Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves only her pearls. Her husband, the Prince (E.F. Roseman), sells state secrets to a spy to pay her exorbitant bills, and her response is to report him to the secret police. Then she runs off to Monte Carlo with her lover, Count Zerstoff (Emil deVarney), but she poisons him after he racks up a load of gambling losses.
Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vi...
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two...
Pierre, the maitre d' at the swanky Ritz Hotel in Paris, discovers that he has a son from his former...
A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don...
A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Picture...
A man drowns himself in lake. As he is dying, he recalls the crucial moments of his life and the inc...
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jac...
Heiress Sybil Drew is told by her Aunt Annabelle she must earn her own living for a year or be disin...
At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pisto...
Unable to pay for her passage upon setting sail to the tropics to meet her mail-order husband, Dorot...
A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she...
Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following...
The Closed Chain (German: Die geschlossene Kette) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Paul L. S...
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious f...
Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scr...
Mary marries Claude, a rich playboy, to please her invalid mother who becomes ill before they leave ...
Sequel to von Stroheim's The Wedding March released only in Europe. The only known copy was destroye...
Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who...