The Crucial Test (1916)
• July 3rd, 1916 • 0h 50min
Drama
Overview
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya's revolutionary brother Boris tells her that he plans to kill Bagroff, she agrees to help. The plan fails and Boris and Thanya are captured, but they soon escape to Paris where Thanya rejoins the struggling Vance. Bagroff finds Thanya and tells her that he will make Vance famous if she consents to be his mistress. Thanya agrees and Vance becomes an overnight success. Then, as Bagroff and Thanya prepare to spend their first night together, Boris appears and kills the duke, thereby allowing Thanya and Vance to spend a peaceful, successful life together.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Road to London
Released on: 1921-11-01
Drama
An American millionaire visiting London falls in love with a young aristocrat and elopes with her, p...
The Square Root
Released on: 1969-01-01
Drama
Photographer Peter Christiansen, University of Miami student, does a picture story at an LSD party o...
April Showers
Released on: 1923-10-21
Drama, Romance
Danny O'Rourke is the son of a police officer who was killed in the line of duty. Eager to join the ...
Billie
Released on: 1912-05-07
Drama, Romance
Billie is the "little mother" of the family and cares for the two smaller children. Her father has f...
Not So Long Ago
Released on: 1925-09-07
Drama
Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th...
Scandalous Tongues
Released on: 1922-10-22
Drama
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through edu...
What Money Can't Buy
Released on: 1917-07-16
Drama
Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor...
The Fast Express
Released on: 1924-03-10
Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
15 chapter adventure serial: 1. Facing the Crisis 2. Vanishing Diamonds 3. Woman of Mystery 4. Haunt...
Women They Talk About
Released on: 1928-08-10
Drama, Comedy
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequenc...
Larceny
Released on: 1996-07-14
Crime, Drama
A man breaks into a flat, startling the occupant. They argue about the new girlfriend of the 'burgla...
Hell's Four Hundred
Released on: 1926-03-14
Drama, Crime
A chorus girl breaks a deal with her boss by marrying the rich man she was supposed to ruin.
The World and His Wife
Released on: 1920-07-18
Drama
Elderly Spanish nobleman Don Julian is happily married to Teodora, a beautiful young girl, when his ...
The Queen of Hearts
Released on: 1918-09-15
Drama, Mystery
Pauline Cheraud risks her reputation to expose the man who killed her father.
The Glory of Yolanda
Released on: 1917-01-20
Drama, Romance
A Russian peasant girl becomes a member of the Imperial Ballet.
Words and Music by -
Released on: 1919-05-18
Drama
Impresario Thomas Sullivan arrives in Ossawatomie, Kansas, to debut a new musical show written by lo...
Anna Karenina
Released on: 1915-03-31
Drama, Romance
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
The Boy in Blue
Released on: 1919-07-01
Drama
A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive
Florence Nightingale
Released on: 1915-03-05
Drama, History
The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during t...