09 May 2007
Brand Upon the Brain!
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
The Drums of Jeopardy
The story centers around two small statuettes containing valuable emeralds, which are said to project a sinister influence on the possessor. The czar of Russia gives the statuettes to a grand duke, who, in turn, gives them to his secretary, John Hawksley. Hawksley sends them to America in a friend's possession and follows after.
Top Billed Cast
Elaine Hammerstein Dorothy Burrows
Jack Mulhall Jerome Hawksley
Wallace Beery Gregor Karlov
David Torrence Cutty
Maude George Olga Andrevich
Eric Mayne Banker Burrows
Forrest Seabury Stefani
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