During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
Charley Briggs
Sylvia Briggs
Mrs. Briggs
Sheila Briggs
Ronnie Perch
Alice
Mr. Sand
Jerry Tulse
John Smith
George Downing
Mrs. Brokenshaw
Bob Briggs
30 Dec 1917
The wanton dancer Thais, tries to entice Paphnutius from becoming a monk but fails. He later returns to reclaim her soul and follow in his footsteps. They attempt to live lives of simplicity, but the pull of worldliness is too strong.
01 Jan 1925
A lonely wife becomes obsessed with furs and keeps bad company in an effort to obtain more.
02 Jan 1912
King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. He appeals to Cardinal Wolsey to set aside the tenets of the Church and consent to his divorce from the Queen. The cardinal absolutely refuses to do anything so inimical to his office, as representative of the Holy See. Angered King Henry induces the Archbishop of Canterbury to call a special council through which he divorces himself from Queen Catherine. In punishment for his refusal to accede to the king's wishes, the cardinal is exiled to Leicester Abbey where he dies three days afterward, conscious that he had sustained the sacredness of his office, a martyr to his faith and of service to his king.
25 Jul 1932
A concert pianist loses his hearing but finds a new sense of purpose by helping others. A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer.
06 Dec 1915
Robert Denman, a manager at a construction company, loses everything he has to the throws of alcoholism.
18 Feb 1923
Despondent over the infidelity of his wife, William McCabe wanders on the waterfront considering suicide, but instead he saves the life of Shark Moran. Moran gives McCabe a job on his lightship, where McCabe enjoys the solitude and falls in love with Ann Reynolds, the daughter of the captain of the supply ship.
31 Mar 1911
Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets Kathleen Holt, a nurse, he falls in love and asks her to marry him. She promises to do so if he can give up drinking for one year.
19 May 1919
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
03 Oct 1927
A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.
15 Oct 1927
Silent romantic drama starring Patsy Ruth Miller who suffers along with her beloved after he loses his sight during WWI.
01 Oct 1926
Mary Young is a young wife who wants beautiful clothes. Her friend Enid invites her to shop at Madame Francine's, where she meets the Countess de Fragni, an artist, and Mr. Norris, an elderly roué and he invites her to a poker game. She wins and buys an expensive fur coat with the money but tells her husband she won it with a pawn ticket.
06 Apr 1919
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
26 Dec 1911
When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solicitous about the younger brother and enjoins the older boy to care for and defend him at all hazards. The English army is transported lo the Soudan and is now encamped in the midst of the activities of the campaign.
01 May 1924
A newly divorced woman falls in love with an artist and a hypnotist at the same time.
01 Sep 1921
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
15 Apr 1928
The Scarlet Dove is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Gregor and starring Lowell Sherman, Robert Frazer, and Josephine Borio.
30 Jan 1921
Loey Tsing, the first love of Chan Wang, is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan marries another, he still loves Loey; only the birth of a son relieves his unhappiness. He adores little Chan Toy even though he finds nothing to like about his wife.
21 Nov 1926
The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds while intoxicated; and after spending his last penny on a dancer, he contemplates suicide but is persuaded to enlist in the Foreign Legion. Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
01 Feb 1925
A Lord objects to his son's love for a bastard until a society doctor is revealed as her father.
11 Apr 1927
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.