A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.

The old nunnery owns the best lands. Nuns rent out the land to local rich men, and exploiting peasan...
The Callbox Mystery (1932) is a British quota quickie crime film about a detective investigating mur...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

Leaving her small town home and coming to New York to study voice, Marian Lane soon falls in love wi...

Debutante Hope Merrill returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill on the verge o...

When his opponent is killed after a duel over the honor of Virginia belle Judith Fairfax John Valian...

The brute is a gambler, boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman. She is force...

A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive

A three-part historical film: the first episode takes place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on...

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequenc...
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese ...

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h...

A psychological study of the effects of drug addiction on humanity. Helene Ford has been injected wi...
A princess avoids a forced marriage by changing places with her double.

Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have t...

A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. T...
Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself on...