01 Dec 1916
Ignorance
Silent crime drama about the dangers of the title situation.
Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal.
John Gillespie
Eleanor
Simmonds
Aunt Mary
Miss Barton
Wotherspoone
Minting
Hobday
Julian Thorpe
Coroner
Detective
Bit Part (uncredited)
Miss Bloxham
Detective
01 Dec 1916
Silent crime drama about the dangers of the title situation.
06 Nov 1914
A gentleman burglar is a detective, which acts as a shield to his more shady pastime.
01 Mar 1920
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns have mysteriously died. Silas' grandson Robert, whom Katherine loves, comes to visit the next day, suffering from amnesia.
30 Oct 1922
A young woman agrees to marry the son of a well-known man in order to get a chance to take revenge on her new father-in-law, who she believes framed her own father who is now in prison.
14 Sep 1928
In order to support her sister and her sister's small child, Mary Tracy leads a double life: by day, she works as a schoolteacher; nights, she dances in a cabaret show. Mary becomes interested in Bill Adams, whose mother is prominent in an anti-vice crusade, and therefore attempts to quit her job in the cabaret. Al Morton, the club's owner, holds her to her contract, however, and Mary is caught up in a police raid on the cabaret. The club is shut down, and Mary is fired from her teaching post. Morton threatens to expose Bill (who is running a crime syndicate with money embezzled from his father's bank), and Bill sets out to take Morton for a ride. Finally realizing that she has fallen in love with Morton, Mary calls the cops and saves him from certain death. Bill is arrested, and Mary and Morton decide to get married.
10 Aug 1933
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
01 Nov 1920
An actress poses as an heiress who died, and dies fighting blackmailing detectives in a burning house.
25 Mar 1923
The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at the residence of a pair of avowed women hating bachelors.
10 Jan 1922
An idealistic sea captain, Dick Carson (Conway Tearle), is wounded by revenue officers while smuggling arms to a South American country. He finds aid and refuge at the home of Dr. Jordan (J. Barney Sherry) whose young wife, Dorothy (Doris Kenyon), is being courted by Andrews (Crauford Kent), who kills the doctor in a quarrel. To avoid the revenue officers, Carson takes them aboard his ship and sets sail for the Far East. He and Dorothy fall in love but, first, he must deal with a mutiny on his ship.
14 Oct 1920
A vengeful antique dealer targets a dancer.
15 Sep 1918
A murderer is driven slowly insane by a sequence of coincidences and suggestive events which will not allow him to escape his own sense of guilt for his crime.
31 Mar 1913
No overview found
01 Aug 1939
The crusading Dr. Kent tries to convince the district attorney to clean up the local abortion racket and help open a birth control clinic. But when Kent is dismissed from the hospital, the troubles actually begin.
01 Feb 1920
Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.
14 Mar 1926
A chorus girl breaks a deal with her boss by marrying the rich man she was supposed to ruin.
15 Dec 1918
A girl from Paris' underworld fights for love and survival during a time of international turmoil.
23 Mar 1928
Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Curly, who has been stealing jewelry from the rich and famous. Collins tricks the other crooks into turning the gems over to him, intending to use them for his own profit. But sweet heroine Sunshine eventually persuades Collins and his cohorts to turn honest. Considered a lost film.
04 Jan 1930
Young Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
02 May 1920
Doris Moore is a country girl who is conned by two crooks, Harry Leland and Pop Clark. They convince the naive girl to come with them to New York City and play the badger game on William Lake. But the intervention of Kate Fallon, who runs the gang's New York home, saves the innocent and traps the guilty. Instead of tricking Lake, Doris marries him.
02 Dec 1923
Allayne Norman's husband Bruce is a gambler and drunkard who kills her artist cousin in an argument. Bruce flees the studio with Allayne and their son, and places his identifying documents in the pockets of an amnesiac man. To avoid the consequences of his actions, Allayne identifies the man as her husband. When Bruce returns, he tries to kill the man but is shot instead. The man regains his memory and is cleared of wrongdoing.