All Movies From 1912 to 1915 - Part 2
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- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMontagu LoveElisabeth RisdonFred GrovesA colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.
- Though the weather outside was miserable, it had no effect upon the members within the pleasant room of the Astor Club. To pass the time merrily, a game of cards was proposed, and Lord Lister, a detective, arose from the table a lucky winner. Being naturally a close observer, his eyes fell upon an inscription on one of the dollar bills, "We are held prisoners by a Chinese gang at Cosia, near Sacramento. Send help." After discussing this appeal among his friends, he is determined to unravel the mystery and his friend, Charles Brand, consents to accompany him. On a vast farm in the small village of Cosia lives Mr. Wu Chung Foo, a rich Chinese merchant, of whom Lord Lister has often heard his friend, Gov. Morton, speak. Through him he secures a letter of introduction to the merchant, asking him to permit two close friends to have the use of his hunting grounds. The next day Lister and Brand start out on their journey, well prepared for all contingencies. At their destination they are met by Mr. Wu Chung Foo and escorted to his home. On the way Wu Chung, trying to make his guests uncomfortable, explains that his ground is the exact location where so many people have mysteriously disappeared. This does not set fear in Lord Lister but a firm resolve to carry out his plans. A peculiar stare in the eyes of the yellow man gives Lord Lister grounds for suspicion. At his home they are introduced to his adopted daughter Hattie, and not many words had passed between them before she cultivates a strong liking for Charles Brand. Wu Chung suspects that the purpose of their visit is to gain his secret. Not approving of their purpose, and of the friendship which has sprung up between Hattie and Charles, Wu Chung informs the agent of his subterranean city to capture the latter, and to set him to work in the mine as a slave. That night the detective decides to go one step further into the mystery and, disguising himself as a shadow, he ventures into the private room of the master of the house. Here he learns of the secret door built in one of the walls which leads to the solution of the enigma. As Wu Chung passes in, Lister follows, but his steps are halted by an iron gate to which he has no key. The next day while out riding, Hattie and Lister discover that Charles, who had ridden ahead, has mysteriously disappeared from his horse. To lessen the grief of Hattie, Lister acquaints her with the circumstances of which she had not the slightest knowledge. When the matter is explained to Wu Chung, he catches the accusing eye of Lister and decides to rid himself of his second burden. In a like manner as his friend, the detective is seized by an ape and carried into a cave through rocks. Horrified at her second discovery, Hattie determines to master the situation. She obtains possession of the key, and, with gun in hand, gains entrance to the subterranean city, where many white men are held as slaves and worked to death in her foster father's mine. Having presence of mind, she runs for the help of the soldiers. They arrive in time, capturing the criminals, and giving Wu Chung the just measures he deserves. Hattie is once more safe in the arms of her lover and the white men are freed, while Lord Lister, their liberator, having accomplished his purpose, happily looks on.
- DirectorCharles RaymondStarsPhilip KayLewis CarltonDouglas PayneA crook poses as a Lord to rob a merchant and holds a detective captive in his cellar.
- DirectorCarl WilhelmStarsErnst LubitschVictor ArnoldMartha KriwitzIn the role that brought him stardom, future director Lubitsch is a bumbling provincial who loses his clothing store gig after breaking a window.But moving on to classier Berlin, he becomes rich and dapper and marries the boss' daughter.
- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsHerbert Beerbohm TreeViva BirkettIan SwinleyA hypnotist makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
- DirectorErnest G. BatleyStarsFred MorganEthel BracewellHenry VictorA baron poses as a prince to elope with an anarchist's sister.
- DirectorPierce KingsleyStarsHerbert KelceyEffie ShannonRobert VaughnA little maiden / Climbed an old man's knee, / Begged for a story. / Oh, Uncle please. / Why are you single? / Why live alone? / Have you no babies? / Have you no home? The story he tells her follows: John Dale is an eminent bachelor lawyer who has never felt the sting of Cupid's dart. A millionaire friend of John's invites him to join a yachting party. The girl that John may have been waiting for appears in the person of Louise Tate, who is accompanied by her father, James Tate; it is love at first sight. John is made a welcome visitor at the Tate home. The family consists of four persons: Mr. and Mrs. Tate, their daughter Louise, and their son Gerald. While at college Gerald played card games with the other students which caused them to be expelled from the institution. Gerald's father, learning of his son's disgrace, is enraged beyond measure and is about to order Gerald from his home when Louise and her mother intercede for him. Gerald finds his mother's necklace upon the library floor where it had fallen in her attempts to shield her son from the father s attack. Gerald takes the necklace to a pawnbroker and pledges it, intending to gamble and try to win enough money to pay his debts and have sufficient left to redeem the necklace. Gerald soon loses the money on the races. After missing her jewels the mother summons detectives, who find the missing jewels in the pawnshop. While the pawnbroker is receiving his check from Mr. Tate, Gerald walks into the room and is recognized as the one who pawned the necklace. He is ordered from his father's house forever. For his reckless dissipation he is sent to prison for four years. After escaping from prison, he returns to the city to obtain honest employment but is found by one of his former pals, who forces him by threats of exposure to join them again. In the meantime John Dale and Louise have become engaged. The annual Charity Ball is announced. This item comes to the attention of Gerald's underworld friends who select him to go to the ball to play his supposed trade of a thief, yet in his heart, he had made up his mind not to do anything dishonest. He goes to the ball where he meets his sister, Louise, who nearly faints when she sees him. As she totters Gerald places his fingers to his lips to indicate silence, and John just turns in time to catch Louise and assist her to an ante-room. While he goes for a glass of water Gerald appears, and while fondly kissing his sister, is discovered by John, who becomes so enraged that the glass falls from his hand and breaks to shards. Having never met her brother, John stands rooted to the ground by his sweetheart's supposed infidelity and demands to know why the strange man was kissing her. John takes Louise home where the quarrel is renewed and the couple, misunderstanding each other, never met again. John turns over his office to a junior partner and sails for a tour of the world. In the meantime Louise has slowly been dying of a broken heart. Gerald again breaks away from the gang, and under an assumed name, obtains employment in a large factory, where he is discovered and brought back to the prison, where he saves the life of a keeper and his term is shortened for the deed. Returning to the city, he learns of his sister's illness and, without being seen by his parents, he gains admission to her room, and soon he learns for the first time that he had been the cause of the lovers' quarrel. Louise, before she dies, exacts a promise from her brother that he will explain the scene at the ball to John. The death of his sister kills all the ambition in Gerald, who drifts again to his underworld friends, one of whom has selected a place for good pickings, as the owner of the house is away. It happens to be the home of John Dale, who has unexpectedly returned to his native country. John dispatches Briggs, his valet, with a note to Louise, asking if he may call, but is met by an old servant who tells him that Louise is dead. John is stunned by the news. The night of the robbery, Gerald is forced to climb into the window first where he discovers the photograph of Louise and, picking it up exclaims, "My sister," which is heard by John Dale, who draws his revolver and compels Gerald to hold up his hands. In that position he is found by the next member of the gang. He cries to his chum to stand aside as he levels his gun at John, but Gerald sacrifices his own life by jumping in front of John, who, tearing the mask from his visitor's face, discovers it is the man whom he saw kissing his sweetheart that night at the ball. With his last dying breath Gerald says to John "My sister shielded me that night at the ball, because I was an escaped convict." John is thunderstruck, "My God, her brother. What a fool I was not to have listened to her explanation." The scene dissolves back to the little child with her arms around her Uncle John, who murmured, "That's why I'm lonely, / No home at all. / I broke her heart, pet. / After the ball."
- DirectorAntonio Garatti
- DirectorBert HaldaneStarsThomas H. MacDonaldFred PaulEdna MaudeA reformed slum landlord thrashes a cruel rent collector and adopts evicted orphans.
- DirectorErnest G. BatleyStarsLillian WorthDouglas MarsGeorge FoleyA captain tries to kill an heiress by fire but she escapes across telephone wires.
- Vigo Grexville, a foreign spy, king of the city's beggars, breaks into General DuRoy's house to secure possession of important government papers. DuRoy's daughter, Mona, interrupts the criminal, who, however, carries her off before she can give the alarm. As Mona has seen his face, Grexville decides to keep her a lifelong prisoner in his castle. From the papers the criminal learns that Mona is heiress to her father's vast fortune and he determines upon a bold coup. He forces Mona to write a letter to the general, telling him that for reasons of her own she stole the government papers. On receipt of the letter DuRoy is heartbroken, but Mona's fiancé, Dr. Garth, refuses to believe his sweetheart's guilt, and declares he will unravel the mystery. A night or two later Grexville visits the general's home and shoots him, leaving behind a revolver to give the tragedy the appearance of suicide. He then tells Mona that unless she agrees to marry him and share her father's fortune with him she will never see the outside world again. Mona is obdurate and by means of a swallow which has built its nest outside her prison window, she sends a message earnestly entreating the finder to communicate with Dr. Garth. Some days later Garth receives the letter, but it has been so badly mutilated that all he can learn is that Mona is a prisoner in the hands of a man who calls himself "King of Beggars." In order to solve the mystery Garth disguises himself and mixes with the beggars of the city. For a month his search is without avail, but at last he meets the king, whom he follows to his home. In a struggle with Grexville, Garth is overpowered and flung through a secret trapdoor into a sewer beneath the castle. He makes his way out by using an explosive cartridge he carries, and succeeds in rescuing Mona from her prison, which has caught fire. They then hasten to inform the police and a strong force is sent to arrest Grexville, who is attending a state ball. Grexville fights his way from the ballroom and escapes in a waiting motorcar, with the police in hot pursuit. Grexville's chauffeur is killed, and the crook badly wounded meets his doom when the motorcar plunges over a steep cliff. Later Mona finds happiness as the bride of her faithful lover.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsElisabeth RisdonFred GrovesA.V. BrambleA squire's disowned son dies to save his wife and her soldier lover from shipwreck.
- Count Landmann is engaged to be married to Hilda Ragnald, a famous dancer, and he writes to tell Detective Hayes of his engagement, and mentions at the same time that various valuable works of art have lately been disappearing from his house. He wants Hayes to help him solve the mystery. On the evening of the reception given by Count Landmann to celebrate his engagement, Hayes arrives, and is introduced as a relative. He thinks he recognizes Hilda's brother, and his suspicions are very shortly confirmed. Harry Ragnald is a swindler, well known to the police, but so far uncaught by them. Count Landmann allows his fiancée to wear a string of pearls, a priceless family heirloom, on the night of the reception, but tells her that it is usually kept in the bank and insured for 100,000 pounds. Hilda, in league with her brother, tries to steal the pearls, but they discover that Hayes is a detective and not a relative, and fearing detection they bide their time. To try and get rid of Hayes, Hilda complains to her fiancée of his conduct. She asserts that he has been making love to her and has tried to kiss her. Count Landmann is greatly incensed, and tells Hayes that he engaged him to protect his property and not to make love to his future wife. Hayes is indignant at this insult, but swallowing his pride he determines to watch Harry Ragnald closer than ever. The bank officials come to fetch the string of pearls to take them back to safe custody. Harry Ragnald follows them to the station and jumps into their compartment as the train leaves the platform, but Hayes, disguised as a porter, is on his track. Ragnald manages to chloroform the officials and steal the bag from them containing the pearls. An exciting scene follows. Hayes chases Ragnald over the roof of the train. Ragnald throws away the bag, and Hayes jumps off the train as it rushes long and finds that he has risked his life for nothing. Ragnald has cheated him, for the bag is empty. Suddenly Hayes remembers a message he once happened to see from Ragnald, saying there would be a letter waiting at the post office, "The Three Signs at the Cross Roads." Disguised, he calls for the letter, and after reading it he returns it to be called for later by Ragnald's accomplice. Without loss of time he dashes off in a motor to the crossroads, the place appointed in the letter for the meeting. Disguised as an old hag he awaits the swindlers' arrival. He follows, and disguised as a "Boots" he makes further discoveries. Ragnald recognizes him and again puts him on a wrong scent. Hayes traces Ragnald and Hilda to Rosenweig's house, where they are trying to dispose of the pearls. On the pretext of selling him a piece of jewelry, he manages to see the pearls in Rosenweig's safe. Notwithstanding the injustice Count Landmann has done him, Hayes acquaints him with his discovery, and that evening they arrange to meet outside Rosenweig's house. Forcing their way, they catch Rosenweig and the Ragnalds discussing how to dispose of the pearls. The police arrest them, and the pearls are returned to their rightful owner. Count Landmann is overcome with gratitude to Hayes for having saved him from taking a step which would have ruined his whole life. He begs him to forgive him for ever having doubted him. Hayes, delighted at the success of his efforts, willingly forgives him, and they end up as good friends.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsJane GailGerald AmesLanghorn BurtonA jealous socialite makes a curate believe his wife is in love with an artist.
- DirectorCharles CalvertStarsCharles VaneLionel d'AragonA detective saves a kidnapped heiress by hiding a film camera in the headlamp of the ransom car.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsTheodore ReibethAud Egede-NissenTheodore Reibeth, a medical student, is introduced to Mlle. Aut Nissen in a moving picture studio where she is taking one of the leading roles. He is attracted to her by her unusual beauty and charm. Circumstances later make it possible for him to see her frequently at her home, and he falls in love with her. Mlle. Nissen is very fond of animals and has in her apartments a private collection of lions which she shows to him. Reibeth's graduation is at hand when he receives a letter from his brother telling him that through unfortunate investments their fortune has been lost. In this predicament Mlle. Nissen comes to his aid and lends him enough money to finish his studies, which he accepts and graduates with high honors. Later at a reception Reibeth sees Mlle. Nissen flirting with another man. He protests very strongly and the controversy causes a rupture which separates them. Years pass and he almost forgets the celebrated actress. His wedding announcement in one of the papers, however, comes to the attention of Mlle. Nissen who asks him to call. He does so and the old love returns. His faith in his former love is still so great that he allows himself to be blindfolded by her and led into one of the lower portions of the house. When he tears the blindfold from his eyes he discovers he is in the den of lions. With death in a terrible form almost upon him he manages to escape. Mlle. Nissen seeing him free makes her own life a penance for the tragic deed she had planned.
- Elsa Delgarth, a retired actress married to a rich politician, returns to the stage to act in a series of charity shows. The glamour of the footlights causes her to become tired of domestic life and she leaves her husband and child to return to the stage. Paul Greville, an actor, with whom Elsa runs away, loses his memory while appearing in a production, and as a result the couple find themselves face to face with ruin. Unable to obtain engagements, Greville sinks lower and lower in the social scale until meeting a criminal named Gaston St. Croix, he agrees to join the latter's gang. The commissioner of police is informed of a number of mysterious thefts, and immediately stations his squad of officers on the river bank to track the mysterious gang. That night the crooks are tracked, and a battle on the water ensues, but they make their escape. Elsa is unaware of the double life Greville is leading and for some months the man takes part in the crimes of the riverside gang. Meanwhile Delgarth has received an important government appointment and the St. Croix gang plot to gain possession of valuable documents he holds. Greville and an accomplice break into Delgarth's home, but are disturbed before they can accomplish their purpose. However, they carry off Delgarth's little daughter, intending to use the child as a weapon against him. They next engage rooms at a hotel in the town and write Delgarth , telling him he will receive news of his daughter if he visits them alone. When Delgarth keeps the appointment he is overpowered and carried away from the hotel. Delgarth's groom, who followed his master to the hotel, becomes suspicious and succeeds in tracking down the criminals to a lonely spot where they seek to force Delgarth to reveal the hiding place of the papers. When Delgarth is obdurate they threaten to place his child on a nearby railway line in the path of the advancing express. They carry the child to the railway line, but their vile purpose is frustrated by Elsa, who has learned of Greville's villainy. She rushes to the track just in time to snatch her child from danger, but she herself is knocked down and fatally hurt. Greville is also killed and the other members of the gang are captured by the police.
- Prince Ludwig, of Gravania, is very wild and indulges himself in many dissipations which reflect no credit on the good name of the reigning family. He has a double in his servant Enrico whom he dresses in his uniform when he leaves the palace so that his absence will not be noticed. Enrico is in love with a pretty peasant girl, Valerie, who in turn is faithful to him. On one of the rides through the royal parks Prince Ludwig sees the girl and falls desperately in love with her. True to Enrico, however, she repulses the Prince. He not being used to have his wishes frustrated has the girl kidnapped and brought to his room in the palace. Before the Prince returns Enrico accidentally enters. Valerie tells him of her plight and he helps her escape through a secret passage. Valerie has no sooner disappeared from the room than the Prince enters and a quarrel starts between him and his servant in which the Prince is killed. News comes almost simultaneously that the king is dead, and Enrico dressing himself in the prince's uniform goes out and passes himself off as the prince. Later the body of the supposed servant, but in reality the prince is found, and the blame is laid upon the newly made servant-king. The cabinet decides to make way with the king because of his scoundrelly action in killing his servant. When Enrico goes to the home of Valerie to declare himself truly the trap is laid by the chief of police. Valerie recognizes her true lover and tries to aid him to escape, but the paths are too well guarded and the false Enrico falls a victim to his own ambition.
- DirectorCharles SimoneStarsAgnes MapesJulia HurleyJean Thrall
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsHenry B. WalthallSpottiswoode AitkenBlanche SweetPrevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsHenry B. WalthallSpottiswoode AitkenBlanche SweetPrevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
- DirectorWilfred LucasHenry MacRaeStarsCleo MadisonGeorge LarkinEdward SlomanA crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim.
- DirectorWilfred LucasHenry MacRaeStarsCleo MadisonGeorge LarkinEdward SlomanA crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim.
- DirectorCharles SimoneStarsAgnes MapesJulia HurleyJean Thrall
- Prince Ludwig, of Gravania, is very wild and indulges himself in many dissipations which reflect no credit on the good name of the reigning family. He has a double in his servant Enrico whom he dresses in his uniform when he leaves the palace so that his absence will not be noticed. Enrico is in love with a pretty peasant girl, Valerie, who in turn is faithful to him. On one of the rides through the royal parks Prince Ludwig sees the girl and falls desperately in love with her. True to Enrico, however, she repulses the Prince. He not being used to have his wishes frustrated has the girl kidnapped and brought to his room in the palace. Before the Prince returns Enrico accidentally enters. Valerie tells him of her plight and he helps her escape through a secret passage. Valerie has no sooner disappeared from the room than the Prince enters and a quarrel starts between him and his servant in which the Prince is killed. News comes almost simultaneously that the king is dead, and Enrico dressing himself in the prince's uniform goes out and passes himself off as the prince. Later the body of the supposed servant, but in reality the prince is found, and the blame is laid upon the newly made servant-king. The cabinet decides to make way with the king because of his scoundrelly action in killing his servant. When Enrico goes to the home of Valerie to declare himself truly the trap is laid by the chief of police. Valerie recognizes her true lover and tries to aid him to escape, but the paths are too well guarded and the false Enrico falls a victim to his own ambition.
- DirectorJ. Farrell MacDonaldStarsViolet MacMillanFrank MooreRaymond RussellOjo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve.
- DirectorJ. Farrell MacDonaldStarsViolet MacMillanFrank MooreRaymond RussellOjo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve.
- DirectorRudolf MeinertStarsHeinz Salfner
- DirectorRudolf MeinertStarsHeinz Salfner
- DirectorSidney DrewStarsSidney DrewEdith StoreyCharles KentA young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.
- DirectorSidney DrewStarsSidney DrewEdith StoreyCharles KentA young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.
- DirectorOscar ApfelCecil B. DeMilleStarsRobert EdesonTheodore RobertsWinifred KingstonTrader Ned Stewart's father Graehme was unjustly accused of adultery and killed. Ned sets out to avenge his father but is captured and send on "la longue traverse," the long journey to death. Virginia saves Ned, and the villain confesses Graehme's innocence on his deathbed.
- DirectorOscar ApfelCecil B. DeMilleStarsRobert EdesonTheodore RobertsWinifred KingstonTrader Ned Stewart's father Graehme was unjustly accused of adultery and killed. Ned sets out to avenge his father but is captured and send on "la longue traverse," the long journey to death. Virginia saves Ned, and the villain confesses Graehme's innocence on his deathbed.
- DirectorWilliam Robert DalyStarsSam LucasWalter HitchcockHattie DelaroA black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.
- DirectorWilliam Robert DalyStarsSam LucasWalter HitchcockHattie DelaroA black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsAnita StewartJulia Swayne GordonE.K. LincolnBy one of those strange mistakes of nature, a child is born to Elois, an actress. The advent of the child, Yvette. arouses in Elois the one fine trait in her nature, a tremendous mother-love. To keep the child clean and to protect it from the influence of her life and that of its dissolute father, becomes the one passion of her soul. The moment comes when it is borne upon her forcibly that the child must be sent away. She sends Yvette to a fashionable boarding school, instilling in the child's mind that she is a lady and the daughter of a wealthy widow, travelling extensively. From her life at boarding school, Yvette dreads her visits home where she has to suffer the passionate, suffocating embrace and dreary companionship of a perfumed woman, her mother. On one of these visits she meets her father, under conditions so strange that she was gradually led to believe they were dreams, as her mother said, and the scar her mother carried across her eye, came to her in a fall. Her schooling over, Yvette, on the threshold of the world, returns home. Her mother leaves her alone the first night and her father, deep in his cups, pays her a visit and, in his maudlin drunkenness, discloses the fact that her mother is an actress. Yvette, unbelieving, rushes to the theater, and from a seat in the balcony, sees her posing in the semi-nude. The veneer that has been added to Yvette in years of training, lays bare the coarse, primal grain. Without letting her mother know, she becomes a burlesque queen. Her mother returns one night to find her husband there and her daughter missing. In the midst of a terrific scene, in which she tries to make him tell where the girl is, Yvette enters, now a member of the painted world. The mother realizes that her daughter is gone, and does the inevitable, saves the girl's soul at the cost of her body; lays a double crime to the man who has caused all her misery, and the tragedy ends in his being cornered, powerless to explain.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsAnita StewartJulia Swayne GordonE.K. LincolnBy one of those strange mistakes of nature, a child is born to Elois, an actress. The advent of the child, Yvette. arouses in Elois the one fine trait in her nature, a tremendous mother-love. To keep the child clean and to protect it from the influence of her life and that of its dissolute father, becomes the one passion of her soul. The moment comes when it is borne upon her forcibly that the child must be sent away. She sends Yvette to a fashionable boarding school, instilling in the child's mind that she is a lady and the daughter of a wealthy widow, travelling extensively. From her life at boarding school, Yvette dreads her visits home where she has to suffer the passionate, suffocating embrace and dreary companionship of a perfumed woman, her mother. On one of these visits she meets her father, under conditions so strange that she was gradually led to believe they were dreams, as her mother said, and the scar her mother carried across her eye, came to her in a fall. Her schooling over, Yvette, on the threshold of the world, returns home. Her mother leaves her alone the first night and her father, deep in his cups, pays her a visit and, in his maudlin drunkenness, discloses the fact that her mother is an actress. Yvette, unbelieving, rushes to the theater, and from a seat in the balcony, sees her posing in the semi-nude. The veneer that has been added to Yvette in years of training, lays bare the coarse, primal grain. Without letting her mother know, she becomes a burlesque queen. Her mother returns one night to find her husband there and her daughter missing. In the midst of a terrific scene, in which she tries to make him tell where the girl is, Yvette enters, now a member of the painted world. The mother realizes that her daughter is gone, and does the inevitable, saves the girl's soul at the cost of her body; lays a double crime to the man who has caused all her misery, and the tragedy ends in his being cornered, powerless to explain.
- DirectorWilliam PowersStarsWilliam Courtleigh Jr.Arthur HoopsAlice Claire ElliottRev. Mark Stebbing, a tough, up-from-the-streets kind of guy, finds himself in competition for the affections of pretty Margaret Wharton with Rev. Lionel Barmore, a suave, polished aristocrat. When a poor church and a wealthy one both need new pastors, Stebbing volunteers to go to the poor one, while Barmore requests--and gets--the rich one. When both men propose to Margaret on the same day, she accepts Barmore. Meanwhile, Margaret's father--a wealthy industrialist--is having labor problems at his plant, and angers his workers so much that they plot to blow up the plant--with Margaret inside.
- DirectorWilliam PowersStarsWilliam Courtleigh Jr.Arthur HoopsAlice Claire ElliottRev. Mark Stebbing, a tough, up-from-the-streets kind of guy, finds himself in competition for the affections of pretty Margaret Wharton with Rev. Lionel Barmore, a suave, polished aristocrat. When a poor church and a wealthy one both need new pastors, Stebbing volunteers to go to the poor one, while Barmore requests--and gets--the rich one. When both men propose to Margaret on the same day, she accepts Barmore. Meanwhile, Margaret's father--a wealthy industrialist--is having labor problems at his plant, and angers his workers so much that they plot to blow up the plant--with Margaret inside.
- DirectorHobart BosworthStarsLawrence PeytonViola BarryHerbert RawlinsonFrom a hard-won leadership of a hoodlum gang in Oakland, Cal., from a beach-comber's life in the South Seas, and from the inferno of the stokehole, Martin Eden, an unlearned sailor, wins his way to fame and fortune. But it is not until great odds have been conquered and much has been sacrificed that the goal is reached. And then it is too late. The odds are ridicule, poverty and lack of education. The great sacrifice, love. A chance meeting, in his hoodlum days, with Arthur Morse, a college man, proves the turning point of his life, for through him he meets Arthur's sister Ruth. This means the opening of a new world, and in the remaining reels of the play we see Martin's indomitable spirit and the development of his career. He makes two picturesque friends. One is Russ Brissenden, a poet, who encourages Martin when he sorely needs it, though his taking the latter to the Socialists' meeting had unfortunate results for the cub reporter as well as for Martin. The other is Maria, his warm-hearted Portuguese landlady, whose wildest flight of imagination, ""hoe all da roun' for da kids," Martin later is happily able to gratify. A third figure comes now and then into Martin's life: beautiful, wistful Lizzie Connelly, who loves him and whom he pities but cannot love. As in so many lives, matters are at their lowest ebb before the tide turns. Martin is penniless and without food or warmth. He has had only one sale of a manuscript in the many months of unceasing endeavor. Brissenden is dead. Ruth, losing her faith, has broken their engagement and refuses to see him. Then comes the sudden sweep of success, with publishers clamoring for his work and fame and wealth in his hand. But the tension that sustained him during his days of poverty and struggle breaks. Even Love, in the person of the repentant Ruth, knocks at his door in vain, and he sails for the South Seas, to find again, if he may, his old-time zest for life.
- DirectorHobart BosworthStarsLawrence PeytonViola BarryHerbert RawlinsonFrom a hard-won leadership of a hoodlum gang in Oakland, Cal., from a beach-comber's life in the South Seas, and from the inferno of the stokehole, Martin Eden, an unlearned sailor, wins his way to fame and fortune. But it is not until great odds have been conquered and much has been sacrificed that the goal is reached. And then it is too late. The odds are ridicule, poverty and lack of education. The great sacrifice, love. A chance meeting, in his hoodlum days, with Arthur Morse, a college man, proves the turning point of his life, for through him he meets Arthur's sister Ruth. This means the opening of a new world, and in the remaining reels of the play we see Martin's indomitable spirit and the development of his career. He makes two picturesque friends. One is Russ Brissenden, a poet, who encourages Martin when he sorely needs it, though his taking the latter to the Socialists' meeting had unfortunate results for the cub reporter as well as for Martin. The other is Maria, his warm-hearted Portuguese landlady, whose wildest flight of imagination, ""hoe all da roun' for da kids," Martin later is happily able to gratify. A third figure comes now and then into Martin's life: beautiful, wistful Lizzie Connelly, who loves him and whom he pities but cannot love. As in so many lives, matters are at their lowest ebb before the tide turns. Martin is penniless and without food or warmth. He has had only one sale of a manuscript in the many months of unceasing endeavor. Brissenden is dead. Ruth, losing her faith, has broken their engagement and refuses to see him. Then comes the sudden sweep of success, with publishers clamoring for his work and fame and wealth in his hand. But the tension that sustained him during his days of poverty and struggle breaks. Even Love, in the person of the repentant Ruth, knocks at his door in vain, and he sails for the South Seas, to find again, if he may, his old-time zest for life.
- StarsW.R. SeymourLillian WorthCharles E. BunnellBunks, the unfortunate hero and would-be Teddy Roosevelt, is shown to be a fraud as a "great hunter" after it's found out that he faked a photograph showing him triumphantly having killed a lion. So Bunks decides to go abroad to pursue a real lion, but there he finds lions pursuing him instead. A native princess saves Bunks from a lion's clutches, but the princess then pursues Bunks home to America with a captive lion and releases the lion at Bunks' welcome-home party. The party guests take refuge on the roof and Bunks has to make amends to avoid a disaster.
- StarsW.R. SeymourLillian WorthCharles E. BunnellBunks, the unfortunate hero and would-be Teddy Roosevelt, is shown to be a fraud as a "great hunter" after it's found out that he faked a photograph showing him triumphantly having killed a lion. So Bunks decides to go abroad to pursue a real lion, but there he finds lions pursuing him instead. A native princess saves Bunks from a lion's clutches, but the princess then pursues Bunks home to America with a captive lion and releases the lion at Bunks' welcome-home party. The party guests take refuge on the roof and Bunks has to make amends to avoid a disaster.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsJames GordonF.A. TurnerBetty Harte
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsJames GordonF.A. TurnerBetty Harte
- StarsOwen MooreVirginia PearsonYoung Ruth Morgan, an orphan, decides to leave her small town to make her fortune in the big city. Meanwhile, in another small down, young doctor Allan Buchannan also decides to strike out for the big city. Unfortunately, Ruth falls in love with a rich playboy who soon betrays her, and Allan makes a tragic mistake by accidentally prescribing a drug that results in a child's death. Soon afterwards he learns that his sister has died in a train accident. Despondent and grief-stricken, he walks to a nearby river, intending to end it all by jumping in. There he meets Ruth, who is there for the same purpose.
- StarsOwen MooreVirginia PearsonYoung Ruth Morgan, an orphan, decides to leave her small town to make her fortune in the big city. Meanwhile, in another small down, young doctor Allan Buchannan also decides to strike out for the big city. Unfortunately, Ruth falls in love with a rich playboy who soon betrays her, and Allan makes a tragic mistake by accidentally prescribing a drug that results in a child's death. Soon afterwards he learns that his sister has died in a train accident. Despondent and grief-stricken, he walks to a nearby river, intending to end it all by jumping in. There he meets Ruth, who is there for the same purpose.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsLili BeckStina BergGustaf CallménOlga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsLili BeckStina BergGustaf CallménOlga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsEleanor WoodruffPaul PanzerRobert BroderickWhile traveling incognito through his kingdom, Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Tholberg becomes infatuated with Katrina, the daughter of innkeeper Hermann Ardelheim, but their idyll is interrupted by the arrival of a courier bearing the news that Austrania has threatened war. Katrina is heartbroken to discover the identity of her sweetheart whom she can never hope to marry. After Ludwig's departure, Katrina overhears the plotting of two spies and with the help of her brother Raolf, she confronts them. In the ensuing struggle, Katrina kills one of them, who turns out to be the Austranian ambassador. Although Katrina admits her crime, Marshal von Trump plans to execute Raolf in order to pacify the Austranians. Katrina appeals to Ludwig, who pardons Raolf over the advice of his counselors causing Austrania to declare war. A crucial battle is fought near the Ardelheim inn, during which Katrina becomes a heroine by signaling the advance of Ludwig's troops. She is fatally wounded by the Austranians and is then brought to the inn where she dies with Ludwig at her side. He then eulogizes both Katrina and Raolf, who has also died in battle.
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsEleanor WoodruffPaul PanzerRobert BroderickWhile traveling incognito through his kingdom, Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Tholberg becomes infatuated with Katrina, the daughter of innkeeper Hermann Ardelheim, but their idyll is interrupted by the arrival of a courier bearing the news that Austrania has threatened war. Katrina is heartbroken to discover the identity of her sweetheart whom she can never hope to marry. After Ludwig's departure, Katrina overhears the plotting of two spies and with the help of her brother Raolf, she confronts them. In the ensuing struggle, Katrina kills one of them, who turns out to be the Austranian ambassador. Although Katrina admits her crime, Marshal von Trump plans to execute Raolf in order to pacify the Austranians. Katrina appeals to Ludwig, who pardons Raolf over the advice of his counselors causing Austrania to declare war. A crucial battle is fought near the Ardelheim inn, during which Katrina becomes a heroine by signaling the advance of Ludwig's troops. She is fatally wounded by the Austranians and is then brought to the inn where she dies with Ludwig at her side. He then eulogizes both Katrina and Raolf, who has also died in battle.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsJames O'NeillFraunie FraunholzKirah MarkhamCharlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the celebrated detective Bob Macauley whose sweetheart Sylvia is a struggling salesgirl and the sole support of her ailing mother. When she is turned down for promotion by her boss, Sylvia applies for a position with a kindly woman who has offered her help. To her horror, Sylvia soon discovers that the woman is a madame and has lured her to the same house of ill repute in which Charlotte is being held captive. Meanwhile, searching for Charlotte, Bob visits the brothel disguised as a gasman and discovers that Sylvia is a resident. Thinking that she is there willingly, Bob upbraids her, but upon discovering the truth he rescues her as well as Charlotte and delivers Paul to the authorities.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsJames O'NeillFraunie FraunholzKirah MarkhamCharlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the celebrated detective Bob Macauley whose sweetheart Sylvia is a struggling salesgirl and the sole support of her ailing mother. When she is turned down for promotion by her boss, Sylvia applies for a position with a kindly woman who has offered her help. To her horror, Sylvia soon discovers that the woman is a madame and has lured her to the same house of ill repute in which Charlotte is being held captive. Meanwhile, searching for Charlotte, Bob visits the brothel disguised as a gasman and discovers that Sylvia is a resident. Thinking that she is there willingly, Bob upbraids her, but upon discovering the truth he rescues her as well as Charlotte and delivers Paul to the authorities.
- DirectorThomas E. SheaStarsThomas E. SheaDixie ComptonManuel Torres, a millionaire banker of the City of Mexico, has been secretly a sympathizer with the Constitutionalists, but gives large sums to the Huerta administration for certain oil concessions. Havilando, a captain in Huerta's army, falls in love with Isabel, only daughter of M. Torres, while negotiating with the banker for money. Havilando, left alone in Torres library, seeing the safe open, discovers a confidential letter from General Carranzas. He steals the letter and takes it to Huerta, who immediately has Torres arrested, thrown into prison, and confiscates his property. Isabel makes a strong appeal to Huerta for her father. Finally Huerta, who needs a spy in New York City, offers consideration if Isabel will become a spy. She readily consents, goes to New York City and meets Jack Conway, a captain in the United States Navy. Both become infatuated and while on a mission for Mexico, Isabel prevents the Mexican conspirators from murdering Jack Conway. Isabel is much incensed at the plot to murder Jack, and their love increases. Conway is ordered to Washington, but is followed by Mexican conspirators. By disguise, Conway discovers their plan to blow up the Panama Canal and at the great Army and Navy ball, resents Capt. Havilando's insult to our flag, by grabbing the sword from his hand and choking the guilty Havilando until he is prostrate at Conway's feet and humbly craves mercy before all the guests. Secretary Bryan becomes interested in Captain Conway and he is ordered to Vera Cruz. Isabel is ordered back to Mexico and both meet in Cordoba, where Jack is endeavoring to discover certain Mexican plans. Isabel attempts to assist him but their plans are thwarted by Havilando, who penetrates Conway's disguise. Conway is thrown in prison and ordered shot if he attempts even to look out of the prison window, but through the assistance of Isabel her brother Louis and Ensign Hanley, Conway escapes and the unfortunate General Cardenas, who is investigating Conway's arrest, looks out of the prison window and receives the fatal shot intended for Conway. Conway in escaping the San Juan prison and with the assistance of an aeroplane, arrives at the New Orleans, where he learns of the United States fleet coming to Mexico. Isabel learns her father is imprisoned at San Juan and attempts to rescue him. The fleet is on its way and at a war council of the Latin countries, Conway, with eight of his trusted sailors disguised as Mexicans, gain admission, discover certain plots and is about to leave when he is again betrayed by the revengeful Havilando. Conway and the boys cover the entire council, while Conway smashes open the window, just in time to see the approaching U.S. fleet. Conway and the sailors lock the entire council in the office and make their escape but the wily Havilando leaps from a window 60 feet into the sea and swims ashore and takes charge of the disorganized Mexicans who are terror-stricken at the U.S. fleet in the harbor. Isabel, with the help of the English consul gets her father out of prison and amid the landing of the United States troops, the sniping in the streets, the terror of American women and children who are under the protection of the U.S. Havilando, with a few trusted Mexicans, shooting the Americans from the top of the Hotel Dillequencia until he is discovered by Conway, who follows him to the roof and in a terrific sword battle, Louis Torres shoots the wicked Havilando and the Stars and Stripes float gracefully over the happy union of Isabel and Jack, the Mexican and American spies.
- DirectorThomas E. SheaStarsThomas E. SheaDixie ComptonManuel Torres, a millionaire banker of the City of Mexico, has been secretly a sympathizer with the Constitutionalists, but gives large sums to the Huerta administration for certain oil concessions. Havilando, a captain in Huerta's army, falls in love with Isabel, only daughter of M. Torres, while negotiating with the banker for money. Havilando, left alone in Torres library, seeing the safe open, discovers a confidential letter from General Carranzas. He steals the letter and takes it to Huerta, who immediately has Torres arrested, thrown into prison, and confiscates his property. Isabel makes a strong appeal to Huerta for her father. Finally Huerta, who needs a spy in New York City, offers consideration if Isabel will become a spy. She readily consents, goes to New York City and meets Jack Conway, a captain in the United States Navy. Both become infatuated and while on a mission for Mexico, Isabel prevents the Mexican conspirators from murdering Jack Conway. Isabel is much incensed at the plot to murder Jack, and their love increases. Conway is ordered to Washington, but is followed by Mexican conspirators. By disguise, Conway discovers their plan to blow up the Panama Canal and at the great Army and Navy ball, resents Capt. Havilando's insult to our flag, by grabbing the sword from his hand and choking the guilty Havilando until he is prostrate at Conway's feet and humbly craves mercy before all the guests. Secretary Bryan becomes interested in Captain Conway and he is ordered to Vera Cruz. Isabel is ordered back to Mexico and both meet in Cordoba, where Jack is endeavoring to discover certain Mexican plans. Isabel attempts to assist him but their plans are thwarted by Havilando, who penetrates Conway's disguise. Conway is thrown in prison and ordered shot if he attempts even to look out of the prison window, but through the assistance of Isabel her brother Louis and Ensign Hanley, Conway escapes and the unfortunate General Cardenas, who is investigating Conway's arrest, looks out of the prison window and receives the fatal shot intended for Conway. Conway in escaping the San Juan prison and with the assistance of an aeroplane, arrives at the New Orleans, where he learns of the United States fleet coming to Mexico. Isabel learns her father is imprisoned at San Juan and attempts to rescue him. The fleet is on its way and at a war council of the Latin countries, Conway, with eight of his trusted sailors disguised as Mexicans, gain admission, discover certain plots and is about to leave when he is again betrayed by the revengeful Havilando. Conway and the boys cover the entire council, while Conway smashes open the window, just in time to see the approaching U.S. fleet. Conway and the sailors lock the entire council in the office and make their escape but the wily Havilando leaps from a window 60 feet into the sea and swims ashore and takes charge of the disorganized Mexicans who are terror-stricken at the U.S. fleet in the harbor. Isabel, with the help of the English consul gets her father out of prison and amid the landing of the United States troops, the sniping in the streets, the terror of American women and children who are under the protection of the U.S. Havilando, with a few trusted Mexicans, shooting the Americans from the top of the Hotel Dillequencia until he is discovered by Conway, who follows him to the roof and in a terrific sword battle, Louis Torres shoots the wicked Havilando and the Stars and Stripes float gracefully over the happy union of Isabel and Jack, the Mexican and American spies.
- DirectorIvan AbramsonStarsSarah AdlerPaul DoucetJohn Webb DillionLaura Henderson, an orphan, is brought up by her aunt, Mary Sherman, who keeps a boarding house. Among the boarders is Angelo Angelini, an Italian violinist. Laura is infatuated with the handsome Angelo, who loves her, and they are engaged to be married. Angelo betrays the girl, and later leaves her, with the explanation that he is to make a western concert tour. A month later, the poor girl receives a letter from Angelo telling her that he has returned to Italy, where he has a wife and child. Later a daughter is born to Laura, who is named Ruth. Unable to obtain employment in her own town, the unfortunate mother abandons her child to the care of her Aunt Mary, and goes to New York. Ill and weak from hunger, the poor young mother is picked up in the street by Reverend Henry Bradley, who takes her to his home. Dr. Bradley and his mother offer Laura a home, and work as secretary to the minister. Later Dr. Bradley falls in love with Laura, and asks her to become his wife. Laura accepts his proposal, and she marries Dr. Bradley, without telling him that she has an illegitimate child, and she secretly sends money to her aunt for the support of her child, Ruth. Nineteen years later, Dr. Bradley is now chaplain of the City Prison of New York. They have a daughter, Aline, who is about to be engaged to Walter Jordon, who comes from one of the finest families in New York. Ruth, now a girl of 20 years, believes that Mary is her mother. One day she happens to find out through a letter that Laura sent to Mary, that she is not Mary's daughter. Ruth forces Mary to tell her who and where her mother is, and at last Mary confesses the truth. Ruth determines to go to New York and seek her mother. Meanwhile Angelo has returned to America and, under the assumed name of Angell, lives in New York with his son, Tony. The boy refuses to work and becomes one of the vilest of all human creatures, a "cadet." Tony pretends to rescue Ruth from an attack by one of his pals, prepared by himself, and the poor girl, believing him to be a decent man, accompanies him to a restaurant. Then Tony takes Ruth to his own room, telling her it is the home of his "highly respectable aunt." A letter sent by Tony to an accomplice, offering to sell the girl to him for white slavery in New Orleans, is seen by Ruth, who realizes her perilous position. She tries to escape from the room. Tony threatens her with a pistol, and in the struggle which follows Tony is shot dead. Angelo enters the room just as his son has been shot. The poor girl is arrested and taken to prison, where she meets Chaplain Bradley and tells him her sad story. Unaware that it is his own wife's daughter, he is helping, the chaplain takes Mrs. Sherman to visit Ruth in prison. Mrs. Sherman is confronted with a terrible situation. Laura's legitimate child, Aline, is celebrating her engagement to Walter Jordon in the magnificent home of the latter's parents. Mrs. Sherman decides it is her duty to the unfortunate Ruth to acquaint her mother with the terrible facts. Laura while celebrating the betrothal of her younger daughter, learns that the child of her first love languishes in prison charged with murder. The unfortunate mother becomes temporarily deranged. Aline, the younger daughter, on learning of her mother's disgrace, is heartbroken, breaks off the engagement with Walter, and later her dead body is found by her father and lover, the second victim of the Sins of the Parents. At the trial of Ruth for the killing of Tony, Angelo appears as a witness. The father is about to speak the words that will condemn his own daughter to the electric chair for the killing of his son, when a commotion in the rear of the court room causes him to be silent. Laura, the mother of the prisoner, has escaped from her nurse and has forced her way into the court room. She recognizes Angelo, the man who betrayed her 22 years ago. and who is now about to condemn his own daughter. Angelo now learns, for the first time, that his own daughter killed his son; he suffers keenly, refuses to speak. The half-demented mother is led out of the court room by her husband and court officers in a hysterical condition. The jury brings in a verdict of acquittal on the ground of self-defense. Ruth is free, but alone in a great city. Dr. Bradley takes Ruth into his home to her mother. Laura, realizing the noble stand of the minister, and feeling that she is unworthy of her husband she has deceived, decides to leave the house with her daughter, Ruth, in hope that the disgrace she brought upon her husband will be forgotten, but Bradley resigns as minister and insists upon Laura staying where he will stay. He folds both mother and daughter in his arms, gives them his blessing, thanks the Lord that to him it has been given the honor to help two suffering souls into the light. Angelo, suffering as the result of his youthful sins, decides to commit suicide, but has not the courage to do so. Bradley receives a reply from the board of directors of his congregation, stating that they have looked into the misfortune that has befallen upon his family and they congratulate him for his noble act, and ask him to remain with them as their minister. Bradley shows the letter to his wife. Laura, heartbroken, falls on her knees and begs forgiveness of her husband.
- DirectorIvan AbramsonStarsSarah AdlerPaul DoucetJohn Webb DillionLaura Henderson, an orphan, is brought up by her aunt, Mary Sherman, who keeps a boarding house. Among the boarders is Angelo Angelini, an Italian violinist. Laura is infatuated with the handsome Angelo, who loves her, and they are engaged to be married. Angelo betrays the girl, and later leaves her, with the explanation that he is to make a western concert tour. A month later, the poor girl receives a letter from Angelo telling her that he has returned to Italy, where he has a wife and child. Later a daughter is born to Laura, who is named Ruth. Unable to obtain employment in her own town, the unfortunate mother abandons her child to the care of her Aunt Mary, and goes to New York. Ill and weak from hunger, the poor young mother is picked up in the street by Reverend Henry Bradley, who takes her to his home. Dr. Bradley and his mother offer Laura a home, and work as secretary to the minister. Later Dr. Bradley falls in love with Laura, and asks her to become his wife. Laura accepts his proposal, and she marries Dr. Bradley, without telling him that she has an illegitimate child, and she secretly sends money to her aunt for the support of her child, Ruth. Nineteen years later, Dr. Bradley is now chaplain of the City Prison of New York. They have a daughter, Aline, who is about to be engaged to Walter Jordon, who comes from one of the finest families in New York. Ruth, now a girl of 20 years, believes that Mary is her mother. One day she happens to find out through a letter that Laura sent to Mary, that she is not Mary's daughter. Ruth forces Mary to tell her who and where her mother is, and at last Mary confesses the truth. Ruth determines to go to New York and seek her mother. Meanwhile Angelo has returned to America and, under the assumed name of Angell, lives in New York with his son, Tony. The boy refuses to work and becomes one of the vilest of all human creatures, a "cadet." Tony pretends to rescue Ruth from an attack by one of his pals, prepared by himself, and the poor girl, believing him to be a decent man, accompanies him to a restaurant. Then Tony takes Ruth to his own room, telling her it is the home of his "highly respectable aunt." A letter sent by Tony to an accomplice, offering to sell the girl to him for white slavery in New Orleans, is seen by Ruth, who realizes her perilous position. She tries to escape from the room. Tony threatens her with a pistol, and in the struggle which follows Tony is shot dead. Angelo enters the room just as his son has been shot. The poor girl is arrested and taken to prison, where she meets Chaplain Bradley and tells him her sad story. Unaware that it is his own wife's daughter, he is helping, the chaplain takes Mrs. Sherman to visit Ruth in prison. Mrs. Sherman is confronted with a terrible situation. Laura's legitimate child, Aline, is celebrating her engagement to Walter Jordon in the magnificent home of the latter's parents. Mrs. Sherman decides it is her duty to the unfortunate Ruth to acquaint her mother with the terrible facts. Laura while celebrating the betrothal of her younger daughter, learns that the child of her first love languishes in prison charged with murder. The unfortunate mother becomes temporarily deranged. Aline, the younger daughter, on learning of her mother's disgrace, is heartbroken, breaks off the engagement with Walter, and later her dead body is found by her father and lover, the second victim of the Sins of the Parents. At the trial of Ruth for the killing of Tony, Angelo appears as a witness. The father is about to speak the words that will condemn his own daughter to the electric chair for the killing of his son, when a commotion in the rear of the court room causes him to be silent. Laura, the mother of the prisoner, has escaped from her nurse and has forced her way into the court room. She recognizes Angelo, the man who betrayed her 22 years ago. and who is now about to condemn his own daughter. Angelo now learns, for the first time, that his own daughter killed his son; he suffers keenly, refuses to speak. The half-demented mother is led out of the court room by her husband and court officers in a hysterical condition. The jury brings in a verdict of acquittal on the ground of self-defense. Ruth is free, but alone in a great city. Dr. Bradley takes Ruth into his home to her mother. Laura, realizing the noble stand of the minister, and feeling that she is unworthy of her husband she has deceived, decides to leave the house with her daughter, Ruth, in hope that the disgrace she brought upon her husband will be forgotten, but Bradley resigns as minister and insists upon Laura staying where he will stay. He folds both mother and daughter in his arms, gives them his blessing, thanks the Lord that to him it has been given the honor to help two suffering souls into the light. Angelo, suffering as the result of his youthful sins, decides to commit suicide, but has not the courage to do so. Bradley receives a reply from the board of directors of his congregation, stating that they have looked into the misfortune that has befallen upon his family and they congratulate him for his noble act, and ask him to remain with them as their minister. Bradley shows the letter to his wife. Laura, heartbroken, falls on her knees and begs forgiveness of her husband.
- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsBen WebsterEdna FlugrathLanghorn BurtonA captain's secret wife plants a baby on a friend and he weds her when the captain is killed.
- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsBen WebsterEdna FlugrathLanghorn BurtonA captain's secret wife plants a baby on a friend and he weds her when the captain is killed.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsNils AréhnHilda BorgströmGreta AlmrothHelder is a happy family man, but one day his wife receives a letter from her brother Albert, who managed to escape from prison.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsNils AréhnHilda BorgströmGreta AlmrothHelder is a happy family man, but one day his wife receives a letter from her brother Albert, who managed to escape from prison.
- DirectorEdgar LewisStarsGeorge De CarltonHarry KnowlesKatherine La SalleCaptain Gray, of the United States Army, detailed to quell the Indian uprising, is wounded. A courier is dispatched to Gray's home with the news. Mrs. Gray, about to become a mother, receives a violent shock at the recital of the details of her husband's injury by the courier. The child born at this inopportune time is Wallace Gray. The prenatal influence exercised over the child at the time of his mother being informed of her husband's injury marks him as a coward. The report of a shot or the sound of an explosion throws the lad into spasms of fear. He is sent to college and there forms a strong comradeship with Swiftwind, an Indian, sent by his tribe to be educated. Wallace also forms a strong attachment for Florence Dunbar, a ward of his father, who is now Colonel Gray. Swiftwind is made acquainted with the moral defect inherent in Wallace and pities and protects him whenever the lad is made the subject of the jeers of his friends because of his born defect. Swiftwind becomes a graduate physician and receives a commission as assistant army surgeon, detailed to Fort Terry, in command of Colonel Gray. His immediate superior is Dr. Sherwood, an unscrupulous man. Florence Dunbar and Wallace Gray, traveling in a stagecoach to Fort Terry, are attacked by Indians. Wallace, with a cringing fear, deserts his companion, who is saved only by the timely arrival of Dr. Sherwood and troops. Sherwood marries Florence, nothing more being heard of Wallace, who, however, enlists in another regiment under General Crook, deserts under fire, and ultimately surrenders himself to his father, in the hope that he will be condemned to death. The boy, however, is sentenced to the "pyramids." While working under "ball and chain" he hears that his father and a small band of Americans are hemmed in a canyon by Indians with no hope of relief. The latter, having observed the Northern Lights in the heavens, follow their belief that the "Lights" foretell victory in battle and start on a massacre. General Crook calls for a volunteer to pass through the Indian lines to deliver a message to Colonel Gray. Swiftwind volunteers, but being weak from exhaustion and privation, falls as he is about to commence his ride. Wallace begs for the opportunity to redeem himself, and mounting his horse, arrives with the message to the besieged band just as they are about to recognize a false flag of truce of the Indians. Sherwood attempts to kill his wife by substituting cholera germs in a bottle labeled morphine. He is injured, however, and Swiftwind, intending to alleviate Dr. Sherwood's suffering with morphine, inoculates him with the cholera germs, unwittingly putting an end to him. Wallace's redemption restores him to the affection of Florence, whom he marries.
- DirectorEdgar LewisStarsGeorge De CarltonHarry KnowlesKatherine La SalleCaptain Gray, of the United States Army, detailed to quell the Indian uprising, is wounded. A courier is dispatched to Gray's home with the news. Mrs. Gray, about to become a mother, receives a violent shock at the recital of the details of her husband's injury by the courier. The child born at this inopportune time is Wallace Gray. The prenatal influence exercised over the child at the time of his mother being informed of her husband's injury marks him as a coward. The report of a shot or the sound of an explosion throws the lad into spasms of fear. He is sent to college and there forms a strong comradeship with Swiftwind, an Indian, sent by his tribe to be educated. Wallace also forms a strong attachment for Florence Dunbar, a ward of his father, who is now Colonel Gray. Swiftwind is made acquainted with the moral defect inherent in Wallace and pities and protects him whenever the lad is made the subject of the jeers of his friends because of his born defect. Swiftwind becomes a graduate physician and receives a commission as assistant army surgeon, detailed to Fort Terry, in command of Colonel Gray. His immediate superior is Dr. Sherwood, an unscrupulous man. Florence Dunbar and Wallace Gray, traveling in a stagecoach to Fort Terry, are attacked by Indians. Wallace, with a cringing fear, deserts his companion, who is saved only by the timely arrival of Dr. Sherwood and troops. Sherwood marries Florence, nothing more being heard of Wallace, who, however, enlists in another regiment under General Crook, deserts under fire, and ultimately surrenders himself to his father, in the hope that he will be condemned to death. The boy, however, is sentenced to the "pyramids." While working under "ball and chain" he hears that his father and a small band of Americans are hemmed in a canyon by Indians with no hope of relief. The latter, having observed the Northern Lights in the heavens, follow their belief that the "Lights" foretell victory in battle and start on a massacre. General Crook calls for a volunteer to pass through the Indian lines to deliver a message to Colonel Gray. Swiftwind volunteers, but being weak from exhaustion and privation, falls as he is about to commence his ride. Wallace begs for the opportunity to redeem himself, and mounting his horse, arrives with the message to the besieged band just as they are about to recognize a false flag of truce of the Indians. Sherwood attempts to kill his wife by substituting cholera germs in a bottle labeled morphine. He is injured, however, and Swiftwind, intending to alleviate Dr. Sherwood's suffering with morphine, inoculates him with the cholera germs, unwittingly putting an end to him. Wallace's redemption restores him to the affection of Florence, whom he marries.
- DirectorGeorge IrvingJack PrattStarsLew DockstaderHal ReidGail KaneLoyal slave of the aristocratic Dabney family, Dan is overjoyed when Raoul becomes engaged to Northerner Elsie Hammond and his sister Grace becomes engaged to Elsie's brother John. When the Civil War breaks out, the heartbroken Hammonds return North and John joins the Union army. Raoul joins the Confederacy, but his vindictive overseer, Jonas Watts, becomes a Union officer. Watts takes Grace prisoner, but before he can act on his desires, John rescues her. He then encounters Raoul and is obliged to arrest him, but Dan comes to his aid by throwing red peppers into his captors' eyes. When John is arrested by Confederates, Raoul frees him for Grace's sake, but when his superiors discover his treason, he is sentenced to death. Stonewall Jackson, a family friend, tries to obtain a stay of execution for Raoul, but in the meantime, Dan visits him and convinces his master to blacken his face and take the slave's place. He does, and Dan is executed. After the war, Raoul and Elsie, and John and Grace marry and settle on the Dabney estate.
- DirectorGeorge IrvingJack PrattStarsLew DockstaderHal ReidGail KaneLoyal slave of the aristocratic Dabney family, Dan is overjoyed when Raoul becomes engaged to Northerner Elsie Hammond and his sister Grace becomes engaged to Elsie's brother John. When the Civil War breaks out, the heartbroken Hammonds return North and John joins the Union army. Raoul joins the Confederacy, but his vindictive overseer, Jonas Watts, becomes a Union officer. Watts takes Grace prisoner, but before he can act on his desires, John rescues her. He then encounters Raoul and is obliged to arrest him, but Dan comes to his aid by throwing red peppers into his captors' eyes. When John is arrested by Confederates, Raoul frees him for Grace's sake, but when his superiors discover his treason, he is sentenced to death. Stonewall Jackson, a family friend, tries to obtain a stay of execution for Raoul, but in the meantime, Dan visits him and convinces his master to blacken his face and take the slave's place. He does, and Dan is executed. After the war, Raoul and Elsie, and John and Grace marry and settle on the Dabney estate.
- DirectorBarry O'NeilStarsBernard SiegelRuth BryanGeorge Soule SpencerWhen Jules Beaubien's father died, the young man found himself heir to the stout old mansion in Montreal and the big fortune the family had made in the lumber of the great Canadian forests. But on his deathbed his father made a confession: 20 years ago he met a squaw of the Ojibway tribe and a girl child was born to them; she was now up in Nipissing country with a French-Canadian family who adopted her by arrangement with the father. Old Beaubien's last words to his son exacted a promise that the boy would find his half-sister, educate and care for her, and give her a liberal share of the estate. As soon as affairs were settled Jules started on his quest to find Annette. Arriving in the Nipissing country, he found that the family had moved from the valley, but he was informed that a woodsman, Baptiste Le Grande, could tell him all about her as he had been her sweetheart. He loved the girl with all the strength of his rough manhood, but a city man came along and betrayed her. Baptiste tried to tell the story, but his rage would not permit him to be coherent and Father Paul continued. He told Jules that the seducer had abandoned the girl and gone back to America. Annette, knowing she was disgraced, ran away from her foster parents and wandered to the camps where the women of the trappers tried to care for her. She became delirious, but she never mentioned the man's name. When her child was born she wandered out into the storm with her babe in her arms, lay down in the snow, and died, and the wolves ate her and the child. The rage of Jules and Baptiste was terrible. They swore to find the man and kill him. Baptiste took a crucifix from his bosom, both men kissed the symbol, and for two years the quest of vengeance continued. In the Indian summer Jules heard that frequently parties of engineers would quarter at Andrew McTavish's house in the forest. Here Jules and Baptiste resolved to put up for a while. Two other men arrived, civil engineer Mr. McDonald and his assistant Mr. Huntley, who were surveying for a Canadian railroad. McDonald was a splendid specimen of physical manhood, about 40 years old and very entertaining. His ability at his profession made him rich and with all he was a man of courage and likable. McTavish's daughter Hilda, a fascinating girl, did the cooking and housekeeping, and it was not surprising that McDonald and Jules soon noticed that each were contesting for the smiles of the Scotsman's daughter. Hilda was not adverse to the pleasantries of the good-looking boarders, for her life was far from happy; her mother, not being able to stand the irascible McTavish, had run away when Hilda was a child, and the father vented his revenge and hatred upon the daughter. Soon the rivalry between Jules and MacDonald became an open book. Jules loved Hilda, while the other man was simply playing for a dishonorable advantage. One day the men admitted their rivalry face to face. Jules was willing to play the game fair. The rogue laughed in the other man's face, admitted that he had a wife in America, but boasted of his power over women. In his bravado he told of an affair some years ago with a little girl up in the Nipissing country. It was the story of Annette. Jules would have killed him on the spot, but he was a man of honor; he could not assassinate, he must fight this fiend. Then he must tell also Baptiste, who would also want to kill him, and commit this deed he would if Jules fell in the fight. McDonald, feeling he was losing ground with Hilda, planned to work her ruin through the father. He told McTavish that he had a good mother in America that would care for and educate Hilda and that then he would marry her. The old Scotsman was only too willing to get rid of the girl and demanded of her that he would go with McDonald. Jules had told Hilda of the good love and the bad love and she learned to love Jules. When McTavish ordered her to go with McDonald she resisted. The old man in his rage would have seized her by the throat and strangled her, but Jules bore him to the floor of the cabin, while Baptiste from outside the window covered MacDonald with his Winchester. The fight was desperate and long, but Jules seized Hilda and, with Baptiste and Huntley, who discovered his master's villainy, the four hastened to the creek and in a canoe which had been furnished with supplies for the trip, made towards the Canadian railway for Montreal. McDonald followed and Jules left the party at a landing to meet him. A desperate duel was fought, in which McDonald was killed, and after burying the body, Jules and his party hastened to home and happiness.
- DirectorBarry O'NeilStarsBernard SiegelRuth BryanGeorge Soule SpencerWhen Jules Beaubien's father died, the young man found himself heir to the stout old mansion in Montreal and the big fortune the family had made in the lumber of the great Canadian forests. But on his deathbed his father made a confession: 20 years ago he met a squaw of the Ojibway tribe and a girl child was born to them; she was now up in Nipissing country with a French-Canadian family who adopted her by arrangement with the father. Old Beaubien's last words to his son exacted a promise that the boy would find his half-sister, educate and care for her, and give her a liberal share of the estate. As soon as affairs were settled Jules started on his quest to find Annette. Arriving in the Nipissing country, he found that the family had moved from the valley, but he was informed that a woodsman, Baptiste Le Grande, could tell him all about her as he had been her sweetheart. He loved the girl with all the strength of his rough manhood, but a city man came along and betrayed her. Baptiste tried to tell the story, but his rage would not permit him to be coherent and Father Paul continued. He told Jules that the seducer had abandoned the girl and gone back to America. Annette, knowing she was disgraced, ran away from her foster parents and wandered to the camps where the women of the trappers tried to care for her. She became delirious, but she never mentioned the man's name. When her child was born she wandered out into the storm with her babe in her arms, lay down in the snow, and died, and the wolves ate her and the child. The rage of Jules and Baptiste was terrible. They swore to find the man and kill him. Baptiste took a crucifix from his bosom, both men kissed the symbol, and for two years the quest of vengeance continued. In the Indian summer Jules heard that frequently parties of engineers would quarter at Andrew McTavish's house in the forest. Here Jules and Baptiste resolved to put up for a while. Two other men arrived, civil engineer Mr. McDonald and his assistant Mr. Huntley, who were surveying for a Canadian railroad. McDonald was a splendid specimen of physical manhood, about 40 years old and very entertaining. His ability at his profession made him rich and with all he was a man of courage and likable. McTavish's daughter Hilda, a fascinating girl, did the cooking and housekeeping, and it was not surprising that McDonald and Jules soon noticed that each were contesting for the smiles of the Scotsman's daughter. Hilda was not adverse to the pleasantries of the good-looking boarders, for her life was far from happy; her mother, not being able to stand the irascible McTavish, had run away when Hilda was a child, and the father vented his revenge and hatred upon the daughter. Soon the rivalry between Jules and MacDonald became an open book. Jules loved Hilda, while the other man was simply playing for a dishonorable advantage. One day the men admitted their rivalry face to face. Jules was willing to play the game fair. The rogue laughed in the other man's face, admitted that he had a wife in America, but boasted of his power over women. In his bravado he told of an affair some years ago with a little girl up in the Nipissing country. It was the story of Annette. Jules would have killed him on the spot, but he was a man of honor; he could not assassinate, he must fight this fiend. Then he must tell also Baptiste, who would also want to kill him, and commit this deed he would if Jules fell in the fight. McDonald, feeling he was losing ground with Hilda, planned to work her ruin through the father. He told McTavish that he had a good mother in America that would care for and educate Hilda and that then he would marry her. The old Scotsman was only too willing to get rid of the girl and demanded of her that he would go with McDonald. Jules had told Hilda of the good love and the bad love and she learned to love Jules. When McTavish ordered her to go with McDonald she resisted. The old man in his rage would have seized her by the throat and strangled her, but Jules bore him to the floor of the cabin, while Baptiste from outside the window covered MacDonald with his Winchester. The fight was desperate and long, but Jules seized Hilda and, with Baptiste and Huntley, who discovered his master's villainy, the four hastened to the creek and in a canoe which had been furnished with supplies for the trip, made towards the Canadian railway for Montreal. McDonald followed and Jules left the party at a landing to meet him. A desperate duel was fought, in which McDonald was killed, and after burying the body, Jules and his party hastened to home and happiness.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsNell CraigClifford BruceRiley HatchIn one of the Roman colonies in North Africa lives with her father a beautiful young Christian girl, Nydia. A high priest of Jupiter, one of the principal Roman gods, sees her and desires to have her for one of the vestal virgins. He sends his attendants to seize her but is prevented by the passing of Caius, the son of the Roman governor. Caius is very much impressed by the beauty of Nydia and after leaving her safely at her home rides on to the court. The high priest, angry at being so easily thwarted, takes some of his attendants and goes to the home of Nydia to seize her. They are not successful although in the struggle Nydia's father is killed and their home is burned. Nydia escapes to the desert and hides in a cave. A shepherd passes and one of his sheep is carried off and eaten by a lion. The cave where Nydia hides is the lair of the lion and she is terrified as he comes in and stands by a rock near her and roars at her. The shepherd goes to the city to get help to kill the wild beast and lands at the palace of Caius just as a large company are celebrating the arrival of the young woman whom Caius is to marry. He leaves the feast and goes to help the shepherd. They find the cave, capture the lion and at the same time discover Nydia. Caius takes Nydia to his father's house and declares his intention of keeping her under his care. His father objects, she being a Christian. In spite of protests Caius places Nydia in a home, where he goes to visit her. On one of his visits he is followed by the high priest and his father. The high priest enters the room and accuses Nydia of seducing Caius. In a struggle that follows Caius kills the high priest. His father has Caius carried off by two attendants. He accuses Nydia of the crime. In spite of her protests she is condemned to be thrown to the lions. Caius' betrothed tells him of the event and he rushes to the lions' den to help Nydia. His betrothed, who has been instrumental in stirring up trouble, opens the door of the den to watch with satisfaction the end of her rival. Caius sees the door open and seizing Nydia, makes his escape. They manage to escape to the desert, where Caius adopts Christianity.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsNell CraigClifford BruceRiley HatchIn one of the Roman colonies in North Africa lives with her father a beautiful young Christian girl, Nydia. A high priest of Jupiter, one of the principal Roman gods, sees her and desires to have her for one of the vestal virgins. He sends his attendants to seize her but is prevented by the passing of Caius, the son of the Roman governor. Caius is very much impressed by the beauty of Nydia and after leaving her safely at her home rides on to the court. The high priest, angry at being so easily thwarted, takes some of his attendants and goes to the home of Nydia to seize her. They are not successful although in the struggle Nydia's father is killed and their home is burned. Nydia escapes to the desert and hides in a cave. A shepherd passes and one of his sheep is carried off and eaten by a lion. The cave where Nydia hides is the lair of the lion and she is terrified as he comes in and stands by a rock near her and roars at her. The shepherd goes to the city to get help to kill the wild beast and lands at the palace of Caius just as a large company are celebrating the arrival of the young woman whom Caius is to marry. He leaves the feast and goes to help the shepherd. They find the cave, capture the lion and at the same time discover Nydia. Caius takes Nydia to his father's house and declares his intention of keeping her under his care. His father objects, she being a Christian. In spite of protests Caius places Nydia in a home, where he goes to visit her. On one of his visits he is followed by the high priest and his father. The high priest enters the room and accuses Nydia of seducing Caius. In a struggle that follows Caius kills the high priest. His father has Caius carried off by two attendants. He accuses Nydia of the crime. In spite of her protests she is condemned to be thrown to the lions. Caius' betrothed tells him of the event and he rushes to the lions' den to help Nydia. His betrothed, who has been instrumental in stirring up trouble, opens the door of the den to watch with satisfaction the end of her rival. Caius sees the door open and seizing Nydia, makes his escape. They manage to escape to the desert, where Caius adopts Christianity.
- DirectorLuigi MaggiStarsPaolo ColaciLena LenardFernanda Negri PougetCaptain Benito Rienzi, in command of a small fleet of Venetian men-of-war, is sent to hold the island of Cyprus against the onslaughts of the Turkish squadrons, but after a valiant defense is forced to give way and put back to Venice for reinforcements. His masterly retreat and his preservation of the fleet in the face of such odds wins him almost as much glory as a victorious battle would have done, and he is complimented by the Doge and the Council of Ten, the highest powers of the Republic. Those honors, however, are meaningless to Rienzi when he learns that during his absence his sweetheart, Bianca, has been forced to marry Count Orsini. He meets her at their trysting place, the famous shrine of Our Lady of the Water, and there she tells him that although her heart is his, she has pledged her faith to Orsini and that she will be true to her vows. In the meantime a scapegrace young nobleman of unsavory reputation has been unsuccessfully wooing Adriane, Rienzi's sister, and, unsuccessful in his attempts to win her by flattery, plans an abduction. Rienzi discovers the plot and pursues the would-be kidnapper, who takes refuge in a home frequented by Orsini. The Count protects him. Orsini, knowing of Benito's love for his wife, conspires with the young nobleman to bring about the captain's downfall. They conceal a forged letter in his apartment and denounce him to the authorities as a traitor to his country. His house is searched and the paper, ostensibly a letter from a Turkish commander accepting Rienzi's offer to surrender the Venetian flotilla to the Sultan, is found. He is arrested and only the personal intervention of the Doge's wife, who acts in response to an appeal by Adriane, prevents his execution. The disgrace causes the death of Rienzi's mother, and he, his death sentence commuted to exile from Venice, is forced to leave the country. Taking his sister with him, Rienzi joins the pirates of Dalmatia, who have risen in revolt against the power of Venice, and in revenge for the ungrateful treatment he has sustained at the hands of his fatherland, determines to lead her enemies against her. Adriane, still loyal, begs him not to turn his hand against the flag of his country, but he will not listen to her. News of Rienzi's connection with the pirates is carried to Venice and a price is set upon his head. Learning of this, Bianca hopes to win him back to loyalty, and to this end sends him a banner displaying ''The Lion of Venice," which she has "embroidered. The bitter-hearted captain, however, refuses to be won over. He throws the flag aside, but Adriane, still confident of changing his heart, secretly takes it and hides it in the hold of the pirate ship. Meanwhile Orsini has been placed in command of a great squadron sent out by Venice for the double purpose of destroying both the Turkish fleet and the pirate vessels. He is attacked by a giant Turkish armada, whose commander, knowing of Benito's rebellion, sends to invite the pirate vessels to participate in the attack. Benito gladly accepts and puts his vessel underway. While the ship is headed toward the hard-pressed Christian fleet, however, Adriane brings the lion flag of Venice from the hold and, unobserved, climbs quickly to the masthead. There is a moment of silence among the pirates as they see the waving folds of the national emblem, then they break into a hearty cheer. Rienzi can no longer resist the call of flag and country. With a shout he urges his men against the astonished Turks. By his aid the fleet of Venice comes out of the struggle victorious, and Orsini, mortally wounded, confesses the plot against his rival. Then, with the Crescent banners as trophies of his victory, Benito sails back to Venice, where his seeming treachery is explained and he is restored to rank and honor. And Bianca, freed by the same stroke that took her husband's life in battle, is waiting for him on his return.
- DirectorLuigi MaggiStarsPaolo ColaciLena LenardFernanda Negri PougetCaptain Benito Rienzi, in command of a small fleet of Venetian men-of-war, is sent to hold the island of Cyprus against the onslaughts of the Turkish squadrons, but after a valiant defense is forced to give way and put back to Venice for reinforcements. His masterly retreat and his preservation of the fleet in the face of such odds wins him almost as much glory as a victorious battle would have done, and he is complimented by the Doge and the Council of Ten, the highest powers of the Republic. Those honors, however, are meaningless to Rienzi when he learns that during his absence his sweetheart, Bianca, has been forced to marry Count Orsini. He meets her at their trysting place, the famous shrine of Our Lady of the Water, and there she tells him that although her heart is his, she has pledged her faith to Orsini and that she will be true to her vows. In the meantime a scapegrace young nobleman of unsavory reputation has been unsuccessfully wooing Adriane, Rienzi's sister, and, unsuccessful in his attempts to win her by flattery, plans an abduction. Rienzi discovers the plot and pursues the would-be kidnapper, who takes refuge in a home frequented by Orsini. The Count protects him. Orsini, knowing of Benito's love for his wife, conspires with the young nobleman to bring about the captain's downfall. They conceal a forged letter in his apartment and denounce him to the authorities as a traitor to his country. His house is searched and the paper, ostensibly a letter from a Turkish commander accepting Rienzi's offer to surrender the Venetian flotilla to the Sultan, is found. He is arrested and only the personal intervention of the Doge's wife, who acts in response to an appeal by Adriane, prevents his execution. The disgrace causes the death of Rienzi's mother, and he, his death sentence commuted to exile from Venice, is forced to leave the country. Taking his sister with him, Rienzi joins the pirates of Dalmatia, who have risen in revolt against the power of Venice, and in revenge for the ungrateful treatment he has sustained at the hands of his fatherland, determines to lead her enemies against her. Adriane, still loyal, begs him not to turn his hand against the flag of his country, but he will not listen to her. News of Rienzi's connection with the pirates is carried to Venice and a price is set upon his head. Learning of this, Bianca hopes to win him back to loyalty, and to this end sends him a banner displaying ''The Lion of Venice," which she has "embroidered. The bitter-hearted captain, however, refuses to be won over. He throws the flag aside, but Adriane, still confident of changing his heart, secretly takes it and hides it in the hold of the pirate ship. Meanwhile Orsini has been placed in command of a great squadron sent out by Venice for the double purpose of destroying both the Turkish fleet and the pirate vessels. He is attacked by a giant Turkish armada, whose commander, knowing of Benito's rebellion, sends to invite the pirate vessels to participate in the attack. Benito gladly accepts and puts his vessel underway. While the ship is headed toward the hard-pressed Christian fleet, however, Adriane brings the lion flag of Venice from the hold and, unobserved, climbs quickly to the masthead. There is a moment of silence among the pirates as they see the waving folds of the national emblem, then they break into a hearty cheer. Rienzi can no longer resist the call of flag and country. With a shout he urges his men against the astonished Turks. By his aid the fleet of Venice comes out of the struggle victorious, and Orsini, mortally wounded, confesses the plot against his rival. Then, with the Crescent banners as trophies of his victory, Benito sails back to Venice, where his seeming treachery is explained and he is restored to rank and honor. And Bianca, freed by the same stroke that took her husband's life in battle, is waiting for him on his return.