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- "Shows papa walking the floor with a crying baby in his arms. An exceedingly laughable subject."
- DirectorMaurice Maître
- DirectorLarry SemonStarsJimmy AubreyEarl MontgomeryPietro AramondoA drunken husband comes home late and causes his wife all sorts of trouble.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJack CooperMarvel ReaHarry BookerAfter being thrown out of a party he used to gain entry to the mansion, a thief sneaks back in, then plots Plan B to break into the safe. He escapes to hide out in a garage, causing chaos.
- DirectorRollin S. SturgeonStarsJuliette DayCharles MarriottJoe KingBetty, the daughter of a retired professor and a romantic dreamer, craves excitement and adventure. Captain Tobias Crook, a mariner, seizes upon her longings to induce the professor to finance and accompany him on a lost treasure hunt. Dick Winthrop is very interested in these plans because he is a Secret Service agent on the trail of Crook, who is in the business of promoting these expeditions and then marooning his investors on desolate islands. Living up to his reputation, Crook forces the professor to sign over his property and then leaves him to die on the island. Returning home, Crook and his crew commandeer the professor's house. In the drunken brawls which follow, Crook is killed and the crew decide to assault Betty. As she cowers in her locked room, Winthrop, who has saved her father from the island, comes to the rescue.
- DirectorAlex BennoRichard OswaldStarsAaf BouberJopie KoopmanJohan ElsensohnA greengrocer's shady dealings with a well-to-do margarine smuggler require that she interferes with her daughter's romance with a sailor.
- DirectorMax NosseckJan TeunissenStarsFien de la MarHeintje DavidsJopie KoopmanBased on the novel "Spionage in het veldleger" (lit.trans. Espionage in the Field Army) by Mr A. Roothaert. A First World War farce about the mobilization of the Dutch Army. Diary fragments tell of the arrival of Belgian refugees across the Dutch border in winter 1915. Reserve lieutenant Berkhage return from a summons to the Belgian border with a refugee child. Named "Big" by the company he is soon the regimental darling.
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsBillie RitchieHenry BergmanHank MannBillie enjoys flirting with the ladies, and so does Henry, although he's married. Trouble erupts when both men bring dates to the same beer garden, and Billie's date turns out to be Henry's wife.
- DirectorAlfred MachinStarsLéon MathotPrince Algabert upholds the traditions of his forefathers and wages a feud against the house of Rodembourg, whose reigning lord has one daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Lying in ambush for their enemies one day, Algabert's vassals see the Princess setting out to ride, and capture her. Carried by them to camp, she is brought before Algabert, who forgets the feud, falls under the spell of her beauty, and gives her back her liberty, and later goes to her father to beg for her hand and the cessation of the feud. His overtures are haughtily repulsed, and the breach between the two houses widens. Thereafter Elizabeth, relinquishing all hope of a union between herself and the prince, enters a convent. On the day of her renunciation of the world, Algabert learns of her decision. He makes attempts to reach her, but is unsuccessful. Thrown into despair by this Algabert then provokes the Rodembourgs. He meets them single-handed in the convent cloisters and receives a death stroke. Elizabeth, hearing the clash of steel and the shouts of men, peers through the window of her cell and sees her lover pierced by the swords of her father's retainers. The dead prince is buried by the nuns, and to Sister Elizabeth is given the charge of tending his grave.
- DirectorWilliam WatsonStarsNeely EdwardsBert RoachNervy Ned is an agent for accident insurance. He is very successful. He is in love with his boss's daughter, but her father refuses to consent to the marriage until he has insured Hank Morgan, the hardest man in town. He tries, and after being kicked out of the office about a dozen times, he succeeds in insuring him. He goes back to claim his reward, and sees several people he insured coming out of the office, bandaged but rich, having collected their insurance. His boss throws him down the steps, and Ned goes back to claim his money and the girl. He gets both.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsBilly ArmstrongGertrude SelbyPhil DunhamPhil and Bill love Gaby. Phil had the best of the bargain for he was the proud possessor of a real car while Bill only had a two-seated motorcycle. Bill called to take Gaby out and Phil came along and stole the girl away because he had a real car. But cars have their troubles and Phil stalled and Bill took a shot at the tires. He had no trouble in persuading Gaby to steal away with him, but he disregarded all speed laws and raced over the ill kept street and spilled Gaby into an excavation. Phil saw this and recovered the lost Gaby. Bill was too interested in the scenery to miss her for some time, but when he did he raced back looking for the missing Gaby. Phil had won her heart and hand owing to the fact that he had a real car. This angered Bill and he immediately purchased himself a large touring car and after some difficulty he learned to drive it. When he learned to drive well enough he went on a hunt for Gaby and found her, but alas, too late, for she was just coming out of the minister's home with her husband. This was too much for Bill. He immediately grew desperate and wanted to die at once. He invited the newlyweds to take a ride in his new car. Hardly had they got seated before he turned and told them it would be their last day on this earth. It was some wild ride and aroused the whole country. Cops in automobiles, cops on motorcycles and cops afoot were chasing Bill on his wild ride, and perhaps it would have been going yet had not Bill disregarded all auto ethics and headed for the pier and into the briny deep. This was Bill's finish for the car was a land car only and they all went to a watery grave.
- DirectorAlbert CapellaniStarsHenri ÉtiévantHenri RollanJeanne GrumbachHans Ghynt, a Dutch farmer of Holland, is a widower whose small family consists only of his mother, his son Jan and himself. He falls in love with a new neighbor, a Swiss widow by the name of Minna, living with her little daughter, Katrina, and who, though beautiful and good, is slandered and disliked by the neighbors simply because she is a stranger and foreigner. By reason of this uncalled-for prejudice Hans' relatives oppose the match with vigor. Minna, seeing this, asks Hans to release her from the engagement, but he refuses, being angered by the folly of his people. The wedding takes place and Hans' mother leaves his house in anger, while Jan enlists in the army for six years' service in the colonies. Hans finds Minna a good and loving wife and Katrina a good step-daughter and is happy. Six years later his mother, repenting of her folly, tries to get her son to permit her to return to his house, but he refuses either to forgive or receive her. Meanwhile Katrina has grown to womanhood and Jan returning home from the army comes to love her and is loved in return. In the light of their love the old mother is forgiven and the family is united once more.
- DirectorJesse D. HamptonStarsJ. Warren KerriganLois WilsonGayne WhitmanFrank Miller, arriving in a California gold rush town in the days of '49, gets fleeced of all his assets in a crooked card game by a gang while his sister Mary waits in their hotel. Virginia gentleman gambler Burke Allister forces the gang to let Frank win the money back, but Frank is shot and killed by Faro Ed, whom Burke then kills. Burke and Mary leave and establish unsuccessful claims away from the town, but gang leader Dan Middleton, attracted to Mary, sends Four-Ace Baker to convince her that Burke was in on Frank's murder. Mary believes Baker, and when Burke goes to town for a doctor after Mary is injured and then he is captured by Middleton's men, Mary leaves the claim with Middleton. Burke escapes and is able to find Middleton and Mary, then fights Middleton, who falls over a cliff. Burke then wins Mary's embrace.
- DirectorMaurits BingerStarsAnnie BosCor SmitsCecil Ryan
- StarsAnnie BosA farmer's daughter falls in love with a farmhand.
- StarsBillie BennettWilliam ParsonsLydia Yeamans TitusAt the opening Bill appears as a poor, overworked department store book-keeper. He is promoted to the position of manager of the lingerie department, but because his wife is jealous, he explains his comparative affluence by saying he has become a worker in the oil field. Each day he leaves home in the garb of a worker, changing at the home of a friend to clothes that are fitting to his position in the store.
- DirectorAlfred MachinStarsBlanche DervalHenri GoidsenHarzéIn a small Dutch village, two children, Anna, the miller's daughter and Johannes, the shepherd are close friends. When Anna's father dies, her mother sends her to live with her aunt in Brussels. Theren the manager of a theatre who had seen her dancing at the village party, accepts to train her as a ballerina. Johannes tries to follow her but his mother forces to go back to the village. The years pass and Anna has become a famous ballerina. When Johannes comes to visit her, she refuses to see him. She falls in love with an aeronaut who takes her on his balloon for a flight. The balloon is caught in a storm and falls to the ground. Anna survives the crash but she had become blind. She returns to the village to live with her mother. There she finds Johannes who has never stopped loving her.
- DirectorGerard RuttenStarsJan MuschTheo de MaalBetsy Ranucci-BeckmanAfter building a dam, closing off the Zuiderzee from the sea, it effectively turns the former sea into a lake and the fishermen call it "dead water". They desperately attack the dam with spades and even explosives, culminating in tragedy.
- DirectorLudwig BergerStarsLily BouwmeesterJan de HartogMatthieu van EysdenA mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsCharles WestVivian PrescottStephanie LongfellowJohn Rogers, a young chemist, is sincerely loved by the eldest of two sisters, but in a state of infatuation prefers the younger girl, fascinated by what he would call vivacity, but which is nothing less than frivolousness. He marries her, and she soon tires of a life of domesticity. He tries to interest her in his chemical experiments but they simply bore her, although they are interesting to the sister, which interest is born of a pure love which she still holds. While he is working in his laboratory, the wife is either entertaining or being entertained by friends. She is in her element at a dinner party, when an explosion takes place in her husband's laboratory, apparently destroying his sight and hearing. It is a sad house she returns to after her evening's pleasure. There is her husband, deaf and sightless. You may imagine her lot is now more repugnant, as his helplessness annoys her, so she eagerly accepts diversion. This comes in the form of an offer from one of her friends, a theater manager, to shine on the comic opera stage. She accepts the offer and on the persuasion of this friend decides to leave her husband and get a divorce, leaving her wedding ring on the table for her sister or father-in-law to find. The sister sees her action, and tries to dissuade her, but in vain. The thought of this second and worse blow to the young man moves the sister to wear the ring, deceiving him until his affliction has passed, for the doctor is sure of restoring his sight and hearing. This deception is easy, as he can neither see nor hear and is ever under hands of the nurse. The operation promises to be successful, so the sister goes to the green room of the theater to bring the wife back. After a heated argument the wife consents to go and see him at least, arriving just as he is placed in a darkened room to have the bandage removed. When the bandage is taken off, the young man sees in the dim light of the room the figures about him. He turns from one to the other until he sees his wife and makes a move towards her, but she with guilty mien recoils and as she does, clutches the portieres nervously. Down they come, letting in a fatal flash of light from the outside, striking the poor fellow's eyes, causing now incurable blindness. Realizing what she has done, she rushes horror-stricken from the house. The young man's hearing unimpaired, he learns the truth and now feels in his heart what he failed to see with his eyes.
- StarsBillie RhodesCullen LandisBilly BevanBillie is at a resort with her girlfriends when they spot Jack, a handsome playwright. The girls bet Billie that she can't win him over. She dresses herself as a young widow and is winning his affections, but her girlfriends spill the secret of the bet.
- DirectorClifford S. ElfeltStarsHayward MackMina CunardVola ValeHarold du Vane and his wife have a misunderstanding, caused by Harold's attentiveness to his paintings. He and his wife quarrel and Harold tells her that he is going to some quiet place where he can work without interruption. A short time later, Harold arrives in the heart of the wilderness. Nearby there is a camp of an old woodcutter, Dave Woodward, and his daughter, Nell. Jim Smith, a young man, assists old Dave with his wood cutting. He has long loved Nell, but she has refused to take his love seriously. She and Harold meet and he recognizes her as a type he is desirous of painting. She is easily persuaded to pose for him. One day Harold realizes that Nell loves him and he feels a pang of regret for leading her on and neglecting his wife. He falls asleep beside a tree. Nell's father is mortally wounded by a falling tree and Jim brings him to the cabin. Before dying, the old man places the care of his daughter in Jim's hands and tells him he hopes that they will marry. This thought is too much for Nell, and in an outburst she tells Jim that she could never marry him, as the artist has her love. She rushes out and hurries to the artist's camp. She throws herself in Harold's arms and declares her love. He tells her that he is married and that he must return to his wife. She begs him to meet her that night under the fourth tree. Harold goes to the appointed place and finds the fourth tree to be in the midst of a lake. On looking closer, he finds Nell beneath the water. Jim has crept to the place and accused Harold of murdering the girl, and just as Harold is about to be killed he is awakened by Nell playfully shaking him. He can hardly believe Nell is real. He tells her that he is returning to his wife and that as a wedding present to Jim and herself he is leaving the picture. He returns home and hurrying to his wife's room, finds that in his absence a little stranger has arrived. There is a happy reconciliation between husband and wife.
- DirectorMarcel PerezStarsAlyce ArdellThis is a story of a tourist who is mistaken for the king of a country which he visits and is persuaded by the king who is warned that his life is threatened, to take his place. Naturally many amusing things happen and all the attempts at the king's life are frustrated by his understudy. However action gets too hot for the Duke, and next the characters are getting back to their original costumes.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBillie BennettHarry McCoyFatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.
- DirectorRaymond L. DitmarsA nature documentary depicting the variety of changes undergone by plants and animals as the seasons of the year change. A deer is shown shedding his antlers, then growing new ones, while other examples of flora and fauna go through corollary changes.
- DirectorPat SullivanWandering figure of Charlie (known from the Chaplin films). After visiting a second-hand bookshop, Charlie dreams that he has kidnapped the Queen of Sheba. Yet there is no beautiful woman behind the veil of this Turkish lady.
- DirectorB.E. Doxat-PrattStarsEvelyn BrentAdelqui MigliarDorothy FaneIn Venice an artist has an affair with a Countess but returns to his model.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBarry O'MooreLinda ArvidsonArthur V. JohnsonThe story, while not biographical, is founded on incidents in his life, showing his devotion for his sick wife, Virginia. Desperate from his utter helplessness to ameliorate his dying wife's suffering, owing to extreme destitution, he is in a frenzy of grief, when a raven is seen to perch on a bust of Pallas above the door of their cold, cheerless apartment. An inspiration! He sets to work, and that masterpiece. "The Raven," is the fruit. During his work he has divested himself of his coat, putting it over his wife to protect her from the cold. The poem finished, he rushes coatless and hatless to the publisher, where he meets with scant attention. One editor, however, thinks the work possesses some merit and offers ten dollars for it. Ten dollars for the greatest jewel in the diadem of fame - think of it! Poe thinks of the comforts, meager though they needs must be, for his poor wife and accepts the offer. Hastening to the store, he procures food, a heavy comfortable for the cot, and medicine, and with much lighter heart returns home. Spreading the quilt tenderly over Virginia, he takes her hand and gazes fondly into her sightless eyes, but the cold, unresponsive hand tells him the awful truth. "My God, she is dead!" and he falls prostrate across the cot.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsAnnie van EesAlbert van DalsumEnny SnijdersTwelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). Together with his best friend and partner in crime Pietje Puk he plans to travel to America to get rich. When a local clergyman takes pity on the boy and tries to teach him good manners, Boefje at first rebels. However, once he is sent to a strict boarding school, he takes an interest in music, specifically the pipe organ.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelStarsAdelqui MigliarMary BeekmanAaf BouberVan Duylen, representative of a diamond syndicate, brings to Amsterdam the Koh-I-Noor II , the largest diamond ever found. In one of the city's oldest diamond-cutting establishments
- DirectorJoseph DelmontStarsFred SauerIlse BoisJoseph DelmontReluctant to believe that his brother has committed suicide, Gerhard Bern travels to Rotterdam with a detective, and helped by the consul and his charming daughter Ilse he'll try to find the truth about a secret society his brother was connected with. When another member is found dead his suspicions grow even stronger. Both men had insurance policies.
- StarsAdrienne SolserHad-je-me-maar (1856-1931) was a pilgrim, street musician, and a candidate of the social-anarchist party Rapaille. In this film, we witness his journey to the Chamber of Deputies, as well as his subsequent expulsion from it.
- DirectorLarry SemonStarsHughie MackJewell HuntJohn FlatowBeware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with its aid obtained an introduction to a millionaire and his beautiful daughter. But Hughey failed to remember that for every ruby or other gem stolen from an Egyptian shrine, there is a bearded sheik who has taken a vow never to eat, drink or sleep until the talisman has been returned to the irate God from whom it was stolen, and vengeance has been wrought on the guilty one. Just when Hughey is enjoying himself immensely at a fine little dinner with the fair damsel, his nemesis, the sheik, discovers him and a lively chase takes place. The sheik gets the ruby in his possession but Hughey regains it in jig time and the prospects are that the poor sheik will have some wait before he can look a square meal in the face again.
- DirectorTheo Frenkel
- An old and long-married couple look back upon the romantic days of their youth. Closing their eyes and allowing memory full sway they find themselves in a colonial setting, principals in a delightful love story in which a ragged little chap, by his courtesy wins the heart of a wealthy little lady and thus gets an opportunity to make his way in the world. The story ended, they open their eyes, smile upon each other and prove that "they lived happily ever after" by a fond embrace. Truly a delightful romance.
- DirectorLéon BoedelsStarsLouis BouwmeesterKo van SprinkhuijsenMien de la MarJean-Marie Hardouin, once notorious for his iron grip he exerted on his family, spends the last of his days in a chair in his son's house. He sees his adulterous daughter-in-law plotting to murder her children and husband. Jean-Marie is mute and cannot warn his family. Eventually, he gathers his strengths and strangles the daughter-in-law.
- DirectorTefft JohnsonStarsBobby ConnellyTefft JohnsonMabel KellySonny Jim is told by the Sunday school teacher he cannot go to the School Picnic because he brought a huge bullfrog to school and it jumped into her lap. Sonny retaliates by getting up "The Amusement Company, Limited," then getting all the boys to stay away from the picnic to attend the "10-Act Circus" to be given in his father's barn. Result: the only ones to attend the picnic are the girls, the Superintendent. Gerald Montague, the "goody-goody" boy and Teacher. "Goody" tells where the boys are and all troop over to the barn. No one has the heart to scold the boys, so all but teacher are soon enjoying the comical efforts of the little "Circus" performers to amuse.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelStarsMargit BarnayPaul de GrootCoen HissinkCountess Alexandra is terminally ill and fleeing the cruelty of her husband. Edward Buchanan is extraordinary wealthy and suicidal, despairing that people only want him for his money. They find each other and fall in love.
- DirectorMaurits BingerStarsFrederik VogedingCor SmitsAnnie Bos
- DirectorLouis H. ChrispijnStarsAnnie BosChristine van MeeterenTheo FrenkelThe adventures of two girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort.
- DirectorChrétien van EsseStarsLouissetteChrétienni
- DirectorMaurits BingerB.E. Doxat-PrattStarsReginald BartonConstance WorthBruce GordonA man abandons his wife and sick baby, and she is saved by her ex-fiancée.
- DirectorFrederic ZelnikStarsLily BouwmeesterPaul StormEmma MorelWealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMae MurrayRichard CummingsHarry L. RattenberryA poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
- DirectorHorace DaveyStarsNeal BurnsBetty CompsonStella AdamsNewlywed Neal is expecting his wife, who is visiting her mother. Betty wants to bring Mother home with her so she can meet her son-in-law, but Neal objects and Betty returns alone. This causes the newlyweds' first quarrel. Betty's friend Ethel succeeds in getting Neal to allow mother-in-law to come, but he escapes under the cover of an urgent business trip. Stella, although young in years, is an old-fashioned and quiet lady. Betty and Ethel decide to make her over, and after a steam bath and pretty clothes, mother was rejuvenated and looks 20 years younger. The two girls then decide to take mother out to a café, and they tell her that if she wants to have some fun she must flirt a little. Neal comes back from his trip and, finding his home empty, goes to the same café. Betty and Ethel have met some friends and leave mother alone. Neal sits at a table next to Stella and is attracted by her good looks. They flirt and pretty soon Neal comes, sits at the same table and buys drinks. He even kisses Stella. A picture of Betty in Neal's watch attracts Stella's attention and she realizes that Neal is her son-in-law. She enjoys the situation and promises Neal that she will see him again. Neal goes home. Betty takes Ethel home after leaving mother at the door of their house. Neal sees Stella enter the apartment and is puzzled. He insists that she leave, saying that he is a married man, and nearly faints when Stella tells him that she intends to spend the night there. Betty comes back and Neal hears her opening the door. Afraid to be caught with another woman, he pushes Stella into the bedroom and tries in vain to keep Betty away from said room. When Betty comes out of the bedroom and asks why he has hidden mother there, Neal nearly collapses, but recovering, says, "Oh, just a little joke; mother and I are great friends." Betty is delighted, but mother and Neal decide that the wisest thing to do is to keep mum.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsW. Chrystie MillerJoseph GraybillStephanie LongfellowThe Rev. Mr. Hollister, nearing the last milestone of life's journey, has but one ardent wish, end that is to see his son James wearing the cloth that he must now lay aside on account of his old age. The boy has had the advantage of an example in religions principles, but he has needed the guiding solicitude of a mother, she having long since died, so that James and his sister Ruth are raised by their father, the old minister. The old father loses no opportunity to point out the better way for James, hoping that he will follow in his footsteps. Ruth is also solicitous, she feeling that James is guilty at times of disobedience, in which conjecture she is right. James instead of hearkening to his father's plea, though he ostensibly pretends to, spends most of his time in the corner saloons, becoming more addicted to drink, until through moral frailty the habit is formed to an irrepressible degree. The old minister's condition takes a sudden turn for the worse and upon the arrival of the doctor Ruth is informed that her father has but a few moments to live. The old man calls for his boy, but he at this hour is in a saloon intoxicated, rejecting the persuasions of even his companions to go home, for they are cognizant of the good man's weakness. Ruth knows too well where her brother is at this moment and can imagine his condition, but she conquers pride and goes out to search for him. Entering the saloon, she finds him in an almost helpless condition. The saloon-keeper, appreciating her embarrassment, begs her to leave, he intending to send the boy home. James misconstrues his actions and strikes him in resentment of a fancied insult, felling him. In the fall, he strikes his head on the foot rail and when the police arrive they find the brawl has resulted fatally for the saloon-keeper. In the excitement Ruth has gotten James out and to home, where he arrives only a few minutes before the messenger of death. The police learn who delivered the fatal blow and go to get him. Ruth hears them entering and intercepts their entrance into the sick room, begging them to hold off that her father may be kept in ignorance and his last moments peaceful. This they consent to do and when the old minister breathes his last the boy is taken away to pay the penalty of his indifference to the greatest of God's commands.
- DirectorCharles H. FranceStarsLillian HaywardPhyllis GordonBetty HarteHumorously works out the visit of a sleepy tramp to a well-appointed house, where his presence inspires terror and a call for the police.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsRobert EdesonWalter EdwardsFrank BorzageFred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, and the signature to his messages is forged and Martin is sent on the dangerous mission of luring the Northern troops into an ambush. He accomplishes this, and a terrible battle results, in which the Federals are driven back. The work of Martin is so damaging to the North that plans are laid for his capture, and John Bruce, a secret service man, is assigned to the task. He goes to Martin's home town and presents a forged letter of introduction to the Martins, purporting to be signed by Fred Martin. He is welcomed into the home and to further his ends makes love to Anna Martin. While in the Martin home the Northern troops surround the house and Bruce, fearing that his plans to capture Martin will fall if the field is not left clear for him to return, is compelled to make himself known to the Northern officer. Fred Martin is expected on a visit that night, so Bruce shows his credentials as a secret service man and instructs the soldiers to secrete themselves about the house. In bidding good-bye to Anna he drops the passport, and she learns the awful truth. Anna has been expecting her brother, and has given the signal, a candle in the window, that the coast was clear. Gun in hand, Bruce awaits Fred, and the anguished girl sees the spy in the moonlight, crouching behind a bush. Galloping towards home, Fred is surprised on a bridge by two northern sentries. Dismounting, he hands them a pass hoping they will be deceived by the northern uniform he is wearing. In swift succession he delivers crushing blows upon the faces of the sentries, and they tumble off the bridge into the water, and leaping on his horse he gallops away. With swift strokes one of the sentries gets to shore, and leveling his rifle takes a quick shot at Fred as he goes around a bend in the road, little thinking it will hit the mark. Fred's horse is struck, and leaping into the air it turns a complete somersault backwards and falls on Fred, Crushed and hurt, Fred extricates himself from the dying animal, and crawls away. The delay has saved him, for the northern soldiers awaiting him give him up in the early hours of the morning, and when Fred drags himself to the door he is unobserved. Anna and her mother put Fred to bed. In his wounded condition he is helpless, and Anna realizes that he must be captured unless she saves him. Attempting to leave the house, her way is barred by a northern sentry. Donning her brother's clothes she manages to affect her escape, and leaping on a horse gallops swiftly away. Bruce has determined upon a bold stroke, and impersonating Fred he goes to the union colonel and tells him a detachment of southern soldiers is nearby, and attempts to lead the northern soldiers into an ambush. In the meantime Anna is making a wild ride, sparing neither the horse nor herself, and she arrives in time to bare Bruce's plot, and accuse him. On her part, Anna has fallen desperately in love with Bruce, and he has lost his heart to the brave girl, but each buries personal feeling for the sake of their respective countries. Bruce is arrested and quickly tried and convicted of being a spy. He is led out in the field, and a dozen soldiers face him with leveled rifles. Anna sees the impending execution and with an agonized scream darts across the field, but the rifles thunder a volley and the man she loves falls dead. The picture ends with Anna sobbing over the dead secret service man.
- DirectorJames YoungStarsMaurice CostelloClara Kimball YoungMary Maurice"Isn't he lovely!" "One of the grandest men I ever saw," "perfectly exquisite," were the expressions to which Beth Ward, a young high school girl gave vent to whenever she thought or spoke of her "moving picture idol," Howard Hanson, the player who takes the leading parts in the motion picture plays in her favorite productions. She unexpectedly sees him on the street and follows him until he disappears in his dwelling place, which she carefully notes by taking the number of the house. She sends him flowers and letters, much to his disgust, as this sort of recognition has become a pest to him. She and her friend, Pearl Shelby, are constant attendants at the theater where he appears in the films and they are both entranced. Beth is simply hypnotized. She becomes so violently carried away with her picture man, she falls behind in her studies. Her parents are notified by her teachers and soon learn of her insane infatuation. Her father calls on Howard and they arrange a plan to cure her of her foolishness. Howard dines with the Wards. Beth is enraptured until he exhibits such astounding table manners and insists upon bawling instead of singing then she begins to see some defects in her idolized ideal. In return, Howard asks the Wards to take tea with him the next day. He arranges with his roommate to impersonate his wife and employs several children from the neighborhood to represent his family. Mr. Ward and Beth call and she is so shocked by the coarseness and rudeness of his wife, and the terrible behavior and multiplicity of his children, she is glad to escape and is forever cured of her idolatry.
- StarsCarlyle BlackwellAlice JoyceJust before the opening of the war of the rebellion, a high-spirited young girl is parted from her lover by an obdurate father. She attempts to elope, but the plan is frustrated and she is deprived of even the privilege of seeing her sweetheart again. Then both father and lover go to war. The father is killed and brought back in a casket draped with the Confederate flag, while the lover returns at the close of the war full of honors to claim the little girl as his bride.
- DirectorEdward C. TaylorStarsGeorge A. WrightBessie LearnFrank McGlynn Sr.Bob Carson, a New Englander, is betrothed to Mary Sanderson, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Feeling that his opportunities for success in his native village are small, he tells her that he has decided to strike out for the great west, and promises to return and make her his wife just as soon as his bettered fortunes will permit him to. Months later, in Chicago, he is "broke" and out of work. The fruitless striving has almost completely broken the spirit of the young man and he feels as though he would like to end it all by taking his own life. But each time, the memory of the girl who is waiting for him, spurs him on to try again, and finally, remembering that as a boy he was interested in telegraphy, he determines to take up the work and make a success of it. Later, he is given an appointment as assistant operator at a small station in Colorado. But even then, many weary months are passed without his being able to feel that he can return to the girl in New England and marry her. The part of the state where Bob's station is situated is infested by a band of outlaws, led by the notorious "Black Jack," a man who once held a responsible position as telegraph operator and station agent. He and his band are greatly feared, and a reward of $5,000 is offered for him, dead or alive. One of the outlaws spends several days in getting information to the effect that a certain train is to carry a Wells-Fargo shipment of $300,000 in paper currency. "Black Jack" gets the message sent by this man and at once gives orders to part of his band to hold up the express train at a certain rocky pass. With another of the band he goes himself to the station, and leaving the man outside, on guard, he enters and commands Bob, who is on solitary night duty, to throw up his hands. At the point of a gun he forces him to send a message which will result in a head-on collision between the train which the bandits are to hold up and another passenger train from the east, it being the bandit's theory to cover up the robbery by a collision. Only a few seconds later, a call is heard coming over the wire. It is a message for Bob, himself, and comes from New England. The girl for whom he has worked and waited is dead. For a moment, the shock of the news stuns him completely. Then, realizing that he has lost everything that makes life worthwhile, he reaches out and starts to send a message, countermanding the order that will bring the two trains together. Divining his purpose, "Black Jack" covers his heart with the revolver and fires. Bob falls across the desk, and believing him dead, the outlaw places his revolver in Bob's hand, thinking to make it appear a case of suicide. As the outlaw turns toward the door, Bob slowly raises his head and sees the revolver. Half turning, he fires, and the bandit falls to the floor, dead. Two other railroad men, hearing the shot, rush up and dispose of the outlaw guarding the door, but when they enter the depot, they find Bob in a dying condition. He manages to tell them of the plot to wreck the trains, and one of them immediately sends a warning to hold back the train that would collide with the one the outlaws have robbed. Hardly has he seen this accomplished, when Bob again falls forward across the table. They lift him up, but they are too late. He has gone to join his sweetheart, "Across the Great Divide."
- DirectorWilfrid NorthStarsLillian WalkerTemplar SaxeEvart OvertonHis health undermined, Hugh Storey, a young violinist, is ordered to the country to recuperate. At a little country farm house, he meets Lillian, a typical farm girl, sweet, wholesome and unspoiled. They fall in love, and after a picturesque courtship, are married. Hugh, now fully recovered in health and spirits, takes his bride back to the city with him. He introduces her to his artist friends, but Lillian feels very much out of place in her Bohemian surroundings, and soon becomes unhappy. Francois, a temperamental, but good-hearted and sincere friend of Hugh's, sees how matters are going, so he endeavors to patch up things in his own way. After teaching Lillian to sip wine, smoke cigarettes and dance, he takes her to a masquerade ball, where, in disguise, she meets her husband. Although he does not know who she is, Hugh is charmed with her grace and vivacity, and begs the fair unknown to reveal her identity. She laughingly refuses, but when unmasking time arrives, Hugh finds to his astonishment that he has been dancing with his own wife. He is delighted at first, but when the men begin to monopolize her attention, leaving him feeling like an outsider, he gets jealous. After the dance he gives a little celebration at his studio, and Lillian offers a toast to her advent into the magic circle of Bohemia, which brings forth rousing cheers. By this time, Hugh is feeling pretty glum, but when he complains to Lillian he prefers her as her old, sweet self, she retorts, "I'm only playing the game as I've watched you play it." After the others have gone, he promises to give up his present mode of living and Bohemianism tendencies, if she will do the same. She delightfully agrees, and the next time Francois sees them he finds a blissfully happy couple, leading a simple but happy domestic life.
- DirectorC.J. WilliamsStarsWilliam WadsworthEdward BouldenIt was all due to the stupidity of the man who put the house number on upside down. When a strange man came into Mrs. Smith's house and insisted that he was her father-in-law, it is no wonder that she 'phoned hubby and had the man ejected.
- StarsElsie MacLeodRaymond McKeeAlice WashburnRuth, a very nice young girl, is under the guardianship of her Aunt Jane, a straight-laced spinster. Ruth is in love with a young man, and every time her aunt catches her in his company she orders her home to play the piano. No sooner has the aunt left the room when Ruth runs out to her lover, leaving "Shep," their faithful dog, playing the piano. Edward is ordered out of the house, but "Shep" takes a note to him from Ruth, and returns with one, fixing a meeting place. "Shep," seeing no one in the room but the aunt, hides the note in the waste paper basket until Ruth comes. Because Ruth tears up the note without letting her see it, the aunt locks her in the woodshed. When the aunt brings Ruth her supper, she leaves the door open and Ruth, seizing the opportunity, rims away, while "Shep" slams the door, locking in the aunt. She manages to get out just in time to see a fast receding automobile, with the lovers and "Shep" in it.
- DirectorFrancis BoggsStarsHobart BosworthSydney AyresFred HuntleyThe voyage of the "Minnehaha" ends in disaster, and everyone, with the exception of Captain Barker, his daughter Elizabeth, and the mate, Bill, perish. These three are picked up by the whaler "Dakota." Bill, the mate, who is infatuated with Elizabeth, and is half-crazy from exposure, becomes insanely and unreasonably jealous of Capt. Treavor of the "Dakota." He accosts Elizabeth in a way which compels her to ask the captain for assistance. Later, a whale is sighted, and Bill, who is mutinous, is disciplined, and made to work with the crew. At his first opportunity, he jumps overboard and swims back to the vessel. There, he easily overpowers the remainder of the crew by taking them unawares and orders the ship to be put under way. He forces his attention on Elizabeth again, who, by telling him she loves him, succeeds in escaping from the cabin. Once out, she releases her father with the help of the crew, and retakes the ship. Bill arrives on the scene too late to prevent the release of Capt. Barker, and is himself captured and bound with ropes. And so the night passes. The next day, Elizabeth shows her grit by taking the ship into her own hands, and guides it back to the deserted boat, containing Capt. Treavor and his men. Explanations follow; Bill, now thoroughly crazy, is taken from the cubby and confined forward, and the men give rousing cheers of thanksgiving for preservation from an untimely death.
- StarsWilliam GarwoodA wealthy ship owner cared for but two things in life, his gold and his daughter. But his selfish love of the girl led him to frown upon her suitors, while his greed for gold induced him to follow a niggardly policy so far as his ships were concerned. He insured them, it is true, but he begrudged the money he spent for repairs. He looked at it from the viewpoint that sailors were cheap, and could more easily be replaced than the money of which he was so fond. Therefore, when one of his captains insisted upon repairs being made, he was gruffly rebuffed. The owner told him that he could sail the ship as it was or hunt another job, and the captain decided to stick to the ship, hoping that things were not as bad as he had imagined them to be. For the captain was married, although the fact had been kept a secret. His bride was none other than the daughter of his employer, the miser ship owner, and they were waiting for a favorable chance to break the news to him. The girl wanted to sail with her husband. He refused, but did not tell her the real reason, as he knew it would frighten her, and cause the time on shore to be days and nights of dread. But the girl refused to accept his commands, and secretly stowed herself away on the ship, revealing herself when the ship was out at sea. The captain was glad to see her, but his joy was mingled with forebodings. He knew that he had an undermanned, leaky ship, and that the chances were only even that the he would reach port. When the father found a letter from the girl, telling him what she had done he broke down completely. He had never worried about his "coffin ship" before, but never before had the only person he loved been aboard one of them. The blow that he had expected came, for the ship was reported lost with all on board. And the old man realized that his niggardliness had lost him something that he would have given all his wealth, miser though he was, to retain. He neglected his business, he grew to hate his once beloved gold, and at last, half demented, decided to end his life. The vision of the daughter, for whose death he was responsible, was constantly with him, and he decided to die as she did, in the water. He went to the dock from which her ship had sailed, and gazed down in the cool depths. There was oblivion. On land was only sorrow and remorse. He was about to leap overboard when he heard excited cries. Looking up he saw some people landing from a ship nearby. One of them was his daughter, or else it was a vision. But he decided to approach anyway. It was no vision, but a living, loving daughter, who flung herself into his arms, and rained kisses upon him. Her husband was with her. They had been rescued after a harrowing experience in an open boat at sea. They did not have a chance to ask the father's forgiveness. He humbled himself to them and diffidently asked them to accept his love. He realized that the tragedy was due to him and him alone, but determined that the lesson he had been taught would never be forgotten, and that he would do his duty to the men who risked their lives to bring him wealth and never count the cost when human lives were at stake.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsOlive ThomasHuntley GordonMarie CoverdaleFlotsam, the daughter of lighthouse keeper Amos Bart, uses her experience maneuvering in the perilous New England reefs to save Mrs. Elmer, who is vacationing with her son Edward and friends on their yacht, from drowning. Edward and Flotsam spend much time together and fall in love, but when he proposes, Amos' helper, the brutish Joey Clark, who wants Flotsam, reveals that years earlier Amos murdered Edward's father. Amos, who believes that he committed the crime while intoxicated, confesses that Flotsam is not his daughter, but that of a dying woman who brought her to his wife to raise. After he tells Flotsam to go with the Elmers, Edward's jealous former sweetheart tells her about the murder that Amos committed. Flotsam returns, followed by the yacht, and she and Edward see Clark taunt Amos by confessing that he murdered Edward's father. After Amos chases Clark up the lighthouse steps, their struggle causes the light to go out. Flotsam carries a flaming torch to save the yacht from dashing onto the rocks. She and Edward then plan to marry.
- DirectorFred NibloDorothy ArznerStarsRudolph ValentinoRosa RosanovaLeo WhiteA toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsMabel NormandTom MooreHelen DahlA cub reporter (Normand) is sent undercover to get a story, but falls for the man she is investigating.
- DirectorVan Dyke BrookeMaurice CostelloStarsMaurice CostelloVan Dyke BrookeClara Kimball YoungA doctor, whose theory is that crime is a disease, and should be treated as such, sees a young girl in the disguise of a Salvation Army lass, very successfully steal a watch, and decides to keep an eye on her. He follows her to a cheap restaurant, where he tells her that he saw her steal the watch. She gives it up to him and he returns it to the owner. She tells her uncle, with whom she lives, and who forces her to steal, that she is going to stop being a thief. He only laughs at her. The uncle finds an advertisement in the paper for a young housemaid, and tells the girl she must take the job, and that he and the young chap, whom the uncle has in his power, will come at night and ransack the house. The girl, after persuasion, does as she is bid and secures the position. This happens to be the house owned by the doctor. At midnight the girl comes to the drawing-room through which she is to admit her accomplice. The doctor comes in unexpectedly and has a good talk with the girl. When the two men enter, the doctor compels the uncle to make a confession and then lets him go. He tells the girl and the young man if they will swear to begin life anew in a distant country, he will give them money to redeem their past. He sees them start on their way.
- StarsMaurice CostelloAdele DeGardeWilliam R. DunnDelaying his return to guard duty, Stephen, an Austrian soldier, is anxiously watching by the bedside of his dying wife. He gets to his post in time to take the place of the retiring guard. While he keeps sentinel, his little girl comes to him to tell him that her mother is dying and is calling for him. A war within himself is waged betwixt love and duty. Love wins, and, though it means martial punishment, he leaves his post and runs to see his wife before she dies. He arrives just in time to bid her a last farewell, and while bowed down with sorrow a detachment of soldiers comes to his home and arrests him for breach of military discipline. He is tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. His little girl, who is now left in the care of a friend, loves her father dearly and constantly prays for his reprieve, and is determined to intercede in his behalf. Inspired with childlike faith that her father will be saved, she goes alone to the Grand Duke Otto and appeals to him for her father's pardon. The Grand Duke listens to her story about her dying mother calling for her father and how she went for him. The Duke is so touched by her simple and honest plea that he signs a pardon for her father and hands it to an officer to carry in haste to the place of execution, to which the soldiers are now taking the prisoner. Mounting a horse and lifting the little girl into the saddle, they ride at the top speed to where the death sentence is about to be carried out, just in time to stop it. The child, handing the pardon to the Captain, rushes into her father's arms, crying: "Papa, you are saved!" while he clasps her in his arms and weeps for joy.
- DirectorGeorge HoltStarsPete MorrisonJane TalentBert ApplingThe heroine thinks she is the daughter of a bandit, but instead she is the sheriff's daughter.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsRuth RolandCleo RidgelyMarin SaisA series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her unique talents can help to solve crimes. Each episode is complete in itself.
- DirectorJ.P. McGowanStarsFranklyn FarnumMarie WalcampJ.P. McGowanA Secret Service agent chasing a man who, it turns out, is the father of his sweetheart.
- DirectorWilliam WorthingtonStarsSessue HayakawaHelen Jerome EddyPauline CurleyThe renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts. Several months later, Bassett comes to Ashutor in India for help in eluding members of the Black Hand. Bassett became involved with them out of curiosity, and now they demand that he commit a murder. On a boat bound for Italy, Ashutor gives Bassett an injection to make him appear dead. In view of the Black Hand agents, François and Countess Petite Florence, a dummy is then buried at sea. In Scotland, after the agents overhear Ashutor tell the Erskines that Bassett is all right, Ashutor bribes François, who is then murdered by the countess. For his silence, Ashutor demands that Bassett be left alone. He then bids another farewell to Kate saying he will always love her.
- DirectorWilliam WorthingtonStarsSessue HayakawaMarin SaisHoward DaviesAfter his Japanese mother dies, a biracial young man travels to the United States to track down his American father.
- StarsJulia Swayne GordonHazel NeasonFlorence FoleyThe only child of wealthy parents, Ronald McCumber is obliged to entertain and amuse himself as best he can with his numerous toys, longing for the association of living presence of companionship. One day, while out with his parents, a strange stray dog, lame and hungry, comes up to little Ronald for sympathy, which he readily gives; a mutual feeling springs up between the two. When Ronald enters the automobile with his parents, the dog follows the fast-moving vehicle. He will not be separated from his new friend, and the boy takes him into his home and makes him his "fidus Achates"; they are inseparable. Ronald is taken sick. His case baffles the skill of the specialists, and Mr. and Mrs. McCumber are in despair. The only hope for his recovery is rest, but the fever and delirium make it impossible for him to secure it. Finally the doctor gives him a soporific. The parents and nurse are ordered from the room. "Jean," the dog, who has made several attempts to enter the room and watch his little master, has been ejected, but all being quiet, the dog makes another effort to get near the boy. The doctor, falling into a deep reverie, does not observe the faithful canine's entrance. The physician glances toward his young patient and beholds him sleeping peacefully and quietly, his arm around his dear old "Jean," whose head rests on his master's breast. Calling Mr. and Mrs. McCumber into the room, he cautions them to maintain quiet, pointing to the bed where they behold a picture which fills their hearts with joy. The doctor whispers that the crisis has passed and their boy will recover.
- DirectorMax de HaasStarsChris BaayThe adventures of a top hat, as it changes hands (or heads) and moves through various levels of society.
- The market places, military fortresses, and Hebrew quarter of the town are displayed in turn. One good scene showed native musicians practicing their art.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDorothy WestClara T. BracyHenry B. WalthallReliable authority states that nine million human lives were sacrificed through the zeal of fanatical reformers during the Christian epoch. Religious fanaticism was in most cases the cause, still there were many victimized to satisfy a personal grudge, and this Biograph subject shows how easily such a crime can be perpetrated. Play upon the minds of a superstitions people and you may lead them blindly to any end. In 1692 the agitation was so great in Salem, Mass., that many people lost their self-possession, some even believing themselves to be witches. On the other hand, a number of the inhabitants moved away fear of being accused of being witches. There are many relics of those days still in existence at Salem, and while conditions are such as to prevent our using the actual spots, yet many of the scenes of the picture are closely contiguous to them, our company of players making the trip there for the purpose. The story tells of the old mother and her child living on the sea coast, care free. The mother ekes a living telling fortunes and nursing the sick among the village folk. The girl we might term a child of the sea, as she spends most of her time among the wave-lashed rocks of the coast, scampering from jut to jut more resembling a sprite than a human. Off in the hills we find a trapper at the camp of Mohawk Indians, on his way to the sea, of which he had heard but never seen. A Mohawk brave volunteers to guide him to the great waters of the Atlantic leaving him there overwhelmed with awe at the grandeur of the spectacle. Here he meets the p pretty maiden and an attachment develops which later ripens into love, a betrothal resulting. As the girl reaches her home she is accosted by a hypocritical Puritan deacon, whose insulting advances she indignantly repulses. He in revenge goes to the other churchmen and accuses the girl and her mother of being witches. Proof sufficient to convince these narrow-minded fanatics is easy to obtain, for the fact of the old lady's care and curing the sick is known to all, hence they purposely construe her kindness to be witchcraft. The poor souls are seized and thrown into prison and later condemned by a prejudiced jury to be burned at the stake. As they are carried to the jail they are met by the trapper sweetheart, who learning of her pending danger, rushes off to enlist the aid of his Mohawk friends to rescue her from this awful fate. The mother is first to be made a victim and while she is suffering the injustice inflicted upon her the deacon visits the girl's cell and shows her from the window her mother's fate, with the hope of weakening her determination. She still repulses him and so is led forth to be victimized as was her mother. Meanwhile, her sweetheart has gotten his Mohawk friends and is rushing to the rescue, arriving just as the torch is put to the brushwood piled up around the girl. With a mad dash the Indians rush upon the scene, knocking down and scattering the fanatics and carrying the girl off before the Puritans realize what has taken place. In fact, it was done so quickly that some of the more superstitious thought she went up in smoke.
- DirectorMario CaseriniStarsVitale Di StefanoMario BonnardMary Cleo TarlariniThe Story of the gallant knight Sir Parsifal (Percival) of Arthur's Round Table and his quest to find the Holy Grail.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA man takes the blame for a maid who steals a necklace, but denounces her when she weds another.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA banker's daughter rejects a rich client who then withdraws money to cause a run on the bank.
- StarsAdoni FovieriWilliam HinckleyJoseph SingletonDavid, a fisherman, is happily married to Joan. His partner, Galeb, is envious of David and covets Joan. David and Galeb leave for a fishing cruise and Joan prepares for the great event which is her one great secret. That night a storm arises suddenly and after a long night of watching and praying, Joan sees several fishermen bringing a body toward her house. She rushes to meet them and discovers that it is Galeb. When Galeb becomes conscious, he tells her that everybody has been lost at sea and that he was the only one saved. After the little stranger arrives, Galeb pleads with Joan to become his wife. She refuses, but finally consents to marry him. for the sake of her child's future, provided David does not return within a year. Three years later, Galeb and Joan are married. Galeb is seated near the window reading, when he hears a knock. Looking out, he sees a stranger who resembles David, who beckons to him. He goes out to meet the stranger and discovers that he is David. Fearful that Joan will see David, Galeb leads him to the beach where David explains that he was rescued by a whaling vessel and could not return home earlier. Galeb tells David that Joan thinks him dead and that they are married. He demands that David go away. They argue and start a fight. Galeb attempts to stab David. David disarms him and is about to kill him when the child, who has been looking for her "Daddy," rushes in, calling to David not to "hurt her Daddy." David is stunned and Galeb taking advantage of the child's remark, asks David to go away for the sake of his child and Joan's. David consents to go. Joan, who has been looking for the child, overhears the lie and rushes toward Galeb, demanding to know whom he has been talking to. She forces Galeb to admit that it was David and taking the child from him, she runs after David, calling to him that Galeb has lied. David hears her and stops. She tells David that the child is his and asks him to return. Galeb sees that he has lost Joan and leaves, as David takes her and the child in his arms.
- DirectorIrvin WillatStarsHobart BosworthGrace DarmondLloyd HughesA widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships. When he refuses, they send a sexy young woman to seduce his son, and then blackmail the father into going along with their scheme.
- DirectorSimon BuisStarsKeli KadoeDiroe DokaJacobs
- DirectorMaurits BingerStarsAnnie BosLily BouwmeesterJan van DommelenThe secret from the title is the lost recipe for shiny Delft pottery, that Jan Vogel is desperately trying to rediscover. For his attempts he needs platinum, but the funds run out because the factory owner Van Haaften has lost his money in stock-speculations. Luckily for Jan, he finds a farewell letter in the park, including a large sum of money. Meanwhile, the owner's son Leo confesses his love for Jan's daughter Annie, but Van Haaften forbids their marriage. Because of Jan's nephew Willem Berg's ongoing spying attempts to gain knowledge of the secret recipe, Jan buys Van Haaften a gun to defend himself against the villain. One night, as Willem has secretly entered the factory, Van Haaften enters his office to find a letter from a friend with a sum of money, that is not nearly large enough to cover his losses. He writes a suicide note and shoots himself, after which Willem enters the office and steals the money and the note. When, on the following morning, Jan has finally succeeded in rediscovering the recipe and goes to show the result to Van Haaften, he finds him dead. With all circumstances against him, he is thrown in prison, but he manages to slip his daughter Lilly the just-discovered recipe. While Willem's attempts to gain hold of the recipe get more and more violent, Lilly tries to gather evidence of her father's innocence. When she has finally succeeded, she sends off a letter to her sister Annie, who by now is guarding the recipe. With the recipe she goes on her way to Lilly, but is chased by Willem...
- DirectorBud Fisher
- DirectorGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonEdna FisherArthur MackleyThe sheriff of Rattlesnake County, Nevada, has received a notification from the district attorney to post dodgers along the highways, announcing that the notorious outlaw and bad man, Broncho Billy, will be given his liberty and no prosecution of his crimes if he surrenders to the sheriff within seven days. It is a few days before Christmas, and after the sheriff has executed the order in regard to Broncho Billy, he goes to his home, where he finds his wife writing a letter to their daughter, who is at college. Christmas Day we see the young lady take the stagecoach for the long, but picturesque and pleasant ride over the mountains. Although Broncho Billy has found one of the notices, appraising him of the mercy that the law has offered him, he regards it with contempt, for on this very day he has made plans to waylay the stagecoach, knowing that on Christmas Day it must be loaded with rich booty. At the halfway house the stage pulls up for a minute to allow the driver and his partner to stop and wish the proprietor a Merry Christmas. The girl is left alone to watch the horses. When they are inside, a number of roistering cowboys come out from the inn, wildly shooting their guns, and the horses, becoming panic-stricken, break and run at full gallop down the turnpike. Broncho Billy is waiting for the stage and when it dashes by with its fair driver he realizes that the horses are running away. Forgetting his former criminal intentions, Broncho springs into his saddle, and starts in pursuit of the flying coach. After a long ride, he reaches it, springs from his horse to the driver's box and takes the reins from the girl's hands. He thus saves her life and the stage driver, and others now riding up, persuades him to go on with them and eat dinner at the girl's home, to which they, too, have been invited. The incident results in Broncho's complete redemption and he swears off outlawry for good.
- DirectorVan Dyke BrookeStarsJohn BunnyDolores CostelloCharles Michael EdwardsA poor young girl finds a purse and returns it to its owner, who decides to reward her honesty.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsGene Gauntier
- StarsRed WingJames Young DeerThe chief of the Sioux and the Cheyennes having fought a duel to the death, there is enmity between the tribes. In consequence, when the son of the Cheyenne chief woos a daughter of the Sioux he is taken prisoner by the men of the latter tribe and about to be killed. He is saved, however, by the girl's interference, but her chief's contempt for her soft-heartedness and desiring to settle the matter, ties her on the back of a wild horse and selecting two other horses gives one to the Cheyenne and one to a Sioux, telling them that the one who catches the maid wins her. A most exciting picture ensues that everyone will enjoy.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKathlyn WilliamsCharles ClaryColumbia EneutseakWhite Cloud, the war chief of the Seminoles of the Everglades, in the beginning of the last century, starts a war on the "whites," for the brutal and unprovoked murder of his brother. The first victim, Seth Thomas, a young settler, is killed, and Dora, his wife, becomes insane as she discovers the death of her husband and the loss of her two-year-old baby, carried away by the squaw of White Cloud. Dora has been left for dead by the Indians. Fifteen years elapse and Dora has been haunted by one idea, to kill every Seminole she could. She is called the "Witch of the Everglades," and is an object of superstitious terror to the Indians. Nellie, her baby girl, has been brought up by White Cloud, and is seventeen, when she saves Lieutenant Hardy of the regulars, who has been captured by the Indians. They fall in love and are rescued by a relief party of soldiers, who are led to the camp by Dora. She is wounded in the head, and the bullet restores her to reason, removing the pressure from the brain. Taken to the fort at Pensacola, she recognizes Nellie as her baby girl by the locket around her neck. White Cloud is seen standing at the finish of the story, looking off towards the land he has lost forever.