office she meets the son, who is deeply touched with the poor girl's condition and is further impressed by her innocent face. He at once decides to make an investigation, but business defers his errand until his father enters and tells him he will go, of course, with a different object in view. The poor girl at his entrance is as a lamb on the altar and he has come to claim the victim. The girl, with repugnance is about to yield, when the son with an urgent message for his father enters. He understands the situation at a glance and then and there denounces his father, bidding him good-bye forever. Hastening out he secures medical aid for his old folks and material assistance for all, promising to protect the girl for all time if she will allow, as her pitiful lot has aroused in him sincere, honest love.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsJoseph GraybillMary PickfordMarion SunshineKenneth Marsden, a young artist in failing health is advised to go south where the balmy air is conducive to a betterment of his condition. Acting upon this advice, he leaves his club friends after a little good-bye spread and is soon in New Orleans, where he expects to find accommodations with an old-time friend of his mother. The old lady receives the son of her dear friend with open arms, but her two convent-bred nieces, Mary and Edith, are horrified at the thought of a man in the house. However, it isn't long after his arrival that he has made a decided impression upon the young ladies, but no more than they have impressed him. Kenneth is at a loss to know which of the two he cares most for, as they are both so gentle and artless. Still, he feels that Mary likes him for he reads her more clearly than Edith. Still he is impartial in his attitude towards them. Some time later, while out for a stroll, he is caught in a rainstorm and drenched to the skin. The old lady is prompt in her solicitude for his condition, and though she administers preventatives he is stricken down with pneumonia and for a time his life is despaired of. The two girls are ever in the extreme of anxiety and when the time of the crisis arrives, Mary's disquietude becomes so intense that she goes and kneels before the little shrine of the Blessed Virgin in her room and prays for his recovery, vowing to consecrate herself to the church if her prayers are answered. While she prays there is a turn for the better in Kenneth's condition, and the doctor assures them that he will recover. A few days later finds him convalescent and realizing that Mary's solicitude is induced by love he is about to make his choice between the two sisters, and in fact ha at first receives encouragement until she remembers her vow and recoils. This episode is witnessed by Edith, who goes to her room almost heartbroken. Mary, upon going to the room, finds Edith in tears and learning the cause, plans a subterfuge to send Kenneth. Well, the outcome is that two weddings take place, the spiritual and the material. Mary is wedded to the church in a scene showing the beautiful ceremony of a postulant receiving the veil, while Edith is wedded to Kenneth. The receiving of the veil is presented with absolute authenticity.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsEdwin AugustStephanie LongfellowJoseph GraybillAs they have breakfast in their hunting lodge Howard jokingly tells his wife to improve her coffee or he'll shoot her. Later she meets him as he's out hunting and is accidentally shot and killed by another hunter. Because the maid overheard his joke at breakfast Howard is arrested for her murder.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsGeorge NicholsClaire McDowellDell HendersonBill hits a rich gold strike and sends for his wife, Edith, to join him. While traveling on the stage, Edith meets and flirts with Jack, an old friend of Bill's. Once they arrive at the mining camp, Edith and Jack continue meeting secretly, and plan to run off together. Bill confides in Jack, wondering why Edith has become cold to him. Jack realizes that Bill's love for Edith is more worthy than his, and he leaves the camp.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBlanche SweetRobert HarronW. Chrystie MillerAn unsuccessful old gold miner is stricken down and dies, leaving three young children to take care of themselves. They are a boy of seventeen, a girl of sixteen and a girl of eleven. The boy, inheriting his father's determination, insists that they remain for he is sure there is gold to be found. Later his efforts are rewarded, and he rushes off to the agent to file his claim. While he is away a trio of thugs break into the cabin, but the pure, innocent girl so impresses one of them that he drives the other two off. To him she is as a white, unsullied rose, blooming here in the wilderness. Her clear eye of innocence awakens his better self and he goes, asking if he may return when he has proven himself worthy.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWilfred LucasClaire McDowellGrace HendersonA young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBlanche SweetEdwin AugustJeanie MacphersonSince the death of their only child Mrs. Vane gives herself up to morbid grief, to the neglect of her husband, herself and household duties. She sits continually weeping over the child's little garments, and despite her husband's efforts to cheer her, she persists in indulging in this moroseness. Her husband, therefore, is forced to seek more agreeable companionship outside his own home, and in time the wife appreciates his indifference. She complains to her mother, who tells her she alone is to blame, and if she doesn't change she will lose his love altogether. The wife realizes the strength of this advice, and determines to win her husband back. However, the awakening has come too late, for her husband has formed an attachment for a vivacious young widow. More subtle plans must be formed, and she succeeds in fascinating him at a dance they both attend, by arousing his jealousy.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsFred MaceMabel NormandWilliam J. ButlerWith her uncle she visits the seashore and goes bathing with a party of her brother's friends. Uncle also takes a dip and is annoyed at the perilous performance of the girl. He orders her from the water and locks her in her room, but brother releases her. He finally concludes that home is the best place for her, for there she will run no chance of drowning.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWilfred LucasClaire McDowellDorothy WestA poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter. During the Civil War she helps him escape capture by Union soldiers. After the war, with his fortune gone, she confesses that she loves him.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMabel NormandHarry HydeKate BruceAn attractive young woman is ashamed of her shabbily-dressed mother, and won't introduce her to her suitor. Distraught, the mother wanders into the street and is killed. Too late, the daughter realizes how badly she treated her.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDell HendersonBlanche SweetEdwin AugustA young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsEdna FosterDonald CrispJoseph GraybillBilly witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBlanche SweetGrace HendersonCharles WestEdith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsCharles WestBlanche SweetCharles Hill MailesUnion soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsAdolph LestinaYnez SeaburyWilfred LucasThieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a girl who lives in his building.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWilfred LucasDorothy BernardLily CahillA man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind the scenes to help him recover his life, and eventually he realizes how steadfast she is.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsEdwin AugustBlanche SweetMabel NormandJohn and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife, Martha. She refuses all contact with John until many years later when he becomes ill and she finally forgives him for deserting her.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsAdolph LestinaJack PickfordJ. Jiquel LanoeA lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of his wife is his little child, is reluctantly a member of a secret society existent among his countrymen. The active members of this society have observed with envy the success of another Italian and feel that they should share the proceeds of his industry without working for it, so to this end send the wealthy man a demand for $5,000, ostensibly to defray the expenses of their society. The rich man is defiant and consequently the society decides upon his annihilation, electing the widower to do the deed. He at first rebels against the move, but has little choice, for it is a case of the marked man or himself. Hence, off he goes on the terrible errand. In the meantime, the widower's child wanders off and is thrown down by an automobile and, though not injured, is carried into the doomed house just as the father places and lights a bomb beneath it. You may imagine the man's position when, as he is leaving the place, he sees his own child through the window of the room just above the terrible instrument of destruction.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsElmer BoothLillian GishClara T. BracyA tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
- DirectorWilfred LucasStarsBlanche SweetCharles Hill MailesJ. Jiquel LanoeElusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the very mutineers themselves. Here fate intervenes with justice and the miscreant mate after a series of exciting adventures is outwitted through his own weakness.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLionel BarrymoreRobert HarronGertrude BambrickItalian immigrant Gato lives with his wife Marie and his younger brother Giuseppe on a small truck farm in the West. Gato becomes so intent on his work that he neglects to show his wife the little attentions she demands. A foppish wandering Italian, Sandro, sees in this an opportunity to work his ends, but he is prevented by Giuseppe's timely interference.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsAlfred PagetHenry B. WalthallHarry CareyThree outlaws, pursued by the posse, are crossing the desert when a child's cry halts them. Near a deserted wagon they see a mountain lion about to devour a baby, whose late guardians lie dead of thirst nearby. Driving off the beast, the outlaws rescue the baby, first feeding it and then taking it with them, despite the handicap of its presence. Attacked by Indians, they still refuse to desert "Little Pardner." In a running fight one outlaw is killed; another dies of thirst. The survivor escapes and, seeing the posse in the distance, fires a shot to attract their attention. The sheriff, coming up, is amazed to see, in the outlaw's arms, his own motherless baby, which he had left in the care of an old settler and his wife. The story told, he bids the outlaw go where he will, for he will never take him prisoner.
- DirectorAnthony O'SullivanStarsHarry CareyKate BruceCharles Hill MailesAfter his wife's sudden death, a man's life falls apart and he becomes a derelict. However, he starts to redeem himself when he comes across a young couple who is about to lose their property, and he decides to help them.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBlanche SweetHenry B. WalthallWalter MillerThe young authoress had come to the edge of the desert for her mother's sake. There she met the two young prospectors and a romance began. But the men were about to go across the desert, where they had heard rumors of gold. They decided to play square and before going determined to let the coin decide who should ask the young authoress the all-important question. The flip of the coin decided the older should try his luck first. He learned the girl did not love him. But the other she promised to marry when he should return from the gold lands, and the care of her sick mother, who would then be restored to health, should no longer interfere with her happiness. The young partners soon reached the other side of the desert, where success came to them far beyond their expectations. The girl, however, had met with sorrow on the passing of her mother. The two young men decided to return, but on their journey across the desert the younger fell over a precipice and broke his leg. The water supply gave out and while the older sought water on the desert he himself fell exhausted with thirst. He was found, however, and restored. In like manner the younger partner fell into the hands of friendly but ignorant Indians, who took him to their camp, where through their crude nursing fever set in. His own health restored, the partner sought him, but found him gone. Then came the temptation not to continue the search. He thought of the woman at home and the advantage he might take. He returned and told her the other was dead. At first she could not believe him, but on the persistent urging of the man she gave in. Thus came their stolen happiness in the joy of a child that was to come, but the younger partner, restored after several months, decided to return. He appeared outside of the cabin and would have gone away on the other's explanation had not the woman heard his voice and come out. He was able to forgive, but the woman told her husband she could have nothing more to do with him after this deception. There was only one thing for her to do, to wait until after the birth of the baby; then the baby came. Her trunk was packed and about to be taken away when she saw the baby lying in the father's arms. Then her mother heart repented and she stayed.
- DirectorPhillips SmalleyStarsLillian HinesHarold calls on Mabel. While he is there her friend Lily calls. Harold seems to be smitten with her and ignores Mabel. When she leaves he escorts her home. The next day, he again calls on Mabel. He leaves and she follows him. He goes to Lily's house and Mabel is insanely jealous. She returns home. She, having ordered a bottle of toilet water from the druggist's, upon her return home the package is waiting for her. She opens the package and notices that there has been a mistake. The druggist, besides the toilet water, has sent a bottle of nitrate of silver. On this bottle is a caution label, warning one that to apply it to one's skin would turn the skin black. Mabel decides to send it to Lily as toilet water, and changes the contents of the bottles. She sends the bottle up to Lily with a letter that it is great for the complexion. She opens the package and places same on the mantel. Harold calls and they go into the next room. Then Mabel calls to see how her game works, and is surprised by the entrance of a sneak thief. She faints. Harold and Lily bear her scream and rush in. Lily says that the toilet water will revive her and she applies the supposed water to her face. She awakens, and when she sees the bottle in Lily's hands she realizes that she has been caught in her own trap. She returns home and her colored butler imagines she is one of his own tribe and attempts to make love to her. She makes known who she is and is left to her own remorse.
- StarsDonald CrispAnna LaughlinHarry SpinglerBlake, a middle-aged man, has a young girl wife, Agnes. He spends much of his time with a crony, Williams. Agnes is bored and receives the attentions of a younger man, Harry. Blake displays the contents of a curio cabinet to Williams, and shows him a bracelet which an officer of the English army gave to Agnes' great-grandmother, upon whom it brought disgrace. Agnes laughingly puts the bracelet on and goes into the garden with Harry, Harry makes love to Agnes, and she agrees to meet him in the garden at eleven that night and elope. Harry goes. Blake and Williams play cards, and Agnes falls asleep. She is still wearing the bracelet. In a dream Agnes assumes the personality of her great-grandmother and goes through the scenes which led her to disgrace. Harry becomes her lover. Blake her great-grandfather and Williams his friend. Harry gives Agnes the bracelet and she elopes with him. They are pursued by Blake, who is killed in a sword fight with Harry, and Agnes throws herself on Blake's body. She wakes with the warning impressed on her mind. At eleven Harry comes, but Agnes dismisses him. She joins Blake and tells him that the bracelet has taught her that she needs her husband's love. Blake realizes that he has neglected her and they welcome the dawning of a happy married life.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsCharles Hill MailesAlfred PagetMildred ManningAn oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of white slavers.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsDonald CrispIrene HowleyRobert HarronLost and without food, man and wife are left victims of fate in the forest wilderness. The first law of the wilds, self-preservation, struggling between them causes a breach. The wife meets the wise young hunter, sparing his store. Gratitude forgot, she steals for herself. Through her act all material supply is cut off. Her spiritual nature aroused, she seeks to make atonement.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDonald CrispDorothy GishHenry B. WalthallBuck Gade, the son of the owner of the large Gourd Ranch, had dismounted and was on his knees stopping for a drink of water at a ford of the San Pedro River, when his hat was sent spinning by a bullet, and he promptly spread out flat on the ground. Immediately a horseman emerged from a clump of cotton woods across the river. Whereupon the foxy Buck Gade turned on his side and sent a "forty-fiver" across the shallows. It spurted sand into the air close to the right of the rider, who wheeled and scurried off at top speed. Buck tried again, but the cartridge jammed. He was much disappointed because the fugitive was the Gopher, and the Gopher was the brains of the Price faction. Buck's father and Price, the owner of the Fork Ranch, were engaged in a desperate feud. Previous to this war Buck had been devoted in his attention to pretty Marylee, Prince's daughter, but her father so deep in his hatred of Gade, senior, forced his daughter to marry Gopher, his foreman. Marylee still loves Buck and meets him at every chance. This becomes known to Gopher, who determines to kill him and, prompted by jealousy, he is very cruel to Marylee. The war goes on and several attempts are made to kill Buck. Finally Gopher compels Marylee to write Buck a note, telling him that she is held prisoner by her husband, who threatens to send her to an asylum and begs him to come to her rescue at once. Buck starts off at once, unaccompanied, to affect her rescue. He reaches the house and just as he is about to signal Marylee through the window Gopher, assisted by one of his men knocks him down and the men proceed to tie him up with ropes. They then carry him off to an abandoned outhouse. Gopher then dismisses his men, stating that he will fix Buck. Buck securely bound has been placed on a stool and Gopher before carrying out his revenge taunts and man-handles him generally. Gopher sitting opposite his prisoner proceeds to sharpen a knife on his heel. He shows Buck how he intends to kill him. Gopher leans forward and smites him on the lip. Buck throws himself backward on the stool, kicking straight up as he topples over. The toe of his heavy riding boot catches the Gopher under the chin, and he falls down as though hit with a pile driver. Buck rolls over, staggers to an upright position, and rasps the rope around his wrists up and down the sharp point of the anvil. He releases himself before Gopher regains consciousness and makes his escape. His horse has been put away and he is forced to walk back to his own ranch. Shortly afterward be meets Marylee again and she plainly exhibits signs of the Gopher's abuse. Buck tries to persuade her to run away with him, but she returns to her husband. Marylee is constantly accompanied in all her rides by a Mexican boy attendant, who is her devoted slave and watches over her carefully. A week later Buck is riding over his ranch. To his right is a sharp rise on the ground topped by a thick cover of thorny brush. Lying in wait behind a screening of this brush the Gopher, with rifle in hand, is waiting for Buck to ride by so he may kill him. A sharp report from the brush makes Buck whirl in his saddle. Instantly he throws himself off over the horse's shoulder, jerking his rifle free from the holster as he goes. A man totters up behind a bush on the crest holding a gun. He sways a few seconds and disappears. Next a woman runs around the base of the ridge and speeds toward Buck. "Don't shoot," she cries, "Don't shoot. It's only me, Buck." Marylee is sobbing against Buck's bosom when a cavalcade of horsemen approach, composed of her father and a number of his men. Buck immediately jumps in front of Marylee and awaits their attack. Old man Price rides forward with outstretched hand making signs of peace and looks upon the scene with evident signs of approval. Lying upon some shale was the body of Gopher. Old man Price gazes at the body for a moment and shakes his head, remarking, "Well, he surely is dead." Turning toward Buck, he continues, "The question is, who done killed Gopher? Did you get him, Buck?" Buck shakes his head. Everybody turns to the Gopher's widow, but she does not utter a sound nor make a move, but continues to nestle in Buck's arms. One of Price's men grunts and throws Gopher's body over the back of a horse and slowly rides away. Meanwhile the Mexican boy, Marylee's faithful attendant, modestly keeps in the background, stirring gravel with his boot very uncomfortably, and avoiding old man Price's eye.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDonald CrispLillian GishRobert HarronFrank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails. However, the errand is not fraught with failure for the father, coming in at this moment, finds his daughter being made love to by the sweetheart of the young woman, and realizes the road upon which he has traveled. When he confronts his daughter and says, "You, my daughter, what are you doing here?" The daughter answers, "My father, what are you doing here?" The realization is brought home to the father's mind that the law of moral ethics that governs a woman's life necessarily governs that of wan as well. Reformation comes in his character. He takes his daughter away with him and together they go back to their home of happiness and content.
- DirectorArthur MackleyStarsCourtenay FooteDonald CrispRalph Lewis
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsMae MarshRobert HarronIrene HuntRomeo and Juliet type story loosely based upon the famed Hatfield/McCoy feud.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsJames KirkwoodBlanche SweetDonald CrispDoc Watkins, a sleek gambler, and his wife, Connie, are suspected of fleecing a newcomer in camp. They are escorted to the edge of the town by a committee of citizens and ordered not to come back. Connie is very much broken up. She becomes weary after a while, and cannot go farther. Watkins threatens to leave her. She pleads with him in vain. He jeers, repudiates her, and starts away. She steals up behind him and is about to knife him when both are startled by a noise. Connie conceals her knife. A young husband and wife with their baby, have come overland from the east in a covered wagon to seek their fortune. When near their goal their tired horses fall, the wagon overturns and rolls down the steep embankment. The father and mother are killed. The baby in its wad of bed clothes is caught behind a rock, and is not hurt. It is the baby crying that Connie and Doc hear. They find it. but cannot see the debris of the wagon or the dead bodies or the parents at the bottom of the gulch. Connie and Watkins rescue the baby and Connie becomes very attached to it. Watkins is then told he can go if he likes and he does. While he is gone, a couple of Mexicans see Connie and the baby alone and fight for her, one being killed. The other attacks her, but Watkins in the meantime has repented and the love for his wife and drawing affection for the child calls him back and he arrives at the camp just in time to rescue his wife from the Mexican. The two are reunited and decide to give up their gambling life for the sake of the child.
- 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.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsRalph LewisHenry B. WalthallBlanche SweetOld Colonel Potter had distinguished himself in 1812, and his son Dick was made a lieutenant fighting for the Confederacy. One July noon in '63, worn out with hard riding, Dick dropped from his horse at his father's house. He carried important dispatches, he said, but could not resist stopping off a few hours to see his wife, Nancy, and get a rest. Nancy urged him to stay all night, but the Colonel sternly reminded the young officer that he must put his country before his happiness and Dick went that evening somewhat reluctantly, to saddle his horse. Meanwhile Nancy had let the animal loose, and despairing of being able to find the horse in the darkness, Dick gave in to her entreaties to stay. Early next morning, a courier rode up with the news that a battle fought at dawn had been lost, because Lieutenant Potter had not reached camp with the dispatches. Ignorant that his son was still under his roof the father hotly declared that he must have been killed, as otherwise a Potter would never have failed in his duty to his country. The courier rode on to trace the missing officer, and a few minutes later, the Colonel discovered his son on the point of continuing on his mission. Sick with shame, yet unflinching, he told the young man that it was too late, that he had disgraced the family name and his country. Then leading him to his room, Col. Potter took down his revolver and laying it silently before Dick, left him. The lieutenant took farewell of his wife as though he were going on his journey. Out of sight of the house, he drew rein. Then, through the still morning air, a shot rang out. The father found his son's body five minutes after he fell. He cleaned and reloaded the revolver, placed it in Dick's belt, and simulating evidence that the young officer had been surprised and attacked, stole sorrowfully away. A little later, the courier was stooping over the dead lieutenant. "Died like a soldier," he muttered.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDonald CrispF.A. TurnerRobert HarronA dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDorothy GishRobert HarronDonald Crisp
- DirectorGeorge HennessyStarsMae MarshRobert HarronDonald CrispMrs. Ellis has successfully broken her husband to domestic harness, when, on her birthday night, he insists upon accepting the invitation of an old chum of his to a stag party. Dorothy Ellis tries to comfort herself with thoughts of the beautiful necklace her husband has given her for her birthday, and Ellis goes off to meet his friends. They do the cafés and end up in a gambling house, wagers and loses his last cent. Delirious with the thirst for gain, he goes home and stealthily emptying the safe of his wife's jewels, including the birthday necklace he has given her, returns to the gambling place. The sight of the necklace, however, sobers him, and he decides to go back with it to his wife. Meanwhile a burglar has broken into the house. He finds safe empty, but before he can escape, Ellis arrives. Dorothy is roused. She sees her husband forcing the burglar, at the end of a gun, to return her jewels to the safe. And she tells herself that she has married the bravest man in the world.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsRobert HarronMary AldenDonald CrispForsythe, a young military student of good family and independent means, marries Maisie, the daughter of a hotel keeper, while at school but shortly after graduation heeds the pleas of his parents and family who deprecate his union with one who in their opinion is beneath him in social station. Forsythe deserts his wife and renounces her. A child is born of the union. The boy grows to be a man but is not very successful at his work and finally, so that he may not be a burden upon his mother who has reared him as best she can on her limited means, he enters the army. The son spends several years in the ranks and finally is appointed a corporal. War breaks out and he is delegated to guard a certain post in order to prevent one o£ the enemy's spies from breaking through the cordon. While on duty the young man hears of his mother's fatal illness and leaves his post without permission. The son learns his father's name at his mother's deathbed, and is astounded when he remembers that the commander of his regiment bears the same name and initials and undoubtedly is his parent. Upon his return the young soldier is called before Forsythe and sentenced to death for having deserted in time of war. When Forsythe asks the young man why he committed such a breach of honor, his son tells of his mother's death and Forsythe realizes that he has sentenced his own son to execution. That night he aids his son to escape by exchanging his cape for the corporal's uniform worn by the young soldier but is shot himself when he attempts to leave the guard house.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsRobert HarronF.A. TurnerJosephine CrowellThere lived in a country an idiot who was very devout, attending church regularly, and singing on all occasions when joy possessed him the old hymn, "Halleluiah." He was not of great assistance on the farm. His father would have preferred a strong healthy lad who could have eased his shoulders of the burdens of his declining years. Likewise his mother would have welcomed a daughter who could have saved her bent back and rheumatic joints from the grind of housework. Therefore, they cuff and elbow the idiotic son about which mistreatments he accepts silently and as a matter of course. He feeds the pigs, goes to the post offices, loves the woods and is kind to dumb animals. One day the house catches fire and his mother, choked by smoke, falls in the burning building. The neighbors try ineffectually to extinguish the flames and are forced back by the heat. The father, a coward at heart, hearing his wife's cries, implores the watchers to rescue her, but none respond. The frantic old man then sinks to his knees and asks God to help him. As if in response to his prayers, the idiot, his son, whom he has kicked about, staggers into the flames, rescues his mother, and chanting the familiar hymn, falls dead at her feet.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDonald CrispDorothy GishF.A. TurnerMaximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn and stops overnight. He falls in love with the daughter of the innkeeper. She is infatuated with him, as he is the first human being who has ever been kind to her. He goes away but promises to return. While he is away a large reward is offered for his capture, dead or alive. The innkeeper tells the messenger of the news that if Bob ever comes back, he will put him into room seven and hold him. The daughter overhears this, and when Bob returns, unable to warn him, she changes the number on the door of room seven to that of six. When Bob is sent up to his room by Corto, he goes in what he thinks is seven but the daughter afterwards shifts the door numbers back to their original positions. Corto decides to kill Bob in his sleep and steals upstairs. The girl ties a note of warning on a weighted cord and flings it from her open window into his room. He reads it and escapes through the window. Corto slips into Room seven in the dark, with knife upraised. A shaft of moonlight discloses his daughter. He then knows that he has been tricked and slips off to six. Bob rides beneath the girl's open window; she jumps into his arms and they ride away together and escape Corto's vengeance.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDorothy GishHoward GayeIrene Hunt
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsDorothy GishRobert HarronDonald CrispRuth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merriam. who is a motorboat enthusiast. Unknown to anyone but her brother Frank, Ruth is an expert at fixing auto and motorboat engines as the estate is on the bay and Ruth has the use of two launches. With Joe she goes for a boat ride but the engine breaks down and he is unable to fix it, and afraid that it would lower his opinion of her if she should repair the engine, she lets him call another boat to tow them back to the wharf. Merriam, while in love with Ruth, cannot bring himself to propose, fearing that she would be too ornamental for a farmer's wife, and half of his visit passes while he attempts to make up his mind. Finally, the last day of his visit arrives and he is still undecided. At the request of Ruth's father she and Joe take the launch across the bay to bring back the money for the servants' pay roll. While Joe is at the bank, Ruth remains at the town wharf and is accosted by a couple of toughs who demand the expensive rings she is wearing. At Joe's return they slink off, but watching the launch on its return set it adrift with the engine dead. In a rowboat they follow to board the launch and secure the money and Ruth's jewelry. Joe, unable to repair the engine, gives battle to the toughs to prevent them from gaining the launch but he is being forced down when Ruth, realizing their desperate plight, begins to work on the engine. Just as the toughs are about to overcome Joe, she has the engine repaired and starts the launch, leaving the toughs far behind. Joe, seeing her with her hands and face covered with grease from the engine, realizes that he has misjudged her, and proposes on the spot. At her acceptance he takes her in his arms, grease and all.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDorothy GishWallace ReidDonald CrispMarcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie New and they are wed. Then Mamie shows him how simple it is to get things on the easy payment plan. At first everything is rosy and matters go very smoothly for the young couple. Then the collectors begin to get busy and finally Marcus has nothing left, not even his bride, for the parson comes to take her for his fee, which had been arranged for on a ten cents a day basis. The story which is told in a series of clever quatrains has a moral which is a good one.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsF.A. TurnerMae MarshRobert HarronIn a frontier mining town Gabriel Blair nurses a man who has fallen sick of a strange skin disease. Someone in the community pronounces the disease leprosy and the community expels patient and nurse from the town. Blair provides for the man and goes back to the town, but being now contaminated they won't let him stay. He goes to another mining community looking for a doctor. In this second town lives Meta Gates with her aged father. Meta is courted by Dick Stull, a brutal fellow, who wants to marry her, but she will not have him. He finds her alone and his wooing is becoming rough, when Blair appears and Stull desists. Blair is told that a doctor is hunting in the neighborhood, so he waits for the doctor to return and an affection springs up between Meta and Blair. One day a traveler from the first town arrives and, recognizing Blair, tells the town he is a leper. Blair is at once expelled, but Meta follows him while Stull sets out to bring her back before she can reach her lover. The doctor happens into the first camp and is told of the leper. He goes out to see him and finds that he is not a leper. Crossing the mountain, the doctor meets Blair, Meta and Stull just as the latter is begging Meta to keep away from Blair and go with him. The doctor examines Blair and pronounces him not a leper and tells them that the first man also was not a leper. Stull departs defeated and the doctor passes on, leaving Meta and Blair to return to the camp. But Stull has preceded them and, counting on the fear of the town, organizes them against Blair and Meta, concealing the fact that Blair is not a leper. The mob decides to kill the pair and menace them with guns, but dare not go near. Stull, knowing there is no danger, boldly assails Blair and in a hand-to-hand fight tries to kill him. Blair is getting the better of the combat, when Stull escapes from him and goes back to the mob. But the mob now believes him also contaminated and they kill him. The doctor now returns and dispels all fear, and Blair and Meta are invited back to the camp.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsCora DrewRobert HarronDonald CrispA poor old mother has a scapegrace son whose drinking and gambling habits break her heart, although she strives mightily to lead her boy right. But he will not stay home nights and travels with a tough mob, one of whom finally leads him into a robbery. The man they plan to rob is a wealthy man, whose philanthropy is well known. Invited to come to see him, the boy goes to see Keene, but only to get the lay of the land, for he and his pal, who plan to rob his house. The boy and his crook pal later go to the man's house to rob and the boy waits in the hall standing guard, while his pal investigates the safe. etc. The crook carries a 38 caliber gun while Keene has a 32 in his desk, and while the burglar is looking over the place Keene enters the room, surprises the burglar, who fires on him and is in turn shot and killed by Keene. The latter is mortally wounded, the shots that wounded him also knocking his gun out of his hand, and he is thus forced to use the dead burglar's gun with which to protect himself against the boy, who enters on the run. Keene wounds the boy and then falls dead himself. The boy, trying to get away, thinks he is dying and thinks of mother, etc. Maids are scared on account of the shots and dare not approach the room. The boy believing he is done for, crawls back to the room, places the burglar's gun back in his hands, crawls to the side of Keene, and the police, and particularly the mother, are led to believe that the boy was wounded by the burglar while defending his benefactor. This is published in the papers and the mother is happy at the thought of her boy being honest, and the boy realizes here is his chance to foster that belief in him by remaining "straight" always and be worthy of his mother's trust.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDorothy GishEleanor WashingtonDonald CrispDorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety of the cities. She meets a man from city on vacation; he makes cavalier love to her. She is interested and becomes infatuated. Mother warns her against him and begs her to be contented in country life. Dorothy is petulant. She lies in a hammock under the trees, and wishes the city man would come and take her away from the life she hates. Dorothy falls asleep in the hammock. The city man appears and finds her asleep. He kisses her awake and makes more violent love to her. He urges her to flee with him to the city by recounting the pleasures he can give her. He promises they will be married. She agrees to go, gets her things together and they start. Arriving at the city he takes her to a boarding house and pretends to arrange marriage in the morning. Then the fake marriage and his subsequent tiring of her and finally the desertion and her discovery that it was all a false marriage. Her heart breaks and she tries to find work, but all in vain. Suicide seems her only hope, but she is urged by a kindly landlady to return home to mother. This she does, but her mother refuses to receive her and she is turned away. Going to a small bridge over a stream or lake, she prays and starts to jump in, but the scene fades out and into her falling out of the hammock. Scared to death she jumps up crying. The city man appears through the trees and accosts her, but she shrinks from him in horror and runs to her mother and cries on her shoulder, resolving never to disobey her or be discontented again.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsWallace ReidCora DrewBillie WestElmer Kent is a clerk in a large establishment, and earns fifteen dollars a week. He supports his sickly mother, and every cent of his salary is required to make both ends meet. The heaviest expense is the payments on the cottage which his father, before his death, partially paid for. Recently more money than usual has gone for necessities for his mother who has had an ill turn, and the real estate agent sends him word that payments overdue must be remitted the following day or the cottage will be seized. The next day is Saturday and pay day. Elmer hurries with the money to the agent's office only to learn he has gone to the beach. He follows, him but at the summer resort is waylaid by a fellow clerk. Wirt Hadley, who introduces him to two pretty girls. They have a good time, Hadley footing the bills until the girls begin to pass remarks about Elmer's being a "tightwad." Discouraged, irritated by their ridicule, and despairing of finding the agent, he treats everybody to a sumptuous meal at the café. There Carr, the agent, sees Elmer, forms his own opinion of the spendthrift, and when the young man applies on Monday for an extension, sternly refuses. Elmer and his mother are evicted. Meanwhile the girls enjoy life at the beach, where they are summering, all unconscious of the misfortunes their careless twitting of a sensitive youth have caused.
- DirectorJohn B. O'BrienStarsLillian GishElmer CliftonJack ConwayAnne leaves her country town to embark upon a career as a writer in the city. She takes a hall bedroom and applies herself to her stories. The landlady is dubious. Anne goes to a publisher and is turned down. She goes to a second publisher and meets with the same fate. It gets to be an old story after a while, and her fund of money is almost gone. One by one she burns her manuscripts to heat soup, until she has but one story left. The landlady demands the rent in advance, and Anne is evicted. Chased from stoop to stoop by the policeman, she at length finds the key of one of the houses under the doormat and takes refuge inside. The young man, who is the owner of the place, presently returns to get some articles he has forgotten. Not finding the key, he enters through the window and Anne takes him for a burglar. She sees him putting things in his suit case. Finding an old revolver, she holds him up, and proposes that he teach her to be a burglar too. He enjoys the joke awhile, then he tells Anne who he is. She recognizes the name of a publisher who ninety-nine times has turned down her literary efforts by mail. Handing him the last story remaining, she compels him to sit down then and there and read it. Thus begins a romance which makes Anne's career a double success.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsWilliam LoweryDonald CrispMary AldenMason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp, who, in trying to steal the boy's secret hoard, beats him up badly. Mason leaves the now helpless boy in care of his wife, and resumes his search for work. At the motor factory they tell him he will be notified of the first vacancy. Utterly discouraged in his attempt to obtain immediate employment, he yields to temptation, when a former pal of his tells him how easy it is to pass bad coins. Detective Flynn is shadowing the counterfeiter, and captures him red-handed. Mason, with a lot of bad coin in his possession, is pursued but gets away. Arriving home and believing he has eluded the detective, he resolves once more to be honest, and rejoices as his wife shows him a letter saying there is now a vacancy in the factory, but his joy is short lived, as Flynn has shadowed him home, and arrests him while he still has the bad money in his possession. The detective searches, finds some worthless coins and puts them on the table near the door of an adjoining room, while he makes a more thorough search. Curly, in the adjoining room, has now recovered from his beating. He listens and learns the trouble his benefactor is in. He then takes the coins from his secret hoard, and substitutes good money for the bad. He then gets away through an open window. Flynn, after a vain search, gathers the coins from the table and takes Mason to the station house. The coins are found to be good. Mason is discharged and gets to the factory in time to get the position. That night, as Mason and his wife are talking over the affair, they are puzzled, but very glad to get another chance. Curly gets his revenge by tempting the tramp to steal the bad coins, and then notifying the police.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsLillian GishDorothy GishElmer CliftonMay and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a city man, comes to town on a visit, falls in love with Carol and wins her away from Frank. Carol is pleased with his attentions and poor Frank is brokenhearted. Calling one day to see Carol, George meets May and falls madly in love with her, and finally runs away with her and they are married. Carol, in despair, turns back to Frank and they are married, and a year later a baby is born. In the meantime, May and George have been living in another town. May is about to become a mother. George brings her to her own home for the interesting event and her child is soon born, but is still born. Crying for her baby, the physicians fear to tell her and are forced to try and find a baby to take its place until the wife is strong enough to bear being told the truth. Carol is approached and at first refuses but finally, for her sister's sake, consents and May is made happy. Carol misses her baby and May refuses to let her bother with "her" child and Carol is frantic but dare not tell the truth. Finally May overhears the truth from the doctor and nurses' conversation and takes the baby back to her real mother, and the sisters are reconciled.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsJosephine CrowellElmer CliftonJennie LeeA soldier's widow and her three sons comprise the happy Winthrop family, until one night while they're at dinner, news come of the fall of Sumter and Lincoln's call for men. Mother bravely decides to give her three sons to her country. At Bull Run, eldest son Harry is fatally wounded and dies after an affecting scene in which he yields his colors to his comrade. Mother covers the chair he occupied at the table with the flag that draped the portrait of her dead husband. Second son Edward is killed as he delivers General Grant's dispatches. Mother covers his chair at the table with a flag. Youngest son Robert is in camp near his home. Mother learns that a battle is imminent and resolves that the remaining boy must not be killed. She goes to the camp, finds Robert in his tent preparing for an expected battle. When the bugle sounds "Boots and Saddles" she frantically tries to detain him with her entreaties. Finally she seizes his pistol, puts it to her breast and threatens to end her life with it if Robert leaves the tent. The troopers are leaving for the fray. Robert is obliged to choose between his country and his mother. He remains, brokenhearted, saying she has branded him as a coward. After the battle, Robert, charged with cowardice and desertion, is arrested. On the day of the court-martial, General Grant, on a tour of inspection, stops at the Winthrop house to rest, sees the two flags on the chairs, and learns the story of the three sons from Auntie. At the court-martial Robert is asked to speak in his behalf, but says nothing. Mother forces her way by a sentry and tells the story. Robert tries to hush her, fails and turns his back. General Grant arrives in time to hear her story, exonerates Robert, declares his act required more courage than to face enemies, orders him to report for duty, and reconciles mother and son. When peace has been declared Robert returns home with the remnant of troop that started and his mother thankfully folds him to her breast.
- DirectorFred KelseyStarsWallace ReidIrene HuntRalph LewisA poor widow dies, leaving her two young children, Bob and Mabel, in the care of a poor neighbor, who later is forced by circumstances to give them to an asylum. Twenty years pass and Jack, who has been adopted by a good family, has now gone into business for himself and is a rising young broker. He has been searching the detective agencies for his sister, without success, for some years. Mabel ran away from the asylum and has been brought up by a poor family, is without education and is now employed as a servant, and on a certain day is hanging clothes on a roof nearby a large office building, in which Bob has his office, and a small boy is flying his kite from the same rooftop. Bob is on a balcony, or ledge, outside his office window and the janitor, thinking him gone for the day, closes and locks the iron fire shutters, locking him out on the balcony. A big deal is on, and after a long wait, during which he vainly tries to attract someone's attention, he feels against his cheek the tail of the kite the small boy is now pulling in. He hastily ties a note telling of his predicament, to the kite tail, and sends it off. The boy finds it, takes it to Mabel, who leads a run to the rescue party and Bob's assistance, and the two are reunited.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsRobert HarronIrene HowleyW. Chrystie MillerIt was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern girl's heart. The gallantry of the young southern swains, however, was more than manifest, when a drunken band of Unionists entered the house, among them her sweetheart. From him was protection needed most. His rival, a Confederate soldier, showed her that character is far above political principle, and true love came into its own.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDorothy GishSeena OwenWilliam HinckleyAbigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes from the city to visit in the little town. Her charms prove too strong for Jared, who neglects Abigail to dance attendance upon the new belle. The country girl is broken-hearted, though she hides her sorrow from her erstwhile sweetheart. A wealthy young planter, however, soon cuts out Jared with Bertha. Young Guild recognizes the city girl's mercenary motive, and he and Abigail are happily reunited.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsHarold LockwoodWinifred KingstonDonald CrispNeighboring ranchers John Ashby and Allene Houston are in love, but their fathers' violent feud over the route of the new X. Y. Z. Railroad eventually drives them apart. Colonel Houston and the elder Ashby are both killed in a fight, leaving John and Allene to continue the feud, John accepting a position with the railroad company and Allene swearing that it will never cross her property. Allene is aided in her battle by the foreman of the Houston ranch, Harry Marshall, an ambitious man who hopes to make Allene his wife. After an intense struggle, one of Allene's men shoots John, but even as she is winning the fight, Allene realizes that she still loves John. In the end, Allene herself lays the last tie just in time to save the company's franchise rights.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsAlice DoveyDonald CrispMarshall NeilanWhen Colonel Archer, the military post commanding officer, refuses to loan money to his second-in-command, Captain Waring, Waring gets the money from Brent Lindsay of the nearby mining town, in exchange for his note. Both Waring and Lindsay court Floyd Bingham, the daughter of a retired colonel, but Floyd learns that Lindsay is involved with Queen, a dance hall girl. Following the urging of her father, Floyd marries Archer, who has two children left to him by his dying sister, whom Floyd loves. When Lindsay continues his attentions to Floyd, Archer quarrels with her and leaves to go hunting. Floyd goes walking in the woods with Lindsay and his kiss is photographed by Waring, who attempts to blackmail Lindsay. When Lindsay is found dead and Archer, who suspects Floyd, is arrested, the men from the mining town almost lynch Archer, but Queen, who witnessed the murder, clears him.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsRussell BassettDonald CrispMarshall NeilanMay Blossom loves Richard Ashcroft, a Southern officer, and accepts his proposal of marriage immediately after receiving one from her father's choice, a suitor named Steve Harland, who loves her madly. She sorrowfully tells him she prefers Richard, nearly breaking Steve's heart. That night, without a chance to bid May good-bye, Richard is arrested by officers from the Northern army, who have suspected from his frequent trips across the river that he is a spy. Richard is torn away by his captors, exacting a promise from Steve, who witnessed his arrest, to tell May the circumstances, that she must be faithful, and that he will return some day, if he lives. Steve yields to temptation and only tells May Richard has fled, never to return. May believes Richard false, tries to shut him out of her heart, and finally succumbs to Steve's importunities and marries him. Steve and May are married a year, and a little girl comes to them, who is adored by both. Steve is tortured constantly by the remembrance of his perfidy to Richard, who has not been heard of since his arrest, and is thought by all to be dead. Richard returns to claim his promised wife, having finally escaped, and finding her married to Steve, tells her the story of the arrest, and Steve's oath to him. May calls Steve, who mutely confronts the man he wronged, till May is about to be torn from him, when, like an angered lion, he protects his own. Richard is sent away by May, and Steve goes to war, returning finally to be forgiven.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMary PickfordJack PickfordGertrude NormanA girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsAdda GleasonMabel Van BurenAnn DvorakOn the estate of Senora Moreno in Southern California, the senora's adopted daughter Ramona lives. She falls in love with Alessandro, an Indian of noble heritage. When her adoptive mother forbids their marriage, Ramona Alessandro elope, only to find bigotry, misfortune, and finally tragedy wherever they turn.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGeraldine FarrarRaymond HattonHobart BosworthA WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRichard BarthelmessDonald CrispA frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDonald CrispMary GlynneAlec FraserA Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDouglas FairbanksMary AstorJack McDonaldDon Cesar, son of Zorro, is framed for murder while visiting Spain, and becomes the whip-wielding outlaw Don Q.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsDouglas FairbanksBillie DoveTempe PigottSeeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsVictor McLaglenLois MoranNick StuartWhart-rat Nick Stuart grows up in reform school and is taken under the wing of likable career-criminal Victor McLagien, who makes him part of his illicit operations.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsDonald CrispPauline StarkeLeRoy MasonVikings compete for power and the love of a woman.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsDonald CrispRaymond GriffithMarceline DayWho killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsRamon NovarroRenée AdoréeDonald CrispA carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself.
- DirectorBasil DeanStarsClive BrookH. Reeves-SmithBetty LawfordSherlock Holmes dons several disguises to find information, after a retired captain, repenting of having worked with arch criminal Moriarty, is killed.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsEdmund LoweJoan BennettDonald CrispDuring World War I, criminal Dakin Barrolles, fleeing a bank robbery gone awry, has a chance meeting with a rich, drunken banker and his wife. Fascinated by the kind of people he would ordinarily never get to meet, he steals a locket with the banker's picture. Later, in an attempt to elude the police, he joins the army and is sent to the front. Wounded in battle, his face is severely disfigured and a plastic surgeon, finding the locket with the banker's picture, assumes that is what Barrolles looks like and reshapes his face to that of the banker's (who, coincidentally, also joined the army and is now missing in action). After the war Barrolles, now with the banker's face, decides to pretend to be the banker in order to gain enough knowledge to rob the bank--and, as an additional perk, get the banker's beautiful wife.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJohn BarrymoreMarian MarshDonald CrispThrough hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsClara BowRegis ToomeyWynne GibsonEx-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsElissa LandiPaul LukasWarner OlandA notorious, beautiful Englishwoman is kicked out of British West Africa to German West Africa just before the start of World War I. She marries a German colonial official to avoid internment, but when Erich's father discovers her past, he deports her. Before she leaves, an English spy approaches her for help to escape with a vital military map, and she must decide her allegiance.
- DirectorMargaret CarringtonRobert Edmond JonesStarsJohn BarrymoreDonald CrispReginald DennyA 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsJoan BlondellRicardo CortezGinger RogersShowgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsOtto KrugerKaren MorleyNils AstherWhen he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellEdna BestColin CliveBritish officer is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend who is now married to an Irishman. Powell learns more than he wanted to know about "the Irish Problem."
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsAnn HardingJohn BolesHelen VinsonPromising politician John Shadwell is married to Laura but in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his hometown. As Shadwell's political career blooms, gossip and rumors begin to cause Vergie to be shunned by the women of the town. Soon the two are constantly faced with the threat of exposure and scandal.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsHelen HayesBrian AherneMadge EvansThe story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five years. Recognizing his ambitions, Maggie helps to guide his career without his realizing it. He honors his commitment, even though he does not feel real love for her as she does for him. Will he succumb to the wiles of young aristocratic beauty Sybil, or learn to appreciate Maggie's true worth?
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsKatharine HepburnJohn BealAlan HaleIn rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.