Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and eventually falls in love with her. Her father, Judge Whipple, doesn't like it; he has Jimmy arrested and allows him to see Sally only once a week. Meanwhile, disreputable businessman Van Alten is after Sally, and tries to pressure her into marrying him by threatening to release letters he says will embarrass her father.

This is a silent film from China made in 1931. It is about two leads in a film, Yan (Raymond King) a...

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse...

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When sh...

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and live...

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch,...

Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences ...

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a...

Overwhelmed by personal and professional problems, biologist Friedrich von Kammacher decides to trav...

In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes p...

In order to save her extravagant mother from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, young society girl Mildr...

Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but ...

When an industrious cigar manufacturer, Sam Weinberg, falls into bad health, his daughter Ruth uses ...

An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.

Influenced by California Pictorialist photography of the preceding decades, it was in its own day re...

The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack,...

One night Toni forces Rose to reveal where in his house Bergern keeps his money. As Toni is robbing ...

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father...

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire w...

Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...