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- DirectorColin CampbellStarsKathlyn WilliamsCharles ClaryWheeler OakmanBruce Wilton has amassed a fortune which he lavishes on his wife Vera. But a note of menace creeps into their happy home. No one hears it at first, except Father Kelly, a priest and Bruce's former tutor. The priest goes quietly to work with his sharpened mental sense to find the person who is causing the adverse influence in the house-hold. When he is on the verge of discovering the cause, calamity sweeps in on Bruce; his fortune is swept away and in a manner that he believe his wife was the cause of his ruin.Husband and wife are separated, divorced and their home is destroyed, and yet the cause remains unknown. But Father Kelly, with his faith that moves mountains, goes on quietly, serenely and confident with but one purpose in mind - the happiness of those he loves.
- DirectorJack PrattStarsJane CowlWilliam RussellPhilip HahnEleanor Mannering, an American girl living abroad at the home of her cousin, Jessica Mannering, chooses Prince Carl of Noyodna from among her titled suitors and marries him. As they start on their wedding trip they meet with an automobile accident and Eleanor is injured. Baron Von Steinberck, prime minister of Noyodna, arrives at Jessica Mannering's house shortly after the Prince and Princess have left it. He has a message for Prince Carl calling on him to return at once to his capital as his father, the King, is at the point of death. He learns that the Prince has just started on his wedding journey. Accompanied by Dr. McKenzie and one of the Prince's advisers, Von Aldorz, the prime minister, follows Prince Carl and Eleanor. They arrive on the scene of the auto wreck. The Prince leaves at once for Noyodna, after placing his wife in the hands of Dr. McKenzie and Von Aldorz. Back at Jessica's home, Princess Eleanor develops amnesia and remembers nothing that happened before the accident. In delirium her memory partially returns. She calls for her husband piteously, though it is evident that she has forgotten his appearance and personality. Dr. McKenzie and Von Aldorz decide that she has one chance of regaining her reason. A man must appear at her bedside posing as her husband. Mallory, a lover of adventure, and a daredevil, is selected for the role of the bogus Prince. Mallory is presented to the Princess. She falls in love with him at sight and he with her. She believes that he is, as she has been told, the Prince, her husband. The real Prince returns unexpectedly and finds his wife in Mallory's arms. Von Steinberck wishes to rid the Prince of his morganatic wife and abducts her. Prince Carl's father had died and Carl is now King. Mallory sees the abduction and follows. Prince Carl learns of it, too, and pursues with Dr. McKenzie and Von Aldorz. The Princess is carried by Steinberck to a deserted castle. Mallory gets into the castle, followed by the Prince and his group. There is a battle with pistols, during which Steinberck wounds Mallory and kills Prince Carl. Eleanor is freed. Her love for Mallory turns to resentment when she hears of the deception. But Mallory is now hovering between life and death. In his delirium he calls for Eleanor just as she did for a dimly-remembered husband. Dr. McKenzie tells her that her presence at Mallory's bedside alone can save Mallory's life. As she kneels beside the Irish adventurer and calls him by name; he smiles in recognition. The picture fades out with them in each other's arms.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsC. Norman HammondJay BelascoLouise LovelyA young author is so overjoyed at selling her first book that she unknowingly signs over all her rights to the greedy publisher. Later, after the book becomes a best-seller, the publisher's nephew (who has fallen in love with her) tries to help her get her rights back.
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsFrank KeenanLouise GlaumCharles RayThe pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.
- DirectorO.A.C. LundStarsLionel BarrymoreGrace ValentineEdgar L. DavenportDorian Keene, a broker, who has lost most of his money in Wall Street, and his wife, Florence, dissatisfied with her lot, wants a divorce. Out of his great love for her, Dorian agrees to allow her to have it. While the papers are being prepared Sanders, Florence's god-father, confesses to Dorian that he has misappropriated funds belonging to Florence. He fears an exposure, since she is getting a divorce, and may demand an accounting. Dorian promises to do what he can to protect Sanders. They go to Dorian's hunting lodge, where Florence agrees to meet Dorian with her lawyer. There Sanders weakens and tells Florence of the missing funds. She turns upon him in a violent temper. A maid hears them quarreling and soon afterward hears a shot. Hurrying into the room she finds Sanders dead with a bullet wound in his temple. She tells Dorian that Florence has killed Sanders. In his devotion to his wife, Dorian takes the blame for the crime. Then he escapes in an automobile. Down the road Dorian encounters a highwayman who holds him up, takes his clothing and the machine, and leaves his outfit with the bewildered broker. Further along the road the automobile goes over a steep embankment and the car is burned. The body of the highwayman is charred beyond recognition, and everyone thinks it is Dorian. Dorian, penniless, wanders to the water front in New York, intending to take a ship for Europe. There he learns that Henry Morgan, a fellow broker, who was instrumental in making Florence dissatisfied with her lot, has bought his old yacht, the Sea Gull, and is arranging for a smuggling expedition. Morgan has lost nearly all his money, and, in desperation, has taken a contract to smuggle Chinese into this country for a thousand dollars a head. Dorian succeeds in getting a job aboard the yacht as a stoker. The yacht puts to sea, and when some distance from land, meets another vessel, from which the Chinese are taken aboard. As the yacht nears New York, Dorian, after many thrilling incidents, gains control of the wireless apparatus, and notifies the Federal authorities of the smuggling scheme. A revenue cutter meets the yacht and the captain and crew are arrested. The captain names Morgan as the man higher up. Meanwhile Morgan has been pressing his suit with Florence, who, believing her husband dead, has agreed to marry Morgan. Instead, he urges her to come to him without a ceremony. Florence then spurns him, and realizing his true nature turns her thoughts to Dorian. Then the government agents call to arrest Morgan, and at the same time she learns that her husband is alive. Florence sends for Dorian, welcomes him home, and together they tear up the papers for the proposed divorce, which she has kept in her possession.
- DirectorSherwood MacDonaldStarsRuth RolandWilliam ConklinCharles DudleyRich young playboy Gregory Kirkland reads a newspaper story about a daring robbery, and bets his friends that he can steal a famous diamond tiara, The Sultana, from its designer and then secretly return it without being caught. Robert Sautrelle, who designed the tiara, visits Kirkland's home, and Gregory does indeed steal it. However, he gets cold feet before he returns it and convinces a woman he knows, Virginia Lowndes, to return it. Unfortunately, things don't work out exactly as Gregory had planned.
- DirectorJoe KingCleo MadisonStarsCleo MadisonAdele FarringtonWilliam V. MongRethna works hard to organize her fellow factory employees against the miserly, uncaring owner, Henry Burke. Then, realizing that she needs money to fight Burke, she begins an affair with his unscrupulous son Harry. After a year she breaks up with him to marry his kind brother Walter, and so continues to use Burke funds to aid Burke employees. Walter truly loves Rethna, but when he finds out that she married him only for his money, he leaves her. Then, while she is at the factory pleading with Henry for better conditions, a fire breaks out. Walter rescues Rethna from the flames, and during her convalescence she discovers that she really does love him. She and Walter reconcile, and then, as a result of the fire, Henry decides to spare no expense in improving factory conditions.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLouise LovelyLon ChaneyLule WarrentonAn unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond). Louise Lovely plays two parts: Giovanni's wife Leonita, who comes to grief when Cyrus falls in love with her; and Giovanni's daughter Elisa, whose beauty brings a horrific resolution to the two families' woes.
- DirectorJoseph KaufmanStarsGeorge M. CohanMarguerite SnowRussell BassettAn arrogant young man leaves his Ohio home to make it big on Broadway in New York City when he inherits the family business and $1-million. However, things don't go quite according to his plans. After he blows most of the money, he returns to Ohio to try to sell the family business to raise more money, but complications ensue.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsSessue HayakawaTsuru AokiJack HoltA Japanese aristocrat and an American woman fall in love, but their relationship is complicated when her brother seduces his sister.
- StarsGail KaneMahlon HamiltonEdward RosemanMarie Temosach, an Indian girl, graduates with honors at an eastern college, but is not received socially, and is glad to return to her old home. She is coveted by Sancho, a cattle thief, but she rebuffs his advances. Morton Dean, a spendthrift, is trapped into an engagement with Dora Wendell, a society adventuress. His father threatens to disinherit him, and dies within a short time, leaving one will bequeathing only his mines to Morton, and a supplementary will, specifying that the rest of his estate should go to Morton after six months. Dora refuses to marry Morton, believing him penniless, and he goes to Mexico, where he and Marie become mutually attracted to each other. Sancho becomes jealous, and after being worsted in a fight with Morton, swears revenge. Marie warns Morton, but he tells her to have no fear. Later Morton is wounded and rescued by Marie, who takes him to her cabin. They declare their love, and Marie, telling Morton that he shall henceforth be "her god," destroys the idol she has previously worshiped. Dora, learning that Morton has not been disinherited, follows him. She meets Sancho, and they go to Marie's cabin. To save Morton, Marie paints him to represent the idol and places him on the pedestal. Sancho and Dora, not suspecting this ruse, search the cabin, but cannot find him. Marie forces Morton to go back to the white girl, despite his protests. Later, haunted by visions of him, she rises in the night, and goes onward and onward, as in a dream, until she is in the embrace of the man she loves. Sancho again annoys Marie, who proudly shows him her baby. He tells her he is the child's father, that the night she walked in her sleep she came to his hut. He goes for a priest and tells Marie he has come to marry her honorably. Just as the ceremony is about to be performed, Morton returns and claims her as his wife, and Sancho is killed by the officers in a skirmish that ensues.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsWilliam StowellLon ChaneyOliver Curwell disowned his son Roger because he declined to abandon art and go into business, Roger gradually drifted from bad to worse until he was a derelict on the streets of San Francisco. In his art-student days a girl of the name of Olga had shown interest in him, believing he would inherit his father's millions, but when he was cast off the girl abandoned her pretense of affection. One evening Roger wanders into "Sailor's Rest," a saloon and dance hall run by "Hell" Morgan. A work of art hanging behind the bar Roger denounced as a "daub." Morgan resented this remark and was beating Roger when Lola saved his life by her interference. Morgan's daughter continued to befriend Roger and finally prevailed upon her father to give Roger the job of playing the piano in the dance hall. Roger painted Lola's portrait and they fell in love with each other. Sleter, a tough politician, objected, for the reason that he coveted Morgan's daughter. Olga leads a party of friends to "Sailor's Rest" on a slumming tour. She sees Roger at the piano and sends for him, as she reads in the newspapers of the death of Oliver Curwell, who willed his millions to his son. Roger joins Olga's party, and the old days are recalled. He forgets his love for Lola, and makes advances which Olga reciprocates. Lola goes to the party of slummers, and takes physical toll of both Roger and Olga. As a result Roger leaves "Sailor's Rest" and Lola resigns herself to Sleter. But when he attempts to collect his reward, Lola rebels and resists his advances. The tumult in Lola's room attracts "Hell" Morgan. He dashes upstairs, and in an encounter with Sleter is shot and mortally wounded. Lola drives Sleter from her room and escapes, dragging her father down a fire escape. Hardly have they reached the ground when San Francisco's earthquake and fire break loose. "Sailor's Rest" tumbles in a burning heap. Helping her father, Lola reaches the Presidio, where refugees are assembling. Her father is near death and she seeks a doctor in the crowd. Roger has been drawn back to "Sailor's Rest" by his love for Lola, and when he finds the place in ruins he likewise wends his way to the Presidio. Fate brings them together as "Hell" Morgan dies.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsMarin SaisTrue BoardmanFrank JonassonIt is Barbara Brent's birthday and under her breakfast plate her father has just placed a jewel box. As he sits waiting for Barbara to appear, he recalls the circumstances of her birth, and in memory he is living again in the boom mining town of Gold Bar. As though it were yesterday, he pictures his rapture over the tiny bundle the nurse has placed in his arms and his triumphal entry into the open street that the miners can feast their eyes upon his daughter. His anguish over the death of Barbara's mother, the sudden pinching off of the gold vein and the desertion of the town by all of its inhabitants, recur vividly to him. Barbara coaxes her father and Congressman John Wallace, her fiancé, to take her to the deserted town of Gold Bar as a birthday treat. Arriving, with provisions for several days' stay, they come across an old prospector who has lived all these years near the scene of the strike. He is suffering from hunger and exposure. They make him comfortable and then set out to explore the deserted grocery of Dick Dingle, now a convict. One of the floor boards gives way under Barbara's weight and when she draws up her foot, she finds a gold nugget clinging to the heel of her shoe. A search reveals a sack of nuggets which the jolly conspirators bury near the creek where they will be unearthed by the old prospector. Events now follow one another in rapid succession. While the prospector is off to bank his discovered gold, Barbara, her father, and her fiancé, actually discover gold and file a claim in the name of the old prospector with Barbara as his partner. News of the find spreads like wildfire and there is a general rush for the deserted town by eager gold seekers. In a fight to prevent the stealing of their claim, Barbara and the old prospector hold off Dingle, who has been released from prison, and his confederates, until Wallace can return from the land office. Dingle is taken in hand by the sheriff and prosperity once more returns to Gold Bar.
- DirectorRobert EllisStarsGeorge LarkinOllie KirbyRobert EllisBrandon, a police lieutenant, has made it extremely unhealthy for Mulhall and his partner Letson to continue their gambling operations. They plan revenge. Mulhall hires Benny, a gangster, to "plant" his I.O.U. for $2,500 on the person of Brandon. At the gambler's trial, Mulhall accuses the policeman of raiding his place because he was unable to collect hush money. The I.O.U. is found in Brandon's hat and he is stripped of his authority and held for trial. Grant, police reporter on the Chronicle, suspects that Brandon is the victim of a frame-up and trails the gambler to his quarters. Climbing the dumbwaiter shaft, he overhears Mulhall outline a plot to his accomplice for enticing the disgraced lieutenant to that room and then confronting him with detectives. Myrta, the lieutenant's daughter, is also afraid that her father is the victim of a hoax and follows him when he starts to keep his appointment, dressed in boy's clothes. Mulhall decides to double-cross his partner and hires Benny the gangster to finish him while the policeman is in the room. How Grant at the risk of his life saves Myrta from mortal injury at the hands of the gangster and brings Mulhall, the plotter, to justice provides a thrilling climax.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsMonroe SalisburyJack LivingstonJane NovakPrologue: Conrad LaGrange proposes marriage to Mary Gibson. She refuses him and marries Aaron King and they welcome son Aaron King, Jr. John Willard, who does not approve of the intimacy between his sister Myra, and James Rutledge, provokes a quarrel with Rutledge. Thinking he has killed him, Willard goes West. A baby is born to Myra, who does not know that Rutledge has a wife. Mrs. Rutledge learns of it. Crazed with jealousy, she seeks Myra, throws acid in her face, marring her for life; then commits suicide. With Myra's permission, Rutledge takes the baby to raise with his son, James Rutlidge, Jr., and shares his wealth equally between them. Myra refuses his offers of money, and writes to John Willard, her brother, asking for help. In California, he holds up a mail stage to get money for her fare West. Willard is arrested. Myra, ignorant of this, goes to Graymont, California. Not finding her brother, she wanders into the mountains and to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andres, who take her in. She is like a mother to Sybil, Andres' only child. Years pass. Aaron King, in financial difficulties and disgrace, dies. LaGrange, who has prospered, pays some of Mrs. King's debts and again asks her to marry him. She refuses, saying her life belongs to her boy. Mrs. King, sacrifices all to keep Aaron, her son, now a young man, in a Paris art school. Graduating with high honors, he receives word that his mother is ill, and rushes home in time to see her die. The Story: Twenty-five years have elapsed. Aaron King, Jr. leaves for the West. On the same train are Gertrude Taine; her husband Edward Taine, a wreck many years her senior; and Mrs. Taine's stepdaughter Louise Taine. They are met by James Rutledge, Jr. Myra, who now lives in Fairlands, recognizes Mrs. Taine and Rutledge. King becomes acquainted with LaGrange. Friendship springs up between the pair. King is commissioned to paint Mrs. Taine's portrait. He and LaGrange take a cottage next, to Sybil and Myra. Rutledge annoys Sybil with his attentions. King and LaGrange meet Sybil. Mrs. Taine becomes infatuated with King. John Willard (now known as John Marston) escapes from prison. He meets Rutledge, who befriends him and bides him in a mountain cabin. Mrs. Taine is pleased with the portrait. As King contrasts Sybil with Mrs. Taine, he sees the latter as a designing soul in a beautiful body. Refusing to let her have the portrait, he asks her to pose again. Thinking she has infatuated King, she consents. He also paints Sybil's portrait. Mrs. Taine gives a reception in honor of King and LaGrange. She tries to influence King by causing Sybil to play her violin as one of the paid performers. Mr. Taine collapses in the midst of a speech and is carried off, dying. Mrs. Taine, visiting King's studio, finds him absent. Sybil comes in. Mrs. Taine, bringing in the fact that Sybil was up in the mountains with Myra while LaGrange and King were on a camping trip in the mountains, convinces Sybil that the world thinks she is the artist's mistress. Sybil stops long enough to write a note for Myra, and then rides away. Myra tells King of Sybil's disappearance. He follows her, and enlists the aid of Brian Oakley, the forest ranger. Rutlidge learns of Sybil's departure. By threatening Marston with exposure, he forces him to kidnap Sybil. Marston takes her to a cabin. Oakley, King and a posse of men search the mountains for her. King goes to Granite Peak, but Rutledge gets there first. Rutledge makes the proposition that they throw down their guns and fight it out. As Rutledge is about to throw King over the cliff. Marston appears with Sybil, who begs him to save King. He shoots Rutledge, who topples over the cliff. Then Marston disappears. King and Sybil go back to town. Sybil has discovered that she loves King and that he loves her. Mrs. Taine goes to the studio. She sees herself on the canvas as King sees her, and flies into a rage. She threatens to blast King's career and to ruin Sybil's reputation. LaGrange, overhearing, brings Myra in and has her tell her story. As Mrs. Taine listens, she bares her shoulder, showing a scar which identifies her as Myra's daughter. LaGrange threatens if she ever speaks ill of Sybil or King to publish the story broadcast Mrs. Taine retreats. Later, Sybil, learning from LaGrange that King has completed his masterpiece, goes to the studio. King takes her in his arms.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsElisabeth RisdonBertram BurleighEnid BellA man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsMaude GeorgeLon ChaneyAfter divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business woman. Trouble begins when he foolishly invites her to lunch, setting gossipy tongues-wagging. The news reaches his devoted wife who has discovered she is pregnant. She confronts the ex-wife who agrees to never see Ralph again and marries another admirer. Devasted, Ralph decides to kill himself ,luckily he is found in time by the doctor with the good news of the birth of his child. Ralph regains his senses and the couple are happily reunited.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsGeorge M. CohanMarguerite ClaytonRobert BroderickA bartender named Holiday is a teetotaler, and decides to preach his new belief in abstinence to all the world, until there is no one left who drinks.
- DirectorWilliam C. de MilleStarsEthel ClaytonHenry WoodwardClarence BurtonPrince Sebastian of Lurania is forced to go into hiding when German forces invade his country. His niece, Countess Therese, is an ambulance driver with the French army, and one day she hears from her uncle, who requests that she meet him in a small town in Maine and bring the crown jewels with her. Unfortunately, a jewel thief finds out about the meeting and makes a deal with the Luranian pretender to the throne: he will steal the jewels and he can keep them if he kidnaps and turns over the Countess to the usurper.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsEnid BennettDouglas MacLeanCharles K. FrenchNancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus girls the notion of winning a man by the seductive method of "vamping" him. She tries the method on the shy minister she loves, and it works. They marry and resettle in a mining town where a German operative foments dissension amongst the miners. Nancy is called upon to use her vamping technique once more to get the best of the German spy.
- DirectorDouglas FairbanksAlbert ParkerStarsDouglas FairbanksTheodore RobertsKate PriceAn Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding officer, who is also his best friend.
- DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsLouise GlaumMary Jane IrvingThurston HallNeysa von Igel, who is living with her supposed grandfather Adolph Schmidt, loves America, although she believes herself to be German-born. Unknown to Neysa, when she was three years old, her American-born parents were killed in Germany by Emil Koenig, whose punishment was to be sent to the United States to work in the interest of the government of the Fatherland, and who is now associated with Schmidt in his manufacturing enterprise. Koenig demands that Neysa work in behalf of Germany. She revolts and escapes to the home of David Hale, who had been her grandfather's attorney but who is now in the service of the United States Government. Hale and Neysa are married and depart for France, where the girl again encounters Koenig, and, after many thrilling adventures, she kills him in self-defense.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsVivian MartinRobert EllisNoah BeeryLouisiana is a mountain girl living in North Carolina (though named for her mother's home state). A poor girl, she is sent by her father to work in a resort hotel in order to obtain some cultural improvements. There she falls in love with a wealthy young man, much to the chagrin of the angry young mountain boy who wants her to give up her cultured ways and come back to the hills with him.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsFritz BeckmannAnita BerberGussy HollA scholar defends prostitution before the World Court.
- DirectorPaul PowellStarsMonroe SalisburyClaire AndersonHelen Jerome EddyFlighty Helen Halverson decides that she wants to marry Big Jim McKenzie, the boss of the logging camp her father owns, after he is temporarily blinded after he crashes his toboggan into a tree in order to avoid hitting Helen. She convinces her cousin Adele--who is actually also in love with Jim--to get him to propose. Jim's sight returns and he and Helen marry, but on the day their child is to be born, he goes blind again. Frustrated by being married to a blind man, Helen falls in love with his assistant Jean Du Bray. Complications ensue.
- DirectorWalter EdwardsStarsConstance TalmadgeHarrison FordStanhope WheatcroftWhen a young man professes his stand against such things as stealing from his family, telling even a tiny lie, or eloping, Geraldine Barker sets out to make him do each of those things in grand style.
- DirectorTom TerrissStarsAlice JoyceConrad NagelAnders RandolfJohn Burkett Ryder, "the richest man in the world," determines to discredit a judicial decision which works against the interest of his millions by discrediting its author, Judge Rossmore, and causes impeachment charges to be laid against him in Congress. The judge's daughter Shirley Rossmore, learns of his trouble and returns home from Paris, where she has won success as a writer. She is loved by Jefferson Ryder, son of the magnate who is slowly killing her father. Determined to force the millionaire's hand, she publishes "The American Octopus" under a pseudonym, using Burkett's character as the central figure. He is attracted by the book and brings Shirley, whom he knows as Sarah Green, to his home to write his biography. This is the opportunity she is seeking, as it gives her a chance to obtain the two letters which will clear her father's name. Jefferson Ryder helps her secure the desired papers, but his father catches him and denounces him as a thief. Shirley, who loves Jefferson, cannot stand to see him so branded and confesses her identity to his father. The "Lion" had long since been won by the charm of the "Mouse," and the story is cleared up in pleasing style. - Moving Picture World 1919.
- DirectorWilliam ParkeStarsPauline FrederickAlan RoscoeJames NeillA young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsCharles RayColleen MooreJack ConnollyA rural youngster uses the strength he has developed handling egg crates in a shipping office to carry him to success in the boxing ring.
- DirectorWilliam WorthingtonStarsSessue HayakawaTsuru AokiMarin SaisWhen Sasamoto commits treason during the Great War to pay off gambling debts, his twin brother Yamashito assumes his identity and tracks him down.
- DirectorCharles MaigneStarsIrene CastleDavid PowellGladys CoburnSheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves, for fear of hurting her foster parents. Instead, she stifles her feelings for Garry Hamil and strives to maintain her marriage. But when tragedy ensues, she finds herself faced with a new dilemma.
- DirectorCharles SwickardStarsMay AllisonJune ElvidgeSam HardyWealthy young American Carrington O'Connell is traveling Europe with a "social advisor" to become more polished and sophisticated. While stopping at an inn in Switzerland, he is entranced by pretty young Adrienne Le Blanc, whose parents own the inn and in which she entertains travelers. Adrienne falls for him, but his "advisor" warns him against such a socially "unacceptable" relationship, and he reluctantly leaves. Adrienne soon gets a contract with a theatrical agent for appearances at a musical hall in America, where she happens to meet Carrington's wealthy father Michael. Complications ensue.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsSessue HayakawaFlorence TurnerSidney PayneWhen a famed matador is forced to become an outlaw, he seeks to get revenge on the dancing girl who betrayed him.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsCharles RayAnn MayBert WoodruffLuther Green goes to war in France in 1917. When he comes back to his family home in New Jersey, he has a surprise following him: a beautiful French girl named Nina.
- DirectorHenry OttoStarsPauline FrederickNigel BarrieWillard LouisBritish aristocrat Iris must choose between the poor Laurence and the rich Frederick. She decides to go for the money and agrees to marry Frederick, but at the last minute she changes her mind and runs off to Italy with Laurence. However, things don't work out quite the way she planned.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonMahlon HamiltonRussell SimpsonDeborah Krillet is the young wife of Simeon Krillet, a Boer farmer and religious fanatic. She falls in love with young Englishman Robert Waring, who comes to the farm as overseer. Krillet threatens to beat her for reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet but relents when she falsely states that she is pregnant; later she confesses the lie to Waring and records it in her diary. Discovering the deception, Krillet tells Deborah he must kill her, and Waring, summoned by a servant during a storm, shoots Krillet to save Deborah. Krillet is reported to have been killed in the storm, but the farmer's sister, Anna, discovers the truth. To silence her, Deborah surrenders the farm and her husband's money. Waring discovers that his wife has been granted a divorce, and the lovers are united.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsMay AllisonRobert EdesonTheodore von EltzThe marriage of Jim and Esther spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, Esther soon is keeping company with caddish Morrell. Jim brings his wife's galavanting to an abrupt end by committing suicide. Esther as an object lesson for young Alice Kendall, returns the fur coat that she's bought on impulse.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsKatherine MacDonaldRoy StewartBertram GrassbySalesgirl Marion Hoyte, unlike the other members of her family, seeks to better her situation; hence, when she accidentally becomes acquainted with young architect James Lodge, who clears her of the charge of stealing a customer's purse, Marion accepts his attentions. Leroy, a suitor for Marion, and her sister Bertha object, but Marion soon becomes engaged to James. Shipley, a financier, plans that James will marry his daughter, Gwendolyn, and will be engaged to plan the new state capitol building; but when Marion and James are married, Shipley withdraws his support and Marion is snubbed by James's social set. Determined not to ruin her husband's career, Marion arranges a fake elopement with Clifford Trent. However, Marion learns that James has been injured in a western mining camp, soon she goes to his aid; and through this twist of fate their love is reawakened.
- DirectorPenrhyn StanlawsStarsBetty CompsonMilton SillsCasson FergusonCherry O'Day is the daughter of Terence O'Day, who runs the Paper Lantern Café in Shanghai. She practices her father's philosophy to "play with men to her heart's content but always keep them at arm's length." Cherry has many suitors. She promises to marry a sailor named Donald MacGregor. But when he returns from the sea, he discovers Cherry's father has died. Cherry has married a rich man named William Blaine. A bank clerk named Harvel Allen tries to win Cherry's favor, but he is caught stealing bonds. Then Gordon Deane, a traveling novelist, meets Cherry but is the least interested of her suitors. Deane decides to take charge of a lighthouse on a lonely island, and brings MacGregor and Allen with him. Cherry gets a divorce and seeks Deane on the island. MacGregor and Allen engage in a fight at the top of the lighthouse, and both men plummet to their deaths. Cherry finds happiness with Deane.
- DirectorEdward JoséStarsAlice JoyceHolmes HerbertWalter McEwenIndiana Stillwater, the daughter of a wealthy American railroad industrialist, marries English nobleman Viscount Canning and travels to England. Her in-laws are somewhat shocked by her casualness in dress and manner, but welcome her into the family anyway. When her parents invite her to a Sunday-night dinner at their hotel, however, her husband--believing it to be inappropriate behavior for the wife of a nobleman--orders her not to go. Complications ensue.
- DirectorTom TerrissStarsCatherine CalvertCrane WilburFelix KrembsWhen the Civil War breaks out, Alan Kendrick, an army officer born in the South, stays in the army to fight for the Union, but his sweetheart Maryland sides with the South. She soon discovers that Alan was captured by Confederates in a battle near her home and is to be executed. Although he's fighting for her enemy, she can't bring herself to let him be killed and devises a plan to help him escape.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsWesley BarryMarie PrevostJack MulhallWhen a smart-aleck street kid's police officer father is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater, but really wants to become a police officer to avenge his father's death. He soon finds himself involved in a fake kidnapping, real gangsters, and a tip on the identity of the man who killed his dad.
- DirectorDell HendersonStarsZena KeefeRobert ElliottJ. Barney SherryA brother and sister living in the Canadian Northwest pose as husband and wife. They are suspects in the murder of a barracks inspector who was responsible for the deaths of their parents. The brother confesses to the crime to protect his sister, who he thinks actually did it--but she didn't. Complications ensue.
- DirectorPaul PowellStarsAgnes AyresTom GalleryEdith YorkeWealthy Mary Fenton is the subject of a lawsuit, and she is temporarily denied access to her money. Circumstances result in her being forced to pose as Mary Cosgrove, an heiress living in the Walford mansion. Matters take a turn for the worse when the real Mary Cosgrove shows up, discovers Mary Fenton's impersonation of her, and demands that she be arrested.
- DirectorJames W. HorneDel AndrewsStarsDouglas MacLeanMadge BellamyLila LeslieA young man happens to have the same name as a famous steeplechase jockey, and when he finds out that people keep mistaking him for the jockey (although he's never been on a horse in his life and is actually terrified of them), he plays along with it, even going so far as to wear the same kind of racing togs that the real jockey wears. Eventually things get out of hand, and before he knows it he's forced to substitute in a race for the real jockey--and finds out that the horse he's supposed to ride is a ferocious beast called Hottentot.
- DirectorDavid SmithStarsAlice CalhounRamsey WallaceHerbert FortierRobert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
- DirectorBenjamin B. HamptonDavid HamptonJean HersholtStarsCarl GantvoortClaire AdamsRobert McKimIn San Francisco in the Gold Rush days of the 1850s, a district attorney is prosecuting a long gang leader for murder. However, a powerful political boss is protecting the killer, and he gets off. Outraged citizens form a lynch mob, but before they can accomplish their task another murder is committed, and the culprit appears to be the brother of the District Attorney's fiancé. The D.A. believes the young man was framed for the murder to take the heat off of the gangster's acquittal, and sets out to find the real killer and who is behind him.
- DirectorE. Mason HopperStarsHelene ChadwickRichard DixVera LewisBilly Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
- DirectorJohnny HinesArthur RossonStarsJohnny HinesWyndham StandingMargaret SeddonJockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart to make him throw the race. Will he succeed?
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsThomas CarriganLaura La PlanteTom GuiseReformed criminal Boston Blackie is outraged when a judge refuses to grant a pardon for a dying friend. He hires Norine, his now-dead friend's daughter, to get to the judge through his son Rudy. However, things don't work out quite as Blackie had planned.
- DirectorRupert HughesStarsHelene ChadwickGaston GlassKate LesterA young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to be repaid, and she--not liking to ask her husband for money--writes a check on her husband's account. When he discovers that his wife has written a check to another man and not told him, complications ensue.
- DirectorTom FormanStarsKenneth HarlanMiriam CooperWalter LongAn American pilot flying in Mexico crash-lands on a ranch, and is nursed back to health by the daughter of the ranch's owner. Unbeknownst to the pilot--who has lost his memory because of the crash--the girl has been praying for a husband, and believes that God has answered her prayers by sending him this handsome pilot. However, a local guerrilla leader has also had designs on the daughter, and comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition, make some money and win the girl in the bargain.
- DirectorKenneth S. WebbStarsMildred HarrisCharles Emmett MackClara BowCabaret dancer Suzie La Motte (Harris) is in love with Jim Moran (King), a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning (Mack). Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder. It is only at the last minute that John is saved from the electric chair by Suzie's confession of the truth.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsFlorence VidorMonte BlueHarry MyersThe arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsHoot GibsonMarion HarlanCyril Ring"Swat" Anderson (Hoot Gibson) is a cowboy who plays on the town's baseball team and can hit the ball so far they have to send a man on horseback to retrieve it. It isn't long before a major league scout signs him to a professional contract. "Swat" can hit and he can run but he can't catch a ball which makes him a bit of a liability. That doesn't keep a gang of gamblers from deciding to kidnap him to ensure they win betting against his team in the championship series.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsCorinne GriffithHolmes HerbertIan KeithWorthless French cad Paul L'Estrange leads a young Southern girl, Linda Lou Heath, from the shelter of her home in Dixie to a cabin in the Canadian wilderness, where he soon tires of his new plaything. He has a friend carry a message of his death to her and leaves her to the ravages of a cold Canadian winter. Her childhood sweetheart, David Tennant, comes to her rescue, they marry, and he takes a position in Malaysia. There, she finds her first husband, whom she thought dead, serving a term in the government prison--soon to be released. The Southern belle, the former Linda Lou Heath from the 'land o' cotton', is now in a Malayan jungle as Linda Lou Heath L'Estrange Tennant, the wife of two husbands.
- DirectorGeorge D. BakerStarsViola DanaMonte BlueMarjorie DawPaul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life is changed forever. She leaves her previous life to live one of service and piety, a decision that ultimately saves Paul's life.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsMonte BlueWillard LouisBeverly BayneA man sees his wife flirting with a former boyfriend. Enraged, he decides to end the marriage. After cooling down, though, he has second thoughts about the separation, especially since children are involved.
- DirectorWhitman BennettStarsDavid PowellEdith AllenMaurice CostelloA high-society woman, mingling with the artistic set in Nrw York City, gets snared in a tangle of lies, and is forced to fight against overwhelming odds to care for her beloved child.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJay WilseyJean ArthurWilliam H. TurnerLightning Bill Lewis sets out to capture Gómez, the leader of a ruthless gang that has been tormenting a border town. He prevents Gómez from kidnapping his girl Mary, but Gómez escapes. With the aid of Captain Duerta, Lightning Bill pursues the gang, and when they are captured by Mexican soldiers, he is free to marry.
- DirectorTom TerrissStarsPedro de CordobaGustav von SeyffertitzPaul EllisWhen his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorious outlaw known as El Bandolero. He kidnaps Bazan's son Ramon and has him raised by one of his own men. When Ramon grows up to be a man he meets and falls in love with El Bandolero's beautiful daughter Petra. Bandolero forbids his daughter from seeing Ramon, so Ramon leaves to become a bullfighter. A vengeful young woman he has spurned sets up Ramon to be gored by a vicious young bull. Complications ensue.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsBen LyonLois WilsonBlanche SweetBank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, comes up short in his accounts and gets fired. Unable to find another job, he begins to work as an extra at a nearby film studio to earn money. One day the leading man of a picture John is working on gets into an argument with the director and storms off the set. Angered, the director sees John and, deciding that he'll show his arrogant star that he can make a movie idol out of just about anybody, picks John to replace him. As it turns out, John has a real talent for acting and before he knows it he becomes a star. Unfortunately, "stardom" isn't what John thought it would be.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJetta GoudalGodfrey TearleJosé RubenSonya Mendel (nicknamed Salome because of the string of scalps she wears at her belt!) is the daughter of poor Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side. Clever and pretty, she works as a reporter for the Jewish Daily News. She pursues John Manning, a wealthy non-Jewish philanthropist who has been conducting a campaign against graft on the Lower East Side. They marry, but Sonya is in debt to the very same loan sharks whose grip on the neighborhood John has been trying to break. Will they succeed in blackmailing John into giving up his fight? Based on the novel by Anzia Yezierska, which was in turn inspired by the exploits of a real woman, Rose Pastor Stokes.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsHoot GibsonMarian NixonCharles K. FrenchA young cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rich rancher, and they plan to marry. However, the cowboy winds up getting in a fight with the girl's cousin and is forced to shoot him. Believing that he has killed the man and will be prosecuted for murder, the cowboy flees and ends up working on a ranch in Oregon, where his cowboy skills impress the owner to the extent that he is picked as the ranch's entrant in the World Rodeo Championships held in nearby Pendleton--a competition in which his fiancé's ranch is also entered.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsCorinne GriffithKenneth HarlanHarrison FordYoung Marian hooks up with Arthur, a boy who loves nothing more than drinking and fast music. He takes Marian to a string of wild parties, and she falls for him. She marries him on his promise to settle down from his wild life. It isn't long before he becomes restless, though, and takes up with a flashy dancer. Feeling neglected, Marian meets up with a former boyfriend, Bob. Complications ensue.
- DirectorFred WindemereStarsKenneth HarlanVivian MartinMildred HarrisChorus girl Mary Brown promises to give herself to playboy cad John Duane in exchange for $2500 so she can pay back a theft her brother made from his employers. Her sweetheart, race-car driver Jimmie, learns about it and gives her a check for $2500, but the check is worthless unless he can win the Big Race that afternoon. He leads through every lap but blows a tire on the last lap and finishes fourth. It appears that Duane will soon be hugging sweet Mary, unless Jimmie can find a buyer for a race-car with a flat tire.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsRuth RolandHenry B. WalthallMayme KelsoAlec Craig has a good position in a manufacturing company, however, is brought close to financial ruin by his wife and daughter, who live beyond their means and who have fallen prey to installment sharks. Grant Elliot, an aviator, loves Ruth and waits for the day when his invention will be a success so that they can marry. To delay the installment collector, Ruth illegally pawns a ring that is not yet paid for. She is tricked by Howard Steele, an agent of real estate speculators, into divulging information on the location of a valuable site on which the company has taken an option. The company blames Craig for the leak, and he is fired. The collector calls for the ring and finds that it has been pawned. Ruth, realizing she has been tricked, gets even with Steele by taking him up and making him stay up in an airplane past the time when the option expires. Craig's widowed sister and her son, Gene, redeem the ring and make Ruth and her mother promise never to fall prey to installment sharks again. Ruth's flight has proved the value of Grant's invention, and their future is assured.
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerStarsGeorge SidneyLouise FazendaVera GordonMeyer Rubens and his wife Esther own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move up to the upper West Side, and her rich sister Reba persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks that Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in compromising situations with other women so her sister can file for divorce.
- DirectorEdward DillonStarsViola DanaJerry MileyJed ProutyKatie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages the property in order to get the money needed to enter her horse in the Derby. Dennis Reilly, a wealthy sportsman, also has a horse in the race and his jockey accidentally runs Reilly's horse into Kate's horse, causing her horse to lose. She swears vengeance on O'Reilly. She is forced to go to work for a crooked bookie, Jake Trumbull, and a crooked competitor of Reilly's,Tod Cuyler, who plan on switching a dead-ringer horse for Reilly's favored-to-win horse, and clean up betting against Reilly's horse.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsGeorge SidneyCharles MurrayVera GordonStage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses--but Miriam must promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events.
- DirectorEmmett J. FlynnStarsOlive BordenRalph InceClaire AdamsIn the south seas a respected trader, Captain Shane, has a young ward named Saina that he has taken care of since infancy. She is the half caste daughter of the Captain's long dead business partner, but she doesn't know this until she overhears him tell a white girl he is in love with. Siana lashes out and plots to put the girl into the hands of an evil Chinese master criminal.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsGeorge IrvingPatsy Ruth MillerKenneth HarlanGenteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail. Selsby soon dies of apoplexy, first dictating a confession to exonerate Fairfax; Selsby's wife is afraid of scandal, however, and places the confession in a wall safe. Time passes. The colonel serves out his sentence and returns home in the company of four friends he has made in prison: John Doe Smit, Red Kelly, Soup Conley, and Dude Morlanti. Selsby's son, Tom, who is infatuated with the colonel's daughter, Kate, offers to give her his father's confession if she will marry him. Smith overhears this remark and with the help of his former cellmates recovers the confession. The colonel's name is cleared, and his horse, entered in an important race, wins a gold cup. Kate and John Doe get along just fine.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsLillian RichHuntley GordonJay HuntAfter it has been sold to a new owner, a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.
- DirectorRobert ThornbyStarsPriscilla DeanArnold GrayMajel ColemanWhen Bruce Elwood, a Wyoming rancher, hears that golf-champion Freddie Hayden is in an area golf tournament, he sends word that he would like Freddie to come teach golf lessons at his Cowboy Golf Club. Upon arriving, and much to the dismay of Elwood, Freddie turns out to be a woman. She remains and the ranch cowboys neglect their work to take lessons from Freddie. Bad Willie, the area's leading cattle rustler and baddest badman, also is attracted to Freddie.
- DirectorLynn ReynoldsStarsHoot GibsonBlanche MehaffeyAlan RoscoeChad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk. He gets himself involved in a dispute between a development company and the local ranchers who don't want their ranches 'developed.' He falls in love with Molly Hollis, a rancher's daughter, and sides with the good guys, although his swaggering about town in a pair of sheep-skin chaps does little to impress anybody.
- DirectorClifford SmithStarsHoot GibsonEileen PercyAllan ForrestWhen Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the killer off guard he poses as a dude with a camera. Unknown to Click, the camera will reveal the killer's identity.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsWallace BeeryRaymond HattonJosephine DunnTwo firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false alarms whenever she needs some heavy lifting done so that she can get the responding firemen to do it.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge O'BrienJack RollensHelena D'AlgyNostromo is the foreman of longshoremen in a South American Republic, and they are to load the cargo of silver that is to come from the San Tome mine. Sotillo and his band gang are plotting to steal the silver, but the fore-warned Nostromo has a plan to outwit them. He meets the silver train far up the road and has the shipment transferred to a big wagon, sending it via side-streets to the wharf. He and his men stay with the train and fight of the bandits. Back at the wharf, Nostromo thinks about claiming the silver was lost in the battle and taking it for himself. He and his conscience struggles mightily.Nostromo
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsPauline StarkeAntonio MorenoLilyan TashmanA British nobleman heavily in debut to a moneylender agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".
- DirectorErnst LaemmleStarsFred HumesHelen FosterBuck ConnorsWhen young drifter Sandy Loom finds prospector Jim Perkins dying, he promises to take care of his daughter Myra. Assited by Professor Hawley and "Stills" Manners, he works her father's gold claim. Simeon Coe, a land shark and claim jumper, asks the judge to appoint him the girl's guardian, swearing it was Jim's last request, and though the judge refuses, Coe orders Sandy and his pals off the claim, backed by the sheriff. Sandy is jailed but is released by the judge and corners Coe in a mine shaft, where the latter falls to his death. The gold claim proves worthless, but Sandy and Myra find happiness together..
- DirectorEugen IllésStarsAsta NielsenBernhard GoetzkeHans WassmannReaching 40, Elsie is watching her girl friends one by one taking a lover. She happens to meet young student Jörgen who is dazzled by her cosmopolitan air. Elsie wants to divorce her husband, but the age gap between Elsie and the student becomes an issue.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsBillie DoveGilbert RolandRay TurnerVictor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMonte BluePatsy Ruth MillerJohn MiljanBarry Baline, a guard at a subway station, has worked at his job for six years without a day off. One New Year's Eve he's told that he won't be needed until the next morning, so he decides to go out for a night on the town. As it turns out, however, his "celebrating" is short-lived--he is knocked down by a large, luxurious car driven by a man wearing expensive evening clothes. Complications ensue.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsLewis StoneBillie DoveLloyd HughesYoung husband Jerry, a clerk, loses his job, and in order to bring money into the house, his wife Tamara goes back to her old job as a dancer in the Follies. The husband doesn't like the idea at all, and they wind up separating. One night the clerk and his friend, an inventor, are dining at a restaurant, and the inventor is lamenting that he has a great invention but can't get in to see a millionaire named Hammersley in order get get financial backing. They don't know that Hammersley happens to be sitting at the next table. The three strike up a conversation and become friends. However, there's another thing Jerry also doesn't know--Hammersley is in love with Tamara and, in fact, she is going to his house that night to see him.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsW.C. FieldsChester ConklinMary BrianSheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.
- DirectorDel LordStarsGeorge SidneyCharles MurrayNatalie KingstonOne was an Irish policeman - his friend was a German saloon keeper. They went "over there" to fight for their country, but they had more fights getting to the front than they had when they got there. And the way those Russian women made love to them, made them wish they were in "No Woman's Land". Positively the funniest war story ever screened. You'll lose yourself in laughter when you see "Lost at the Front". Don't miss it. The previous paragraphs appeared in promotional material distributed for the 1927 release.
- DirectorJohn P. McCarthyStarsSally O'NeilMolly O'DayLarry KentGeorgie Hastings falls in love with Bill Warren. Bill is the new boyfriend of Georgie's sister Ann. Knowing not what to do, Georgie turns to the popular columnist Beatrice Fairfax for advice. But the problem works itself out when Bill turns out to be a fortune-hunter. He is only interested in the Hastings family's dough.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsAlec B. FrancisMolly O'DayJohn BolesJohn Boles (as Young Matt) is a troubled young mountain man, but a stranger comes to help him in an unlikely way.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsAudrey FerrisJames MurrayRobert EdesonA pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In the meantime, Holt's granddaughter falls in love with a devil-may-care aviator. The only problem is that Holt hates aviators and will do whatever he can to break up the romance.
- DirectorFrank S. MattisonStarsLila LeeCullen LandisFrank MerrillVacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a forest fire. (The father did perish; the sweetheart escaped, crippled, with his blinded Indian guide into the forest to hide his infirmities.) Marie becomes a Broadway star, only to find it necessary to leave New York hurriedly under suspicion of the murder of one of her "angels." (The real murderer escapes, but is later captured in the Northwest.) Returning to her hometown, Marie finds considerable local opposition to her presence; but she finally finds happiness in the arms of her sweetheart, who has returned also, inherited a fortune, and recovered the use of his legs.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsMay McAvoyLionel BarrymoreAlec B. FrancisJudge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating appearance of a conflict of interests. When one of the Judge's enemies plots to ruin the Judge over this apparent improper behavior, Judge Ross's daughter Shirley sets out to prove her father's innocence.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDavid RollinsNancy DrexelJohn DarrowA bashful, timid 17-year-old boy comes to school and finds that the whole student boy and faculty expect him to live up to his father's accomplishments at the same school. The father is regarded as the finest athlete to ever attend the school, and the son is ill-equipped or prepared to follow in his big footsteps.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsHarry CareyKathleen CollinsWilliam BaileyBob and Jim Whitely are twin brothers. Bob, an army veteran who suffered shell shock in the war, escapes from a sanitarium and holds up the Express train, for which Jim is mistakenly arrested. Jim soon escapes from jail in order to find his brother. However, his task is complicated by a crooked sheriff who pins a holdup and murder on him that the sheriff himself actually committed. To make matters worse, the murder victim was Tommy Wilkins, the brother of Jim's fiancee, who now thinks that Jim killed her brother.
- DirectorBobby RayStarsCreighton HaleAl AltPauline GaronTwo pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends. However, they get in trouble and wind up in the guardhouse. Their girlfriends are determined to get married, however, and in order to accomplish this, they disguise themselves as soldiers and sneak onto the base, where they unwittingly get mixed up with enemy spies trying to gather information.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsMadge BellamyLouise DresserBarry NortonA stage-actress mother and her daughter wage a battle of wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsThomas MeighanH.B. WarnerLila LeeA multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
- DirectorF. Harmon WeightStarsMyrna LoyWilliam Collier Jr.John MiljanA bank officer steals valuable securities from his bank to pay off debts owed to a notorious gambler, but the disgrace is more than he can bear and does himself in. His loyal secretary, a beau of the banker's daughter, takes the blame instead for the sake of her family honor. She in turn tries to help him by trying to locate the missing bonds by seducing the gambler's son.
- DirectorScott R. DunlapStarsBetty BronsonWilliam Collier Jr.Mitchell LewisWhen his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Suden, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts, but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetThomas StoreyStarsWalter MillerEthlyne ClairTom LondonThe villain of this serial, the "Wolf Devil", whose head covering amazingly looks like a REAL wolf's head, is determined to eradicate the non-native races from Alaska. Quite a large goal as compared to other serials of this period. He at one point captures the heroine, played by Ethelyne Clair. Drugs are involved.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsDavey LeeEdward Everett HortonBetty BronsonOn the eve of her divorce, a mother enlists her sister's aid in smuggling her young son out of the house, fearing that she will lose custody of him and hides out in the apartment of her husband's bachelor lawyer, who has just left town for a month. Complications arise when the lawyer's parents unexpectedly pay him a visit, and the woman is forced to pose as his new wife in order to be able to stay hidden out in the apartment.