The Conscience of John David (1916) tells the story of a wealthy spender who promises marriage to a "Worldly Woman" and plans a big announcement party. Their engagement is interrupted by another admirer, the "Libertine," and John David's life is disrupted by scandal and societal pressure, ultimately leading him to seek a more meaningful existence and a deeper love beyond superficial pleasures.

Russian Jews Nathan & Esther Levinsky, along with son, David, escape to the U.S. Nathan’s life as a ...

The Woman Pays is a 1914 silent film that follows the story of an "innocent society woman" who finds...
The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One fri...
At her dying mother's bedside, Kate promises to bring her young brother into manhood. Eager to gain ...

When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consort...

Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack...

Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the pla...

This tells of a pretty miss, expelled from a girls' school, who goes in for a harmless adventure. Sh...

Badger, a clerk at a Wall Street brokerage, discovers that his boss Gideon Bloodgood has swindled an...
Tom Larnigan, encouraged by his victory over the Textile Trust, turns his attention to the Railroad ...
The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney fi...
Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weis...

Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a ...

Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness h...

Lorenzo Carilo selects more-or-less menial jobs at which to make a living, other more "select" jobs ...
Single-camera theater production of Trilby performed live and broadcast on the BBC. Intended to evok...
Jim's mother has a deep desire to make a trip back East. Lacking the funds to make this happen, Jim ...

George Dryden, an atheist since he saw his mother struck and killed by lightning as a kid, becomes a...

Vesta Wheatley is the daughter of a Virginia physician; John Randolph is a New Yorker who buys a tra...

Infamous Singapore smuggler Bully Brand possess a beautiful pearl necklace that is desired by Chines...