
19 Jan 1918

Face Value
A runaway becomes a thief and is sentenced to a reformatory.
A dramatic portrayal of the astounding story of a woman who unknowingly married the man who had wronged her. A marriage for convenience not for love.
Barbara Rand is blinded when she leaps through a window to escape an assailant. Her sister, Natalie, reluctantly abandons her fiancé, Ned Gardiner, and marries Oliver Landis, who can provide the money needed for Barbara's operation. Unaware that Oliver was Barbara's attacker, Natalie blames his business partner, Howard Pollard, who was with Barbara on the night she was injured. Natalie holds Howard at gunpoint, but when her husband arrives, he promises to deal with the villain making sure Howard falls to his death. Upon Barbara’s release from the hospital, Oliver tries to blind her once. Natalie threatens him with a pistol, but Oliver wrests it away from her. He then realizes that he can no longer hide his guilt from Natalie or the police and shoots himself. Barbara has been avenged, and Natalie is free to marry Ned.
Natalie Rand
Barbara Rand
Oliver Landis
Ned Gardiner
Lazzare
Howard Pollard
Mrs. Raleigh Rand
Mrs. Daniel Chester
Dick Stanton
Negro Servant
19 Jan 1918
A runaway becomes a thief and is sentenced to a reformatory.
23 Dec 1918
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01 Sep 1920
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An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
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