Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to smoking opium or in slang parlance “hop.” To keep her secret, she willingly pays the blackmail her maid extorts from her having learned of Lydia’s habit through her own fiancée who is part of the ring importing the devil’s brew. Something unknown to all is that the operation is run by Lydia’s father an important politician in the city where this all occurs. As her husband’s investigation tightens the noose on the organization Lydia faces a crisis.
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide t...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...
Vera, a woman of questionable character places a wager that she will be able to destroy a happy marr...
Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society gir...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
Secretly engaged to Bernice, Albert becomes infatuated with the gypsy Mina. The rich and jealous Ren...
While touring Algiers, Mrs. Osborne and her daughter, Winnifred, make the acquaintance of Schuyler V...
A British beachcomber who lives on a Dutch colonial island in the South Seas. He is banished after m...
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious f...
The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister.
A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters ...
Hunter Ross deserts his wife and child and she is driven to the extremes of poverty, being obliged i...
Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan t...
Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain mai...
A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin...
Fred Hart, a young businessman, unknown to his wife, draws their savings from the bank with the purp...
Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, cons...
Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few we...