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- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCleo MadisonHerbert RawlinsonRex De RosselliThe Colonel is a fine type of the English country gentleman. All the formulas and traditions of his race he holds dear and he takes pride in the assertion that his ancestors were men of honor and women of virtue. While visiting a Glasgow inn with a friend, the Colonel learns that his nephew, Lieutenant Pritchard, is mixed up in an unwholesome affair with a woman. Under the threat of cutting him off, the Colonel compels the nephew to give the woman up. Later the nephew leaves for the front in South Africa. The Colonel advertises for a housekeeper. Nina, the adventuress who had known the son, answers the ad and secures the position. The Colonel is ignorant of the girl's past, and in six months we find them married. The nephew returns; he recognizes his uncle's wife with horror. The Colonel is informed, but refuses to believe when his wife denies ever knowing the nephew. Later, the Colonel learns the truth; he writes a note and shoots himself. The adventuress tries to implicate herself, but dies through drinking a glass of poisoned wine discarded by the Colonel. When the note is found it reads, "My ancestors were men of honor and women of virtue. It is the law of my kind. There was no other way."
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCleo MadisonJ. Farrell MacDonaldFrank LloydAn early Southwestern drama set at a time when Mexican bandits held forth in mountain strongholds and hurled defiance at gentlemen and miners alike. Bill, a young miner, loves a storekeeper's daughter despite the objections to the match by the girl's parent. When the irate father leaves the store for the town, the girl is to fire two shots, which shall be a signal for Bill to come to her. Before these plans are consummated, however, two Mexican bandits take the father captive. The girl escapes and one of the bandits fires two shots after her. At his diggings, Bill hears the shots and thinks it is the girl signaling. Bill reaches the store in time to save the father and stop the robbery. The father still discourages Bill's advances toward his daughter. Shortly after this, another member of the Mexican band finds the daughter in the store alone and kidnaps her. The father offers Bill the girl in marriage if he will save her. Bill rides into the Mexicans' camp and rescues the girl.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHerbert RawlinsonAnn LittleFrank LloydThe Prince John of Bavaria, leaves his native land for America, accompanied by his valet. Just a short distance beyond Sandy Hook where the American papers are taken aboard, the Prince learns that Mrs. Asterholt has designs upon him for her daughter Gay. In the spirit of fun, the Prince decides to fool the Dowager and changes clothes and position with his protesting valet. The substitution is not discovered by Mrs. Asterholt as she has never met her distinguished guest and her uncle, the Minister to Bavaria, arranged for his visit to this country. Mrs. Carson is the wife of the president of a great railway. His daughter Caroline Carson, is a spirited, true-blooded American, but her mother, who is socially ambitious, has already made up her mind that Caroline shall marry the Prince at all hazards. The father, Peter Carson, is a stoical, staid type of man who believes that a woman should choose her own mate, and is naturally not in harmony with his wife. Mrs. Carson succeeds in obtaining an invitation to the grand ball given by Mrs. Asterholt where the bogus Prince is presented and she immediately makes advances in behalf of her daughter. The valet, who is the real Prince, sees Caroline at the ball and when the bogus Prince receives an invitation to visit the Carsons, his master forces him to accept it. They arrive at the Carson home where the valet is received with great pomp and gusto, whereas his valet, who is the true Prince, wanders to the seashore for recreation. While there he saves Caroline's life, but her gratitude is cut short by the mother, to whom a valet appears as merely a piece of useful furniture. The father, however, is gracious toward the valet and thanks him for his heroism. A great fuss is made over the pretender by everyone excepting Caroline, who has fallen in love with the supposed valet. Finally at Prince John's command, the pretender is forced to propose to the girl as a final test. She flatly refuses him, much to his great relief. He goes off leaving the weeping Caroline in John's arms. A cablegram arrives at Mrs. Asterholt's for the Prince. She, in order to successfully combat Mrs. Carson, determines to deliver it in person. The valet pretender takes one look at the telegram and drops his pose. Leaving the astounded ladies, he runs to the garden, where he bows before his Lordship and presents him with the telegram, which is a message that Prince John is to return to Bavaria as war is eminent. Naturally, the real Prince is forced to announce himself and Carson smilingly shows his guests a postcard which shows the real Prince in uniform with titles and position inscribed beneath. Mrs. Asterholt collapses; Mrs. Carson is triumphant, and the Prince takes the girl in his arms who is brave enough to love where her heart led her.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHerbert RawlinsonAnn LittleWilliam WorthingtonAnna Little is a stenographer in the office of William Wharton, a broker, who also employs her old grandfather as a clerk. The grandfather has an addiction to drink. Anna is secretly engaged to Tom Mason, a young civil engineer, who is at present engaged in the building of a railroad out west. Wharton does not know of this engagement, and one day he finds the old grandfather stealing money from his desk. The grandfather, thinking Wharton will send him to prison, appeals to the granddaughter to save him, and Wharton in a moment of weakness, thinking that he could make the girl love him, lets the old man think that he will send him to jail unless Anna will marry him. A vision of the poor, wrinkled old face behind the bars is too much for Anna and she consents. Wharton, after they are married, notices that his wife is distant to him, but does not press his love, as he thinks to win her with kindness and consideration. He is unsuccessful, however, and Anna constantly thinks of Tom, to whom she has returned her tiny engagement ring with a brief note, saying that the engagement is off. She is seated in the garden of her home when Wharton slips up behind her and clasps a string of pearls around her neck. She pulls them from her violently and casts them on the ground, but after Wharton leaves she gathers them up. While seated in her sitting-room, gazing at the picture of Tom in his grading camp, Wharton suddenly enters and discovers that his wife loves another and he immediately decides to give her a chance to free herself. He makes a bargain with a notorious actress to play the part with him, and a scandal about the two is soon started. Tom, in the interim, has returned to the city, successful, and is an onlooker at the trials and tribulations that confront his former sweetheart. Wharton even pretends drunkenness to shock his wife, and when she objects, he asks her why she doesn't get a divorce if she doesn't like it. Wharton, in order to fully disgust his wife, takes the actress to his own home and announces to his horror-stricken wife that the girl has come to visit them. The shock of the visit is too much for Anna, and she succumbs to the nervous breakdown. The housekeeper calls at the club in order to find the husband, but no one is there except Tom, who, after searching for Wharton, goes to the Wharton home. He sits up all night with his former sweetheart and keeps her delirium down. Wharton returns the next day, but as soon as he enters his wife's presence she raves again. In a while her health improves and Wharton decides to go away forever, so he leaves a note telling her the truth about his actions and that she may be happy with the man she loves. She awakens and finds the note, but in the interim the old grandfather, who has drunk himself to semi-consciousness, sets fire to his room. Wharton, who has just left the house, returns, rescues the old man and also carries his wife into the garden. She tugs feebly at a string around her neck and suspended thereto, in a little bag. is a string of broken pearls. Wharton then realizes that his wife loves him and him alone, and he takes her to his arms, while Tom, renouncing his hope, steals away.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHerbert RawlinsonBeatrice VanFrank LloydThough Charles Ross had been unlucky in birth and upbringing, though at the opening of the story, he was looked upon as a vagabond, he had drifted through life clean-minded and happy. About our first meeting with him is in a small farm town, where he arrives via the box-car route. And about the first thing he does is to rescue a consumptive stranger from some drunken toughs. Though he spends several days caring for him, the stranger dies. He leaves a note to the new-found friend, to the effect that he is the son of a Los Angeles man who will give the vagabond a good position. The stranger, as a youth, seemed to possess everything to make him happy and a success in life; position, money and good parents were his. Yet he drifted into bad society, like a ship without an anchorage. Drink and drugs added their downward pull. At last, in a fit of half-drunken rage, the boy left home. His mother fell ill through sorrow; she became blind, but never gave up hope that her boy would return some day. The vagabond decides not to follow his drifting ways further. Arrived in Los Angeles, he decides to be shaved before applying for the job. This done, he is struck by his likeness to the dead youth, Tom Mason. In fact, Mason's own sister mistakes him for her brother. The vagabond tries to explain, but the blind woman's happiness overcomes his better judgment and he carries out a painful deception. The vagabond works well and all seems happy. Months pass and he suddenly realizes that he loves the girl with more than a brother's affection. However, he is forced to remain silent, particularly as the mother is sinking into death. When the mother finally dies the one-time vagabond realizes that he has no real share in the sorrow. He leaves, after writing a note explaining everything, and promising to return when he has made good. Time goes by. One day the vagabond, now successful, comes back. The girl has at last awakened to her love for this man who posed as her brother. He enters the house and the father meets him. He shows the boy a picture of the real son, and explains that he knew all the time of the deception. The vagabond tells the story of the son. The father leads him into the garden where the girl is waiting. The vagabond comes to his real anchorage, his sweetheart's arms.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHerbert RawlinsonHelen LeslieFrank LloydIn the prologue of this picture, Fergus McClain is left a widower with a young son. His sorrow is bitter, but he directs all his love and attentions to the little boy. Follow a lapse of twenty years, the boy Donald has grown to manhood; he is the apple of his father's eye. Returning from college, Donald is taken into his father's office. Here he meets Jessie, his father's stenographer and the daughter of an artisan. The boy is attracted to her and in time Jessie loves the handsome collegian "not wisely but too well." As time goes on the boy wearies of his conquest; he returns from the girl to bury himself in club amusements. The girl is in a delicate condition; she confides in her father, who appeals to the boy's father to have justice done his daughter. McClain, the elder, agrees with the girl's father that the couple shall marry. Donald, returning from the club, is confronted with his guilt and appealed to. He refuses. His father is puzzled to know what to do. Then it is that the girl's father decides to take the law into his own hands. He waits for the boy as he comes from the house; he shoves a gun against the boy's side and commands him to go along. Once in the house with the girl, in her suffering before him, Donald's feelings undergo a transformation. His fury is changed to sympathy, akin to love, and a desire for forgiveness. He gladly consents to the marriage and the girl's father goes for the minister. In the meantime, the elder McClain has decided to attempt an atonement of his boy's sin by marrying the girl himself. He comes to the house with this purpose in mind. He is surprised and glad to find his boy there, crushed and repentant. The wedding ceremony is performed with the boy folding the girl in his arms, his love revived. A lapse shows the happy family gathered on the lawn at the McClain's home. The nurse advances and places the new arrival in the arms of the father. The baby is the "link that binds."
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHerbert RawlinsonAnn LittleFrank LloydHerbert is shown with his invalid mother, the only person in the world whom he loves. Herbert is a bank clerk. His earnings are small. When the doctor informs him the only way to save his mother's life is for her to undergo an operation, he becomes desperate. There is no borrowing or begging the money; he sees his only chance is in the bank. He becomes an embezzler. The shortage in his accounts is discovered. He escapes and flees. The detectives are hot on his trail. Learning of the affair, Herbert's mother dies of grief. Herbert, trying to evade arrest, sneaks through the alleys and finally climbs a fire escape. He enters the room of Anna, a chorus girl. Anna has contracted consumption and lost her position. Having only a few dollars left, and being unable to pay her rent, she has been ordered out of her rooms. It is immediately following this that the young embezzler comes into her life through the window. Anna listens to the young man's story. Her pity and sympathy are excited. She takes her last few cents and goes to buy food for the boy. It is this last act which finally breaks down Herbert's nerve; he decides to give himself up, to sacrifice himself, so Anna may be able to get the $300 reward out for his arrest. A detective is in the alley below. Tying a note to a lump of sugar. Herbert throws it to the detective. The note tells him to follow the girl. As the girl enters the room followed by the detective, Herbert manages to slip a revolver into her hand. The arrest is successfully made. Anna, surprised and worried, gets the reward. Two years later Herbert is released. Anna is at the gate to meet him. ready to join her life with his and seek a new life in the open west. They pass out together.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHerbert RawlinsonBeatrice VanFrank LloydJack Hardy, a wealthy young bachelor, loves Ann Harris, daughter of a banker. He is proposing to her when a note arrives from her father, saying he is to be arrested for embezzling and has committed suicide rather than face the disgrace. Ann sends Jack away and takes a position as nurse in a family going to Europe, rather than have her lover burdened with the shadow of her father's act. Two years elapse. Fate picks Katie O'Brien to bring the lovers together. Katie, whose mother is a washwoman, tends the baby in the street. While she is in the residential section she meets a pretty but weary looking nurse girl, tending a baby boy. The nurse girl admits that she doesn't like caring for the baby. Katie remembers. Later, Katie's charge is saved from drowning in a sewer ditch by a strange young man. This young man playfully offers to buy the baby for fifty cents. Katie refuses, but says she knows where she can get a baby for him. The young man gives her fifty cents. Katie, watching her chance, manages to carry off the baby which Ann has charge of. She deposits the infant in the young man's apartment and departs to buy a kewpie doll. Jack, for he is the strange young man, returns from his walk and is much amused to find the baby. The valet has awakened and is much disturbed. After a romp with it, Jack reports the affair to the police. It is when Ann comes to identify the lost baby that she meets her former sweetheart. Incidentally Ann decides she doesn't want to hide any longer and is quite willing to become Jack's wife.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHerbert RawlinsonAnn LittleFrank LloydThomas Carter, a crippled artist, has difficulty selling his sketches and ornate pen drawings. With a daughter to support the artist is in desperate straits when he meets Charlie Breen, the leader of a band of clever crooks who live by their wits. Breen, recognizing Carter's skill with the pen, ingratiates himself into the artist's good graces and then points out to him how easy it would be to forge signatures to checks so even the owner of the signature would be deceived. Carter finally falls in with Breen's plans and with clever Wall Street crooks to assist in the passing of the forged paper, quickly attains affluence. The members of the band make it a point to attend public gatherings and balls where they scrape acquaintance with rich "prospects." At one of these balls which Carter and his daughter attend, Rita Carter, who knows nothing of her father's connection with Breen's band, meets Richard Maybrick, a wealthy young man of excellent family. Secretly Breen has determined to possess himself of Rita and Maybrick's attentions to her causes Breen to vent his spite on Carter. When Carter permits Maybrick to call upon his daughter, Breen, thinking the penman is about to give up his connection with the band, calls upon him and a stormy interview ensues. Rita overhears the recriminations and learns for the first time of her father's connection with the band. The news depresses her immeasurably and when Maybrick again calls, feeling herself unworthy of him, she breaks with him, tearfully returning his ring. Breen, from concealment, witnesses the parting and, mad with mingled rage and jealousy, returns to his associates in crime. A quarrel between Breen and one of the band causes the crook to "peach" upon his pals to the police. Carter is heartbroken when he learns his daughter has broken off with Maybrick because of his connection with the forgers. His grief changes to rage when he recalls the part Breen has played in ruining his daughter's prospects. Carter determines to "get" Breen and leaves home with a loaded revolver. Maybrick, sensing something mysterious in Rita's abrupt termination of their engagement, returns to the Carter home in time to see Carter leave, weapon in hand. He follows him to the quarters of the gang and witnesses a raid by the police, who have been tipped off by one of the disgruntled crooks. In this raid Carter is wounded but makes his escape and Maybrick. coming upon him while he is weak from loss of blood, takes him to his home. Breen meanwhile has gone to Carter's home, determined to have his will with Rita. Rita learns of his coming and telephones Maybrick, who hurries to her assistance. Maybrick comes upon Breen in the Carter home and a desperate fight follows, in which the young man shoots and kills Rita's assailant. When Maybrick and Rita return to the Maybrick home they find Carter is sinking fast and cannot live long. The dying artist gives the young couple his blessing and wishes them happiness in their new life together.
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- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydMarc B. RobbinsHelen LeslieFrank Marston is known to the world as a successful man. His daughter Helen is engaged to Tom Farrell, a young business man. One night the young couple go to a gay party at the studio of a famous artist. Helen and her father started a game of chess while waiting for Tom and the old man goes back to the library after seeing the young folks leave. As he sits in the flickering firelight toying absently with the chess pieces in front of him, memory takes a hand and moves the pieces into strange relationship. The white queen and her knight face the black knight. As he watches the three pieces slowly change into the figures of himself, as a young man. Standing in place of the black knight and in place of the white pieces, come the forms of his old pal, Marc Bailey, and the latter's pretty Mexican sweetheart, Anita, of the years of long ago. Slowly the chessboard fades away and the scenes from the past come up before him. Marc Bailey, living in the little Mexican town of Cocholento, located a good prospect the same day that he received a telegram from his old pal, Frank Marston, that the latter had been granted a zone by the Mexican government. (A zone is a sixty-day mining option on any large tract of land, giving the holder the sole right to file on any portion of that land during that period, even when other parties have located prospects in the district.) Anita forgets Bailey's faithful love for the handsome Marston and he pretends to care for her. They dally in the southern moonlight, unsuspected by Bailey. Trusting his friend as himself, Marc shows Marston the prospect. But the streak of greed in Marston overcomes his scruples and all the friendship of years. He alone has the right to file on the land, and unknown to Bailey, he does so. But Bailey discovers the fact and accuses Marston. The latter offers to pay him for the prospect but outraged friendship rebels at this insult, and Bailey pulls his gun to shoot Marston. Anita watched the scene afraid. Thinking to stop Bailey, she throws herself in front of Marston. Too late. The bullet drives its way into her fickle heart. Bailey is overcome, for his love for the girl is greater than his hatred of Marston. He rushes to her side, throwing his gun away as he goes. She turns away from him and calls for Marston, but the latter, afraid of Bailey's vengeance, has fled. The scene fades back to the library again. On the chessboard the black knight has disappeared and the white queen is prostrate. Marston agitated by memories, pours himself a drink. He is taking it when a face appears at the window, a face distorted with hate. The face is that of Bailey. Bailey, the failure, who has drifted lower and lower, until at last he has joined a band of crooks for the robbery of Marston's house. When Bailey recognizes Marston all the old enmity is aroused. He enters the library, gun in hand. Marston, the animal hate overcoming him, throws away his gun. He must kill this man with his bare hands. Grimly and silently the two gray-haired men struggle, Bailey's hands at Marston's throat. Meanwhile in the gay studio the grim messenger of death has been a guest. Pretty Helen, reveling with the others, goes up the stairs with her fiancé to the long gallery for refreshments. Drinking to her host, she stumbles back against the weakened balustrade. It gives way and the girl is hurled to the floor below. The guests and her horrified fiancé hurry down to her, but the little life is broken. Heartbroken, they take her body back to Marston's house. As they carry her into the library, Hailey is tightening his grip on Marston's throat. The men stagger apart. With a wild shriek Marston stumbles to the girl's side. Bailey stands for a moment watching the scene. He sees that the girl is dead. His vengeance is complete, for life will be worse than death now to the man who so wronged him in that long ago past. Bailey goes out again into the snow, a failure, leaving Marston, the success, sobbing his heart away in the beautiful library.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieGretchen LedererAt Grissel's gambling house, Edwin Swayne, man of the world, meets, falls in love with and marries Frances Bridges. An adventuress named Dado Scholl hears of their marriage and swears revenge on Swayne, with whom she is in love. Davidson, a young fellow of about Frances' age and a great friend of Swayne's, loses all of his money at the gaming table; Swayne decides to give him a home to help him get on his feet again. Under the same roof now and mutually attracted to each other, Davidson and Frances become lovers. During a quarrel between Swayne and Davidson, Swayne is shot and Davidson is arrested for the crime. But the valet confesses that he shot his master at Dado's request; Swayne dies, content in the knowledge that Frances' future is safe in the hands of Davidson.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydGretchen LedererMarc B. RobbinsRuth Mayhew, an heiress, lives with her uncle, Henry Mayhew, who is also her guardian. She has a sweetheart in Richard Dare, a rising young engineer. Paula, an adventuress and her accomplice, Gilbert Carstairs, work themselves into the confidence of old man Mayhew. posing as brother and sister. Richard Dare, after a tender parting with his sweetheart, leaves for Mexico, to take up the construction of a new railroad line there. Paula lays siege to the heart of Henry Mayhew and he finally marries her. She and her accomplice then proceed to do the old man out of his fortune. The new turn of affairs proves irksome to Ruth Mayhew, and she leaves her uncle's house to make her own living, but is unsuccessful. Later Richard Dare returns from Mexico and, going to the Mayhew home, learns of Ruth's continued absence. He is very much worried. Outside the house he meets an outcast, who informs him that inside the Mayhew home is the woman who has been the cause of his ruin. Richard Dare cares for the outcasts who is on the verge of collapse. The outcast tells Dare how at one time he was a trusted employee in a bank; how he later was led to commit a crime by his false sweetheart, the same woman who is now plotting the ruin of Henry Mayhew. He declares that at that time, as now, she works with her accomplice, Gilbert Carstairs. Richard Dare informs the police of the maneuvers of the guilty pair. By chance he meets Ruth Mayhew and together they go to the Mayhew home. The police arrive and take into custody the adventuress and her accomplice. Ruth and her uncle are reconciled and the story ends happily.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieMillard K. WilsonIn a fine residence on the avenue, lives a wealthy man and his wife. They have a little daughter who is an invalid. The doctor on leaving, sees the Italian lingering outside the house and asks him his business, whereupon Beppo shows his violin and tells the doctor of his little friend and the happy times they spent together. The doctor tells him his little friend is sinking fast and seems to miss something. Beppo looks at his violin and brightens. He begins to play. The child hears and the mother and father are startled. The child's face brightens at once with joy. She calls for Beppo and sends her father to bring him in. Beppo plays again and again the tunes which have been the child's delight. The doctor notes a change in the child's condition and tells the distressed parents that their daughter will recover.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieMarc B. RobbinsMother Benson receives a letter from her daughter. The letter states that if the daughter's husband fails to raise $2,000 within a month, it will mean his ruin. The young bride asks help from her mother. The old lady has no such an amount of her own but she knows that her friend and neighbor, Martin Lowe, a bachelor, has a small sum of money. Mother Benson tells the bachelor of her trouble. Old Martin Lowe is touched by Mother Benson's story and, having only $500, the savings of a lifetime, he is at his wits' end trying to think of a way to secure the necessary $2,000, to aid the old lady. By chance his eye falls upon the advertisement of John Elder, a "Wolf of Wall Street," in which it is advertised that by investing a few hundred dollars in stocks and bonds, it is possible to make a fortune. Martin decides to try his luck and mails the broker his savings, asking that he convert it into $2,000 within a month if possible. The broker has landed another victim. John Elder, the broker, has a daughter, who is in love with his secretary. The latter takes a little joy ride with his sweetheart. Later Elder and his wife become worried at their daughter's absence. The young people speed far into the country. The young man becomes rather reckless and his machine is ditched in front of old Martin Lowe's little home. Martin and Mother Benson go to the rescue of the broker's daughter, who is soon in Martin's parlor near death's door. Martin summons a doctor at once. The secretary having informed Mr. and Mrs. Elder of the accident, arrives upon the scene in company with them. They enter Martin's little cottage. The broker gives Martin his card. Martin is delighted to meet the broker and exhibits the worthless bonds he has purchased from him. Elder knows the bonds are valueless and realizes that he has been about to swindle the man who has saved his daughter's life. He lies and tells the old man the bonds have risen in value and that he will send him a check in the morning. The next day Elder desiring to repay Lowe's kindness, makes good the worthless stock and sends Martin $2,000, which he states is the price he has secured from the bonds. Old Martin tells Mother Benson of his good luck. Silently he hands her the money, while she is unrestrained in her praise of his marvelous ability.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsGeorge LarkinGretchen LedererHelen LeslieGretchen Carr, in love with Frank Conway, decides not to marry him until she can see her artist brother, George Carr, himself happily married . Carr is attracted to unsuitable young ladies so Conway arranges for his pretty niece to pose as a member of a gypsy band. Conway takes Carr to the camp on the assurance that there he will find good material for his art. Carr paints the portrait of the supposed daughter of the chief and when finished he realizes that he is in love with the model. In a surprise raid, the gypsy band is arrested. Carr furnishes bail for the chief's daughter but to his surprise finds that she is not the same as the model. That evening Conway visits Carr and introduces his niece. Carr discovers her to be the lovely pretend gypsy. Both couples agree to make plans for a double wedding.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieMillard K. WilsonThe story deals with the love of a strong brother for one who is weaker, a cripple. When both were boys, the elder brother taunted the younger with the fact that he was unable to climb a cliff. The younger brother tries and in the attempt falls and injures himself to such an extent that he is never able to walk again. The elder brothers love from this time on is a continual series of sacrifices for the crippled brother. At last love comes into their life and the girl chooses the stronger brother. He finds that the cripple also loves the girl and determines to make the crowning sacrifice of his life. The cripple overhearing his brother's confession of love to the girl, decides not to accept the sacrifice and laughingly tells his brother that he loves not Helen, but his nurse. Acting on this information, the elder brother proposes to Helen and is accepted. The nurse in reality loves the cripple and they are married. The happy lovers take up their journey in life, leaving the nurse and the cripple to console each other.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieMarc B. RobbinsThe Captain leaves the south seas and sails his whaling ship into the port town of Seven Isles Bay. There he falls in love with Margaret, one of a set of twins. Susette is identical to her sister, except for a small scar on the forehead. The mother of the girl opposes the skipper's courtship because he is a Protestant. Margaret is determined to elope with the skipper but the plan is overheard by Susette who informs her mother; Margaret is locked in her room. Susette herself keeps the tryst and goes aboard the ship. The deception is found out in the morning and the skipper takes her back to her mother. During the night however, Margaret, through grief and shock, has died. The skipper, on approaching town, hears the tolling of the funeral bell and is overcome with grief. The legend states that even to this day a phantom ship, a ghost of the skipper's "Breeze", is sometimes seen far out at sea, but on approach of the ship to the shore, it fades into the mist.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonHelen LeslieDuke WorneJames Mordon, a reformed cracksman, is in the employ of Henry Penrose, as chauffeur. The latter receives a letter from a probation officer informing him of his employees having served time in prison. He decides to discharge the young man but is persuaded by his wife to give him a chance. Alma, his wife, has had a previous love affair with Herbert Manning, an unscrupulous fellow, who lives by his wits. She writes him asking him to destroy all of her letters and in reply he writes her that he is in need of money and makes an appointment with her at 10 o'clock that night. When they meet words lead to an argument and a struggle ensues. James Mordon, the chauffeur, sees them and goes to her assistance. He learns what the dispute is about and decides that he will steal his mistress' letters from her former sweetheart, who has failed to keep his agreement. He breaks into the latter's apartment and is caught. In endeavoring to get away he is shot and killed. The next morning Mrs. Penrose reads the note the chauffeur has left her, in which he told her that he was going to commit his last robbery and secure the letters. At the same time, the husband reads of the killing of Mordon, the newspaper account veiling the tragedy as a mystery.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonGretchen LedererFrank LloydSpider Dale, a crook, while passing a factory sees Anne, one of the girls employed there, insulted by a foreman. He assists her out of her difficulty and wins her friendship. A moment later he sees approaching Officer Weldon, plain clothesman, and instinctively beats a hasty retreat. Officer Weldon is in love with the little factory girl, who has been protected from insult by Spider Dale, and he is at this time coming to meet her. Later Weldon receives orders from his chief to round up Spider Dale's gang, including Spider Dale himself, who is much wanted. Spider Dale and his fellow crooks plan and execute a raid upon a safe. Weldon and his men besiege the gang's headquarters, but the crooks escape. Spider is wounded in the arm. He stops for a moment in the doorway of a cheap apartment house and to his surprise, meets Anne. She sees that he is wounded and, without asking questions, invites him up to her room in order that she may dress his wounds. Before pursuing the chase further, Officer Weldon decides to call upon his sweetheart. She conceals Spider. Weldon enters and is not long in discovering blood stains. He questions the girl, but she refuses to answer. He leaves, but returns later with an officer. This time they catch Spider and the girl together. Weldon would have allowed Spider to escape when he hears his sweetheart's story, but the one great obstacle is, that with the reward offered for Dale, he and the girl had planned to be married. The arrival of his fellow officers cuts short his thoughts and he is obliged to turn the crook over for arrest. Anne realizes her sweetheart's position in the matter and forgives him. They are happily married, and upon Spider's release, Weldon hunts him out and invites him home to supper.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydMillard K. WilsonMarc B. RobbinsCharles Lander's daughter marries far below her station in life. Her husband, a crook, is arrested and sent to prison. Shortly after the birth of her baby, she dies, sending the child to her parents to be raised. Anita grows up to be the apple of her grandfather's eye and the darling of society. Paul Reeves, a famous western writer, meets her and they are mutually attracted to each other. He cares nothing for the frivolous pleasures of society and predicts that life in the great West can be beyond the understanding of social butterflies. The next day, Paul leaves for the West. Landers receives a letter from the foreman of his ranch, telling him of the increased cattle rustling. He goes West, taking Anita with him. Out West, Anita and Paul meet up again. After leaving the cowboy-writer Anita observes a couple of cattle thieves at work and is captured by them. Reeves, single-handed, attacks the rustlers in their den but is overpowered. The arrival of the ranch men saves him and Anita. The leader of the rustlers, who is later recognized by Landers as Anita's long-lost criminal father, is killed in the fight. Later Paul and Anita are married.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonHelen LeslieMay BensenJack's mother idolizes him. When she receives a letter that he must have five hundred dollars more in order to buy law books, she is worried. Her only resource is to mortgage the farm. She goes to Lawyer Robbins, who promises to raise the money for her. After she has gone, the lawyer's daughter enters and becomes interested in Jack's mother. Lawyer Robbins become worried when he learns that his daughter loves Jack. He has a friend in the city, who investigates the young man, thus learning that the boy is leading a wild and extravagant life. Jack's "law books," this friend finds, are mainly playing cards. So Lawyer Robbins and his daughter leave to investigate for themselves. They arrive at Jack's apartments while a wild stage racket is in progress. The old man takes him to task and tells him that instead of studying law and dissipating he should be home working on his mother's farm. Jack tells the old lawyer and his daughter to mind their own affairs and leave, which they do. Then he dismisses his friends whose gibes at the rural appearance of the visitors, have infuriated him. The lawyer's contemptuous words burn in his brain and he thinks of his poor little mother whose toil-stained hands have worked so long for him, and he packs up. The next day the lawyer and daughter visit the mother to advise her not to mortgage the farm as the money will be wasted, when the girl's sharp eyes see the son plowing in the nearby field. They go to him and Jack expresses repentance and is restored to the good opinion of those who have always loved him.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydOlive CareyHelen LeslieThe Spider, an old jail bird, learns on being released from the penitentiary, that a slum worker, Helen Arnold, has been taking care of his wife, and also that she has rescued Amy Gray, a girl of the slums, from Gyp Carter, a noted crook. That night Spider, returning to his old trade, attempts to break into the home of Thomas Arnold, Helen's father. In the meantime, Gyp, who plans upon again getting Amy into his clutches, telephones a frame-up, intended to bring Helen down to Spider's house. There Gyp and a pal kidnap her and convey her into a room in a nearby saloon, where he attempts to wreak his revenge upon her. The Spider, surprised in the act of burglary, learns through Amy of the telephone message to Helen. Quickly sensing Helen's peril, he snatches the gun from old Arnold's band and hastens to Helen's rescue. In the bar-room, at the back of which Helen is held prisoner by Gyp and his pal, Spider is stopped by the bartender, but by a clever ruse distracts the bartender's attention and breaks a bottle of liquor over his head. Spider gains the room above, and in a desperate fight with Gyp and his pal, rescues Helen. Arnold, Amy and the officers of the law arrive soon after. Gyp and his pal are made prisoners, and old Arnold's interest and financial assistance are enlisted in the sympathy of those who live in the slums.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieCharles AlexanderWilliam Conway, a slave to drink, is at last told by his wife that he will have to leave her for their own good and her own health and happiness. She urges him to fight against the craving for liquor and to try to overcome it. If he succeeds, she promises to take him back and start life over. He accepts the terms and goes to the distant mountains to fight it out alone. In the mountain resort lives Beth, the daughter of the hotel keeper, who has a childish love affair with Charles Vassar, a boy of the mountains. Upon the arrival of Conway, Beth appoints herself his guide. They become firm friends, but Charles grows jealous, imagining it a love affair. After several weeks, the story of his trouble is told to Beth by Conway. She sympathizes with him and in a burst of affection throws her arms about his neck. Charles, seeing this, is driven wild with anger and charges Conway with having stolen his sweetheart, at the same time attempting to shoot him. Conway grabs the gun and pulling a telegram from his pocket, which he has received that morning from the city, shows it to the boy. The telegram reads: "Come home. Your wife and newborn son need you. Lovingly, your wife." Charles realizes his mistake and from a distant rock. Conway sees the happy reunion of the young sweethearts.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieMarc B. RobbinsThe Masons and the Blakes are neighbors in the mountains; Jim Blake and Nan Mason, their respective children, are sweethearts. Nan's father is building a boundary fence when Jim's father comes upon him and his men and an argument follows. Later on the difference develops into a feud and shots are exchanged between the two factions, in which Frank Mason is shot in the arm. This adds fuel to the flames and the news spreads through the mountains, the friends of each clan flocking to their leaders. There has come into the mountains an old man, who is distressed because of the feud. He meets Jim and his sweetheart, Nan, in the woods and leaves them with a kindly word. He finds Frank Mason wounded and calling for help, gets him home with the assistance of Jim and Nan. When Mason recovers consciousness and sees a Blake in his house he is frantic with rage and orders Jim out. Jim goes home and is told his family's side of the feud. He refuses to have anything to do with the feud and goes to the house. Unable to stand the jeers and insults heaped upon him for being a coward, he takes his rifle and goes into the woods. Here he meets the "Old Prophet," who finally persuades him to throw his rifle into the creek and gives him a Bible instead. Jim puts the book in his breast pocket and leaves. He is shot from ambush by Nan, who takes him for one of the clan, but when she recognizes him she is overcome with remorse, thinking him dead. The Bible, however, has saved his life by stopping the bullet. He is only stunned and when he comes to. Nan remembers he is her enemy and tells him next time she will get him. Jim tells her he can't make war on a woman and they part. Nan meets the "Old Prophet" and he persuades her that she is in the wrong and takes her rifle away. Jim arrives and aided by the old man's efforts the two are reconciled. Meanwhile the two clans are preparing for a fight and the first shot reach the ears of the three. They go to see what the shooting is about. Each side is concealed, but when Nan's father sees her with Jim, he recklessly leaves his hiding place to kill Jim. The "Old Prophet" frustrates his attempt and in turn is killed by a bullet intended for Mason. Over the "Old Prohpet's" body a reconciliation is effected between the two clans.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydHelen LeslieMildred AdamsFrank Edmanton, secretary to the president of the First National Bank, is a married man, yet he is infatuated with Lila Holmes, a woman of the half world. Lila herself is disgusted with the part she plays in life, especially so when her mother refuses to accept money from her, knowing her mode of making her living. Lila's mother has all her savings in a small country bank. Lila waves aside Frank's entreaties that she join him, with the statement that she can never consent to such a proposition unless he can supply her with the luxuries she has been accustomed to. There is a run on the country bank in which Lila's mother has her money. The president 'phones the First National in the city, asking for aid to ward off the rush of depositors demanding their money. Frank is selected by the president of the First National Bank to convey a large sum of money to the country bank. Feeling the money once within his hands, Frank is tempted to use it, and goes to Lila's apartment, shows her the money and begs her to flee with him. Lila, realizing in him another victim, consents. She bids him wait below until she gets ready to leave. Suddenly her eyes fall upon a paper naming the depositors of the bank. She then realizes that her mother's savings are in jeopardy unless the money reaches the country bank. Seizing the bag containing the money, she leaves the house secretly, and forcing Frank's chauffeur to do her will, is driven to the country bank, where she arrives just in time to allay the fears of the frenzied depositors. Her mother is in the crowd at the door, and recognition between them follows, with forgiveness. Frank, meanwhile, has found Lila absent from her apartment and decides he has been tricked. He goes home with the intention of quitting life, but his wife finds him with the revolver in hand about to kill himself. He tells her the whole story from beginning to end. His wife calls the country bank on the 'phone, where she learns what has happened. The president of the bank puts Lila on the 'phone and she asks for Frank. She dismisses him with the statement that she is going home with her mother, and admonishes him to be good to his wife. Frank explains to the bank president that, falling suddenly ill, he had turned the money over to Lila for delivery and no one except his wife and Lila suspects his intended absconding.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam LloydHelen LeslieMillard K. WilsonFollowing the death of her mother, Helen Marsh, a girl in her early teens, is placed in a select boarding school in New York City. Her father, Philip Marsh, has been disowned by his father, a Southern planter, because of his marriage years before. On the outbreak of the Civil War, Phillip returns South to enlist in the Confederate Army. He pays his father a visit and again pleads with him for the privilege of bringing his daughter to his old home, but his father refuses his request. He joins his regiment and old "Uncle" Caesar, a family slave, goes with him. Mrs. Galloway, principal of the school, not having heard from Helen's father, writes him demanding payment for her tuition and in the meantime makes Helen do housework. Phillips is killed and when Mrs. Galloway receives this news through one of his brother officers, Helen is immediately made a "slave" and is given a room in the attic of the boarding school. She suffers many hardships and privations and is the fag of every school girl. Uncle Caesar, fearful of returning to the plantation because of the anger of his old master at his leaving with Phillip, makes his way North and secures employment as janitor of an office building in New York, which adjoins Mrs. Galloway's school. From his window he looks into Helen's attic and frequently sees the unhappy child. During her absence he brings delicacies to her and one night they meet. He learns who she is. The grandfather, remorseful, finally decides to go North and look for his granddaughter. He meets old Caesar on the sidewalk in front of the two buildings. The negro tells him of finding Helen and brings the old man up to the attic. On this particular evening a birthday party is being given one of the scholars, but Helen has not been allowed to attend it. Thus "Uncle" Caesar and her grandfather find her on a little cot weeping in grief. The old Southerner takes her downstairs and they burst in upon the party, the old negro following. Mrs. Galloway is severely censured and endeavors at the last moment to make reparation. The story ends by Helen being taken home to the old plantation, where she lives happily with her grandfather.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonHelen LeslieMarc B. RobbinsRoderick Long decides that his son, Herbert, shall see life before marriage. Accordingly the father gives the boy a considerable sum of money to carry out his schemes. For a time the boy leads a fast life and one night, comes home in an intoxicated state to his father's disgust. The State Legislature passes a law dealing with eugenics, which requires a physical examination of both parties, prior to marriage. While seated in his library, the father reads a newspaper article announcing that the law has gone into effect. He naturally thinks of his son and while wondering what the future may bring forth, he falls asleep. He dreams that his son returns home after having been rejected by the medical examining board and that his son, angry at his fathers desire that he see the fast life, hands him a revolver, with the demand that he kill him. The father refuses, whereupon the boy, taking the gun, shoots himself. In reality, however, the boy regrets the life that he has led and persuades his fiancée to accompany him to the medical board. Both return home. The father is overjoyed on learning that his son is in perfect physical condition.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHelen LeslieMillard K. WilsonMarc B. RobbinsRuth Hope is a cartoonist on "The Times," and while riding on the street car one day, sits next to James Daggett, a down-and-outer. She sees in him excellent material for a heart interest cartoon. Daggett admires the girl and notices as she sits looking out of the car window her purse slips to the floor. He is tempted not to tell her. They come to the street where Ruth wants to leave the car, and rising hurriedly, she leaves, forgetting the purse. Daggett picks it up and again being tempted, does not return it to the owner. With the money in the purse, he rehabilitates himself and finds that with outward respectability comes success. He obtains a position. At home, that evening, Miss Hope discovers the loss of her purse and is indignant. There is no way to identify the thief except her remembrance of his face. She makes a sketch of the man as she remembers him and places it in the hands of the police. With Daggett's success comes remorse. He finds a card in the purse with Miss Hope's address upon it and writes her a letter, explaining his situation at the time and his temptation, also the results, obtained with the money now that he is able to do so. Miss Hope receives the money and is sorry that she has been so hasty. The police nab Daggett and call upon Miss Hope to identify him. She shows them the letter Daggett has written her and the sergeant thereupon dismisses the prisoner. Daggett then has the pleasure of escorting Miss Hope to her home.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonMarc B. RobbinsHelen LeslieEdward Garfield, after several years of study abroad, returns to his aged father, a retired capitalist. It has long been the old man's outspoken wish that his son and Doris Wentworth, his ward, should marry, and the old man had made his will leaving everything to bis son, with this union in view. Doctor Granice, the family physician, is in the old man's confidence and knows of his hopes. The doctor secretly loves Doris, but is held back on account of his relations with an adventuress, Mildred Clement. There is a fond greeting between the father and son, and the son looks around inquiringly for Doris. The old man tells him the girl is in the garden, where he finds her. A happy meeting between them takes place. Edward, after his long years of study, seeks recreation and soon drifts into a fast set. Doris notices the change in him and is very much worried. One night while he and a party of young men are having a gay time at the race, the family doctor and his woman companion come into the place and the woman sees Edward. She is attracted to him and asks the doctor about him. When she finds out that he is the son of a rich old man she expresses a wish to meet him and the doctor, seeing a way to get rid of the woman, does all in his power to help the thing along. The infatuation of Edward for the woman grows and he loses all respect for himself. Finally she gets him to propose and accepts him. He persuades her to accompany him to his father to announce the good news. The doctor feels that he is free of the woman and offers his love to Doris, who rejects him, telling him that he knows of her guardian's wish. At this moment Edward and his fiancée arrive. He announces his engagement. His old father, in a furious rage, tells him he can choose between his inheritance and the woman. On choosing the latter, the old man tears up the will, and orders them out of the house. Doris is overcome with grief. The doctor, seeing that that it is partly due to his work, resolves to help her win Edward back. He tells her his plan, and she agrees. He gives the old man a sleeping powder and telephones the son that his father is dying. The boy resolves to return home, but the woman insists on coming with him, taking along a rough will which she has drawn up and expects to get him to make his father sign before he dies. The doctor battles all night, apparently, to bring the father to consciousness, and in the morning tells them he is successful. The son falls on his knees and asks for his father's forgiveness, which is granted. The adventuress tries to force her way in with the will, but is blocked by the doctor, who shows her the way out. As the picture fades, Edward and Doris are seen in the garden, renewing their broken vows, while the old father and the doctor watch them from the window.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles ManleyMay BensenMarc B. RobbinsJane Darling is an invalid, whose husband, Charles, was formerly a famous actor, but in his old age has come down to be doorkeeper at a theater. For his wife's happiness, Charles still lets her think he is a famous star. He is helped, unconsciously, in the deception by a famous star of the present day, who has taken for a stage name the fallen star's surname and is playing at the same theater where Charles is doorkeeper, in a revival of the same play that Charles made his reputation in. One day as Charles is holding his little court about the door, composed of several children who hang about him, the star comes in and hears the old man reciting lines of the part he is playing in. He is surprised, and on talking with "Daddy," learns that the old man at one time read the same lines to his audience. That night the impression is deep on two minds. The star, eating his lonely dinner, wonders if he will come to what "Daddy" is now, while Jane, at home, reads of the success of the play and the encomiums heaped upon the star. The next day is the wedding anniversary of the old couple and Jane intends to surprise her "star" husband by going to the theater unknown to him and watching him in his big success. At the last moment she tells her plan to her neighbor, who is horror struck at the idea, knowing that "Daddy" is only a doorkeeper at the theater and fearing that the shock of the surprise will kill her. The old lady is too determined to be turned aside and they leave for the theater. At the theater things are not going well, the star is late and they are anxiously waiting his arrival. When he does arrive, in his hurry to get out of his car, he slips and wrenches his ankle so badly that he is unable to go on with the play. He persuades the manager to put "Daddy" on in his place, knowing his familiarity with the play, and, after many arguments, "Daddy" is finally given the part. His rendition of the part is more than perfect. Jane has taken a front seat and is unable to contain herself. "Daddy" sees her, and for an instant, falters in his lines, but his old training comes into play and he goes on coolly with the part. He motions her to come backstage and after the performance, there is a very happy reunion. The star secretly makes the manager let "Daddy" take the part as long as the play runs so his wife will never know of the deception and as the story ends. "Daddy" comes again into the triumphs of his youth.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMarc B. RobbinsHelen LeslieMillard K. WilsonFerris Sims, once a notorious crook, but lately leading an apparently honest life, has a daughter, Helen, whom he wishes to keep in ignorance of his past life and also of his erstwhile associates, who frequently visit him. The girl is in love with, and is loved by, a rich young man of the town. "Spider" Dale, Sims' lieutenant and former companion in crime, calls on him for the first time, and gets a good look at the girl. He immediately falls in love with her and tries to meet her, but her father objects. This angers him and he goes back to his den, where Flo Summers, who has previously held his fancy, awaits his coming. Time passes and one day "Spider" sees Flo reading a paper in which the engagement of Helen Vincent is announced. He is mad with rage, and getting the address of her fiancé, goes there to kill him. Flo is angry because "Spider" is in love with Helen, and calling up Sims' house, warns him of what the crook is going to do. Sims, in an effort to save the life of his daughter's lover, hurries to the house where he lives. He arrives at the same time as "Spider" and they confront each other with drawn guns. Vincent has heard the noise of their entrance, and, slipping in, turns on the light and confronts the two with a drawn revolver. Their surprise is mutual, and in the moment of indecision, "Spider" makes a desperate attempt to kill Vincent. Sims is too quick for him, though, and jumping in the way, stops the fatal bullet, but his life pays for the sacrifice. The crook, too, meets his fate at the hands of Vincent, who fires back. As the scene fades, the girl's father makes a last rally and is about to tell of his past, when he sinks and dies without bringing his past from the shadows. The two young people live in ignorance of the double life of the girl's father.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonOlive CareyGordon GriffithGeorge Merrill and Nell Fenwick are in love with each other. George is a club man and has unconsciously drifted until he is a little better than a drunkard. Nell, a struggling young artist, has clung to him in hope of making a man of him, but her patience reaches the limit when he comes to her apartment one night, and in an intoxicated condition, makes a fool of himself. She orders him never to enter her house again. Billy, a typical newsboy of the streets, is a favorite of Nell. One day as she is talking to him, Merrill comes out of a store and tries to force his attentions upon her. She resents his presence and Billy kicks him. The little newsboy is knocked down by Merrill. The boy is injured worse than was thought and Nell, who has taken him in charge, arranges to take him home with her until he is well. Merrill is overcome with remorse at his actions and makes a resolves not to have anything more to do with liquor. Billy rejects the presents Merrill has sent him in the shape of peace offerings and tells Nell to throw them under the bed. Nell misses Merrill a great deal and secretly takes out his picture for consolation. Merrill, discouraged because he can make no headway in his efforts to win back the affection of Nell, prepares to go on a trip abroad. Billy is now convalescent and whenever he can do so, he shoots craps with lumps of sugar to while the time away. Nell never knows of this, however, as he hides them before she arrives in the room. One day while he is alone, he rummages around the drawers of the bureau and finds a picture of Merrill. His sharp wits take in the situation and when Nell returns home, he tells her that he thinks he will die and wants her to get the "gink" who knocked him down so as to forgive him. Nell, in terror, calls for the doctor and also Merrill. Merrill arrives and Billy puts him "wise" to the deception. The doctor arrives and he, too, falls into the scheme. Billy's cleverness wins the day and the lovers are once more reunited with a better understanding of each other, while Billy has made a permanent place for himself in the hearts of each.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFrank LloydMarc B. RobbinsPeggy HartFrank Crane is to be tried on a charge of murder. Among the men summoned for jury duty is Thomas Haig, a family man. Haig and his wife have just received a letter from their daughter, who is an actress and has been away from home for some time, announcing her arrival next day. He rages at the fate that draws him away from home at such a time. Frank has told the facts of his case to his lawyer, which were that while passing through the street he saw two men fighting, one of whom was shot. He tried to aid him and accidentally picked up the gun he had been shot with when a policeman appeared on the scene and arrested him for murder. The trial drags its wearisome way and finally the jury retires for a verdict. There is a difference of opinion among them and as several of them desire to be released from duty to attend their personal affairs, they return to the judge with the statement that they can't agree. The judge angrily orders them to go back to the jury room and stay until they have reached a verdict. They go back and Haig alone holds out. While they are arguing, Haig sees two of the jurymen deciding how they will vote by flipping a coin. He decides to leave his decision to Fate and flips a coin, which falls heads, making his verdict "guilty." The girl has arrived home and springs the surprise that she has promised her parents. It is that she is married. She tells her mother that her husband will call on them soon. The jury have declared the prisoner guilty and all leave tor their homes. Haig comes home, finds his daughter and is told of her husband. The girl shows them a picture of him and it turns out to be Frank Crane who has been convicted on the turn of a coin. Haig is remorseful and next morning confesses all to the judge. The judge issues warrants for the jurymen and is giving them to an officer, when the real crook comes in and confesses. As the picture fades, Frank and his wife are bidding each other a sad farewell, not knowing of the happy events which are transpiring in their favor.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsPeggy HartMarc B. RobbinsMillard K. WilsonFrank Herrod is a detective with a conscience; Irene Morris, a stenographer for Oliver Morton, an unscrupulous mining promoter. She and her little sister, "Billie," live with Mrs. Benson" a motherly old lady whose only means of support is the board she receives from them. Billie has a puppy she calls "Baby." One day, furious at a proposition made to him by a client, Frank throws himself into a chair by the window. His frown changes to a smile as he looks across a narrow areaway and sees Irene working at her typewriter. She glances up and, seeing him smiling at her, is annoyed and pulls down the shade. Mrs. Benson, with a child-like faith in the advertised richness of Morton's mine, sends him her scanty savings to invest. He chuckles in satisfaction and, handing the latter to Irene, tells her to mail a receipt. Irene knows Mrs. Benson and, for her friend's sake, asks Morton if the mining property is all right. He declares that it is, but his manner increases her suspicions and he sees that she does not believe him. He becomes angry and discharges her. Frank, anxious to make her acquaintance, pretends to be interested in mining stock and goes to the office. She passes him as he enters. He secures some circulars and leaves. Morton learns that Frank is a detective and begins to get nervous. Irene tells Mrs. Benson of her suspicions and sends her to Frank for advice. Morton sees her with Frank, and his fears are increased. Frank sees him watching from behind the curtain, and in order to catch him napping, says to her in a loud voice, "I will investigate the matter tomorrow." He then slips over to Morton's office after calling up the police station and giving them a description of Morton. He catches Morton just as he is about to flee with his ill-gotten gains. Morton tries to bluff but caves in when he is confronted with the receipt. He gladly pays back the money and Frank allows him to go. He hurries away but is unexpectedly nabbed by the cop waiting for him outside. Frank goes to Mrs. Benson's to pay the money over to her and finds Irene there. He is introduced to her and is overjoyed. Billie has gone to the store on an errand and calls up the house. The 'phone bell rings, and Irene answers it. Frank's happiness is changed to consternation and despair as he hears Irene say, "All right, Billie dear, hurry home; baby wants you." He is about to leave, his dream shattered, when the little sister returns and is introduced as "Billie." Hope is born again but he is still mystified. Irene guesses the reason for his actions and in a spirit of mischief says, "Don't go till you have seen 'Baby.'" She goes out and return with a basket and to his astonishment, he gazes upon a cunning little puppy. In great relief and joy he grabs and hugs the puppy and Irene smiles at him as the scene fades.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonIrma SorterMarc B. RobbinsRuby is the daughter of Colonel Granden of the "Twenty-first" and is the pride of the regiment. Jim Austin, the Colonel's orderly and she are great chums. Mrs. Granden thinks that it is a slight to the dignity of the household for her daughter to be on familiar terms with the soldiers and especially with the orderly. Jack Raymond, old flame of Mrs. Granden, arrives, and is installed as one of the household. His admiration for the Colonel's wife breaks out anew. The orderly, being in the house a great deal, one day comes upon the pair in an almost compromising attitude. Ruby is suddenly taken sick and the nurse sends Jim for her mother. Jim comes upon Mrs. Granden and Raymond as they are about to embrace. He tells her of the child's illness. She leaves hurriedly. Raymond realizes that the child is the only bond that keeps Mrs. Granden from leaving with him. The child recovers, but Mrs. Granden and Raymond decide to elope but the nurse finds the note telling Mrs Granden where to meet him. She shows it to Jim who finds Raymond and thrashes him and makes him leave alone. Then the woman realizes what she has been saved from. She and the Colonel make up and Jim is now thought worthy to be the guardian of an officer's little daughter.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonVera SissonMarc B. RobbinsArthur Graham is confidential clerk to Edmund Stewart, and he and his employer's daughter are very much in love with each other. He receives a letter from his brother, James, who has just finished serving a prison term, telling him that he intends to live a straight life hereafter. There is a happy reconciliation between the brothers and Arthur manages to secure a place for his brother in the same office in which he works. Edmund Stewart is in hard straits for money and realizes that some bonds that he holds in trust would tide him over his financial trouble. He is sorely tempted. Next day at the office he gets a note from a friend telling him that James Graham, who is now in his employ, is an ex-convict. Stewart calls James into his office and while he is questioning him strikes upon a scheme to overcome his monetary difficulties. He tells James that he has some bonds in his safe and that if "someone" were to steal them he could get ready money for them in Europe, and James reluctantly consents to do the deal. That night he makes his preparations and slips to the house. Edmund Stewart has fixed things so James will have an easy time getting in. Arthur and his sweetheart, Mabel, have selected this night to elope, and she is impatiently waiting for his arrival when she hears the noise of an explosion. She runs in with a gun in hand just as the burglar is dropping out of the window and shoots him. He drops to the ground. Stewart has been watching things from the garden and sees his daughter. He runs to them and arrives just as Arthur Graham comes up, having heard the noise of the shot. There is recognition and Mabel stands back in horror, thinking the man she was about to marry is the brother of a thief. James, believing he is mortally wounded, tells them of the agreement between Stewart and himself. Arthur corners Stewart and forces him to tell the truth of the matter. James is found to be only slightly wounded and some time later Arthur and Mabel come to visit him. Stewart pleads for forgiveness, which is freely granted, and the story ends happily for all concerned.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMillard K. WilsonGretchen LedererMarc B. RobbinsRichard Grave has been sentenced for forgery and given a five-year term. This will leave his wife and little baby to face the world alone. He writes his wife telling of his disgrace and begs her not to let the child ever know of her father's shame. His wife decides that the disgrace is more than she can bear and tells him that she will get a divorce. Eight years pass and Gretchen has married a wealthy man who gladly provides for her and the child and is fondly attached to his baby. She and her husband take a happy leave from the child to attend the theater, leaving the child and nurse alone. Richard Grave has been released from prison and is kicked about from "pillar to post." Hungry, dirty and discouraged, he is wandering about and passes the house where Gretchen lives just in time to see her and her husband enter the auto. He sees they are wealthy and decides to enter the house and make a haul. Grave gets into the house and is prowling around when his attention is arrested by a noise on the stairs. He looks up to find the child, who has missed its toy dog and come in search of it. gazing down at him. He starts back and the child tells him not to be afraid and comes down to meet him. Grave does not recognize the child as his own and they are enjoying each other's society when Grave notices a picture of his wife. "That's my mamma," declares the child. Grave hugs the child close just as Gretchen and her husband arrive. Grave is captured and about to be handed over to the law when the child's entreaties save him. Gretchen, in terror, recognizes her first husband, but he points to the child and makes her promise to be silent. He silently slips out of the window, leaving the child in the care of its foster father.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles ManleyMillard K. WilsonGretchen LedererJonathan Rodd, a wealthy old widower, has a son, Frederick, who has become entangled with an adventuress, Olga, who is forcing him to financial ruin. The old man strives to break up the infatuation, but for the time being fails to do so. Ruth Margate resides on a small farm with her invalid mother and baby sister, and needing more money, she advertises for an old gentleman or lady as lodger. Jonathan reads the advertisement, and as he desires peace in his old age, decides to visit the farm and take up his residence there. He is so impressed with the virtue and charm of Ruth that he sends for his son in order to bring them together. After a heated interview with his inamorata, in which she tells him that if he cannot supply her with the money needed he needn't come around, he decides to take his father's advice and goes to the farm, where he meets Ruth. The adventuress follows him and strives to win him back, but the old man is successful in separating them permanently, and after a series of incidents, succeeds in uniting the boy with the girl of his choice and everything end« happily.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsOlive CareyMillard K. WilsonLydia Yeamans TitusKate Roberts and her mother live on the seacoast, where Mrs. Roberts runs a boarding house. Kate reads of the outside world and becomes dissatisfied with her quiet life. Ned Johnson, her sweetheart, is a source of interest to the summer visitors, and one day Kate and he have a spat because the women notice Ned so. Henry Andrews and his son come to the beach for a vacation and take lodgings at Mrs. Roberts' house. Kate "falls for" the good looks and clothes of the son and seizes every opportunity to accompany him about. When passing Ned she cuts him dead. This leaves Ned heartsore and angry and he resolves to watch the strangers. One day he accidentally sees a notice offering a reward for the capture of a band of smugglers. Ned is sprawled out among the rocks when he sees a boat put away from a launch anchored out in the ocean and hurriedly come to shore. His curiosity is aroused and he sees the boat met by Andrews, who gets a suspicious looking box and hides it after the crew return to the ship. He hides until Andrews leaves and then hurries to the sheriff and tells him of his suspicions. The next morning Andrews and his son announce that they have to leave and call the automobile. As Andrews comes out with the box under his overcoat the sheriff steps up and arrests him. There is a fight, in which the two are subdued and taken to the lockup. Kate realizes the true worth of Ned and gladly returns to his love and their happiness is complete when later Ned is given a substantial reward for assisting in the capture of a brace of notorious smugglers.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRex De RosselliMarie WalcampLule WarrentonJohn Packer, who has made his money in pork, wishes to invade society. He meets Mrs. De Knickerbocker, who has a son, Tom. Mrs. De Knickerbocker is aristocratic but poor. Needing money, she conceives the idea of marrying Tom to Nellie, the packer's daughter. Packer is delighted. Tom and Nellie write notes to their respective parents refusing absolutely to be tied up and suggesting that the parents marry. The suggestion is taken up, for Mrs. De Knickerbocker is sadly in need of funds and Packer is determined to get into society. Meanwhile Tom and Nellie accidentally arrive at the same beach resort and each registers under a fictitious name. The afternoon of his arrival Tom helps some kids on the beach build a tall sand man. That night Nellie goes for a walk in the moonlight, followed by Tom. Black Joe and Nifty Kid see the glitter of gems on Nellie's hands and follow her. The thugs are attacking her when Tom comes up. He sends The Kid to the sand with a sharp blow and tackles Joe. The girl is freed. Horrified, she sees The Kid recover and draw a gun to shoot Tom. Nellie topples the sand man over on the Kid and the villains are captured. Nellie and Tom are now acquainted, and fearing a mere summer flirtation, each decides to test the other. Nellie announces to Tom that she is not rich, but merely a cloak model taking her vacation as a swell. He then tells her that he is a plumber and poor. Then Mr. and Mrs. John Packer arrive. Recognition, consternation, forgiveness and then delight ensue. The old folks needn't have married after all, but the double deal in pork has been put through nevertheless.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsDustin FarnumWinifred KingstonHerbert StandingAfter a spectacular college football career, John Harkless leaves the university to pursue a place in Indiana politics. He buys the failing Plattville Herald and, using the newspaper to expose various illegal activities, sets out to rid the county of all mobsters and corrupt officials. When a traveling circus comes to town, he uncovers a crooked gambling ring and drives away the fleecers. That night, returning from his sweetheart's house, he is badly beaten and left for dead by a gang of men. Believing that John has been murdered, vigilantes gather to avenge his death, but the identity of the perpetrators is in question. The evidence finally points to the White Caps, a band of thugs allied with Rodney McCune, a notorious local politician opposing John in an upcoming Congressional race. Before the angry mob clashes with the White Caps, John is located in a hospital emergency room. While he recovers, his girlfriend, Helen Sherwood, takes over the newspaper and cleverly concocts a way for John to win the election.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharlotte GreenwoodSydney GrantMyrtle StedmanTo obtain an increase in his income from his wealthy uncle, Charles Shackleton must stop his wild bachelor ways and marry. Charles proposes to Lucy Norton, but her father refuses his permission. Undaunted, Charles tells his uncle he has married and receives his increased allowance. A year later the uncle announces an upcoming visit, and Charles begins a frantic search for a temporary wife, offering Jane, the maid, five hundred dollars to play the part of Mrs. Shackleton. Secretly married to William, the butler, Jane undertakes the role without her husband's knowledge, causing him much confusion and jealousy. When the uncle demands to see "the baby," Jane snatches one from an unsuspecting washerwoman, who later catches the uncle with her child and calls the police on him. Further complications lead to Charles' pleading proposal to Lucy and then finally to the truth, which leaves everyone satisfied.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMacklyn ArbuckleForrest StanleyMyrtle StedmanRealizing that his mayoral campaign is in serious trouble, reform candidate Frank Grandell sends his people out to dig up some dirt on Art Hoke, the boss of the city's political machine. Their investigation leads them to Hoke's flunky, nicknamed "Looney Jim". Jim implies that he has some damaging information about Hoke's daughter, but he dies before he can reveal it. Grandell eventually finds out what the "secret" is, however, and must decide whether to use it in his campaign to defeat Hoke's candidate.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsConstance CollierForrest StanleyHerbert StandingRev. Dr. Penfield Sturgis, of fashionable St. Martins-in-the-Lane, finds himself face to face with Jane Bartlett, a grand opera prima donna whose opera he has denounced on grounds of morality, and who comes to his very vestry room to make him "eat his sermon word for word." Out of the encounter a strange acquaintance develops, Jane Bartlett interested through vindictive reasons, the rector through the challenge to his church. She prevails upon him to visit the notorious opera, which but deepens his previous convictions, but meanwhile he discovers a surprising humanity in the woman herself. Just as it is beginning to dawn upon him that maybe he takes himself a shade too seriously, word comes that the Mayor has closed "Zaporah" on the strength of his own condemnatory sermon. Repentant, Sturgis decides to apologize in an open letter to the newspapers, at which his vestry and congregation, already perturbed by the ascendancy of the Bartlett woman, are up in arms. To preserve her dignity the young rector offers to marry her, and she accepts him, thus at last making him "eat his sermon word for word," as she had set out to do. But her vanity appeased, Jane Bartlett proceeds to make peace between her young rector and Georgine Darigal, daughter of the rector emeritus and formerly his fiancée, and the reconciliation assured, Jane Bartlett gracefully withdraws.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsDustin FarnumWinifred KingstonHerbert StandingA family feud erupts in the mountains of Kentucky.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsAnna HeldForrest StanleyHerbert StandingThe story tells of the troubles started by the fondness for gaiety of three mature French judges. With an eye to securing his good graces, they enjoy losing an occasional game of whist to their superior, Judge Galipaux. M. Galipaux's life burden is an ambitious wife. An escapade with the leading lady of a theatrical troupe, Mlle. Gobette, lands the three judges on the carpet for a severe reprimand. The offending actress is evicted from the hotel. Like an inspiration, a way out of their predicament comes to one of the offenders. That night on returning from seeing his wife on her train to Paris, M. Galipaux finds his house occupied by a strange but very beautiful woman, who refuses to leave. Unexpectedly M. Gaudet, the handsome and irreproachable Minister of Justice, arrives. He is fascinated by Gobette whom he believes to be Mme. Galipaux. Still posing as Mme. Galipaux, Gobette comes to Paris to call upon him. Scenting a possible scandal, Marius, the head usher, lays a trap. Mlle. Gobette calls and the trap is sprung. From then on events crowd quickly upon poor Gaudet, but through humorous situations and startling perplexities he remains undaunted to emerge triumphant.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsDustin FarnumWinifred KingstonHerbert StandingThe true story of the famed British actor David Garrick and his love for Ada Ingot.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsEdna GoodrichForrest StanleyHoward DaviesGeorge Hale, a rather good-for-nothing son of wealthy parents, is engaged to marry Marie, a young society girl. She refuses to marry him until he has made good. Young Hale's chum, Augustus Foster, an art student, induces Hale to join him in his studio in Rome. To win the admiration of his sweetheart, Hale accepts his chum's offer and starts his career as an artist. Being of a carefree, happy disposition, he dallies with his work. Here he meets Maddalena, a very beautiful young Italian girl, who poses as his model. Her father, a rough and muchly-dissipated Italian of the poorer class, has abused his daughter most shamefully, using the money she earned selling flowers to buy his drink. Young Hale is greatly attracted to the beautiful Maddalena. One night at the studio, where a number of his friends were celebrating the Fourth of July, in true American fashion, the studio gaily decorated with American flags, bunting of red, white and blue, a letter is received by Hale from the American sweetheart denouncing him and announcing her engagement to Signor Pastorelli, a great artist, who was then living in America. Leaving her home because of her father's abuses, Maddalena seeks refuge in the studio of Hale. In a fit of rage over the news of his sweetheart's betrothal to Sig. Pastorelli, Hale announces to his friends his intentions of marrying his beautiful model, Maddalena. He marries her, a son is born to them. Hale finds the struggle for existence a very difficult one and seeks employment. He becomes ill, loses his position. Hale's father, who has learned of his marriage and illness, decides to go to his son and bring him to America, to his mother, who is grieving for him. This he does, takes his son away until he is well enough to go to America. He would like to take the child, but the mother will not give him up. Maddalena's brutal father, seeing an opportunity to get a few dollars from the elder Hale if he should bring him the child, kidnaps the baby. Grandfather Hale, with his son and grandson, leave for America. Months later, Hale's chum, Augustus Foster and his aunt, Mrs. Wright, go to find young Hale, only to learn from poor little broken-hearted Maddalena of her desertion. Mrs. Wright takes the girl as her companion to Paris. Here she is educated. They finally come to America. Here Maddalena becomes interested in settlement work, meets Dr. Comstock and interests him in her great work among the poor. She becomes a trained nurse, nursing in the homes of these poor people. An epidemic breaks out in the city, a most dreaded disease and one day she learns through the newspaper that her child has been stricken with this disease. She goes to the home of the child's grandfather, acts as nurse to her child. The child becomes very ill, the elder Hale does not recognize the young nurse as his daughter-in-law, and thinking the child is dying, says: "Oh, if the child's mother was only here." Hale, who has been out of the city, has been called home because of the seriousness of his child's illness, comes into the room and recognizes his wife. A reconciliation takes place, the elder Hale recognizes the great change in the girl, sees the noble character, and takes her into his home.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRita JolivetMarc B. RobbinsElliott DexterFlorence Brent is the daughter of Bennington Brent, who runs a successful laundry business. Florence's childhood friend, John Oglesby, is a Congressman. When Florence visits her friend, Eleanor Williamson, in Washington D.C., she meets Eleanor's fiancé, who is a Count. The Duke of Buritz, a countryman of the Count, tries to corrupt Oglesby for political reasons. Meanwhile, the Count breaks his engagement to Eleanor, having become enamored of Florence. Oglesby eventually exposes the duplicity of the Count and Duke.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsVivian MartinEdward Peil Sr.Frank LloydNell, a beautiful mountain girl, is a member of the Serviss family, rivals of the neighboring Rutherford family. Nell is engaged to Jim Serviss, who is the head of their clan, but when, by accident, she meets a stranger who has come to stay with the Rutherfords, they become infatuated. The stranger spends much of his time examining and chipping away at rocks, causing an intense curiosity among the mountaineers, who suspect that he is a "revenuer." When Nell learns that the stranger is searching for radium, she shows him a deposit rich in ore located near the Serviss still. On the night of a big dance, the Serviss still is burned by revenue officers and the mountain people are convinced that the stranger is to blame. Nell rushes to the Rutherford cabin to warn the stranger who is revealed to be Rolf Rutherford. When Jim arrives, Nell saves Rolf's life by telling Jim that she will marry the stranger. Soon after Jim leaves, however, Nell goes after him and admits that it is only he who she loves and that she lied to save him from committing murder.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsLenore UlricCecil Van AukerHoward DaviesA sci-fi/espionage film in which world powers vie for control of a death ray during World War I.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsGladys BrockwellWilliam CliffordCarl von SchillerUnhappy with her shotgun marriage to Southern aristocrat Arthur Heatherway, Valerie Marchmont leaves her new husband and, after giving her infant daughter to a Virginia family, goes to Alaska to work in a dance hall. Years later, the daughter, Adrian Gardiner, wants to marry Richard Carver. Richard's father Robert, refuses them to marry because Adrian cannot provide any information about her parents. Following a hunch, Richard goes to Alaska to find the mother Adrian never knew, but just after locating Valerie, he is shot by saloon owner Jim McNeil. When Adrian and Robert go to Alaska to be with Richard during his recuperation, Robert recognizes Valerie as the wife of his old friend Arthur. As a result, he approves of the marriage, but the celebration accompanying the news is cut short when Valerie and Jim kill each other in a fight.
- DirectorFrank LloydEugene MooreStarsJeanne EagelsBoyd MarshallThomas A. CurranA gay dinner party took place in one of Broadway's showiest restaurants. The host was a bachelor of wealth, and his guests included men of his own station in life, and young girls caught in the whirl of gaiety. The bachelor told the young girls that the keeper of his mountain lodge had advised him by letter that she requires the services of a maid, and he offered the proposition to the girls, but they refused. A face then appeared at the window of the restaurant. It was the face of a woman who had been cast aside. The girls told their host to offer the job to her. Being in a mood to take the advice, he hurried from the restaurant, overtook the derelict, and brought her back with him. The woman was starving and accepted the position in the mountain. Her past life was recalled to her that very night, for one of the guests in the restaurant was the man who had made her what she was. In the Adirondack Mountains the woman found life quiet, but a chance acquaintanceship with a family in the valley marked another change in her life. The family (a man, his wife, and their little daughter) took a liking to the maid and induced her to attend services at the village church. The weeks passed, and then the owner of the lodge arrived from the city with a number of his friends. instead of the forlorn outcast whom he had sent to the mountains he found an attractive woman, but one who would not listen to his advances. Angered by her attitude, her employer tried to force his intentions upon her. She then left the lodge and went to the home of the little family, where she was welcomed. Some days later the little daughter was accidentally injured. The doctor declared that her spine was broken, and despite all his efforts, the child steadily sank. The outcast prayed for Divine help, and as she prayed it seemed to her that she was told to heal the child. Strengthened and transfigured by her religious devotion, she accomplished what the doctor had failed to do. The woman's power soon became known and was as effective with other invalids as it was with her first patient, while at the mountain lodge its worldly owner laughed cynically as he thought how these respectable, narrow-minded people reverenced a woman whom they would despise if they knew her past. From the city the man came who had blighted her life. His friend at the mountain lodge had written him about the woman's new career. He came to sneer, but soon learned to respect and honor her. But one day the woman failed for the first time. A mountaineer brought his wife, a cripple for several years, to be cured. Th« owner of the lodge threatened that he would reveal the outcast's past life. Realizing that he would keep his word, the woman's great faith disappeared. While the assembled people were still discussing the failure of their idol, her former employer told them what this woman had been before she came among them, and they recoiled from her in horror, all of them except the man who had been her first enemy and had now become her friend. He asked her to marry him and she refused, going out into the world alone. The old bitterness did not return to her and she prayed for guidance. It seemed to her that she was told to make the cure which she had failed to achieve, and she set out for the mountaineer's cabin. The mountaineer's wife had been crippled by a racing automobile and that day the owner of the mountain lodge told her husband the name of the man who had driven the car. It was the man who had asked the outcast to marry him. The mountaineer decoyed the guilty man into the mountains, and there a fight took place between the two men. The man from the City was no match for the mountaineer and he was about to be hurled into the chasm when he beheld a sight which caused him to forget his vengeance forever. His wife was walking down the mountain path towards him. And with her was the healer, the woman who had failed. Realization came to him as his wife told him of the great cure, and he thanked the woman whom he had misjudged. Happiness has come to the outcast as the wife of the man who made an outcast.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJewel CarmenNancy CaswellGenevieve BlinnAfter her parents separate, young Violet Dale's father takes her to Alaska. Although he tries to protect her from the sordidness of life in a lawless town, Violet must resort to working in a dance hall after he is killed after being caught cheating at cards. Despite her circumstances, Violet remains virtuous and earns the respect and admiration of the dance-hall clientele. Frank Carson, a young man who has come to Alaska to seek his fortune, is attracted to Violet and asks her to marry him. When he shows her a portrait of his mother, Violet sees that it is a duplicate of a portrait she has of her own mother. Now realizing that Frank is her own brother, she refuses his proposal but does not tell him why. Some time later, Frank receives word that his mother is seriously ill and needs an expensive operation that she cannot afford. Desperate to help, Violet holds an auction at the dance hall to offer herself to the highest bidder. Rev. David Cromwell, a kind man who is in love with Violet and knows her predicament, makes the winning bid of $6,000, although he does not have the money. Dance-hall owner Buck, who is jealous of David's influence over the community, decides to lend him the money for three months on the condition that if David does not pay, he will belong to Buck for 10 years. David eventually obtains the money and wins Violet's love.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumFrank ClarkVivian RichU. S. Senator Frank Deering has spent his life trying to alleviate the misery of child labor. Judge Vernon, his closest friend, aids him in this struggle. Unexpected circumstances force Judge Vernon to borrow money from Henry McCarthy, one of the factory owners most responsible for the harsh and inhumane working conditions. Judge Vernon is unable to pay off the loan, and is reduced to accepting a bride from McCarthy. Later, the Judge is stricken with a heart-condition but, on his dying bed, he confesses the shameful act he committed to Deering. To keep his friend's name unsullied, Deering makes a deal with McCarthy and votes against the child-labor-act he sponsored. His colleagues and the world, unaware of his sacrifice, mock and jeer him.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumJewel CarmenCharles ClaryAlcoholic lawyer Sydney Carton travels to Paris during the Reign of Terror to rescue French aristocrat Charles Darnay, husband of the woman he loves.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumJewel CarmenBertram GrassbyWilliam Armstrong, an American whose family is from France, inherits an iron mine in France. With his sister Betty, he travels to France to take over the business. In the village near the mine lives Claire, the daughter of a wealthy family, who is engaged to the scheming Duc de Bligny. When Claire's family loses all their money, the Duc dumps her for the daughter of a wealthy manufacturer. Armstrong and his sister find themselves caught up in this intrigue, which becomes more complicated when Armstrong falls for Claire.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumJewel CarmenLulu May BowerReturning home to find that his sister has died after being abducted and violated by an unscrupulous man, sailor Larry Smith ships out as mate with Captain Sutton. After an altercation with the captain, Larry leaves the ship at a South Sea port where he meets and falls in love with Violet North, a woman of questionable reputation who is the mistress of millionaire Lewis. Larry proposes, but Violet sails with Lewis anyway. Sutton also sets sail, leaving behind inveterate drunk Logan, who informs Larry that Sutton was the man responsible for his sister's death. Sometime later, Lewis' yacht is wrecked and Violet is cast upon an island. Sutton picks her up and tries to sell her to the natives as punishment for resisting his advances, but Larry rescues her and kills Sutton. His sister thus avenged, Larry marries Violet and settles down.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumGeorge MossHardee KirklandJean Valjean, a good and decent man who has committed a minor crime, is imprisoned but escapes. He is pursued thereafter for years by Javert, the cruel and implacable arm of the law.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumMary MartinWilliam Courtleigh Jr.Barney Kemper works hard on a farm so his younger brother Dick can go to college. However, Dick squanders Barney's money. Margaret Danford, daughter of the village doctor, loves Barney from afar and tries to educate him. A girlfriend of Margaret's comes for a visit and steals Barney's heart. The young girl turns to Dick, and Barney discovers them together. Embittered, Barney goes west to work in a lumber camp. But Dick reforms, and becomes a minister, and is assigned to the lumber camp. Margaret goes along to start a hospital. Tex Daly, leader of the lumbermen, resent Dick and try to frame him with a saloon girl. When Dick is shot by Tex, Barney appears and helps his wounded brother by taking charge of the church. Dick dies, and Barney kills Tex. Barney and Margaret are united.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles ClaryRhea MitchellNancy CaswellWhen John Langdon suspects--wrongly, as it turns out--that his wife Claire is having an affair he divorces her, and gets custody of their daughter Florence. Later Florence marries the city's District Attorney. Meanwhile Claire, in dire financial straits, gets involved with an infamous gambling resort in the city. A political rival of Florence's husband discovers Claire's secret and tries blackmailing Florence by threatening to expose her mother's "secret life".
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumKathryn AdamsCharles ClaryGilbert Brockhurst, an Englishman living in America, has an American wife and a six-year-old son named Robert. His wife inherits a ranch in Arizona. A short time later, Brockhurst is informed that his cousin has died, and that he is now the Earl of Somerfield. He deserts his wife and goes to England. When his wife dies on the ranch, Brockhurst remarries and has a son named Stanley, who is regarded as his heir, but he's a spendthrift. When Brockhurst is sent to America on a diplomatic mission, he takes Stanley with him and threatens to leave him in America unless he reforms. Meanwhile, Brockhurst's older son has taken the name Robert McKeever and taken over the ranch. McKeever finds Stanley in a gambling house, pays off his debt, and takes him to his ranch. He then fears that his half-brother is winning the affection of Ruth, the local schoolteacher. McKeever eventually tells Ruth she can go to Stanley, but she tells him that she really loves him. Brockhurst offers to make McKeever his heir, but instead, McKeever sends Stanley, who has reformed, back to England.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumWilliam ScottMarc B. RobbinsLassiter, a Texas Ranger, goes after the sect which has abducted his sister Millie. During his search, he encounters Jane Withersteen, who owns a rich estate. Lassiter saves a man named Venters from a whipping by men who think Venters is courting Jane. Lassiter takes Venters' place as manager of Jane's ranch, while Venters goes in search of cattle thieves. Venters discovers the thieves are led by a masked rider, and wounds the rider. The rider turns out to be female, and Venters nurses her back to health. Lassiter discovers that Millie is dead, and takes an orphan girl named Fay Larkin under his wing. When Fay is abducted by the same sect that had taken his sister, Lassiter takes his vengeance out on their leader, Dyer, and rescues Fay. As they are fleeing, they meet Venters and the masked rider, whom Lassiter recognizes as his sister's daughter, Bess. Venters and Bess ride east to be married, but Lassiter's escape route is cut off by pursuers, led by Elder Tull. Lassiter, Jane, and Fay find an entrance to a canyon, but it is blocked by a massive rock. Lassiter manages to push the rock down on Tull and his followers, but in the process, he seals himself, Jane, and Fay in the canyon.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWallace ReidDorothy DavenportWallace Reid Jr.The Reid family is in a squabble over buying bonds, when the family cook tells them that even the family servants buy bonds.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumAnn ForrestMary MerschLassiter, Jane Withersteen, and the young orphan Fay Larkin were imprisoned in a valley years ago, and now live like primitive people. A relative of Lassiter's named John Shefford goes in search of them. Before he can find them, a Mormon elder named Waggoner is able to enter the valley, where he finds the trio. He kidnaps Fay, now a young woman, and brings her to a desolate area where she is kept with other women. When United States marshals raid the Mormon settlement, they bring charges of polygamy against all the women living there. Shefford sees Fay during her trial and falls in love with her. He rescues her and rides away with her, and then attempts to rescue Lassiter and Jane. When Waggoner pursues, he is killed by an Indian. Waggoner's followers continue the pursuit. Shefford, Fay, and the others are saved when marshals, warned by the Indian, arrive.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumAn American soldier is killed in battle. His mother buys Liberty Bonds in the hope that they will help bring other mothers' sons home safely.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumCoit AlbertsonRubye De RemerRobert Wayne is a prominent businessman, whose sister Edith is married to his friend Herbert Osborne. Osborne's business under attack by a rival, Howard Stratton. Osborne gives his stock proxy to Wayne and tells him to vote the shares a certain way at the upcoming stockholders meeting. Stratton takes Osborne's wife for a drive, and then calls Wayne to say the two have eloped. To protect his sister from scandal, Wayne goes to rescue his sister and misses the stockholders meeting. In a struggle, Stratton is accidentally shot with his own gun and Wayne is convicted of the shooting. Wayne is paroled on the condition that he fight for his country. Before going to France, he meets Mary Fenton and falls in love. During the war, Wayne rescues a comrade and wins a commendation. But he is wounded and sent home. At the ball held at Mary's home celebrating the end of the war, Edith tells the truth about the shooting that sent her brother to prison.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsWilliam FarnumLouise LovelyCharles ClaryA man's life is ruined by the treachery of someone he once thought was a close friend. Enraged, he determines to track the man down and get his revenge. He follows the culprit over two continents and across the ocean, and when the ship sinks he finds himself washed up on a desert island with his nemesis and a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsGladys BrockwellWilliam ScottWilliam SheerTenement dweller Molly Moore, trying to forget her crooked past and go straight, runs a cheap restaurant in the underworld district in order to educate her younger sister Marion. Jerry Sullivan and Spike Davis, two friends from Molly's past, are released from prison. Jerry has always loved Molly and is determined to find work despite Spike's bad influence. When Spike forces himself on Marion during her visit to Molly, Molly sends her back to her educated friends. Marion then becomes engaged to Ted Pemberton, the brother of her boarding school friend Alice. Spike plans to rob the Pemberton home on the night of the engagement party, and threatens to expose Molly's past if she does not help him. Molly refuses, but when she follows him to the Pemberton home to dissuade him, she is arrested by the police while Spike escapes. Jerry locates Spike, and with the aid of Dave Garrity, a plainclothed policeman, Spike is arrested and Molly freed. Jerry and Molly wed and rebuild their lives.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsGeraldine FarrarLou TellegenMae GiraciA Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and find their way to America.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsPauline FrederickJohn BowersLawson ButtLetty Shell, a clerk in a London brokerage office, is discouraged by her lack of fine clothes and social position. She becomes infatuated with Nevill Letchmere, a debonair idler from a good family, and believes that he wants to marry her, but after her boss, Bernard Mandeville, who has risen to power and wealth, and who wants to marry Letty, warns Letchmere to keep away from her, Letchmere confesses that he is married. Disappointed, Letty accepts Mandeville's proposal, but when she sees Mandeville's boorishness in a restaurant, she returns to Letchmere. Just as she is about to become his mistress, Letchmere receives word that his married sister has eloped with a lover. When he curses his sister for acting like a "shop girl," Letty realizes that he views her and her class without respect. She leaves and accepts the love of her faithful friend Richard Perry, a poor photographer, whose rich uncle is going to help him in business.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsPauline FrederickCharles ClaryJohn BowersLaura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will obtain a divorce. After doing so she weds Paul Ramsey. His employer, Dick Turner, a libertine, offers his a responsible position in the west, and she faces a long separation. Ramsey later learns that Turner is interested in his wife and engages a man to protect her, who happens to be her former husband. She finds this out, but does not know he is bent on vengeance. She is inveigled to go to Turner's apartment, where she meets Turner's former "flame." One of them leaves the apartment which is "Room 13." Returning from the West, Ramsey is taken to an adjoining room by Bruce, and listens to a conversation in "Room 13" between a man and a woman. He is convinced it is his wife's voice. Maddened he rushes to the room and batters down the door. He confronts Turner and shoots him. At the trial Ramsey will go free if his wife confesses she was in the room She does and he is acquitted. A reconciliation follows. - Moving Picture World 1920
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMyrtle StedmanCurtis CookseyBetty BlytheA young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsPauline FrederickWilliam CourtleighCasson FergusonThrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJohn St. PolisClaire AdamsJohn DavidsonEthel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer. Paurel becomes enchanted with Ethel, arousing the jealousy of the company's prima donna, Sabotini. When, after the first act, Ethel hears that Paurel has suffered an attack of the throat, she rushes backstage. Carlo, urged by Sabotini, follows and makes a scene, whereupon Ethel indignantly announces her engagement to Paurel. Paurel is unable to perform in the second act, and Carlo, taking his place, is vaulted to stardom. After Paurel is diagnosed as never being able to sing again, Bianca, a retired singer and Paurel's first love, reveals that Carlo is their son and pleads with the singer to give up Ethel for the boy's sake. After much soul-searching, Paurel refutes his selfish ways and agrees, thus freeing Ethel from her pledge to marry him.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJ. Frank GlendonLeatrice JoyWallace BeeryA white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsPauline FrederickJohn BowersRichard TuckerDavid and Lewis Marsh are brothers. Lewis betrays Rose Merritt, then refuses to marry her when she follows him home. He is in love with Ann Hardy; his brother David also loves her and she loves him. Lewis pleads with David not to take Ann from him. While David is undecided what to do he falls asleep and dreams three different dreams, in which the characters in his own domestic tragedy act out the same finish to each episode. The first episode takes place in Alaska, where Ann is the companion of a gambling-house keeper and is killed by him for falling honestly in love with a young inventor who loves another woman. The second episode is in the East among a number of society people. The third episode introduces the betrayed woman as a Mexican girl who loves honestly but cannot escape her fate. At the finish David wakes up and decided to marry Ann himself.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRamsey WallaceIrene RichAlec B. FrancisThe solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHouse PetersIrene RichDeWitt JenningsEx-convict Sid Chambers, while lodging with the Millers, meets schoolteacher Laura Chadwick, and in spite of his record she believes in him. They are married, move to the city, and are happy. Shadwell, the detective who sent Chambers to prison, tries to obtain information from him regarding a former friend and gang member, Bob Drake, who has committed a robbery; and refusing to cooperate, Chambers is sent to prison again on another charge. Meanwhile, Laura's child is born, and fearing that it will develop criminal instincts she gives it up for adoption. When Chambers is released, he vows to kill Shadwell, and Laura, in her effort to warn him, finds her child in Shadwell's home. Touched by her grief, Shadwell arranges to give Chambers his freedom, and the couple is reunited.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsPhoebe HuntJack HoltGloria HopeMusical comedy star Marie Lamonte, the mistress of Harvey Martin, has her daughter, Dorothy, reared in a convent school. Realizing that the daughter is about to come home, Marie gives up her luxurious life with Martin and in maternal devotion retires to humble lodgings. There she is happy with Dorothy, who is in love with young artist Geoffrey Hutchins. Martin, however, lavishes Dorothy with gifts and persuades her to elope with him; learning that Martin has fascinated Dorothy, Marie goes to his apartment to plead with him to give up the girl, who meanwhile is concealed in an adjoining room. Martin refuses, and in desperation Marie shoots at him. In admiration of her courage, Martin changes his mind, telling Dorothy that he never intended to marry her; and when the girl is united with Geoffrey, Marie is at last happy.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsHouse PetersFritzi BrunetteAllan ForrestA beautiful but timid young woman named Marcia comes to a backwoods logging camp, where she is wooed and won by a young city boy, Fosdick. Marcia is put off by the gruffness of the camp's foreman, Barnes, but soon learns that Fosdick is a coward whose sole determination is self-preservation at all costs, and she begins to see that foreman Barnes is the better catch.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeAdolphe MenjouWedgwood NowellThe Duchess de Langeais has a love affair, as in the novel by H. de Balzac.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRichard DixHelene ChadwickJames KirkwoodStratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love. Also there are a street preacher, a tramp, a stranded Swedish engineer, a poor actor, a corporation lawyer, a grasping stockbroker, the bartender, and Stratton, the proprietor. Protected from the sweeping floodwaters, they are secure until the engineer announces that they will suffocate when the air is exhausted. Facing death, all of the characters reform, and uniting in brotherly love they confess their sins and prepare for death. When they decide to admit the floodwaters, they discover that the crest of the flood has passed, and all then revert to their former greediness, except Billy and Poppy, who are happily married.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJackie CooganJames A. MarcusAggie HerringAn orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeEugene O'BrienEdwin StevensLord Carlyle, governor of an Indian province, a ruthless type of a man, attracted by Adrienne's beauty, makes her his wife, but does not win her love. Andrew Fabian, studying for the ministry, comes to India. After a scene involving Carlyle and another woman Adrienne leaves him. She and Fabian meet aboard ship and he persuades her to join a pilgrimage to Damascus, where they learn to love each other. Called back to reality by the voice form the minaret, Adrienne returns to her husband and they soon go back to England. Fabian becomes minister of a church in London. They meet again. Carlyle, suspicious, arranges a ruse and learns the truth. As he is about to denounce Fabian an attack of an old malady kills him, and the lovers find happiness. - Moving Picture World 1923.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeLew CodyJack MulhallWhen Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeConway TearleWallace BeeryWhen Empress Catherine of France launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Rupert de Vrieac, by making him an indentured servant in his castle. Rupert falls in love with Yolande, the count's sister, and finds that his rival for the fair Yolande's hand is none other than the despicable Duc de Tours, a notorious torturer of Huguenots.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithConway TearleTom RickettsA Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first, he thinks it's just pure coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's currently romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished years before, but he soon starts to believe that it's not such a coincidence after all.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsMilton SillsEnid BennettLloyd HughesA wrongly-convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsGlenn HunterBessie LoveHobart BosworthJoe Roberts is devoted to his wife, Mary, and fiercely loyal to United States Senate candidate John Steele, by whom he is employed as secretary. Mary does not share her husband's enthusiasm for Steele and believes Joe false to her when actress Lily Elliott dies in an apartment rented in Joe's name. Even under charge of murder and a police "third degree" Joe does not reveal that Lily's affair was with Steele, an unhappily married man; he remains silent in the mistaken belief that Barnes, Steele's campaign manager, has told Mary the truth. When Joe is finally released, Mary is gone, but Steele learns of the situation after he is elected and then reunites the couple.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsAntonio MorenoPatsy Ruth MillerRuth CliffordA young couple's future is put in jeopardy by both the past and present actions of their parents.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsAnna Q. NilssonBen LyonViola DanaA love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsAnna Q. NilssonRobert FrazerLionel BarrymoreYoung Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother died during the voyage. In Sacramento she is saved from a violent drunk's attentions by Stanton Halliday, an agent for Eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town. She later runs into Halliday under less-than-auspicious circumstances.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJames KirkwoodMary AstorBetty CompsonGuy Watson, known as a wise guy, decides to turn his traveling vaudeville troupe and tent into an evangelistic movement, and make more money preaching than acting. One of the troupers is Mary, a girl left destitute by her father's death. Watson is so good at his new calling that a band of followers build a tabernacle for him to preach his sermons. But when one of his former performers, "Ma" Parker dies, Guy prays honestly for the first time in his life, and then tells the congregation of his lying past. Mary, it turns out, is also a crook, and they go to jail with the intent of getting married when they are released, and starting a new honest life.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFlorence VidorRicardo CortezSam De GrasseIn early-1800s New Orleans, a ball is being given to honor General Andrew Jackson. Among the attendees is a certain Captain Sazarac, who is actually the notorious buccaneer Jean Lafitte. His real identity is exposed and Gen. Jackson gives him until dawn to leave the city. However, Lafitte is soon involved in a plot, hatched by the uncle of the woman he loves, to rescue Napoleon from the island of St. Helena.