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- The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
- Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
- A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
- Cyrano de Bergerac is a joyous and witty poet filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th-century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman.
- A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
- A young woman who believes a recluse millionaire has kidnapped and for eighteen years has held prisoner another young woman, tries to prove her suspicion by searching the millionaire's estate. Her quest leads her into numerous hazardous adventures and into a romance with a young officer of state troops. During the hunt several persons are killed by a mysterious archer, whose identity is learned when the millionaire's castle is finally besieged. The girl's romance leads to her marriage with the troop officer.
- George Melies's second adaption of the classical fairy-tale, from 1912.
- Little Gerta, when her mother dies. is brought to her father, Carl Von Seydling, a government official, who deserted his wife and child a few years before. Councilor Van Seydling found the child's presence in his household to be cumbersome and for that reason turned her over to one Sarah Anderson, a nurse. Although Van Seydling did not know it, the Anderson woman was a notorious fagin. She promptly sold Gerta to a beggar, who taught her to beg and to steal. One of her begging trips brings Gerta to the attention of a young man named Alm Stoddard, He becomes interested in the pretty child and upon learning her story is horrified. The police are notified. They arrest her supposed father, but Sarah Anderson escapes. Little Gerta is adopted by Alm's mother and grows to be a beautiful young woman. Alm falls in love with her, but Gerta has lost her heart to the dashing Lieutenant Wiles. Through Alm's efforts the character of this man is shown to Gerta, and thus she is warned in time. Lieutenant Wiles challenges Alm to a duel and in the encounter Alm is wounded slightly. Gerta, frightened by the trouble she has caused, disappears, leaving a note begging the Stoddards to forgive her seeming ingratitude. Some years later a grand opera star, Mlle. Hauser, has taken the public by storm. Among her admirers is Alm Stoddard, although he is too fainthearted to write to her or tell her that he knows her to be little Gerta. She, from behind the footlights, has recognized him but, fearing he has not forgiven her, makes no sign of recognition. Another man, in constant attendance at the opera, is Councilor Van Seydling, who has long since believed his daughter dead. By a strange coincidence Sarah Anderson is employed as Gerta's maid. She has not reformed any and when she steals Mlle, Hauser's handbag she extracts a picture of a very little girl. Looking at the picture Sarah suddenly realizes that Mlle. Hauser is none other than little Gerta. That evening the audience is assembled when a fire breaks out. In the panic that follows Alm is the only one who remembers Gerta. At the risk of his life he brings the unconscious girl out of danger. At the corner drug store Sarah Anderson, mortally injured, is dying. She bares the story of her life and among the listeners is Councilor Von Seydling. The memory of his misdeeds strikes terror to his heart. Van Seydling hurries out and, finding his daughter in the arms of Alm, begs her to forgive him. The girl is mystified, but a little explaining clears the situation. Following custom, Alm asks her father for her hand. Von Seydling asks Gerta to decide and she, clinging to Alm, smiles her contentment.
- A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the Egyptian embalmer done his work that the face is perfect in all its beauty, and the susceptible young man falls deeply in love with this belle of old Egypt, takes the mummy home to his estate in England and there it occupies his whole mind, to the exclusion of all else. Even the proposed visit of a beautiful American girl does not arouse his interest. In his sleeping moments he dreams that his mummy is alive and that he also is a subject of the Pharaohs. The mummy so works on his mind that he is losing his reason, but it is ultimately saved by the appearance of the American girl, who so resembles the mummy that she seems to be its reincarnation.
- The assistant foreman of the San Francisco Chronicle press-room, Tom MacDonald is passed over for the post of foreman in favor of a younger man. He gains satisfaction, though, when his son, Ray, obtains a good job in the district attorney's office. Reporter Clarence Walker, in love with MacDonald's daughter, Polly, is sent to obtain evidence against notorious bootlegger Sam Blotz, who is protected by Assistant District Attorney Gerald Fuller. Blotz and Fuller frame Ray to put Walker off their track. Although his conscience bothers him, Walker reports the story in time for the last edition. MacDonald attempts to stop the presses, and when Blotz's henchman, "Red" Moran, blows up the building, MacDonald is blamed and put in jail with his son. Walker eventually uncovers evidence exonerating the father and son, MacDonald is made foreman, and a new newspaper plant is built.
- Another fine travelogue which carries the spectator through the quaint streets of this town on the edge of the earth. The people present a novel and interesting appearance in their daily labors, amusements and recreations. Few can see this picture and not come away with greater knowledge of the world and its inhabitants than they did before.
- Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcomes him. Next our friend mistakes a bear's ears for a butterfly, and tries to net them, with the result that soon he is up a tree only a breath or two in advance of the bear. Things look very dark for him, especially as the bear energetically tries to shake the colonel from his perch like a ripe apple, but again his resourcefulness finds a victory. As a final grand windup he makes the biggest bag of game, all at one shot that anyone ever secured under similar circumstances.
- Max is invited to a dinner party. On his way he stops at the baker's to secure a few choice confections, and while there steps on a piece of sticky fly-paper. With great solicitude the baker asks Max to sit down while he removes the offending bit of paper. This Max does, but unfortunately deposits himself upon a similar piece of paper which is on the chair. This, too, is removed by the now excited baker, but Max manages to carry off with him a nice large sticky piece fastened on his sleeve. This he discovers at his sweetheart's home and in endeavoring to remove it, he gets it fastened to both hands and both feet. Nobody but a contortionist could ever get rid of those terrible pieces of paper, and to add to Max's misery, when he gets to the table he finds that having picked up his fork he cannot get loose of it. His glass, too, sticks to his hands and when his future father-in-law passes him a platter, Max cannot let loose and the entire party gets embroiled over who shall have the platter.
- An old violinist is possessed of an instrument which is the dearest thing to his heart, except his little grandson. His daughter and her husband find the care of the old man a burden and believe that he has some money concealed somewhere in the house. They make a careful search, sometimes using the poor old man roughly, but have failed to find the hiding place. In such an atmosphere a man with a nature like his could not survive. After his death, the violin, the only memento left of the old man, is carefully cherished by his daughter and the old man's grandson. Subsequently the husband dies and the mother and the child are left in want. The boy, who has been taught to play upon the violin by his grandfather, goes out into the world to seek his fortune with the instrument, but almost immediately the violin is torn from his grasp and run over by a passing motor car. In picking up the fragments, the boy discovers the hiding place of the old man's wealth,
- A fisherman suspects his wife of infidelity but is mistaken.
- A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
- A reporter exposes his fiancée's father as a rubber swindler but wins her back after losing his sight.
- As a reporter, Dick Farrington is sent to cover an assignment that promises a big story. A lawyer has advertised for an ex-Marine who is a boxer. He makes good beating up a gang of roughnecks picked for the purpose, and secures the mysterious job that is filled with danger. It is to guard the heiress Lady Chatfield, but the hero is told nothing as to the secret in back of it all. Dick poses as Lord Grantmore, wears a monocle, and otherwise acts like a titled Englishman. They proceed to the mining town of Goldbrook, where the heiress is to occupy a mysterious mansion on the occupancy of which hinges a great fortune. The engineer of the mines is deeply interested in thwarting the plans of Lady Chatfield, and with his gang of roughneck miners makes things lively for the pugilist star in a series of fights that are hair raisers.
- Colonel Heeza Liar goes to Africa hoping to outdo Teddy Roosevelt; there he encounters various jungle animals.
- After a vain search for fortune in the depths of the earth, a prospector comes upon an Indian arrowmaker, who is about to conceal a quantity of gold which he has mined. The temptation is too great for the unlucky prospector and he follows the arrowmaker to a cave, kills him, and starts across the Colorado desert with the ill-gotten gold. The arrowmaker's daughter finds her father's body and a clue to the murderer. She takes up the trail and in turn is followed by her Indian lover, who assumes that she is in love with the white man. The prospector and the girl are soon in agony because of a lack of water, but little by little the girl overtakes him, and, exhausted, they can go no farther. The Indian, with a supply of water, arrives in time to resuscitate the girl. The murderer proffers them the gold for a sip of water, but the offer is spurned, and together they watch him die.
- In Mexico, two men conspire to compel a young woman to marry the man of their choice to satisfy their financial needs. An American mining engineer, who is an excellent gunfighter, wins the girl's love by saving her and her brother from the machinations of the two men.
- La Rue, a notorious smuggler, kidnaps Helen Bentley, whom Jim Adams saves from a "torture den" until the arrival of customs authorities.
- A young man who believes, because everyone else believes, that he is a half-breed Indian, meets and falls in love with a circus woman who is heiress to a fortune but does not know it. The man's love is reciprocated, but he is restrained by the supposed barrier of blood. His greatest enemy is his own half brother, who also is a suitor for the hand of the circus performer. The hero avoids all the traps his enemy lays for him, and when his and his sweetheart's identities are cleared up the two are married.
- A fisher maid named Betty on the rock shore one day meets Jack Dubois, a revenue officer. They part to meet that evening at the same place. Sam Wilson and his band of beachcombers change the government beacon fire, used to guide vessels safely past the rocks. Betty reaches the scene as they have finished their work. She is immediately taken prisoner and carried off to their rendezvous. Dubois, arriving a few moments later, is searching for Betty when he discovers the misplaced light. He connects the transposed light with the disappearance of Betty, and gathering his comrades he sets out to find Betty. He does not find her until the pirates are prepared for the final rush upon the hut in which Sam Wilson, now violently in love, is guarding Betty. In payment for his kindness Betty hides Sam from her lover, and all of Wilson's hopeless love is vented in a passionate kiss of her hand.
- Joe Regan, a kindly traffic cop, comes home with presents for Jerry Murphy, his young ward, and discovers that the boy has been hit by a car. The doctors advise a sea cure, and Joe takes Jerry to a seaside resort, where they meet Alicia Davidson. Joe falls in love with the girl, but her mother opposes the romance, disapproving of Joe's low social station. Joe later saves the entire Davidson family from certain death when the brakes of their car fail on a mountain road, and Mrs. Davidson then gives her grateful consent to a match between Joe and Alicia.
- A young lieutenant falls in love with a circus rider. He leave the military and take a job at the circus. He quickly becomes the crowds favorite. His interest in another woman drives the rejected circus rider to revenge.
- A steel worker is told by his girl friend, that she only wants to marry a rich man. A foreign spy hears this and offers him money if he gives him the formula of the new steel he's working with.
- Since the Colonel's trip to Africa he has wonderfully developed his muscles and gives a remarkable exhibition of his strength. Reading of the troubles in Mexico he decided to sail thither, stop the war and make himself emperor. So he embarks on an ocean greyhound superbly confident in himself. But misfortune pursues him. His vessel is wrecked and the gallant Colonel finds himself adrift upon the raging main astride of a spar and with the mighty waves threatening to tear him from his perch. Finally the sea becomes calm and our hero drifts on, hungry and thirsty. He sees a bottle floating near him and thinks to have a drink, but the bottle contains nothing but a paper containing a few lines of writing from another wrecked mariner and that is all. A mighty whale then engulfs him in his yawning maw and carries him to a tiny island, where he throws him up on the land. Our hero finds to his great delight a fine cocoanut palm growing there and refreshes himself with food and drink from one of the nuts. Then he lays himself down to sleep content. But he is not destined to be left in peace. He is kidnapped by a stork, which flies with him to Mexico, where he meets with further surprising adventures.
- Red Shield, a Cheyenne, is madly enamored with the daughter of a Sioux chief, which love is reciprocated by her. But the Sioux and Cheyennes were ever bitter enemies and a marriage between them is not to be thought of, so when he offers ponies and fur robes for the hand of the maid he is promptly refused by her father, who informs him that at no price can he marry his daughter. Big Bear Claw, himself a Sioux chief, is the successful suitor for the girl's hand, and she is then given to him. Red Shield, however, follows on their trail, and on a dark night quietly awakes her and together they fly. Big Bear Claw and his braves soon take up the pursuit, and when Red Shield and the squaw take to the river in their canoe they soon follow in their fleet of canoes. After a long chase downstream they are unable to catch up, but when Red Shield takes again to land he is hindered by the girl, who is becoming fatigued, and is soon overtaken. Big Bear Claw, wishing to be generous to the girl, offers Red Shield that they fight for her, and after a long knife and wrestling fight Red Shield is victorious, and taking the squaw in his canoe sets out with her for the home of his people.
- A landlady advertises for a husband and her lodger replies.
- Johnnie Gains, son of a farming couple, is industrious and imbued with a spirit of sacrifice. Rejected for military service because of an eye injury, he enlists in the Salvation Army. His indolent brother marries but is goaded into enlisting and dies on the battlefield. The parents are evicted from their home by the dead son's widow, but Johnnie returns and restores the homestead to them.
- The story is set in Southern California during the Mexican regime. Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that Mendozza, his father's secretary, has seized power. The coup arouses the anger of the revolutionary faction, which forms an alliance with Don Marcello. Mendozza is driven out and the governor is reinstated.
- Bored with his daily routine, Breckenridge Gamble accepts a secret mission from some oil magnates to deliver a message to President Losada of the South American Republic of Centralia. Upon his arrival, Gamble learns from Angela, the president's daughter, that her father has been imprisoned by Cortez, the leader of the revolutionaries. Gamble also is imprisoned but frees all the prisoners as well as himself by impersonating the prison comandante. After forming an army, Gamble delivers the message--a large money draft sufficient to pay the army and secure President Losada's government--and is rewarded with Angela's love.
- Robert Rogers is heavily in debt as a result of gambling. He gets word from one of his cronies that there is a way out if he would consult Phony Bill. He does so and gives Phony Bill a note for a sum of money if he will supply him with a sum of counterfeit money. The arrangement is made and carried out but Phony Bill refuses to give up the note. Rogers takes from the vault of the bank in which he is employed some good money substituting the bad. The cashier is accused of the theft and sent to prison for a long term of years, leaving to the mercies of the world a wife and infant daughter. Some twenty years later. Stephen Rogers, son of the original crook, whom his father has left wealthy, employs as a stenographer, Ethel Hartley, the cashier's daughter. Not suspecting who she is, he takes her to his country home to do some special work for him. While she is there he makes advances to her but is repulsed. He finds some of her correspondence and learns for the first time who she really is. She runs away and finds a home with one of Rogers' tenants, but Rogers drives her away from there. Driven to desperation she tries to commit suicide, but is rescued by Chester Thorne, who, on learning part of her story, places her in the care of his mother. While she is there he falls desperately in love with her. Rogers happens to be passing one day and sees the couple. He goes home and decides to tell her lover her history. One day an old tramp is passing and Ethel brings him in and feeds him. On her recommendation Chester gives him a job on the place. When Rogers calls to make his exposure, the tramp, who is the long-forgotten Phony Bill, produces the note and proves that Ethel's father was innocent and that in reality Rogers' father was the guilty one.
- The play, which is carefully treated, gives a sharply incised picture of Stephen. He is represented as traveling to Jerusalem, at the bidding of Peter, to preach there in the streets But freedom of speech is not permitted in Jerusalem, and Stephen is soon arraigned before the judges of the city to answer a charge of contravention of one of the Jewish laws. He has succored an ailing man, it is declared by the hypocritical Pharisees, on the Sabbath. The crime is less to them than the newcomer's teaching, but it is sufficient for the preacher's condemnation, and he is given to the people, who. influenced by the impassioned words of their leaders, shriek out their hatred of him. He is dragged by the populace beyond the precincts of the city, and there, without one friendly word to sound in his ears as he passes over the borderland of life, he suffers the supreme martyrdom. He is stoned to death by the howling, infuriated mob, who, as they crash the life out of him, have no pity nor admiration for a man who could not only die alone, but who could do the braver thing of living and working alone.
- In the days of King Ahasueras, who reigned over all the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a feast was given to show the riches of his kingdom. Thinking to display the great beauty of his queen, Vashti, the king commanded her to appear before him. But Vashti refused to obey the king's command, which greatly angered him. The wise men of the kingdom counseled the king that he should punish the queen for her disobedience lest all the wives should rebel against the will of their husbands. So it was decreed that Vashti should no longer be queen. Then the officers of the king gathered together the young girls of the kingdom so that he might choose a new queen. Now. there was a certain Jew named Mordecai in the palace and he had brought up Esther, the daughter of his uncle. And when the king beheld her, he was well pleased and chose her from among all the rest to be queen instead of Vashti. But Mordecai charged her not to reveal that she was a Jewess. And it chanced that one day Mordecai learned of a plot against the king's life, and this he told to Esther, who informed the king. The plotters were hanged and Mordecai' s name was written in the king's book of chronicles. There was in the kingdom a prince, Haman, who was held in high esteem by the king. And all the king's servants reverenced Haman, but Mordecai would not bow before him. Then was Haman angered against him and he induced the king to order the destruction of all the Jews. When Mordecai learned of this he sent word to Esther, beseeching her to influence the king in behalf of the Jews, her people. But there was a law in the land forbidding anyone to go before Ahasueras unless ordered to do so, and Esther feared the wrath of the king. However, Mordecai persuaded her and she appeared before the king and was received by him. Esther invited the king and Haman to a banquet the next day. Haman was much pleased to be thus honored. When he beheld Mordecai at the king's gate, he ordered gallows to be erected that the Jew might be hanged thereon. But the king desired to honor Mordecai for his deed in warning him of the plot to murder him, and asked Haman how he might reward a faithful servant. Haman, thinking that the king wished to honor him, suggested great honors. When he learned that it was Mordecai who was to be rewarded. Haman was in great fear lest the king should hear of his intention to hang Mordecai, who was then arrayed in the king's apparel and the royal crown was placed upon his head. Then Haman led Mordecai through the streets of the city, proclaiming that the king thus honored the Jew. On the next day, when the king attended the banquet, Esther told him that she was one of the Jews and that Haman had sought to destroy all of her people. Then was the king angered against Haman and ordered him to be hanged on the gallows, whereon he had sought to hang Mordecai. Mordecai was then given the house and lands of Haman and was made a great man in the kingdom. And so also was Esther greatly honored and peace was declared unto all her people.
- Detectives unmask a blackmailer.
- Herbert Landis, who secretly loves Anne Travers, is sent by her father to supervise construction of a bridge in Oregon. Anne insists that society man Hilary Fenton join the party, and as a result Landis broods in his cabin, which he shares with his foreman Ole Bergson. Ole, who claims to know all about love, disguises himself as well-known desperado Blackie Blanchette and kidnaps Anne, leaving a note urging Landis to "rescue" her; however, Ole is captured by the real Blackie. While a raging forest fire breaks out, Landis rides to the cabin and confronts Blackie; as the fire reaches the cabin, Blackie meets a fiery death while Landis and Anne stagger through the flames to the river. The other suitor, finding country customs too rough, departs, leaving Anne to discover her true love.
- When the attorney for the Brockton family announces that their wealthy uncle has died, he reveals that, by terms of the uncle's bequest, his money will only go to relatives who are successfully employed. Upon hearing this, his idler nephews hastily select professions, not knowing a thing about them. The various professions include pilot, damn builder, baker and yachtsman. One nephew, George Brockton, who is already employed as a journalist, decides to find out more information by befriending the lawyer's elderly clerk. After other family members fail miserably in their jobs, it is revealed that the uncle is still alive and has been posing as the lawyer's clerk. Impressed that George is the only relative with a real profession, the uncle decides to make him his heir.
- A ten-chapter Rayart serial about fire-fighters/fire-fighting and fire-fighters fighting in the Big City. Episode titles: Chapter 1: Smoke Eaters - Chapter 2: Scarlet Patrol - Chapter 3: Silent Alarm - Chapter 4: Blazing Paths - Chapter 5: Scalding Seas - Chapter 6: Death's Battalion - Chapter 7: Daring Deeds - Chapter 8: Danger Ahead - Chapter 9: Desperate Chances - Chapter 10: Heroic Hearts.