Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who had more or less single-handedly begun the "vamp" craze with the prototype of the genre, A Fool There Was, went out with little more than a whisper. She left films after the ironically titled The Lure of Ambition, and was lured back only twice, in: The Unchastened Woman (1925), a poverty row concoction which had few takers, and Madame Mystery (1926)

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Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for...

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Silent feature film by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Vladimir Gardin based on Pushkin’s story of the sam...

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A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fi...

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Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jac...
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A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is consid...

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Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement reg...