The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.

Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and so...
The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtabl...

Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Romani Russian, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's ...

The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treat...

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peak...

Buddy Roosevelt, a notorious bandit known as the "Phantom," and his doppelgänger, drifter Jeff McClo...

Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in...

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years ...

In this short National Safety Council film, the perfect crime is presented as excess speed. Accident...

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woma...

During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the...

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago ...

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated ...

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but c...

A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find t...

A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie f...

Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Nevill...
The 27 minute precursor to "Heavy" (1995) made under the mentorship of Miloš Forman, Mangold very fo...

An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.