Incomplete or Partially Lost Films
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Daniel (1921)
Walking Down Broadway (1932)
Berdjoang (1942)
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Daniel (1921)
Walking Down Broadway (1932)
Berdjoang (1942)
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[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incomplete_or_partially_lost_films[/link]
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- DirectorWallace McCutcheonKit Carson is captured by Indians and tied to a tree in the Indian village. An Indian maiden helps him make his escape.One of the earliest Westerns and an attempt to tell a story in multiple scenes made slightly prior to The Great Train Robbery. Released both as a coherent 21-minute film and in the form of single scenes designed for use in Mutoscopes. Some of the Mutoscope subjects have survived, but the full film has never been found.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonH. Kyrle BellewPaul PanzerThe millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.First dramatic Sherlock Holmes adaptation on film and the screen debut of actor Maurice Costello. All that exists are short strips of scenes deposited for copyright purposes in the Library of Congress.
- DirectorCharles TaitStarsElizabeth TaitJohn TaitNicholas BrierleyOriginally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.Only 17 minutes of this 70-minute feature survive; it is often considered to be the world’s first feature-length motion picture.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsMary PickfordKing BaggotDan Nolan is seated in his humble home, hungry and in the depths of despair. A mechanic, he has been without work for weeks on account of a strike. A fellow workman enters and tells him there is no prospect for a speedy settlement of the labor trouble and the future looks black. Driven to desperation by hunger, he resolves to steal. He passes a residence and notes that it is easy of egress. Climbing the trellis work, he cuts the telephone wires, thus preventing the summoning of police and enters the house. It is the home of Homer Warren and the household is saddened by the serious illness of a little daughter. Nolan is prowling about the house, enters the room in which the child is ill and secretes himself in a closet, watching operations through the keyhole. He sees the nurse operations through the keyhole. He sees the nurse endeavor to summon a physician by telephone and her failure. She runs out hastily and when she returns is accompanied by a doctor. Nolan sees the physician examine the child and notes the gravity of the case as indicated by the doctor. The nurse and the mother are nearly exhausted from their long vigil and the doctor impresses upon them the importance of administering the medicine promptly at the hour indicated on the directions. Nolan waits in the closet and sees the mother leave the room yawning. The nurse seats herself by the bedside of the child and is soon sleeping soundly. Nolan waits for the time and, emerging from hiding, notes that the hour has arrived for the giving of the medicine by reading the written instructions. Tiptoeing over to the table, he pours out the medicine and, arousing the sleeping child, tenderly administers the dose and leaves the room. He emerges from the house, connects the telephone wires and walks away, satisfied that he has not stolen and happy in the knowledge that he has been of service to the people whose house he has entered. The child awakens and the nurse arouses. The mother is called and the father enters the room, all having slumbered, unconscious of the fact that the life of the little one depended on their vigilance . They glance at the clock and realize that the hour has long passed when the medicine should have been given. They look at the bottle and discover the note left by their visitor, apprising them of the fact that he carried out the instructions of the physician. The child confirms the note and the parents are mystified. The next morning Nolan is informed the strike is called off and he is once more contested, thankful that he did not steal.Fragments in the Library of Congress have been identified as being from this film.
- DirectorThomas H. InceGeorge Loane TuckerStarsMary PickfordOwen MooreThomas H. InceTom Owen and Mae Darcy have a very quiet wedding, wishing to avoid all notoriety for the present and intending to surprise their friends by the announcement later on. But their friends "got wise" somehow and when the young couple finally arrive at the railroad station, they find a crowd there ahead of them and they are duly dealt with according to the latest rules laid down for the accelerated departure of bride and groom. A year slips by and we find Tom wrapped up in business pursuits and careless of manner towards Mae. And Mae quietly grieves over his neglect. Then a former sweetheart of Tom's, Belle Stuart, sends them an invitation to a ball, where Belle proceeds to monopolize Tom to the utter disregard of poor Mae. Left all alone she sits and broods over her misfortune, and then she meets the famous poet, Claude Jones, who entertains her most pleasantly with his talk and his ability as a dancer. Tom finally thinks of his wife and goes to where he left her, but she has gone. He at last discovers her in the conservatory in conversation with the poet. It is his turn to feel jealous and he does so and going rudely over to the couple he informs Mae that they must go home at once. Before they go, however, she invites Claude to call upon them. Soon Claude accepts her invitation and calls, finding her alone. In the midst of their tete-a-tete, Tom arrives at home and orders Claude to vacate the premises at once. Tom and Mae have their first quarrel, and it is a good one. Tom then decides to keep close watch upon her and rigs up a bell so that it will ring in his den every time the door opens. Well, it works all right, only he is kept busy rushing into the room merely to meet the maid or the postman or somebody other than Claude. He then gives up and after another interview with his wife, he secretly writes Claude a letter, informing him that as he loves Mae and Mae loves him, that he, Tom, will surrender all further claim upon her. When Claude arrives he is received most cordially by Tom, who proceeds to pour out his blessings upon the pair and leaves the room. Mae is completely mystified, until Claude shows her the letter and proceeds to press his suit. She, taken entirely unawares, begs for time to think it all over and he goes out to purchase her some flowers. Tom, seeing him leave, telephones Belle Stuart and makes an appointment with her. Mae overhears him at the 'phone and breaks down completely, weeping as if her heart would break. Then Tom leaves the house. Claude, shortly after this returns and attempts to present Mae with the flowers, but she has had enough of him already, and, ordering him from the house, throws his bouquet after him. Tom's conscience will not permit him to keep his appointment with Belle and after wandering aimlessly about his club, he returns home to find his little wife curled up in his den, hugging his dressing gown, trying to forget her troubles in slumber, Tom's heart is touched, his old love is reawakened and taking her in his arms, she opens her eyes and twining her arms about him, they forget all their former doubts and troubles in their present happiness.A one-reel short. The majority of the film was recovered in 2006, but the first minute or so remains missing.
- DirectorAugust BlomStarsValdemar PsilanderClara PontoppidanHenry SeemannA Mormon missionary seduces and kidnaps an attractive young woman, forcing her to accompany him to Utah to become one of his wives.Danish film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon propaganda films in America. Only about half of the 60-minute feature has been found, a copy of which is preserved at the LDS archive in Salt Lake City.
- StarsKing George VQueen MaryThis early color film records the Indian celebrations relating to the coronation of King George V.British documentary depicting celebrations in India for the coronation of George V. Originally released in color, but now only available in black & white; surviving print is about two hours, but the original cut may have been as long as six hours
- DirectorFrancis J. GrandonStarsKathlyn WilliamsCharles ClaryHorace B. CarpenterThe daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.La Cineteca del Friuli film archive has the first of 13 episodes of the second American serial ever made. The EYE Film Institute Netherlands also has print fragments.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsDonald CrispLillian GishRobert HarronFrank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails. However, the errand is not fraught with failure for the father, coming in at this moment, finds his daughter being made love to by the sweetheart of the young woman, and realizes the road upon which he has traveled. When he confronts his daughter and says, "You, my daughter, what are you doing here?" The daughter answers, "My father, what are you doing here?" The realization is brought home to the father's mind that the law of moral ethics that governs a woman's life necessarily governs that of wan as well. Reformation comes in his character. He takes his daughter away with him and together they go back to their home of happiness and content.Griffith's second feature, and his first released for Reliance-Majestic. Only a two-minute fragment survives.
- DirectorFrank BealStarsEdwin CareweJean ThomasVirginia MannA dramatization of the methods in which young women are abducted or otherwise procured for prostitution.Two reels of this four reel drama have survived.
- DirectorDhundiraj Govind PhalkeStarsD.D. DabkeAnna SalunkeGanpat G. ShindeThe film opens with a Ravi Varma like tableau showing King Harishchandra, his wife Taramati and his young son. The king is teaching his son archery. They go on a hunt. The king enters an area controlled by the Sage Vishwamitra. Three furies appear before the king caught in flames. The king tries to rescue them. These fairies try to seduce the king into renouncing his kingdom for his love of truth. The king endures much hardship including being banished from his kingdom before a god appears to reassure everyone that the whole narrative was merely a test of the king's integrity.The first Indian feature film. The National Film Archive of India has two reels containing the first and last of four parts of the work.
- DirectorWalter EdwinStarsMary FullerBen F. WilsonRichard TuckerIncomplete prints of episodes one and five (of six) survive, in the EYE Film Instituut Nederland archive and at Keene Stage College respectively.
- DirectorWalter EdwinStarsMary FullerYale BossCharles OgleEpisode 1: "The Perfect Truth" The day after Dolly Desmond had startled the community with the excellence of her graduation oration, Bobby North, a reporter on the local paper, suggested that it would be a good idea for her to write stories and things for his paper. Dolly was delighted with the idea, and started at once to put it into effect. She decided to write a story, which, although ostensibly fictional, should actually give a truthful picture of life about her as she saw it. After a week of hard work, which involved much burning of midnight oil and much weariness for the fair young authoress, the masterpiece was finished. The editor was delighted with it. It was published under the title, "The Perfect Truth: A Story of Real Life" and, at Dolly's request, the name of the author was omitted. On the afternoon of the publication of the story, the Ladies' Home Sewing Guild was engaged in its customary routine of languid needlework and somnolent gossip. One of the members began to read "The Perfect Truth," but stopped with a gasp of surprise, and called the attention of the other members to the article. In graphic, pitiless bits of description, the essential characteristics of each of the members of the Ladies' Guild were set forth so plainly, that there was no possibility of mistaking their several identities. Dolly had used the pen of a satirist with telling effect. The meeting of the Ladies' Guild ended in a furor of confusion. Mrs. Broome, the hostess of the afternoon, who had been particularly scored by the anonymous author, rushed to the newspaper office and demanded the name of her defamer. The editor refused to give her the desired information, but a note from Dolly on Bobby's desk made all things clear to Mrs. Broome. With the spreading of the news, the storm center shifted to Dolly's home. While indignant citizens waited on Mr. Desmond, and threatened to withdraw their accounts from his bank, the infuriated wives filled Mrs. Desmond's ears with their complaints. Dolly's father commanded her to stop the story and make a public apology, but Dolly, for the first time in her life, refused to comply with her parents' wishes. With the fifty dollars her story had brought in, she left for the city to earn her own living. We shall discover later what happened to her there. Episode 2: "The Ghost of Mother Eve" The first thing Dolly did after her arrival in New York was to try to find herself a job. The fifty dollars she had been paid for her story was practically all she had, and Dolly was wise enough to know that such an amount would not carry her very far in the city. At the very time that Dolly went to apply for a position on "The Comet," Mrs. Yorke, a wealthy society woman, was also on the list of applicants. But whereas Dolly merely wanted a position in order that she might feed and clothe herself, Mrs. Yorke desired a sinecure of a post wherein she might indulge her love for notoriety and scandal. As not infrequently happens, the rich and undeserving succeeded, while the poor and deserving failed. Dolly was politely turned away, while the paper agreed to publish a column from Mrs. Yorke's pen under the name of "Mother Eve." Mrs. Yorke noticed Dolly as she was leaving the newspaper office. Discovering the girl's literary ability, she invited her to lunch, and offered Dolly a position as her private secretary. Dolly, naturally enough, jumped at the offer, and entered upon her duties immediately. The main portion of her duties consisted in writing the "Mother Eve" column. Mrs. Yorke had not the remotest idea how to set about her self-appointed task. All she cared for was the money. For some days Dolly was moderately contented and happy. But one afternoon, while she was collecting news of an approaching ball in the showrooms of a fashionable modiste, she happened to encounter Mrs. Yorke. That estimable lady looked over and past and through Dolly, without the slightest trace of recognition in her face. When Dolly entered her room that evening to accomplish her nightly literary task, she fell, sprained her wrist, and promptly fainted. When Mrs. Yorke returned from a dance in the wee small hours of the next morning, she found a copy boy waiting patiently for the "Mother Eve" material. Dolly, roused from her swoon, was unable to work the typewriter on account of her wrist. So the copy boy wrote it to her dictation, while Mrs. Yorke stood by and fumed. After the boy bad left, Mrs. Yorke was highly unpleasant. Dolly, in a few crisp words, told her employer exactly what she thought of her, and informed her that hereafter she could write her own column. Then Dolly went away. Episode 3: "An Affair of Dress" It will he remembered that Dolly was engaged by Mrs. Yorke, a fashionable member of the smart set, to write a society column for the "Comet." Dolly furnished the brains and did the work. Mrs. Yorke received the money. After she had received a few unpleasant proofs of her employer's unreasonable selfishness, Dolly shook the dust of the Yorke mansion from her feet, and departed. In the course of her gathering of society notes, Dolly had met Minnie, a mannequin in a fashionable tailoring establishment. As luck would have it, there was a vacancy when Dolly arrived to ask Minnie about her work, and twenty-four hours after her quarrel with Mrs. Yorke, the girl was engaged at Browngrass' as a mannequin, with the princely salary of twenty-five dollars a week. Let it not be supposed that she was entirely infatuated with her position. She had come to the city to write, and write she would eventually. This was merely a makeshift, a temporary bar to keep the wolf from the door. There were other reasons too, why her situation did not satisfy her. The proprietor was kind, a little too kind, Dolly thought. One afternoon, he tried to kiss her, and she, quite naturally, slapped his face. In the midst of all her little difficulties, Dolly was not allowing herself to drift out of touch with the magazine and newspaper world. A poem sent by her to the "Jester," brought a gratifying return in the shape of a letter from the editor inquiring into her capabilities for a small editorial position. Later, the editor called, and since he was a nice sort of person, Dolly took dinner with him. In the excitement of the moment, she sailed off to the restaurant in the gown she was wearing. As it happened, the proprietor of Browngrass' came to the restaurant, saw the gown, called a policeman, and ordered him to arrest Dolly. Aid came from an unexpected quarter. Rockwell Crosby, editor of the "Comet," was sitting at the next table. He discovered that Dolly had written Mrs. Yorke's column, showed his card to the policeman, and ordered him to remove the angry proprietor. Dolly, he said, had no connection with Browngrass'. She was his star reporter. After the man had been removed and Dolly thanked Crosby for his kind lie, he told her it was the truth. She was engaged. Episode 4: "Putting One Over" When Miss Mindel, president of the Reform League, received a pathetic letter from certain tenants of the Union Realty Company, complaining of unsanitary living conditions and unjust rents, she wrote a sharp letter to the president of the Realty Company, threatening action in the courts unless improvements were made. James Boliver, the president, had put his company into its position of prominence, largely through his entirely unscrupulous method of dealing with any type of opposition to his plans. Briefly summing up the probable results of any action on the part of the Reform League, he decided that it must be prevented at any cost, so he decided to bribe Miss Mindel. Miss Mindel did not understand the carefully couched letter she received from Boliver, asking her to come and see him. She felt that she was getting into deep water, and decided to appeal to the newspapers, before taking any action. At the office of "The Comet," where she went first, Miss Mindel met Dolly Desmond, and with characteristic impulsiveness, told her the whole story. Dolly immediately hit on a plan, which she confided to Miss Mindel. That good lady, after some thought, consented to it. She was personally unknown to Boliver, and there seemed no reason why the plan should not succeed. In accordance with it, Dolly presented herself at the Union Realty Company's office as Miss Mindel. Mr. Boliver was very nice to her, indeed, and, finding her even more compliant than he had hoped, gave her a check for five thousand dollars, and allowed her to write him a receipt on the typewriter. Dolly made a carbon copy of the receipt, thanked Mr. Boliver, and turned to go. At the door she met Mr. Browngrass, her late employer, who happened to be one of the directors of the company. Since Browngrass recognized her immediately, there was nothing left for Dolly but flight via the fire escape. The enraged directors pursued her, but without result. She got her story in in time to go to press, and we leave Dolly glancing affectionately at the staring headlines of her "scoop." Episode 5: "The Chinese Fan" All newspaperdom was excited over the strange disappearance of Muriel Armstrong and each daily was doing its best to discover the missing heiress first, and thus secure for themselves one of the most sensational bits of news of the day, but no trace of her could be found, despite all efforts. The editor of the Comet ground his cigar and swore impotently and even Dolly, the star reporter, was at a loss for clues. Dolly was pondering over the matter on her way to her evening's assignment: the Chinese theater in Mott Street, where she was detailed to report the play. During the second act a little Chinese pin in the shape of a fan, which Dolly was wearing, unconscious of its significance to the Tongs, started a riot in the theater. As Dolly was escaping down the side street a huge hand protruded itself from a small door, pulled her inside, down a narrow corridor and thrust her into an ill-lighted den. How could she get out? She pounded on the door and called for assistance but all that greeted her was a chuckle and a slushing of soft footsteps down the corridor. She peered around in the gloom and suddenly a frightened bundle of humanity detached itself from the corner and a young girl fell at Dolly's feet, imploring assistance. Dolly raised her gently, looked into her face and discovered that she was Muriel Armstrong, the missing heiress. All fear of the Chinese vanished. Here was the scoop of the year. Fate helped her too, for the half-crazed opium fiend who was Muriel's guard, upset the lamp and set the place on fire. This enabled Dolly and her prize to escape and the next morning the heiress was turned over to her delighted parents. Episode 6: "On the Heights" Dolly's friend, Rockwell Crosby, editor of the "Comet." disagrees with the management and resigned. Dolly was disappointed at the news, but that was as nothing compared to her rage at the attitude of his successor, who was a self-confessed "hustler" and intended to make everybody on the paper "sit up and take notice." The first assignment he gave Dolly was to wander about the streets after dark until she found a story. Dolly was furious. She had made a distinct place for herself on the staff, and was accustomed to being treated with consideration. There was nothing to do but obey, so Dolly started out. To her amazement she ran across Ella Snyder, an old school friend, who was weeping bitterly. She had eloped with a young man named Oliver Allen. Oliver had brought her to a hotel, and had departed in search of a license. Having not come back for two hours Ella concluded that she had been deceived and decided to drown herself. Dolly took the girl home, told her not to be silly, and went to get Allen. She found him at the hotel bewildered at the disappearance of his bride-to-be. Dolly, convinced that his intentions were honorable, took him back with her. They found Ella had disappeared again. She left a note, saying she had resolved to die. In order to repay Dolly, Ella said she was going to jump from the highest building in town, so Dolly could make a scoop of the news. Dolly and Allen rushed to the Woolworth Building, and stopped Ella just in time. Then they repaired to the City Hall, where Ella and Allen were married. Dolly returned to the office and told the editor she had a story, but didn't intend to write it. He was wildly indignant at first, until she had calmly explained she knew perfectly what she was doing. Episode 7: "The End of the Umbrella" The Aqueduct Construction Company has been having a good deal of trouble with certain anarchistic elements, who, anxious to seize any cause of discontent to further the bloody revolution they hoped for, opposed the building of the great pipe which would carry fresh sparkling water to the crowded people of the great city. Finally, after the company had been worried half to death by anonymous threats, a tremendous explosion killed a couple of dozen workmen and completely wrecked the main section of the great work. Dolly Desmond, in the city office of the newspaper, heard of the catastrophe and begged the editor to allow her to investigate it. The editor, who had formed a high opinion of Dolly's character, readily consented, and Dolly set out for the scene of the disaster. As she wandered about the wrecked aqueduct, she came upon a curious umbrella handle in among several pieces of a shattered bomb. Dolly kept her find and said nothing about it to anybody. With some little difficulty, she succeeded in obtaining a position as cashier in the dining room of the little hotel near the works. She had the umbrella handle placed on a new umbrella, put it in the stand where she could keep her eye on it, and settled herself to watch. It wasn't as easy a matter to devote her entire attention to the stand as she had thought at first, for Grant, a young engineer at the works, fell madly in love with her. and insisted on talking to her at every opportunity. At last, when she was on the point of giving up in disgust, a shifty-eyed individual picked up the umbrella, started to go out with it, and then apparently remembering, looked at it, put it down and looked frightened. Dolly recognized him as "Nutty Jim," one of the lodgers in the hotel. That evening Dolly went up to his room to investigate. She had just unearthed several bombs when Nutty Jim entered and sprang at her. She fired at him, but missed. A bomb was knocked off the table and exploded. Nutty Jim was killed and Dolly severely injured. We leave her at the hospital with the anxious Grant at her side, delightedly reading her "scoop" in the Comet. Episode 8: "A Tight Squeeze" When the news came to the Comet office that Mr. Martinengro, the well-known Italian-American merchant and philanthropist, had been murdered, Dolly Desmond was very anxious to have the assignment. To her disgust, the managing editor gave the story to Hillary Graham, the young man Dolly had met in "Mother Eve's" house. Dolly, forced to be satisfied with a Salvation Army wedding. Hillary set off on his assignment in high spirits. He had not made much of a success of reporting yet, but he was confident that his work in this case would convince the Comet management that he was one man in a thousand. Arrived in a dingy little barroom near the scene of the crime, he announced his intention of apprehending the criminals to the interested bartender. As a result, a few minutes later, Hillary was knocked on the head and thrown into the cellar. Dolly, after finishing her report on the wedding, donned a Salvation Army uniform, and accompanied the band about town in search of more material. In the course of her wanderings, she entered the barroom, and saw a necktie on the floor which she had noticed that morning on Hillary. Creeping unobserved into the cellar, she discovered the unconscious Hillary lying on a pile of coal. As she stood in puzzled anxiety, wondering how she could possibly save the young man and herself, she was startled by a sudden rush of coal into the cellar, through the coal hole from the street. Daddy, the copy boy on the Comet, happened to be on the street above, watching the coal men at their task. Hearing a muffled cry, he stopped the men. A moment later Dolly crawled through the hole. She and Daddy rushed for the police. After Hillary had been rescued, the police entered the saloon, and arrested its occupants. A lucky chance resulted in the discovery of the Martinengro murderers. While Dolly was writing her story in the police station, the grateful Hillary proposed. Dolly was non-committal. She was afraid she wasn't quite ready to give up her adventurous life even for so successful a reporter as he was. Episode 9: "A Terror of the Night" Mrs. Winslow, a young widow, owned a piece of property known as "Beach House," for which the Union Realty Company were the agents. The money for the rental of the property meant a good deal to Mrs. Winslow, and when her tenants began to grow few and far between, she naturally called on her agents to inquire into the causes. President Bolivar, of the Realty Company, gravely informed her that "Beach House" was haunted. To substantiate his remarks, he showed Mrs. Winslow some newspaper clippings about the reported ghost at the house. Many complaints had been received from tenants and the property was becoming more and more impossible to rent. In short, Mr. Bolivar advised Mrs. Winslow to accept the Realty Company's very generous offer of $10,000 for the property worth $50,000. Mrs. Winslow thought that her property was worth more and went to consult her friend, Dolly Desmond, the star reporter on "The Comet." Dolly, instantly excited at the prospect of investigating a haunted house, suggested that Mrs. Winslow leave the property to her for the space of a week. Mrs. Winslow made out the necessary papers and then went to Bolivar and told him what she had done. Bolivar, an old enemy of Dolly, immediately planned a trap for her. He arrived at Beach House a little while after Dolly had made herself at home in one of the gray dreary rooms. After his first expression of pretended surprise, he began to make love to her, but the derisiveness of her answer showed plainly that his original plan was useless. So he bowed and took his leave. Dolly slept that night on a sofa in the front hall in the midst of a number of garden implements which had been stowed there for safekeeping. In the middle of the night, she was awakened by a slight noise. Looking up, a terrible sight met her eyes. A shrouded figure, clad in garments of ghastly white, was coming down the stairs toward her. Instead of shrieking and fainting, Dolly turned the hose on the advancing figure. It halted, wavered, and then ran out of the house and into the arms of Malone, who had just arrived to investigate the anonymous letter. The ghost was, of course, Bolivar, who had chosen this means of attempting to get Mrs. Winslow's property at a low price. Episode 10: "Dolly Plays Detective" When Mrs. Cambridge invited Dolly Desmond, and Malone, the managing editor of the Comet, to a dinner party, Malone naturally offered to take Dolly around to the Cambridge's in his car. For in the short space of time in which he had held his new office on the Comet staff, Malone had grown very fond of the clever young girl. When, on their way to the party, Dolly waved her hand to her old friend the policeman on the beat, she noticed a quick frown of displeasure on Malone's face. To tease him, she started to flirt outrageously with all the men present as soon as she arrived at the dinner, among whom was one of society's newest lions, the Count de Rochepierre. In the midst of the dinner, it was suddenly discovered that one of the ladies' necklaces was missing. She had worn it about her neck when she sat down, and it seemed absolutely inconceivable that anybody should have been able to remove it in the brilliantly-lighted room. On the following afternoon, the count called on Dolly, and begged her to accept a beautiful ring as a slight token of his esteem. Dolly, who rather enjoyed leading the count on, told him she should be delighted to wear it. Shortly after he had apparently taken his leave, Mrs. Cambridge and several ladies came to call. At Dolly's suggestion, a game of auction bridge was commenced. As they sat about the table, precisely the same thing happened as on the preceding night. Two of the ladies' necklaces vanished. The fact that Dolly had been present at both occasions when the mysterious occurrence had taken place, seemed a little significant. The ladies left hurriedly, and somewhat coolly. Left alone, Dolly decided to go and see the Count. She was led to this decision by several suspicious little incidents she had observed. In the Count's quarters, she discovered not only the missing necklaces, but absolute proof of how he had perpetrated his astonishing crimes. But even cleverer than her discovery of his method, was the way in which she inveigled the Count into playing a game of '"Forfeits" at the Cambridge's, and at the crucial moment in the game, clapped a pair of handcuffs on him and turned him over to the police. Episode 11: "Dolly at the Helm" When the city editor of the Comet burst into the managing editor's office and told him that his child was desperately ill with diphtheria, Malone, the managing editor, naturally told him to take as much time off as he wanted. Malone himself was feeling very badly at the time, and his resolution to take charge personally of the city editor's department was never carried out. Shortly after the city editor had left, Malone fainted at his desk. Dolly Desmond, the Comet's star reporter, found him there when she came into the room. She revived Malone from his stupor and had him taken home. In nine cases out of ten, both Malone and the city editor might well have been absent without any particular disturbance in the ordinary routine of the office. It was four o'clock on an unusually dull summer afternoon. The likelihood of anything happening seemed extremely remote. However, scarcely had Malone been taken away when things started. A terrible excursion boat catastrophe was the first. Right on its heels came the news that a great hotel was burning. In the excited chaos into which the Comet office was plunged, Dolly showed the stuff of which she was made. Her small hand seized the deserted tiller and with the quick incisive decision which was her chief characteristic, she wearied the legs of messenger boys, and kept the telephone wires hot with the dispatching of her swift Napoleanic commands. When it was all over, and the day was won, Dolly received a letter from home telling her that her father's bank was on the verge of ruin, largely as a result of the hard feeling which had been stirred up by Dolly's story, "The Perfect Truth." Poor Dolly, at her wits' end, went to Malone for advice. She took the manuscript of "The Perfect Truth" with her. Malone' s illness was a blessing in disguise for it gave him a chance to read the story, the first installment of which had had such a disastrous effect. He was amazed by its brilliance of style and theme. In a gush of unwanted enthusiasm he told Dolly that he was willing to publish the story at his own expense as a speculation. So Dolly, with her hopes once again raised, went away with the dim belief growing in her that "The Perfect Truth" might not be so bad a thing for her father as it had at first seemed. Episode 12: "The Last Assignment" When Dolly Desmond left the home of her youth to embark on a journalistic career in the city, she left the town in a state of furor behind her. The story called "The Perfect Truth," the first installment of which Dolly published in the town newspaper, aroused so much resentment against Dolly that the townspeople revenged themselves by withdrawing their money from her father's bank. Two or three months after Dolly went away, the bank was in such straits that suspension of payment seemed only a matter of hours. Then "The Perfect Truth" in its complete form was published as a book. It met with an immediate and startling success. Dolly attained to fame and wealth almost overnight. The echo of her success reached her native town, and people began to sit up and take notice. It was one thing to feel themselves the butt of the joke of an immature schoolgirl, and quite another to know that they had been the material from which a famous authoress had drawn her inspiration. In the midst of the excitement, Bobby, at the newspaper office, suddenly received word that Dolly was coming to town. The news was not an unmixed pleasure for Bobby. He had an evil conscience. He had been madly in love with Dolly before she left town, and believed that she cared a good deal for him. After she left, he fell in love with another girl. However, Bobby's first duty in the matter was perfectly clear. So he wrote up a headline article for his paper announcing Dolly's arrival. The town went wild with excitement. Fame was about to fall upon it again for the first time since Hank Bowers had been lynched for horse stealing many years before. All hatred and jealousy was forgotten and Dolly was welcomed by a tremendous popular demonstration. The first thing she did was to set her father's bank on its feet again, partly with the help of the money she had made and partly by the use of her extremely persuasive tongue. In the midst of the excitement, a stranger arrived in town, James Malone, the enterprising business manager of Dolly's paper. Everybody wondered who he was, and Bobby was the first to find out. For when he went to Dolly's house, with hanging head, to explain how matters stood, she told him that she was going to marry Malone. And that is how we leave Dolly with one career behind her, and another and far finer one ahead.Chapter five of this twelve-part serial was discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive. The BFI National Archive has chapter ten.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary PickfordErnest TruexWilliam NorrisCharles MacLance, a mischievous little boy sent to live with his cruel aunt, Mrs. MacMiche, takes his happiness from the make-believe world of fairies which he has created with Juliet, a little blind girl. When Charles' aristocratic grandfather dies, however, he is sent away to an expensive school, in preparation for his adult life as a lord. As he grows up, he forgets Juliet and his make-believe friends, and becomes engaged to a fashionable society girl, but the soul of his former self leaves him to rejoin the good fairies. Meanwhile, Mrs. MacMiche has come to believe in fairies, and in her new goodness, she asks Charles to come and live with her again. At first reluctant, Charles soon resurrects fond memories of the past. Juliet, whose sight has been restored, helps him to complete his change, and he asks her to marry him. In the end, the couple live happily with Mrs. MacMiche in their fantasy world.One of five reels survives in the National Film and Television Archive
- DirectorWebster CullisonStarsNorbert A. MylesEdna PayneWill E. SheererThe old stage driver and his pretty daughter live happily in a prosperous mining town. The girl is devoted to her kind old father who has been the stage driver for several years. Needless to say, the girl is a splendid horsewoman and has learned to drive the stage. Her lover is the sheriff, and is an intimate friend of her father. On one of his trips, the stage driver is entrusted with $5,000 in gold, which he is to deliver to the post office in the next town. Two wily Mexicans overhear the conversation between the stage driver and the sheriff concerning the money. They decide to hold up the stage that night. Ruth kisses her old father good-bye, little dreaming that it is for the last time. The stage is held up by the two Mexicans. The old man fights for his life and his charge. The villains do not hesitate to shoot the old man, and after pocketing the gold depart, leaving the body of the stage driver in the road under the stage. At the village it is discovered that the stage is overdue and a party is sent out. They find the body, and hastily send out a posse to catch the murderers. When the daughter is informed of the tragic death of her parent she is overcome, and her lover promises to avenge his death. In the meantime the Mexicans are hiding in the mountains with the booty. They each try to steal the gold and cheat the other, ending in a bitter quarrel. After a few days of mourning, Ruth decides to take her father's place. The next pay-day comes, and once more gold is sent to the next town via the stage. The brave girl fears nothing. But once again the pair attempt their nefarious work and the girl is tied to the stage by the wrists. All seems hopeless, but the sheriff, fearing that some evil may befall the girl, follows, and he finds her in this awful plight. He quickly cuts her bonds, and together they muster a crowd of miners in the village who determine to wipe out the hold-up men. Then commences a series of fights and captures. The Mexicans hide in the underbrush, and are about to make their escape when they are caught, and then justice is done. They meet their deserved fate.An incomplete 35mm positive print was discovered in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive.
- DirectorJ. Gunnis DavisJ.P. McGowanRobert G. VignolaStarsHelen HolmesHelen GibsonJ.P. McGowanHelen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speeds down the track to warn the passengers of their imminent peril.This is believed to be the longest serial ever made, 23.8 hours long with 119 12-minute episodes. Surviving episodes are scattered among various film archives, including the Library of Congress, the National Film and Television Archive and the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.
- DirectorVernon DayTheodore WhartonStarsBuffalo Bill CodyNelson Appleton MilesJesse M. LeeA propaganda re-enactment, co-financed by the Woodrow Wilson government, of the 1890 massacre of 300 Lakota residents of South Dakota, which was portrayed as American military heroism and justified as part of the assimilation effort.Cody stars as himself in this early movie version of the Indian Wars; also stars Nelson Appleton Miles and Black Elk; released 1917. One minute and 58 seconds of footage is held by the McCracken Research Library or the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, and can be viewed online (see reference).
- DirectorFrancis FordStarsGrace CunardFrancis FordHarry SchummEpisode 1: Hugo Loubeque and Sumpter Love are cadets at West Point. Both love the same woman. Loubeque is expelled from the institution for theft from his fellow cadets. The principal witness against him is Cadet Love, who, as a result of Loubeque's downfall, wins the woman for the hand of whom both were rivals. Loubeque sets apart his life to avenge himself upon Love. He carefully educates himself to the end of making his revenge more certain and dire. Knowing that Love will someday become an officer in the army, he lays his plans in that direction. He becomes an international spy, a broker in national secrets. He works upon the plan that no country is greater than its smallest secret. After a lapse of many years Love is a general in the U.S. Army, stationed in Manila. He has an only daughter, Lucille, who is engaged to marry Lieutenant Gibson. The butler in the Love household is a cracksman in the employ of Loubeque. After watching the movements of Love for years, Loubeque decides that the time for action has arrived. General Love receives from Washington a set of documents of the utmost diplomatic importance and the contents of which must he kept in the strictest secrecy. As his aide. Lieutenant Gibson locks them in the safe, at the instigation of Loubeque, the butler steals the papers. The honor of General Love is threatened and he informs Gibson to consider himself under arrest until the papers are returned. Lucille takes up a telephone receiver that morning to find that the wires are crossed. She overhears a conversation between Loubeque and his accomplice in which the spy admits that the documents are in his possession, and that he intends leaving Manila on the steamship Empress at once. Lucille decides on the spot that she will regain possession of the documents if she has to follow Loubeque to the ends of the earth. She at once realizes that her only chance of reaching the Empress before it puts well to sea is through the aid of the government aviator, Gibson's rival for her hand. The aviator lends his assistance. She springs into the hydroplane and in a moment later is skipping over the waters in the wake of the Empress. Little does Hugo Loubeque dream that his Nemesis is above his head and ready to land by his side as he contemplates that the last great stroke in his plan of revenge is nearing completion. Episode 2: The second story of this series opens when Lucille deserts the hydroplane in the open ocean and makes a sensational landing upon the steamship. Then, for the first time, Loubeque becomes aware that his program of revenge is being interfered with. The moment he sees the girl he is struck by her resemblance to his first love, who in reality was Lucille's mother. Loubeque 's first move aboard the ship is to have sent out an unsigned wireless message to the effect that General Love and not his aide, proved a traitor by selling the diplomatic secrets. After this message is sent out, and to prevent further communications with the ship, Loubeque disarranges the wireless apparatus. In doing so he causes an explosion in which he is injured. Lucille realizes that her opportunity has arrived, and she volunteers to nurse him. Her services are accepted. She is soon on friendly terms with the international spy, but seek as she will the hiding place of the documents remains a mystery. Fortune, however, favors her. A fierce fire breaks out in the hold of the ship. Lucille is with Loubeque in his stateroom when the impending disaster is announced. With the first shock of the news the spy's first thought is of the valuable documents and his startled glance toward a desk reveals to Lucille the hiding place of the stolen papers. Loubeque leaves the room for an instant, and the next instant Lucille finds the papers and thrusts them in her bosom. The fire in the hold is now burning fiercely, and all hope for the ship is lost. The lifeboats are lowered and the rule of "women first" is adhered to. Realizing that he must desert the ship at once the spy rushes to his cabin only to find the papers gone. He then realizes that his late nurse is no other than Lucille Love, daughter of his deadliest enemy. He rushes to the ship's rail just in time to see the boat in which Lucille is seated, lowered into the angry sea. "Well played. Miss Love," he cries, "but I'm afraid you will have to return the papers." No sooner does Lucille's boat touch the water than it is capsized and all the women occupants are left to the mercy of the waves. The burning ship listing almost to the water's edge, the ocean spotted with the dying and the dead, Lucille grasps a floating timber and clings to it until she loses consciousness. When she regains her senses she finds herself upon a long stretch of beach; a castaway upon one of the South Sea islands. Episode 3: At the opening of the third chapter, Lucille Love is discovered more dead than alive on the beach of the South Sea island where she had been cast by the storm which had wrecked the small boat in which she escaped from the burning liner "Empress." As she regained consciousness she makes sure that she has the papers which she had taken from Loubeque, the return of which will save her father and sweetheart from disgrace. She has them in the bosom of her dress. As she looks about she sees a band of savages and tries to escape. They overtake her and make her captive. The savages, however, seem to consider her a sacred being, and the chief takes her to his hut, where his little daughter is sick, and asks Lucille to cure her. Lucille sets to work and nurses the chief's daughter. She quiets her and makes her comfortable. The chief then assigns a house to her and in the sign language tells her that she will be perfectly safe there. In this hut Lucille for the first time learns the secret of Loubeque's life through reading his diary and seeing the picture of her own mother. When the crisis of the illness of the chief's little daughter is past, and she recovers, the chief is extravagant in his praise, and gives her a sacred amulet, or charm, in the shape of a white elephant. By virtue of his sacred object all the natives become Lucille's slaves. The chief hangs the charm about Lucille's neck, and as a token of service she has rendered she is permitted to ride the holy elephant as a mark of the royal favor, and all the natives bow before her. But Loubeque has escaped the fury of the waves, too, and has been cast up on the same island which is now Lucille's refuge. Loubeque sees the honor which is being conferred upon the girl who has the secret dispatches which she took from the desk in his cabin, and he is filled with hate and determination to get them back. There comes upon the scene at this moment a native of an anarchistic turn of mind, who hates anything which has to do with the white woman. Loubeque sees him and by virtue of their common cause they join forces. Loubeque, however, chokes the savage nearly to death to show him who is master. Together they plot to make away with Lucille. Soon an opportunity offers. Lucille is restless and as she is regarded as a sacred person and can go anywhere without harm, she wanders on the sand dunes. The native, Loubeque's new slave, surprises her and starts to strangle her. In a moment it would have all been over had not the sacred amulet, which the chief had hung about her neck, escaped from her dress and attracted the attention of the savage. The talisman works. He desists and bows three times before her. She is saved. But Loubeque will not be defeated so easily. He plots to drive Lucille out of her hut so that he can search it for the dispatches, and for that purpose he and the native catch snakes and put them through the grass walls of Lucille's hut. Lucille, at course, is terrified and runs out into the night. Loubeque searches the hut, but cannot find the papers and goes away more angry and determined than ever. The girl fears to stay there and resolves to escape through the jungle. She goes to the chief's hut, but decides not to waken him and slips away into the doubly dark shadows of the jungle. But nothing can escape the crafty eye of the spy. He has followed every movement of the girl, who does not even suspect that her enemy is on the island. Loubeque is not the only enemy that Lucille has to contend with. The jungle is full of wild beasts, and she has not gone far before she encounters a ferocious lion. Lucille is horrified and tries desperately to escape. Episode 4: As the fourth installment opens the lion is trying to break down the door of the desperate girl's shelter, and is only foiled by a spear in Lucille's terrified hands. But Loubeque is not so easy to turn from his purpose of recovering the papers, which mean the accomplishment of his revenge and the disgrace of General Love. Be instructs his native slave to collect dry grass and teaches him how to weave a rope. This he stretches from his own hut to Lucille's and ignites the end in his hut. In a short time the fire eats its way to the hut where the daughter of his enemy is asleep. To make assurance doubly sure, Loubeque's native summons the tribe to which he belongs, and which is hostile to that by which Lucille was captured, to assist him. Lucille, scarcely awakened from her sleep, is driven from the hut by the fire and almost runs into the arms of Loubeque. He struggles with her and attempts to seize the papers. But Lucille's savages are at hand and attack the spy before he can recover the papers. The natives, however, are very superstitious and deathly afraid of the "imprisoned fire" in Loubeque's automatic revolver. One shot is enough. The tribe falls down before him in fear and subjection. In the meantime Lucille has made good her escape and has entered the chief's hut. But while the natives are afraid of the white man, they are not afraid of the savages which support him, and a terrible battle ensues between the rival tribes. In order to stop the carnage, Lucille resolves to take advantage of the superstitions of the natives and dresses herself all in white, improvising her garments from sacks and white cloths. Climbing on the great white elephant she goes among the warriors and the fighting ceases like magic. All bow down to the sacred objects, the color white, the sacred elephant and the sacred healing woman. But Loubeque is not discouraged and at this juncture there comes to his assistance an ally in the person of a woman from the tribe to which his slave belongs. After discussing ways and means, Loubeque decides to try a clever bit of deception on Lucille. He sends the woman to the chief, in whose house Lucille is carefully guarded, with instructions to tell the chief that she is from a neighboring tribe which is friendly. She is to say her master lies ill and at the point of death, and that she has heard of the wonderful white healing woman who cured the chief's daughter, and had been sent to get her to heal her master. The ruse succeeds, both the chief and Lucille herself are completely taken in and Lucille starts immediately on horseback with the false guide. In the meantime her companion, under Loubeque's direction, has dug a pitfall and cleverly covered it with brush. When Lucille's horse comes cantering down the trail bearing his rider on her errand of mercy both crash into the pit, in one of the most sensational pictures thus far shown in the series. The horse is killed instantly and Lucille lies like one dead. The two slaves of Loubeque climb down into the pit, and the woman takes the papers from the bodice of Lucille's dress. She returns them in triumph to her new master, who decides that while he lacks the sacred amulet which is still around Lucille's neck, his present mission is but half accomplished. Episode 5: As Lucille Love recovers consciousness in the pit which has been dug by the natives, sees her dead horse beside her and realizes that the papers have been stolen from her, the desperation of her condition is pitiable. She crawls out of the pit only to see a pair of hungry lions in her path. To escape them she climbs up a tree and to her amazement finds a vine ladder on which she escapes into the forest. Loubeque is anxious to secure the amulet which makes Lucille a sacred person in the eyes of the natives, and he orders his native to follow her. In their search they are seen by the lions and in fear of them Loubeque builds a fire all around him through which the lions do not dare to penetrate. The smoke of this fire attracts Lucille and she steals up as near to the camping place of Loubeque as possible. Something in the manner of the native rouses a suspicion in Loubeque's mind that the savage is not loyal, but on second thought he dismisses the doubt and goes to sleep. But his doubt of the savage is well founded, and his master is no sooner asleep than he takes the papers from his master's shirt and runs away into the forest. Lucille, however, from her vantage point has seen the pilfering of the papers and follows the man. The lions prove the nemesis of the native and he perishes in their clutches. In order to search the body, Lucille goes to the camp and secures a firebrand from the fire which Loubeque, now awake and aware of his loss, has also deserted. Lucille scares off the lions and secures the precious papers from the mangled native's breech clout. She is overjoyed and makes the best time she can toward the sea-coast. Loubeque at last finds the native's body and searching it in vain, decides that the further attempt to find Lucille are in vain, as she had probably met the same fate as the thief. Lucille in her flight to the coast sees a fluted pillar sticking out of the ground in an unusual manner, and as she is examining it, the earth about her gives way and she is precipitated into the midst of a sunken city, inhabited by a race of men similar to the monkeys but with many features which closely ally them to the human race. Possibly they are a race of missing links. At first they are afraid of Lucille as she is of them. But the encouragement of numbers in on their side and they pursue her to the rude throne of their still ruder king. His primate majesty's method of subduing his subjects is to throw necklaces of diamonds to them, and while they are occupied with collecting them he carries off the prize himself. Lucille sees that she is no safer with the king than with any of the rest of his race and in a super-human burst of strength she frees herself from him and escapes. The unwonted activity of the racing and chasing about displaces certain rocks which hold back gasses. These gasses collecting quickly explode and the side of the mountain is blown out. Once more our heroine is at liberty and she searches all along the riverbank until she comes upon a native dugout, in which she floats down the little river to the seacoast. She finally sees a little brig standing off shore and attracts the attention of the boatswain of the ship's gig. He rescues her and takes her on board the boat. And Lucille passes one comfortable night since she does not realize that the spy, Loubeque, is on board the same boat, having been rescued the preceding day. Episode 6: Hugo Loubeque, an international spy, has stolen certain valuable documents of state from General Sumpter Love; the stolen papers to be used in ruining the General. To save her father's honor from tarnish, Lucille Love, the General's daughter, undertakes to regain possession of the documents single-handed. After a series of thrilling chases over land and sea, and after she has regained the papers, Lucille is picked up from one of the South Sea islands by a sailing vessel. Little does she realize, however, that the vessel is owned by her enemy, Hugo Loubeque, and that he is aboard the same boat. As soon as Loubeque discovers that Lucille is aboard the boat with the coveted documents, he disguises as a Chinese mandarin to further his plans in regaining the papers. Meanwhile Lucille is impressed by two members of the crew. The first is the captain, who is not long in showing her that he has evil designs upon her. The second is the first mate, a gruff old tar, with whom she makes friends. One night the captain attacks Lucille, and she is only saved from his brutality by the timely interference of Loubeque. The girl recognizes the spy despite his disguise, and puts herself on guard against him. Knowing that the papers must be valuable, the captain steals them from Lucille's cabin. Again the captain attacks her. This time the girl draws a revolver, forces the captain to the deck and shows him up to the crew as a coward. By this time there is a general feeling of unrest among the members of the crew. The time comes, however, when the sailors divide and carry on an armed mutiny. A few cast their lot with Lucille and the rest side with the captain. A fierce battle between contending forces is then waged upon the deck of the ship. At a critical moment when Lucille and her followers seem to be doomed, Loubeque comes unexpectedly to the girl's aid and for an instant the danger is past. But only for an instant because in the thick of the fray a battleship is sighted. Realizing that the boat is carrying contraband arms to China and that capture will mean imprisonment, those of the crew who were Lucille's friends turn against her and join the captain. Again in command, the captain has Loubeque thrown overboard and for Lucille he has even a worse fate planned. She is placed in a rowboat with a jug of water and cast adrift upon the South Seas. When she has drifted some distance from the ship, she rescues Loubeque from the water. In the small boat there is but sufficient water to last a few days. Loubeque, however, shows the greatest consideration for the helpless girl and when the chill of night comes on he covers her with his own coat. They are alone, adrift upon the South Seas and neither has the documents, the quest of which has caused them to face so many dangers. Episode 7: After numerous stirring adventures by land and sea in her effort to regain the papers which will save her father from dishonor, Lucille Love and Hugo Loubeque, her father's enemy, find themselves adrift in an open boat off the coast of China. The papers, possession of which both are fighting for, are now in the hands of Captain Wetheral of the ship from which Lucille and Loubeque were cast adrift. The enmity between Lucille and the spy dies down when they find themselves in the same boat at the mercy of the waves and winds. They are a man and a woman fighting against death. When Lucille awakens from her first sleep of trouble and exhaustion, she learns from Loubeque that the water barrel has sprung a leak and is empty. In the days that follow Loubeque proves to be a man, indeed. As a result of thirst and exposure Lucille becomes delirious, and it is only by use of main strength that Loubeque keeps her in the boat. After many days, however, the outcasts land on the coast of China. Lucille is ill and the spy turns her over to an old Chinese woman. Howbeit, as soon as one danger is averted another springs up. The Chinese woman no sooner sees the costly necklace which Lucille wears than she decides to steal it. Lucille learns of the plot, and when the thieving woman and a confederate come to rob her she is prepared. In self-protection she shoots the Chinese woman and uses the confederate to cover her retreat. In the meantime Hugo Loubeque has gathered a force of men and attacked Captain Wetheral's ship, which rides in the harbor. Loubeque takes the precious documents from the captain and has him thrown into prison. Loubeque then opens negotiations with a Chinese merchant, which results in his signing an agreement to smuggle ammunition to the port. Lucille learns from the imprisoned sea captain that Loubeque has again come into the possession of the papers. The captain, however, had retained Loubeque' s diary, and this he gives to the girl. While shadowing Louheque Lucille learns of his intended smuggling operations, and when the occasion offers she steals Loubeque's signed contract with the Chinese merchant, with the intention of using it as a lever to force the stolen documents from him. The girl, however, is now in a new predicament. Loubeque has regained possession of his ship and intends sailing immediately for the United States, where the papers will be used to dishonor her father. She hides on the wharf and watches Loubeque board the ship. It will sail within a few minutes, and whatever she does must be done quickly. Episode 8: No sooner than Lucille hides herself among the boxes on the wharf than she hears Loubeque's voice. An officer of the Chinese police is questioning him concerning the whereabouts of Lucille. Her overt act in protecting her life against a Chinese woman has been construed as murder, and she is confronted by this new danger. Even while Loubeque is talking with the policeman, he looks around the corner of the boxes and sees Lucille. He is impressed by her forlorn situation, and out of sheer pity for her he throws the policeman off the trail. Loubeque then goes aboard the ship, and it sets sail, not, however, before Lucille has stolen into the hold and found a hiding place. Again Loubeque is touched by pity for the girl, and he sends a sailor into the hold that he may discover Lucille, and that she may not want for the necessities of existence. The girl is discovered and taken before the captain. The good old mariner takes on an air of mock seriousness, and ordains that the punishment shall consist in serving as his cabin boy during the voyage. The documents of which Lucille is in search are again in the possession of Loubeque. One day, while he is in his stateroom, he catches sight of Lucille spying on him through a porthole. Surmising her purpose. Loubeque takes the documents from his pocket, places them in a scarf and hides the scarf under a cushion. The face of Lucille disappears from the porthole. The man now removes the genuine documents from the scarf and places a package of blank papers in their place. As a result, when Lucille steals in to his stateroom, she falls into Loubeque's trap. She steals the blank papers, and when she discovers Loubeque's trick, her anger is only equaled by her chagrin. But two can play at the same game. The girl holds the papers signed by Loubeque, which mark him as a smuggler of contraband arms into China. The international spy discovers the girl in his stateroom. He proposes to her that she give him the papers in exchange for the documents which will save her father's honor. She agrees and each hands the other a package of blank papers. It is still a neck to neck race of wits and cunning until Loubeque makes veiled threats as to what will transpire when the ship arrives at San Francisco. Lucille appeals to the captain for aid and describes her adventures to him. The captain calls Loubeque for an explanation of his conduct, and Loubeque tells the captain that she is insane. Her strange story partly corroborates this, and the captain is not decided in the mater when the boat arrives at San Francisco. Despite the captain's precautions, Loubeque's agents press around Lucille at the gangplank and abduct her. She is whisked away in a taxicab in a city where she has no friends. Episode 9: After Lucille is abducted from the ocean liner on its arrival at San Francisco, she is hurried to Hugo Loubeque's house by his accomplice. Although Loubeque treats his pretty captive kindly, she is never left unguarded. Again the extreme prowess of Loubeque is impressed upon the unfortunate girl. His house even, has been specially constructed to trap his victims and deceive the police. Ordinary-appearing staircases sink into secret chambers at his wish. The side walls of rooms contract as it were with dungeons of the inquisition, and even the floors of rooms move upward and downward, from story to story. Never had a successful outcome of her mission looked more hopeless. While Lucille is held incommunicado, Captain Clarkson, of the liner, and her friend, is not idle. He locates the house where the girl is held prisoner, and has it surrounded by detectives. In the meantime Loubeque becomes a victim of his own cleverness. He stumbles into a pitfall of his own making. One of the moving floors comes down upon him by accident and crushes him into unconsciousness. Before he has regained his senses Lucille is in his pocket, and is again in possession of the papers. Fearing the consequences of her act she hides the papers in the baseboard of a wall. When Loubeque awakens he misses the documents, and, although the girl denies all knowledge of them, he knows that only she would take them. His plans are interrupted, however, by the arrival of Captain Clarkson and the police. Loubeque allows them to search every nook and corner of the house. The house was built for just such an emergency, and they do not find Lucille, although they are sure she is there. Shortly afterward Lucille communicates with the detectives. The officers of the law fight their way into the house, and a terrific battle with Loubeque's henchmen follows. Collapsible rooms close in and crush the fighters. Traps open and receive the unwary, and the floors of rooms move from one story to another. In the midst of the fight a rope is dropped to Lucille, and she escapes to the roof. Loubeque is hot on her trail, however. He disables or slays her rescuers, and the fight continues at a dizzy height over housetops. Lucille at last sees an opening. She climbs down a fire-escape and Loubeque does not follow. He has a better plan. Lucille finds her way into an office building and rejoices at her freedom. She starts downstairs and meets Loubeque coming up. "You are too much trouble here," comments Loubeque, "I will take you to my ranch in Mexico." The words daze Lucille. Her tongue cleaves to the roof of her mouth. Her usual poise and self-possession flee. Ordinarily, she would have sought safety in flight. Now she seems to sense the futility of such a move. Crestfallen and supine, she follows the man of iron will down the stairs and into the street. Episode 10: When Lucille again finds herself in the hands of Hugo Loubeque all the spirit of fight is temporarily taken out of her. She is overpowered and crushed down by her utter helplessness in the hands of the unscrupulous spy. Consequently, she allows herself to be led to another of Loubeque's strongholds. To make easy his plans for removing the girl to his Mexican estate, Loubeque orders her drugged. Realizing the uselessness of combating him, Lucille agrees to drink a potion of drugged wine, providing that a lady attends her during the trip to Mexico. Loubeque agrees to this, and she swallows a powerful sleeping potion. Thompson, Loubeque's right-hand man, knows that Lucille has the costly ruby necklace she found in the sunken city, and as soon as the drug takes effect he plans to take the jewels from her. He attacks her, however, before the drug has completely done its work. She struggles with the thief and is rescued from the situation by Loubeque. Lucille is now overcome by a deep, unnatural sleep. Friends are at hand, but they come too late, as Lucille cannot combine with them against the spy. Detectives again locate Loubeque. A battle ensues, and the detectives are again defeated by the cunning spy, who prepares for every emergency. When Lucille awakens from the effect of the drugs she finds herself on Loubeque's estate in Mexico. She has the liberty of a large hacienda, but is forbidden to go outside of its walls. Indeed, she cannot go outside, as every avenue of escape is guarded by armed men. Considering that Lucille is now safely out of his way. Hugo Loubeque returns to San Francisco to search his house for the fateful papers which Lucille hid there. Howbeit, coincidence and chance play a part in the affairs of men which the most sagacious cannot foretell. After Loubeque's departure a Mexican bandit ventures into the hacienda in a spirit of mischief, and thus Lucille finds a friend in her dire need. Thompson again plans to steal the ruby necklace from Lucille, and to forward his design he saws the iron bars of Lucille's window with the purpose of entering her room that night and stealing the jewel. His trivial act becomes a means of succor to Lucille. When Thompson enters her room and attacks her that night, the bandit is called to the scene by her cries. He shoots Thompson, and with his help Lucille escapes from her prison house and from the hacienda. Even while she is escaping a new element of mystery enters into the story. The guards stand upon the hacienda walls firing at Lucille and her escort, when a veiled woman arrives and directs operations against the fugitives. When they have arrived almost at a point of safety. Lucille's good friend, the bandit, is shot and the girl rides forth alone into a foreign country embroiled in civil wars. Episode 11: When Lucille escapes from Hugo Loubeque's Mexican ranch, where she was held prisoner, she falls into a veritable hotbed of revolutionary activity. While hiding from a troop of rebel soldiers she overhears a number of Mexicans plotting against an American ranchman. Out of sympathy for her countrymen she hurries to them and tells them of the danger which threatens. Instantly the cowboys fly to arms and meet the advancing soldiers. In the height of a fierce battle, with shrapnel and bombs bursting about her. Lucille is grabbed from her horse by a Mexican and carried away from the scene of battle to a strange hacienda, which is used as a base of operations by the Mexican troops in the vicinity. An instant after Lucille is locked in a prison room she looks out of the window and sees an automobile approaching. In that automobile is Hugo Loubeque, and with a sinking heart she realizes that it was through his activity that she is again in his power. In a spirit of hopeless desperation which lends her the strength of a man. the girl wields a heavy bottle in the air and strikes her Mexican guard senseless. In order to perfect her plan of escape, which she so suddenly conceived, she dresses herself in the Mexican clothes. Before she can leave the room, however, a second soldier enters and it is not until she disables him that she makes her escape from the house. Once outside she jumps into Loubeque's automobile and dashes away. In the meantime the Mexican position has been attacked by Federals. With soldiers moving in two directions during the progress of battle, Lucille glides the machine toward the American border. She is hotly pursued by a detachment of cavalry, but she outdistances the horsemen and arrives at the American military headquarters in safety. The officers listen to her story and aid her with money and clothes. Now that she has thrown off Loubeque's power Lucille's first thought is of the papers which she hid in the spy's San Francisco home, and she sets out to get possession of them. While en route to San Francisco by train she is recognized by Thompson, one of Loubeque's principal confederates. Thompson telegraphs Loubeque of the girl's movements, and is instructed by Loubeque to allow Lucille to enter his home without interference, but that when she is once inside to hold her prisoner. Little suspecting that the spy knows of her movements. Lucille disguises herself and enters Loubeque's house to get the papers. She finds the papers, but a moment before she leaves, the room in which she is in hiding sinks to the cellar, and she finds herself trapped and Hugo Loubeque awaiting her with a sinister smile. Episode 12: True it is that Lucille has regained possession of the priceless documents, still she is in a more dangerous position than ever before. She again finds herself Hugo Loubeque's prisoner in his San Francisco residence. Her position is especially dangerous because Loubeque is now thoroughly tired of the extreme bother she has caused him. She realizes that he is now in deadly earnest, and when he demands the return of the papers she promptly hands them to him in fright and misgiving. A fortunate incident to divert Loubeque's anger occurs when Thompson, the crook-butler, enters. Lucille accuses him of stealing her jewels, and to prove her assertions she takes the "stolen" jewels from his pocket. Loubeque's pent-up anger and impatience then breaks in all its fury on the butler. The spy knocks the man down and strangles him almost into insensibility. While Lucille is waiting for her fate to be decided she glances listlessly out of the barred window. Outside of the house she sees Lieutenant Gibson, the man she loves, and who is in the same predicament with her father in that both will be dishonored unless the documents are recovered from Loubeque before he finds an opportunity to use them. Lieutenant Gibson has tracked Lucille to this house. However, Loubeque sees Gibson almost as quick as does Lucille, and he at once begins giving orders to his men that they may forestall an attack. However, Lieutenant Gibson is just as quick in action as Loubeque, and before the spy can get his forces together Gibson's men attack the house, batter down the front door and begin fighting in the corridors and upon the stairways. Loubeque realizes that his force is outnumbered and commands all to escape through the underground tunnel. Lucille is carried into the tunnel, but in covering the retreat of his men Loubeque hesitates a moment too long and Gibson dashes in and holds him up at the point of a revolver. Loubeque holds up his hands and backs against the door. Gibson looks around and gives an order, and as he does so the door against which Loubeque leans quickly pivots and the spy disappears. Loubeque joins his men in the tunnel. They escape with Lucille to an automobile. The girl soon realizes that she is being taken back to Loubeque's estate in Mexico. Once arrived at the hacienda. Thompson, the butler, begins to smart under the ill-treatment given him by Loubeque. The butler rebels against the spy and takes Loubeque's chauffeur into his confidence, and between them they plan to liberate Lucille and escape themselves. They communicate their plans to Lucille and all three decide that that night at the third hoot of the owl, they will escape in Loubeque's automobile. Loubeque becomes suspicious of the conspirators, and when he can learn nothing by other means, he plays possum. He pretends that he is asleep, and watches the three people out of the corner of his eye. Already the owl-hoot signal has been twice given, and Lucille is ready to escape, when Loubeque jumps to his feet and grapples with the astonished butler. While they are fighting the spy drops the documents. Lucille picks them up. She herself gives the third signal, jumps over the balustrade, climbs into the automobile and speeds away with the chauffeur. After overpowering Thompson, Loubeque dashes to the front of the house just in time to see Lucille being whisked away in his machine. He calls his men together. They mount their horses and give chase. Episode 13: Taking advantage of Loubeque's quarrel with Thompson, his butler, Lucille picks up the priceless documents from the floor, where they fell during the scuffle. She runs out of the hacienda, jumps into Loubeque's machine with the chauffeur, who has decided to aid her, and begins a wild dash toward the American frontier. Loubeque takes after her in another machine, and a spectacular and thrilling chase begins. The country is rough and the roads are rough and in bad shape. Loubeque can better stand the rough handling than the girl, and as a consequence he gains on her rapidly. Knowing what his fate will be if the spy overtakes him, Lucille's chauffeur loses his head while driving the machine over a dugway. The sight which Loubeque then witnesses freezes his blood and causes him to cover his eyes that he may see no more. Lucille's automobile swerves, hesitates and then dashes from the dugway and topples from the edge of the cliff into the terrible abyss. When she regains consciousness she finds herself in bed, with Loubeque caring for her and administering to her injuries. The papers are gone, and she is set back to the point where she started. The futility of fighting the purposes of such a man as Loubeque, with all his physical power, determination and keen sense of intrigue, dawns upon the girl and leaves her without an ounce of fighting energy. Unasked, she agrees to give up the fight which has already cost her so much and return to San Francisco. In her heart she has begun to admire Hugo Loubeque, his steadfastness to a purpose which could actuate only a man of intense character and brilliant imagination. Although he dare not admit it to himself, Loubeque has a feeling for Lucille which is far greater than a passing admiration for her determination, bravery and energy in fighting apparently insurmountable obstacles. However, Loubeque has never lost sight of his objective point, viz, the ruination of Sumpter Love, the man who stole his sweetheart and wrecked his life. Thus when he arrives in San Francisco with Lucille he at once begins negotiations with a Lieutenant Hadley to turn over the papers to the Department of State and thus dishonor Lucille's father. He makes an appointment to meet Hadley at a café, and there deliver the papers to him. Lucille learns of his plans and accompanies him to the café. Knowing that the spy will not talk business in her presence, Lucille feigns illness and is excused. She hires one of the cabaret dancers to allow her to use her clothes and dance in her place. Lucille dances in the café, and now and then, when she edges near Loubeque, she overhears portions of his conversation. Then a most unexpected thing happens. Lieutenant Gibson, Lucille's sweetheart, happens into the café. He cannot believe his eyes when he sees Lucille, the only daughter of General Sumpter Love, as a cabaret dancer. Lucille also sees Gibson and runs to him with the light of recognition and love in her eyes. But Gibson pushes her from him in disgust. He can have nothing to do with a cabaret dancer. She pleads with him, but he will not listen to an explanation and rushes from the café. Episode 14: After her humiliation in the eyes of the man she loves, and after failing to secure the information she sought to secure by eavesdropping on Loubeque in the café, Lucille returns to her hotel crestfallen and without hope. However, good fortune comes from an unexpected source, and by a strange stroke of circumstances Hugo Loubeque is again outwitted in an attempt to deliver the documents to Lieutenant Hadley. By previous arrangement, Hadley was to communicate with Loubeque by carrier pigeon and arrange for a definite meeting place. As Lucille sat at breakfast before an open window the pigeon, bound for Loubeque's room, was attracted into Lucille's window by the crumbs upon the table. She took up the bird and began fondling it, when she discovered Hadley's note, and then wrote another, a misleading missive, and substituted it for the original. The pigeon then was liberated and flew to Loubeque's room with the counterfeit message. In the meantime, Thompson, the crook-butler, steals into Loubeque's room in an attempt to avenge himself upon the international spy. While Thompson is still hiding in his room, Lucille enters with the intention of drawing Loubeque out and making him speak. She is unsuccessful, however, and leaves, but not before she realizes that something is wrong. Loubeque has heard someone behind his curtain, and then begins to steal forward toward the spy. Lucille is watching from the fire escape. She watches Loubeque wait for an opportune moment, and then swing around on the butler and disarm him before he can put his murderous plan into execution. Loubeque then telephones the police that there is a thief in his room. Loubeque hesitates in having Thompson arrested, however, when the butler tells him that he will tell the police all. Thompson awaits his chance, and attempts to kill Loubeque, who is too quick for him, and shoots him. He drags Thompson's body out of his room and into Lucille's room. In the meantime the girl has entered Loubeque's room and begins searching for his papers. The police enter and arrest her as a thief. Despite her objections she is taken to the police station. While this is happening, however, Loubeque discovers that Lucille has been arrested in error. Then he does a strange thing. As long as she is in jail she cannot interfere with his plans. It would have been the most natural thing in the world for him to have left her there. Instead of doing this, he at once communicated with the police and instructed them to release Lucille, as she was not the thief, and was arrested in error. Lucille is set free. She is coming to understand Loubeque less every day. She realizes, and had had demonstration of his iron will. She had done everything in her power to defeat him, and even to attempt to kill him, and then he is instrumental in having her released from prison. He is an enigma, a paradox. Episode 15: Hugo Loubeque, the international spy, falls into the trap which heretofore he had used to defeat those who opposed him. Plan as a man will, unforeseen coincidences arise which confound reason and place the work of a lifetime at naught. It happened thus with Loubeque. When Lucille learned that Loubeque was to meet Lieutenant Hadley at his (Loubeque's) home, she at once hastened to the rendezvous herself. As she was the first to arrive, she took a look through the house of so many terrors. When she beheld a picture of Loubeque upon the wall, the thought of all his crimes and the bitter hatred of her father overwhelmed her, and she raised her revolver and fired into the face of the picture. Even before the echo of the report had died away an amazing thing happened. She saw the floor of a bedroom slowly sink out of sight. Had she not known what had already transpired in that house, she would have been, indeed, confounded. Lucille removed the picture from the wall, and behind it found a switchboard. It was from this board that Loubeque controlled all the traps, staircases and sliding ways and floors of the house. Forthwith she tested every switch. One caused a staircase to disappear, while another caused a desk to sink into the floor. No sooner than she had mastered the system of switches than Lieutenant Hadley arrived. In an instant she laid her plan of action. She informed Hadley that Loubeque was not there, but that he would leave on the Golden State Limited that night. Hadley was satisfied and left. A few moments later Loubeque arrived to keep his appointment with Hadley. Instead of Hadley he found Lucille. As Loubeque leaned against the desk Lucille pressed the proper button and Loubeque fell through the floor with the heavy desk upon him. While he was still in a stunned condition, Lucille crept into the cellar and removed the documents from his inside pocket. An instant later Loubeque recovered and ran after the girl, but he was just one minute too late. She ran to the mouth of the secret tunnel, and just before Loubeque grasped her in his arms she closed down and locked the iron gate. This was her moment at last. She could laugh and jibe the spy, and he was helpless to harm her. But time had not ceased to be precious. Lucille rushed to the railroad station and caught the outgoing train. Loubeque also arrived, but he was too late. Lucille was gone forever with the papers. Returning to his home, Loubeque told Gibson that Lucille was on her way to Washington with the documents, but Gibson thought the spy was lying to him. Each took a sword, and they decided to settle the argument with blood. In the midst of a terrible duel, however, the house was surrounded by detectives, and Loubeque saw that he must escape while there was yet time. In the instant before the detectives rushed in, Loubeque took a package from his pocket containing Lucille's costly necklace and banded it to Gibson, with instructions to take it to the Secretary of War. A moment later Loubeque disappeared and the floors of the house tumbled into the cellar, trapping those who had come to arrest a spy. Lucille delivered the documents to the Secretary of War at Washington, and thus saved the name of her father and of her sweetheart, Lieutenant Gibson. Gibson arrived while Lucille was yet with the Secretary. He fell at Lucille's feet and begged her forgiveness for misjudging her, and she was only too willing to re-establish him again in her heart. That night Loubeque wrote in his diary: "My debt of hate toward Sumpter Love is canceled, for no hate can outlive love in the man who has known Lucille." Loubeque loved Lucille. ENDFour of 15 episodes survive.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsRobert Z. LeonardElla HallHarry CarterEpisode 1: "Gold Madness" Two mining prospectors. James Gallon and his partner, Wilkerson, in a temporary camp, have been searching for gold. Gallon has made a lucky strike and has tried to conceal the fact from Wilkerson, who already suspects his partner is not giving him a square deal. The partners are sitting around the campfire one evening when suddenly Wilkerson becomes thirsty. After taking innumerable drinks of water, he falls asleep. Gallon walks off some distance from the sleeper and starts drawing the plans of his great find, but every now and again he furtively turns his eyes in the direction of Wilkerson, fearing he may awaken and discover his secret. Wilkerson awakens, observes Gallon and wonders what he is doing. Quietly he crawls on his hands and knees until he can peer over Gallon's shoulder; and in his eagerness to see he accidentally touches him. Gallon discovers Wilkerson is looking at him, and starts running away, with Wilkerson in pursuit. Gallon grabs his gun, turns and fires at Wilkerson. A terrific fight follows. Gallon leaves Wilkerson apparently dead. Gallon, after hours of wandering, reaches the small mining town of Jacito. A stranger takes him to the sheriff's office. Gallon tells the sheriff he and his partner were attacked by outlaws and his partner was killed. The sheriff, accompanied by his deputy and Gallon, goes toward the saloon and calls for volunteers. A crowd soon collects. Out of the saloon comes a half drunken boy, who cries, "I'm game," jumps on a horse, and the posse are off. As they gallop up the hill, the drunken boy is thrown to the ground when his horse stumbles. The others ride on. The boy lies dazed. His horse gets upon its feet and whinnies. "Who's coming?" mutters the boy. Through the brush he distinguishes a faint form; it is a man. Could this be one of the outlaws? He wonders. He pulls his revolver. "I'm Wilkerson." replies the voice. Wilkerson confides his story to the boy and asks his help. The boy consents and the two go slowly on. At the camp, the sheriff and deputy find no one. The sheriff returns and orders Gallon's arrest. The boys bind him. Evening comes on the posse camp, leaving Gallon tied by the fire. A cowboy is left on watch. In time the watcher falls asleep. Gallon manages to sever his bonds by holding his hands over the fire. He manages to get to a horse and escape. The posse pursue him. Gallon has reached the thick brush, and when he knows he is safe he lies down and takes out the plans he had drawn, also a picture of a twelve-year-old girl, his only daughter, Ruth, and with that picture clasped tightly to his heart he falls asleep, muttering, "I'll save 'The Master Key' for Ruth." Fearing to return to the scene of his supposed crime, Gallon leaves San Francisco by ship for his home. Visions of Wilkerson appear before him. His conscience is troubled. Shortly after boarding the ship, he finds an old sea chest, which he opens. He takes out a curious Japanese idol. In the head of this he hides the plan to his mine. The captain of the vessel is a brute. Once out to sea a mutiny ensues, during which the ship catches fire. Shortly after it sinks, Gallon is washed ashore. Realizing he has nothing to indicate the location of the disaster, he engraves the approximate longitude and latitude where the ship went down on the key to the chest, known afterward as "The Master Key." Later, he is rescued and returns home, where he meets his daughter, Ruth. Five years ensue. Gallon returns to the mines, which he begins developing. He keeps a diary, and in this writes a notation to the effect that he has been seeking for the secret of his lost plans. About this time Gallon writes to a New York stock broker, named Gates, asking him for advice relative to floating "The Master Key" mines. On the day Gates receives Gallon's letter, John Dore, a young mining engineer, calls upon the former and is engaged as consulting and construction engineer for Gallon. He goes West to take up his work. Here he meets Gallon's daughter. Gallon takes his diary from his safe and writes: "This day has been a repetition of all those gone before for the past five years. I am still seeking for the secret of my lost plans. I had not yet discovered" Episode 2: "A Ship Wreck and Wrecked Hopes" Many a man writes down on paper the things he cannot articulate. James Gallon, dreaming of two women, taciturn and silent as he was, wrote down the thoughts which he could not express in speech. His diary, well thumbed, held the history of many a lonely night, but of all these nights there was one that stood out in his mind. It was the darkness enclosing a woman on a bed. He still heard her whispered cry, "You speak of God, Tom, but I have no religion but motherhood." Before his closed eyes came the vision of a lamp lit, then almost an apparition, the face of his daughter. One life had fled, possibly appalled by the horrors of a world that reeks not of our poor humanity. Yet there was in the dead woman's arms a child grotesquely asleep, as if unawakened mother had known. "Ruth," he cried. There was no answer from in the darkness, but thus he had christened his only child. And Gallon knew he was getting old. The problem before him was no longer dim and vague, as it had been in the days of his prime, but absolutely distinct and clear. What was to become of Ruth when he died. He sternly put out of his mind the thought of his former partner, the man, was he dead? If he had not died that night in the gulch, if he were still alive, knowing the secret of "The Master Key," who could save Ruth from his vengeance? Then there rose before Gallon's mind the straight, strong, almost austere figure of his mining engineer, John Dore. Youthful, of course, but he had proved himself wholly competent in almost every task that had been given him. And as though Fate desired to give further proof of Dore's manliness, she arranges for him, shortly after this, a fearful undertaking. Ruth, while exploring the tunnels, is thrown into an ore car by a terrific explosion. This explosion sends the car on its downward flight out through the tunnel and over the trestle. She is in danger of tragic death if the car goes over the dump at the end. Dore, superintending the operations of a traveling bucket, sees her predicament. He orders the bucket swung loose by its cable and, hanging down by his legs, he swings over the girl and pulls her up to him, the car rushing on and smashing over the ore dump. But what of Gallon? Those whom we most want to forget reappear at strange times. James Gallon saw the ghost of the partner he had murdered on the crest of the hill above the mine they had discovered years ago together. Yes, Wilkerson, the partner, was alive. He had continually searched for Gallon. In some vague way Gallon had realized this, and his fears had been summarized by the words written down in the diary: "Wilkerson still alive by night. When will he come into the day? He shall never have the key that will unlock the secret to my little girl's happiness. I will trust John Dore." But it was no apparition that Gallon had seen, first on the crest of the hill and men at the window; it was really Wilkerson who, after one satisfied glance, rode swiftly away toward Valle Vista. It was midnight when he rapped at the door of the railroad station and called the sleepy agent waiting for the express. This is the telegram he sent: "Valle Vista, Cal. Jean Darnell, Astor House, New York City, N.Y: Have found Gallon at last. Address Master Key Mine to-morrow. Wilkerson." Who was Jean Darnell? Well, she had a mission of vengeance, too. Incidentally, she welcomed money. Wilkerson had to have it if he ever expected to possess her. When Ruth came to make her fight, with the help of her sweetheart, John Dore, she had two crafty persons to deal with. Episode 3: "The Ghost Appears" Hounded by Wilkerson, Gallon is made to realize that his former partner is a real being and not an apparition. It is this knowledge which breaks the spirit of Gallon and prepares him for death. Wilkerson compels Gallon to employ him as superintendent of the mine. It is the last straw; Gallon sinks fast, and as his life is about to flicker out, his daughter, John Dore and the old cook are gathered in the death-room. Supported in Ruth's arms, Gallon writes his last will. It reads: "I leave all my property to my daughter Ruth, to come into her full possession on her eighteenth birthday. I direct her never to let go of 'The Master Key,' which will make my little girl happy. I direct that my daughter keep Harry Wilkerson as superintendent until she is eighteen. I appoint as executor or this, my last will and testament, John Dore." When Gallon dies Dore finds in the desk a sealed envelope, addressed to him, which reads: "To be opened on Ruth's eighteenth birthday, sooner if her welfare is threatened." It is hard for Dore and Ruth to appreciate all that has and is happening; much of it is a mystery to them. Vaguely they realize that Gallon had a dread of Wilkerson, that he had evidently wronged him, and that Wilkerson, in his turn, has a mission of vengeance. At the "Master Key" mine matters come to a critical point when Wilkerson, now in full charge, posts a notice to the effect that "After this day all wages in this mine will be reduced 25 per cent." The man is after money, as much of it as he can get. He also sees that Dore is a stumbling block to his schemes. Of an afternoon Dore interferes when Wilkerson knocks a miner down. It is the excuse for Wilkerson firing him as the mine engineer. Following this move, the miners decide to strike. Wilkerson's domineering manner has earned the dislike of every one of them. There is a fight in the office between Wilkerson and an old miner. The former draws a gun, and is only prevented from shooting the miner by the timely appearance of Dore. But the incident is sufficient excuse for the rough miners to seek Wilkerson's life. They secure a rope and prepare to lynch him. Because of Ruth, because he cannot see murder done even in the heat of passion, Dore goes to the defense of the cornered rat. Standing on a box, he tells the miners in a few brief words the exact situation so far as he is concerned, begs them not to risk Ruth's property. For a time the men listen, and then they seem to get out of hand. Ruth climbs onto the box beside her sweetheart and joins her own appeal with his. And this proves successful, so far as the life of Wilkerson is concerned. But the strike; it must be ended. Wilkerson realized this if he hoped to continue the mine operations and secure money, his life would be threatened at any moment so long as the strike lasted. It is a bitter draught to swallow, but Wilkerson announces to the men that the former scale of wages will be again put in force, and that John Dore will be appointed superintendent of the mine. He is ready to bide his time for revenge. Episode 4: "Over the Divide" With his miners still hostile, Wilkerson realizes that he must get Dore out of the way, if only temporarily. Inasmuch as Dore has saved Wilkerson's life, thus preventing him from openly assaulting him, the scheming executor of Ruth Gallon's will plans to induce Dore to go to San Francisco. Accordingly he alters the books of "The Master Key" mine to make it appear that unless more capital is secured at once the mine will go into bankruptcy. Wilkerson suggests that Dore leave at once, but Ruth's protector scents another conspiracy, and arranges that Ruth, instead of himself, shall make the trip to secure more capital. Wilkerson, who plans to oust both Ruth, the rightful heir to "The Master Key" mine, and Dore, accepts Dore's counter proposition with bad grace. Making the most of the opportunity to rid himself of one of the obstacles to the success of his schemes, however, Wilkerson consents to Ruth's visiting San Francisco in Dore's place. Upon Ruth's departure Wilkerson wires Mrs. Darnell, an old flame, to introduce Ruth to a 'Frisco confidence man, Charles Drake, as the Mr. Everett with whom she is to make arrangements for securing further capital for the financing of the mine. Drake is instructed to gain control of the deeds which Ruth takes to San Francisco with her. Ruth, all unsuspecting of the net into which she is being drawn, is introduced to Drake, and entrusts him with the sending of a telegram to Dore, telling the young mine superintendent of her safe arrival in San Francisco. Drake sends the telegram after making himself acquainted with its contents. Dore, back at his mine, receives Ruth's telegram at the same time he is handed another puzzling wire from the real Mr. Everett, which reads: "Miss Gallon has not arrived; what is the trouble?" Upon comparing Ruth's telegram, which assures him that she has "met Mr. Everett at depot," Dore instantly realizes that something is amiss, and decides to leave for San Francisco at once to straighten out the matter. Hearing of Dore's plan to leave, Wilkerson resolves to prevent his departure at all costs. For several hours he considers several plans, and finally decides upon one which he hopes will rid him for all time of the young mining engineer. During the night he withdraws a pin from the brake on the rear wheel of the motor truck which Dore will use next day in making the journey from the mine to the railroad station. A half hour before Dore leaves Wilkerson rides ahead and fires the bridge at the foot of a steep decline down which Dore's truck must come. The bridge is hidden by a bend in the road, and the driver of Dore's truck fails to see the steadily mounting flames until he is halfway down the side of the steep hill. He at once applies the brakes to the truck, but the pin which Wilkerson has removed prevents the brakes from working, and the car soon attains a terrific momentum. Bounding from side to side of the narrow mountain roadway, the driver of the machine has great difficulty from preventing the truck from leaping the trail. Realizing that death awaits him when the truck strikes the blazing timbers of the bridge, the driver jumps for his life into a ditch alongside the road. Dore, anticipating the driver's desertion, springs to the steering wheel of the truck just in time to prevent it from overturning. He applies the brakes frantically in an attempt to control the runaway car, but with no success. With the flames of the bridge already beating in his face, Dore jumps at the last moment from the car, rolls down the hillside, and hangs unconscious over the edge of the canyon, into which the massive motor truck plunges through the rotten timbers of the blazing plank bridge. The heat from the burning structure and the crackling of flames in nearby bushes and mountain grass brings Dore to semi-consciousness and a realization of his danger. Painfully crawling away from the canyon's edge to a bare rock where the flames cannot reach him, he again falls unconscious from his injuries. Wilkerson, meanwhile, has reached the station, and catches the local for San Francisco, believing that Dore has plunged into the depth of the canyon. Episode 5: "The Lost Vein" At the conclusion of the fourth episode Dore barely saved himself from plunging through a blazing bridge into the depths of the canyon. The introduction of the fifth episode of the serial shows Tom Kane cook of "The Master Key" mine, coming to the rescue of Dore as he lies half-conscious on the brink of the precipice. Wilkerson, who set fire to the bridge, meanwhile, is on his way toward San Francisco. En route he sends a telegram to Drake and the latter meets him at the station. Mrs. Darnell, Drake and Ruth are registered at the Manx Hotel, the adventuress and confidence man passing off the pretty young woman as their daughter. Upon arriving at the hotel Drake, Wilkerson and Mrs. Darnell discuss their plan to secure control of "The Master Key" mine. Ruth, secreted in her room, overhears the conversation and learns for the first time that she has been trapped by her dead father's enemies. In order to prevent the conspirators from securing the deeds to "The Master Key" mine, Ruth locks them in a dresser drawer and puts the key in her grip. The conspirators enter Ruth's room soon afterward and, realizing that she has been listening, seize her. In the struggle Ruth faints and the conspirators decide to get her out of the hotel at once. They 'phone for a taxi, bundle Ruth up and rush her downstairs through the lobby of the hotel to the taxi only stopping long enough to pay their bill. The hotel clerk and house detective think the hurried departure strange, and try to stop Drake and Mrs. Darnell. Failing in this they give chase in another taxicab. The pursuit brings them to Chinatown, where they arrive in time to see Wilkerson force Ruth into an opium den owned by Sing Wah, a former opium smuggler. Dore meanwhile arrives in San Francisco, and goes to the Manx Hotel. The only suite vacant is that just given up by the conspirators. Dore unpacks his personal effects in the room from which Ruth has just been hurried away. One of the dresser drawers is locked and Dore sends for a key. The drawer is opened and, to his surprise, the young mining engineer finds deeds to "The Master Key" mine within. Episode 6: "Wilkerson Strikes" Dore learns from the hotel authorities of the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Darnell and her companions. Aided by the hotel detective they find the taxi driver who drove the party and direct him to take them to the place where he drove the others. An immediate search of Chinatown is begun. By accident Dore sees Drake enter a Chinese shop. Meanwhile, Mrs. Darnell and Wilkerson have discovered that the deeds to the mine are not in Ruth's grip, as they supposed. Believing that Ruth has them they send Drake to win her confidence and thus secure them. When he enters the shop Dore, the detective and the taxi driver follow. They see him disappear through a panel door and hurry out for police assistance. In the interim, Sing Wah, the Chinese, has decided to hold Ruth for his own purpose. When Drake comes for her, he escapes from the cylindrical trap room and takes her down to the bay, with the intention of carrying her to a safe hiding place. Dore and the detective with police assistance return quickly, and a general raid on the opium den is made. Drake evades the police. He does not meet Dore but escapes and returns to the lodging house, where he reports his failure to secure the papers. Dore and the detective are trapped in the cylindrical room by a Chinese woman who had previously guarded Ruth. Dore is slightly injured, and in the excitement of the moment the woman pulls a trap and drops the mining engineer and the detective into the water underneath the den. They swim to a rowboat and thus pass through the underground canal into the bay. They come upon Sing Wah with Ruth and an exciting chase follows, ending with the rescue of Ruth. Episode 7: "The Battle in the Dark" Dore secures a room for Ruth in the same hotel where he is stopping in San Francisco and borrows some clothing for her, pending a trip to the shopping district. In order to take her mind off her experience, Dore takes Ruth on a trip to Cliff House. The trip and accompanying dinner take the greater part of the evening and upon her return Ruth goes down the hall into her room. Dore is inserting the key into the lock of his room down the hall when he hears Ruth scream. Running into her room he sees a figure crawling out on the fire escape. In their absence Wilkerson, by bribes and threats of exposure, has engaged Sam Pell, an ex-second story man and hotel worker, to make a further attempt to recover the deeds of "The Master Key" mine. Pell, by following Dore and Ruth, has learned their room number. He had about completed his night's work when Ruth and Dore returned and interrupted him. Dore fiercely pursued the second-story worker across the roof of the hotel, cornering him behind the great chimneys. Ruth, following closely after, witnesses the struggle between the two men. Pell has about overcome Dore when another figure crawls up the fire escape. It is Tom Kane, who has returned to San Francisco to report to Dore the distress among the miners of "The Master Key" workings. Tom immediately turns the tide of battle by drawing a gun on Pell. The slippery second-story man, however, eludes both Dore and Kane. Just as he reaches the edge of the roof, Dore again catches him and throws him so heavily that the criminal falls over the roof to the street below and is killed. Unnoticed by Dore, Kane or Ruth, Pell had skillfully thrown the deeds down the inner "well" of the hotel. Upon the arrival of hotel employees and the police, Pell's body is searched but no trace of the deeds is obtained. The police recognize Pell as an old criminal, and Dore's story is accepted without question. After a short investigation the police permit Dore and Ruth to leave. Kane assures Ruth that things are "going along fine" at the mine but secretly admits to Dore that the men are out of work and that there is extreme suffering among them. Wilkerson's man, Tubbs, has discharged Kane and taken things at the mine into his own hands. Dore at once realizes that something must be done to prevent Wilkerson from ruining the property through his hirelings. Episode 8: "The Struggle on the Roof" As a matter of form, John Dore is arrested for the death of Pell. Everett goes with him to arrange for his release on bail. Ruth is left in the care of Tom Kane. Kane tells her that the miners are out of work and threatened with starvation. Ruth listens sympathetically as Kane tells her how he opened the cook house to the wives of the miners and supplied them with food. She is pleased to learn that when the engineer interfered he was only saved from being mobbed by Kane, although Kane could not stop the miners from running the engineer out of camp. These events, Kane explains, made him resolve to go to John and Ruth to obtain their assistance in raising funds to help the starving people. Wilkerson and Mrs. Darnell learn of the death of Pell and decide to forge a note, supposedly from Dore, asking Ruth to visit him at the jail. Drake, disguised as a chauffeur, takes the note and after getting Ruth in the cab is to take her to a deserted part of town, where Wilkerson will meet him and thus secure the deeds. Ruth shows the note to Kane. The old miner is suspicious and when she leaves he accompanies her. When the cab stops, Wilkerson appears and threatens Ruth, but Kane defeats their purpose and has Drake arrested for attempted abduction. Wilkerson escapes. In the meantime, an ashman cleaning in the alley at the rear of the hotel, finds the deeds and takes them home. He advertises his find, and Wilkerson, seeing the "ad," compels the maid to disguise and go for the papers. The ashman is suspicious at first, but after she offers him a sum of money, he forgets his scruples and delivers them to her. Dore is released on bail and coming to the hotel finds Ruth has gone. The clerk informs him of her departure and shows Dore the note she had received. He is immediately suspicious. While he is deciding on a plan of action, Ruth and Kane come in and tell of their experiences. Everett is nearby reading the papers, when he suddenly shows them the ashman's advertisement. All go to the address mentioned in the advertisement, but find that Wilkerson's emissary has forestalled them. Ruth breaks down and the doctor advises them to take her to the southern part of the state for a change of climate. Wilkerson, Mrs. Darnell and the maid have all disguised themselves and secured tickets to Los Angeles via boat. They get aboard safely and find that Dore. Ruth and their party are on the same boat. Ruth's party, however, do not recognize Wilkerson and Mrs. Darnell on account of their disguises. Episode 9: "Arrested for Murder" John Dore, Tom Kane and Ruth Gallon arrives in Los Angeles from San Francisco and go to the Beverly Hills Hotel for a few days' rest. Harry Wilkerson and Mrs. Darnell also arrive in the city and discover that the deeds to the Master Key Mine, which they secured from the ashman in San Francisco, are worthless to them because no conveyance of the property has been made out. Wilkerson forgets this and they then take steps to seize the mine. Wilkerson wires Drake in San Francisco to go to Silent Valley and represent him there until further notice. He also sends word to the engineer at the mine that Dore is no longer in the company's employ and to recognize the authority of Drake until he can reach the property. At the Beverley Hills Hotel, Ruth meets a young Englishman, heir to a title, who is somewhat of a fortune seeker. He is a new type to her and his breeding and sartorial good taste makes an impression on the young girl. She is not infatuated although John Dore is led to believe that she is, and as a consequence a slight coldness arises between them which neither can explain to the other. Everett follows them from San Francisco to continue his work of raising money to develop the mine, but shows them that he can do nothing unless they secure the deeds of ownership. They, therefore, begin tracking Wilkerson and Mrs. Darnell. With a few hundred dollars, which Everett has loaned Dore, the latter repays his debt to Tom Kane and sends him to Silent Valley to care for the starving miners. Kane finds the mine in the possession of Drake. Kane wires Dore, who leaves at once for Los Angeles with Ruth, arriving at the mine the next day. An open war follows, Wilkerson hurrying to the scene of action on hearing from Drake that trouble is brewing. Without any trouble Dore drives off the intruders and prepares for further attacks. Wilkerson returns with a band of Mexicans from the southern part of the state and opens on Dore and his followers. Many miners and Mexicans are killed in the battle which rages all over the property. Ruth has a narrow escape but is again saved by Dore. In a hand-to-hand fight Wilkerson is thrown from a high trestle down the side of an ore dump. Dore fears that he has killed Wilkerson but in the gathering darkness cannot make sure. Episode 10: "The Fight for the Mine" At the end of Episode Nine of this serial it will be remembered that John Dore throws Wilkerson from a high trestle to the foot of an ore dump near the mine. Wilkerson, although fearfully bruised, revives and drags himself to a spot where he is found by his Mexican hirelings. The Governor of the State, upon the request of the local sheriff, sends a troop of state cavalry to quell the disturbance at the mine. The captain of the company sends for the two leaders and demands an explanation. Both claim ownership of the mine, Dore on behalf of Ruth and Wilkerson for himself. The officer places the camp under martial law and gives the opposing leaders the liberty of the village. Dore accuses Wilkerson of abduction and forgery, but the captain and the sheriff are officially powerless to make an arrest. Dore thereupon sends Tom Kane to the nearest county seat to swear out a warrant for Wilkerson's arrest. Dore lives meanwhile at his own house and Ruth in her old home where she is chaperoned by one of the miner's wives. Wilkerson bunks in one of the miner's cabins. Dore thinks the situation is serious enough to warrant his opening a letter left in his care by Tom Gallon which was to be opened on Ruth's eighteenth birthday or prior to that date should her welfare be threatened. Dore opens the letter which reads as follows: "Silent Valley, Cal., June 20, 1914. Little Girl, read carefully what I now write. On this depends your future welfare. The Master Key mine discovered by me five years ago contains a mother lode of inestimable worth. The exact location of the lode is written on a slip of paper which I placed in the head of an Indian idol, hidden in an old sea chest which sank on the ship on which I was wrecked. On the Master Key, the key to that chest which you wear on your neck, is carved the latitude and longitude where the vessel went down. Find that slip of paper and wealth is yours. Your devoted daddy, JOHN GALLON." In opening the letter with a paper knife, Dore accidentally cuts the letter into two parts. He pieces it together in reading it but in putting the letter into his pocket a part containing the last paragraph drops on the floor. One of Wilkerson's henchmen, who has been instructed to shadow Dore, sees this through the window and when Dore goes out, enters the house and picks up the paper. The Mexican hurries with this part of the letter to Wilkerson and the latter, who always realized that the mine was not located correctly, is elated at the discovery. His next move is to get the key from Ruth. Dore starts to read the letter to Ruth and discovers that half of it is gone. Although he makes a careful search he fails to find it. Dore tells Ruth what the letter contained and copies from the key she wears the numerals so crudely carved by her father five years before and which always have been a puzzle to her. That night the "greaser" steals the key from Ruth's neck and takes it to Wilkerson. Wilkerson leaves camp at once but is pursued to the mine entrance and its caverns by Dore's men. Eluding his pursuers he escapes through the caverns of the mine through a secret opening at the back of the cliff. With a rope he drops over the ledge and lowers himself downward. The soldiers seize the rope and are about to haul Wilkerson up when he drops, lands unscathed in a bush and hurries away. Jumping a freight, he lands in San Diego, secures the services of a diver, wires Mrs. Darnell to join him and then sets out for the sunken ship. Dore, meanwhile, leaves for San Pedro with Ruth, leaving word for Kane to remain in charge of affairs at the mine. At the port of Los Angeles, Dore secures a boat and diver with a hoisting apparatus. Dore and Wilkerson approach the latitude and longitude indicated on "The Master Key" at about the same time. Wilkerson's diver is already down on the sea bottom when Dore's diver puts on his harness and sinks into the waves. Wilkerson's party attempts to prevent the diver from going to work, but Dore and his men hold them back with their rifles and revolvers. Wilkerson's diver finds the chest and it is hauled upward just as Dore's diver crawls along the sea bottom toward him. Episode 11: "The Secret of the Chest" It will be remembered that Wilkerson and Dore are both striving to recover the secret to the rich lode of ore in the mine, which secret is contained in a sea-chest, which Wilkerson has recovered from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Wilkerson's ship continues toward land, and he at once forces the chest open and makes a search for the paper, from which he hopes to learn the secret of "The Master Key"' mine. He fails to find any such slip, but does find the Indian idol, which he casts aside with the other contents as being worthless. Meantime, Dore's boat, which has been pursuing Wilkerson's vessel, reaches shore. Mrs. Darnell upbraids Wilkerson for his seeming stupidity, and another quarrel between them ensues. Members of the crew examine the seemingly worthless contents of the chest, and one of the sailors appropriates the idol among other articles, with a view to selling them in port. Upon arriving in San Diego, Mrs. Darnell goes to a hotel, while Wilkerson remains to pay off the captain and crew. Dore's boat puts into dock, and with the captain and Ruth, he hastens to find Wilkerson and the mysterious idol. In the interim, the sailor, with his idol, goes ashore and seeks out a pawnshop where he may sell his treasures. On the arrival of Dore and Ruth at Wilkerson's boat another altercation ensues between the two enemies, the respective sea captains interfering. Wilkerson gives Dore the laugh, but the latter at once realizes that Harry Wilkerson has not found the papers. Wilkerson goes into town to cash a check with which to pay off the captain. Dore thereupon questions the latter regarding the idol and is referred to members of the crew. He learns that one of the sailors had taken some of the articles in the chest, and search is at once continued. Wilkerson returns to the ship with the cash, and from the captain learns of Dore's inquiry. Thus Wilkerson realizes that he has missed the clue to his search. He goes ashore to shadow Dore. A Hindu peddler visits the pawnshop to sell his wares, consisting of a few Oriental rugs. In the shop he sees the idol, recognizes it and hastens to his squalid quarters, where he holds it close to him in a pathetic manner. As he gazes at the little image it seems to dissolve from view, and a series of pictures of the past appears. The Hindu sees himself as a watcher in a temple. A sailor enters the sacred confines and watches him roam about. He sees him standing before a sacred shrine. The Hindu turns from the visitor and takes up his religious duties where he had left off when he first saw the visitor. Later he notices that the sailor is gone, and, on walking to the shrine, in the performance of a sacred rite, he finds that one of the idols is gone. He immediately commences a search for it and, recalling the incident of the sailor, he runs forth and gives an alarm. He is severely censured by the high priest and is sent forth to find the idol. He visits the wharves and when boarding one of the ships he peers through a porthole and in a cabin sees the sailor gloating over the idol. He moves nearer and the sailor, seeing him, thrusts the idol into his chest and closes the lid. Other sailors come along the dock and question the Hindu. The first sailor comes from his cabin and joins the party. Realizing that the Hindu is searching for the idol, the sailor tells his comrades to throw him overboard. The Hindu is thereupon seized and thrown into the water. He swims ashore and, on being unable to board the ship again, is forced to watch her as she sails away. He returns to the temple and is told that he is banished until he returns with the sacred image. He returns to the wharves and boards another vessel. The Hindu's vision then closes and Ruth and Dore are seen to enter the pawnshop with Wilkerson following close behind, although they are unaware of it. Ruth and Dore question the shopkeeper closely, but the latter evades their queries. Episode 12: "The Quest for the Idol" It will be remembered that in the eleventh episode of "The Master Key" that a Hindu peddler, visiting a pawnshop to sell his wares, consisting of a few Oriental rugs, sees the idol, recognizes it as one which was stolen from him in India years before, and immediately purchases it. The idol has a long history, of which Dore and Ruth know nothing. Upon tracing it to the pawnshop, however, they learn that the Hindu has forestalled them, and that the idol is gone. Wilkerson, also searching for the valuable little idol, which he has permitted to slip through his fingers, trails Ruth and Dore. The pawnbroker tells Ruth and Dore of the strange Hindu to whom he sold it. Dore decides that the oriental is likely to return to India with it, and through the captain of the steamer he traces the Hindu to a ship bound for the Orient. Everett again assists them with money for the voyage. Sir Donald Faversham, learning that Ruth is in Los Angeles, calls on her to renew their friendship, and, learning that they are going to the Orient, he offers his services, he having been previously stationed in India as a British officer. In passing through the streets Ruth's sympathy is aroused in the interest of a poor beggar who is being tormented by the natives, and she goes to his rescue. Later this native proves his gratitude to her. A former servant of Sir Donald is engaged to assist them, and in the guise of natives they visit the temple, after having found where the sacred image has been hidden. In attempting to steal it Dore is captured. Sir Donald returns to Ruth with the news. She begs him to assist Dore to escape, and the Englishman offers to do so on condition that Ruth will promise to marry him if he succeeds. Torn between conflicting emotions, Ruth forces herself to accept the proposition. Sir Donald thereupon secures the services of other former troopers, and with his old servant he rescues Dore after a desperate struggle, in which Hindus and soldiers take part. Episode 13: "A Queer Alliance" Episode Thirteen opens with the same balcony scene which closed Episode Twelve. Ruth and Sir Donald are seen together. Sir Donald makes it plain that he feels much satisfaction at having rescued Dore and forces things to a point where Ruth must live up to her promise to marry him. Dore sees the exchange of glances between Sir Donald and Ruth and is much perplexed. Meanwhile there is much confusion in the temple. The high priest, angered at the desecration of the Temple by Sir Donald's Hindus, calls for vengeance. They start out to make a tour of the European hotels in their efforts to find Dore and Sir Donald. Ruth is bathing Dora's wound and Sir Donald is outside smoking when the Hindus come up the street. Wilkerson and Drake see the mob approaching the square yelling excitedly. The native police are quite unable to quiet the mob. Sir Donald is warned by a Hindu servant of his danger. He goes into the room where Ruth is attending to Dore and seizes her by the wrist. Ruth breaks from him and flees with Dore, who straps on his revolver. The mob arrives as they descend and bombards the hotel with stones. The porter of the hotel, fearing the vengeance of the high priests, opens the gates and permits the mob to enter. Meanwhile Dore, Ruth and Sir Donald, guided by a servant, dart into a side passage, which leads into a walled court. Ruth recognizes among the crowd of beggars in the courtyard the one she befriended some time previously. While the mob is besieging the front gates the beggar tells Ruth to get into a basket nearby. The beggar then closes the lid and opens a door leading down into a cellar. Dore and Sir Donald follow into the cellar and the beggar closes the door upon them. The mob then surges into the court. The beggar leads them into a blind passage. Meanwhile he hurries Ruth, Dore and Sir Donald into vegetable carts and covers them with rugs. Other beggars then run off with the two-wheeled carts through another passage just as the mob, seeing that they have been tricked, runs back into the court. The mob searches the cellar thoroughly but fails to find the Europeans. Ruth, Dore and Sir Donald are meanwhile wheeled off in safety while the police scatter the mob. His vengeance frustrated, the high priest decides to send the idol to a distant temple for safe keeping. The idol is wrapped up and the high priest with his acolytes engage eight donkeys and start inland with the precious idol. Ruth, Dore and Sir Donald are well taken care of by the beggars meanwhile. Through the English papers Wilkerson, Mrs. Darnell and Drake learn of the riot among the natives in Calcutta and of the attempted stealing of an idol. Drake suggests bribing their guide to find out where the idol is being taken by the priests of the temple. The scheme works and the bribed guide returns with the information regarding the destination of the priests and the idol. Wilkerson follows the high priests, with the Hindu for a guide, and engages a number of English sailors and roustabouts to waylay the party and to secure the idol. They surround the camp of the priests. The sailors and roughs kill all the priests in a hand to band fight. When they have finished Wilkerson and Drake search the mule packs. The idol is soon found. When the eye of the idol is removed the plan of "The Master Key" mine is seen to be within. Wilkerson withdraws and examines them carefully. He then secretes the plans in his bosom. The last scene of the episode shows Ruth snuggled closely against Dore waiting for the dawn to come. Ruth is uneasy, although she does not know why, and seems to sense that something has gone wrong. Episode 14: "The God Takes All" After spending the night in the camp of the beggars, Ruth, Dore and Sir Donald are given a hearty breakfast. Wilkerson has, meanwhile, decided to keep the idol and he and Drake, with their men, continue on their way back to the city. In the hills they become lost and take refuge in a deserted hut. The lone priest, who escaped from Wilkerson and his men, come upon a band of wandering hillmen and relate to them the story of the stealing of the idol and the murder of his comrades. The hillmen start out to avenge the deed. Dore places Ruth in the care of the American Consul, where Sir Donald also remains, while he goes into the hills to endeavor to find the elusive idol. Aided by his faithful Indian friends, he arrives in the hills where he is seen by the aroused Hindus. They pursue him to the deserted hut, where he comes unexpectedly upon Wilkerson. It is a case of race against race, and thus the two enemies are forced to bury the hatchet for the time being and fight side by side to save their lives. The hillmen are driven off, and Dore returns to the hut with Wilkerson and Drake. Ruth has been entertained at the consulate during Dore's absence, a small reception and dance being given. She meets a young American naval officer who later proves a connecting human link in her life of many experiences. After the guests have departed and she goes to the balcony overlooking the market square below her, she has a vision of Dore in trouble and her woman's intuition tells her he needs help, and at once. Episode 15: "Fate Unlocks the Doors" Ruth, feeling more forcibly the danger that John Dore is in, hastens into the house to prepare to go with him. She is met by the Consul's wife, who tries to persuade her to do nothing so rash, but neither her words nor those of the consul are of any avail. While he is dressing to go out with her, the girl slips from the house and makes her way to the walled court where her beggar friends spends his nights. She arouses him and with his guidance hurries to the waterfront in hopes of finding the young naval officer she met at the dance. The hillmen have, meantime, renewed their attack upon Wilkerson and Dore, and the former, realizing that he will lose his life unless he can escape from the hut, leaves Dore bound to the chair to which he has tied him shortly after their return to the hut. Dore's remaining followers are set upon by Wilkerson's ruffians, the Hindu servant alone getting away. Ruth arouses the naval officer who comes to her aid with a squad of his marines. The British frontier troops have also been aroused by the continued firing and hasten to quell the disturbance. The Hindu servant meets Ruth and the officer on the road and guides them to the cabin, which has been set on fire by the hillmen. Wilkerson and Drake make a getaway and Dore is rescued by Ruth and her new friends. On their return to the city Dore learns that Wilkerson, Mrs. Darnell and Drake have sailed for America, carrying with them the secret to the mine. He cables Tom Kane at Silent Valley to arrest them on their arrival. This is done, and when Dore, Ruth and Sir Donald get back a consultation is held. It is decided not to prosecute Wilkerson and his allies in return for their giving up the plan to the mine. Wilkerson complies, but substitutes a false set of drawings. Dore, with Everett back of him, continues operations. Wilkerson proceeds to seek for the hidden gold at the spot near the original diggings. In a premature explosion he is killed. Dore finds on his body the real plans. Drake and Mrs. Darnell are apprehended for their part in this trickery. Sir Donald releases Ruth from her promise to marry him, and the story closes with a happy meeting between John and Ruth. ENDEpisode 5 of 15 resides in the Library of Congress
- DirectorJames YoungStarsClara Kimball YoungHarry T. MoreyEarle WilliamsHelene Marie, on the run from the Russian police in St. Petersburg, plots to kill the Czar.The story concerns Helen Marie, a woman on the run from the St. Petersburg police, who plots to assassinate the Tsar. Only about 45 seconds of this film exists. These fragments contain an extra mistakenly said to be Leon Trotsky. In fact, Trotsky was not yet in the United States when this was filmed.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsAnnette KellermanWilliam E. ShayWilliam WelshThe daughter of King Neptune determines to avenge the death of her sister, who was caught in a fishing net laid by the king of a country above the waves. However, she soon falls in love with the king upon whom she planned to take her revenge.The Gosfilmofond film archive possesses one reel, which Australia's National Film and Sound Archive copied.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierDonald MacKenzieStarsPearl WhiteCrane WilburPaul PanzerPauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.Of the original 20-chapter serial running 410 minutes, only a 90-minute version, released in Europe in 1916, is known to exist.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonWilfrid NorthStarsCharles RichmanL. Rogers LyttonJames MorrisonEnemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.Pro-armaments epic and the most expensive production undertaken by Vitagraph. One reel reported in Europe; fragments of battle scenes, culled from stock shot libraries, reside at George Eastman House.
- DirectorColin CampbellStarsKathlyn WilliamsWheeler OakmanGuy OliverThe Pasha's servant Mohamed, is entrusted to guard the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad with his life. In New York, after banker Arthur Wadsworth forces his brother Horace to give up his inheritance, Horace joins a band of crooks and plans to rob the Wadsworth Bank by tunneling from the adjacent home of antique dealer George P. A. Jones. The gang follows Jones to Egypt and Bagdad, where Horace steals the carpet and sells it to Jones. Fortune Chedsoye, the innocent daughter of a gang member, falls in love with Jones. When Fortune discovers that Mohamed plans to kill Jones to retrieve the rug, she hides it with her mother's belongings. Mohamed forces Jones, Wadsworth, and Fortune into the desert, but they escape his torture during a sandstorm. Wadsworth then rejoins the gang at Jones' home in New York. When Fortune and Jones catch the crooks tunneling, Jones, sympathetically, gives them a two hour head-start before informing the police. Fortune and Jones keep the carpet, while in the East, Mohamed bows in resignation to Allah's will.One reel of five was salvaged from the wreck of the RMS Lusitania with a few feet of recoverable images.
- DirectorPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenStarsPaul WegenerHenrik GaleenLyda SalmonovaAn antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.Only about three minutes survive. Found in a private collection.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsGrace ThompsonGretchen LedererLon ChaneyMrs. Burne-Smith and Mrs. Winthrop have determined to make a match between their respective children regardless of the fact that the two in question have never seen each other. Mrs. Burne-Smith thinks by making the brilliant match with wealthy Allen Winthrop she will be enabled to pay off some of her pressing debts. Enid Burne-Smith has a mind of her own, and has often had thoughts of a handsome lover who would carry her off despite her protests. Naturally she does not fall in with her mother's plans and it takes quite an argument before she is brought "in line." Allen Winthrop has just returned from abroad and views with amusement the efforts of his mother to try and win him to assent to the matchmakers' plans. He finally agrees to accompany his mother that night to the Burne-Smiths. Allen has received an anonymous letter stating that the agent who is in charge of one of his tenements is a crook. He decides to investigate the matter. Allen and his mother arrive at the Burne-Smiths and are delayed waiting for Enid She has flatly refused to meet Allen, and, after tying the maid up, makes her escape and finally ends up in a tenement house, where she gets rooms. The next day Allen disguises himself and secures rooms in his own tenement. This is the same place where Enid is staying, and she has become acquainted with Mabel and her sweetheart, George. Enid secures work and Mabel helps her. Every evening after work, the girls are met by their lovers and Enid sighs as she thinks she has no one to look after her. Enid notices that the landlord is familiar with Mabel and later finds that the girl has coaxed him to put off collecting the rent. With the rent money she has been buying clothes with which to get married. She and Allen meet several times and are mutually attracted. George has noticed Martin, the landlord, around Mabel, and has told her to "cut him off" her calling list. She tells of her indebtedness to him to Enid, and the latter pawns her last piece of jewelry to secure funds with which to release Mabel from the landlord's clutches. Martin comes to the girl's room and, while they are arguing, George and Allen come to the door demanding entrance. Mabel has refused to let Enid pay her rent and when she hears George at the door, she is frightened and persuades Martin to hide in the closet. George sees the money on the floor and is still suspicious. Martin then comes out of hiding, claims the money, and says that he bought the dresses for the girl. Enid, seeing that the love between George and Mabel is about to be broken up, takes all the blame and says the dresses are hers. George takes Mabel in his arms and tells her that she had better quit going with Enid. Allen is very much disappointed in the girl and leaves her. too. Enid then determines to return home and forget her little adventure. Allen places George in charge of his tenement, discharging Martin. Allen then tries in vain to find some trace of Enid. He and his mother are invited to the Burne-Smiths for dinner and he listlessly goes with her. The two mothers are delighted when Enid and Allen meet. The two stare at each other like long lost friends. The plans of the two matchmakers have been more than fulfilled, and as the story ends, Enid and Allen are planning their honeymoon.Only a fragment of the film survives.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsLyda BorelliAndrea HabayFrancesco CacaceThea is sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After abandoning him, her health begins to decline. She organizes a final party, inviting along her estranged husband.The Cineteca Italiana film archive possesses a fragmentary print.
- DirectorThomas Dixon Jr.StarsLorraine HulingPercy StandingArthur ShirleyThree acts and a prologue. Act 1: A nation falls. Act 2: The heel of the conqueror. Act 3: The uprising two years later.A few frames survive of this sequel to The Birth of a Nation (1915).
- DirectorEdward JoséGeorge B. SeitzStarsPearl WhiteCreighton HaleSheldon LewisEpisode 1: "The Vengeance of Legar" The story begins years ago on an island in the South. Enoch Golden, a wealthy planter, catches Jules Legar, a scheming physician, making love to his wife in an attempt to learn the secret hiding place of Golden's wealth. Suspecting the worst, Golden sends his wife away, and as punishment to Legar has his handsome face branded with white-hot irons and his hand crushed in a vise. Then Legar, set free, swears vengeance and begins his villainy by opening the sluice-gates that keep the sea from inundating the island. The waters rush in and the entire island is flooded and its houses swept away in the swirling waters. Legar kidnaps Golden's daughter, Margery, whom, in the next scene, twenty years later, we see grown to beautiful maidenhood, in his ominous power. Hate still lives in Legar's heart, and he sends Margery to a denizen of the underworld in whose house she is to be detained. But here steps in a mysterious gallant known as "The Laughing Mask," who saves her, for the nonce, from her fate.The UCLA Film and Television Archive possesses episode 7 of this 20-part serial.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmAlbin LavénMathias TaubeDr Monro is found dead in his home. Three people are testifying before the police about what happened.The Cinémathèque Française film archive has approximately 30 minutes of the film.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsPauline FrederickThomas HoldingFrank LoseeOne moment before she dies, the aged, philanthropic, and universally respected Duchess of Maldon sees her life flash before her. As Madge, a young gypsy woman, two men fight for her, after which the winner, John, forces her to marry him. Then Madge deserts John and begins a romance in England with Harold, the youngest son of the Duke of Maldon. Soon, however, Harold fights with his older brother, who has criticized the affair with a married woman, and, believing that he has killed his brother, Harold leaves Madge behind and smuggles himself out of the country. Years later, Harold, who has found out that his brother did not die, meets Madge once again, and, determined not to let him leave her a second time, Madge kills John so that she and Harold can marry. Successfully covering up past scandals, Madge and Harold begin a life so sedate and distinguished that they quickly become England's model couple.A nearly complete print, lacking only the opening scene, is in the possession of the Cineteca Nazionale film archive in Rome.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsJack MulhallLon ChaneyPriscilla Glenn is a product of the woods, a wild, impulsive, nature-loving child. Her father is her antithesis, seeing none of the beauties of nature, thinking women only creatures to be browbeaten. Between her mother and herself there existed a strong bond of love and understanding, understanding that they were companions in the same misery and unhappiness. Priscilla had to fight for an education. At last, through the efforts of Anton Farwell, the schoolmaster, Priscilla had the opportunity of beginning her education. For a rest there came to the spot Mrs. Travers and her crippled boy, Dick, and later a specialist, Dr. Leydward, who was to eventually straighten the crooked limbs of the boy. Priscilla and Dick met and a romance between the two was begun. Jerry Jo, a half-breed, coveted the girl, and lured her to a house on the hill where there was a library. Although the girl was as sweet and pure when she returned home the next day her father sent her from his roof. Priscilla went to her only friend, Anton Farwell, and together they started for a new country. For Farwell was hiding from the world. In the long ago he had loved Joan Moss, and for the love of her killed the brother of Dr. Leydward. Before Priscilla and Farwell had gone far he received word that he must choose the alternative of living buried in the woods or in prison. So Priscilla went on to find her way alone in the big city with the mission to look for Joan. Priscilla devoted her life to the care of the sick, and so once more she and Dick Travers met, and worked hand in hand for suffering humanity. It was thus that she knew Dr. Leydward and his daughter, Margaret, who was to wed Clyde Hunter. One day as Priscilla was strolling in the park she saw Jerry Jo, now a nondescript beggar. Towards him she bore no malice, but a strong desire to make life happier. On following Jerry Jo to the tenement room he called home, some of the inmates mistook her for an angel of mercy for a dying woman, who was none other than Joan. From her lips she learned that the crippled child belonged to the affianced of Margaret Leydward, and also secured Farwell's exoneration. She showed Leydward and Margaret the true type of the man the latter was about to marry. Then she wandered back to the "place beyond the wind" to find comfort and peace. She found that her mother had died and her father had been stricken blind and still refused to own her as his own flesh and blood, and a second time sent her from his home. And then, crushed and wounded, she again found solace in her old friend, Anton Farwell, who a short time previous had returned to his home. To Farwell she told of the finding of Joan, but left with him his ideal of her, of her trueness and worth of trust. Priscilla returned once more to her little sanctuary in the woods, where she had erected her own altar to her own God, and where, too, she first met Dick. And there he found her. For realizing his love for her, he had followed her to the "place beyond the wind" and for a second time, with his old violin he started a new spark in the life of tho one woman, the one whom he would cherish and love and protect as long as time went on.Four of the five reels are in the film archive of the Library of Congress.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsAdda GleasonMabel Van BurenAnn DvorakOn the estate of Senora Moreno in Southern California, the senora's adopted daughter Ramona lives. She falls in love with Alessandro, an Indian of noble heritage. When her adoptive mother forbids their marriage, Ramona Alessandro elope, only to find bigotry, misfortune, and finally tragedy wherever they turn.The Library of Congress has reel 5.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsEgil EideLars HansonLili BeckAn adaptation of Herman Bang's 1902 novel "Mikaël." A sculptor befriends a young painter who becomes his model. Their friendship is thrown into turmoil when they both fall in love with the same woman.A copy of the central section surfaced in 1987 and was shown by the Swedish Film Institute.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsTheda BaraFritz LeiberThurston HallThe story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.Approximately 40 seconds exist at George Eastman House.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGeraldine FarrarWallace ReidHobart BosworthFishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her up for divorce. She kills him and weds his business manager Sterling, but a detective learns about Silas' death.Two reels of this six-reel feature film, originally with Handschiegl Color Process sequences, are in the AFI Collection of the Library of Congress.
- DirectorWray Bartlett PhysiocStarsGrace DarmondNiles WelchHerbert FortierA young woman, who is the daughter of a sea captain, falls in love with a man from a rich family who does not approve of her.Of the first Technicolor film, "very short fragments survive at the Margaret Herrick Library, George Eastman House and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Photography Dept."
- DirectorRobin WilliamsonStarsStan LaurelMae LaurelLucille ArnoldOnly 60 seconds of footage remain of Laurel's first film.[citation needed] Part of the short lives on in scenes inserted into the 1922 extant short Mixed Nuts.
- DirectorJacques JaccardStarsMarie WalcampLawrence PeytonL.M. WellsOriginally a 16-episode serial, only episode 7 survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHarry CareyEdythe SterlingJ. Morris FosterConvict Cheyenne Harry escapes from prison in a garbage truck and boards a train, where he eludes capture with the help of passenger Henry Beaufort.Two of the five reels are in the Library of Congress film archive.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierDonald MacKenzieStarsMollie KingCreighton HaleLéon BaryEpisode 1: "The Sultan's Necklace" [synopsis not published] Episode 2: "The Bowstring" Harry Drake discovers that the masked figure who held him up is Ilma. When they realize the intruder has departed, they discover the pearl has disappeared. Harry tries to comfort Ilma. He tells her that he loves her, but she tears herself away from him saying, "Love me? Do you realize how I must pay for those pearls?" She then tells Harry she must go into the Sultan's harem or see her father killed, if she cannot recover the pearls. Harry offers to co-operate with her and Ilma suggests he pretend to join Grady's gang. He agrees to do so. Ilma is traced by the Sultan's executioner, to Harry's apartment. Standing outside the door, he overhears their conversation. Nemesis, who secured the pearl from Harry and Ilma, has been overcome by the executioner who takes the pearl from him. Harry again tells Ilma he loves her and is about to kiss her when he hears a knock at the door. He looks through the keyhole and assures Ilma no one is there. She points to the floor, starting back in terror as she sees a bow string, used to strangle women of the harem who flirt, slipped under the door. Later the pearl is mysteriously returned to Ilma, and Harry, gambling for Jack's pearl, loses his own. That night, a member of the gang, sneaks into a rich man's residence. He is followed by Ilma. Entering a room used as a picture gallery, decorated by suits of armor, Jack dons one of the suits. Drawing his sword, he starts to cut out one of the pictures. He is interrupted by Ilma, who demands his pearls. He tells her he cannot get at them through his armor. He overcomes Ilma and, tying her to a chair resumes his work. The door opens, and a second figure in armor enters. Jack fumbles for his gun but is unable to get it from under his armor. The strange figure draws his sword and he and Jack fight like knights of old. Jack is overpowered. The stranger proves to be Harry. Recovering the pearls, Harry gives them to Ilma, and starts towards the window after Jack, who tries to escape. Ilma backs towards the curtain. In an instant some unknown throws a curtain over her head, takes the pearls and escapes. Episode 3: "The Air Peril" Ilma had just recovered two of the pearls from the burglar when they are taken away from her. She joins Harry and tells him of her loss. They are accosted by an old woman, who is strangely disappointed when she finds they did not recover the pearls. Harry escorts Ilma to her apartment after trying in vain to console her. The next morning Ilma is puzzling out a note of sympathy she has received from someone who signs himself "Nemesis,'' when the Sultan's executioner drops an envelope into the mail slot in her door. Ilma opens the envelope and finds in it the two pearls and a note which reads: "Here are your pearls. Nemesis is not a woman, but a dangerous man. Don't trust him. Kismet." Ilma 'phones Harry, telling him she has the two pearls. While she is talking, Stayne, a member of the Grady gang, is announced by Harry's butler. Harry tells Ilma of Stayne's coming and imparts the information that this member of the gang had two of the pearls. Ilma says she will visit him at once to help him recover the pearls from Stayne. Stayne tells Harry that the night before he attempted to rob the Mason home, but was caught by Perry Mason and his brother. He was searched and the pearls found on him. Perry kept one and gave the other back to Stayne, and after taking his fingerprints released him. In the morning papers was a story that Perry's brother had been murdered and Stayne was accused of the crime. Ilma arrives and learns of Stayne's predicament, who offers them the pearl he has if they will clear him of the charge of murder. Harry and Ilma, pretending to be reporters, call on Perry Mason and arc recognized by him. He tells his story and shows them the pearl. As they are leaving the Mason home Ilma secures a key to the front door. Later she tries to persuade Harry to return to the Mason home, but when he refused, she goes alone. In the Mason home she hears a conversation between Perry Mason and his servant which convinces her that the man killed his brother and that the servant helped him. When Perry and the servant leave the room Ilma recovers the pearl from a vase in which Perry placed it, and is about to depart when Perry returns and captures her. Perry is about to call the police when Ilma warns him that if he does she will tell he murdered his brother. Perry decides to get her out of the way, and with the aid of her servant he ties Ilma with a rope which is attached to a ring at the bottom of a balloon. The room in which Ilma has been captured has a sliding roof and when this is shoved to one side the balloon is inflated. Before it is released a tube filled with acid is fixed so that by degrees it will eat away the rope with which Ilma is attached to the balloon while it is in midair. Perry cuts the rope and the balloon rises, carrying the struggling body of Ilma up toward the unknown. Episode 4: "Amid the Clouds" [synopsis not published] Episode 5: "Between Fire and Water" Having fallen into a lake from the ballroom Harry and Ilma conceal themselves from the villain in his hydroplane by hiding under the stern of a fisherman's boat. The dirigible has sunk to the earth and has been smashed. As Perry glides away in his hydroplane, Harry and Ilma attract the attention of the fishermen and are taken aboard the boat and reach the shore. The executioner, Kismet, returns to Ilma's apartment in time to separate Harry and Ilma, as the impetuous youth is about to declare his love to her. Undaunted by their dangers, Harry and Ilma decide to return to search the Mason house for the pearls. They search in vain and then decide to terrify Perry's servant into opening a safe for them. As they are about to secure the pearls. Perry returns and traps them in a water-tight cellar, which he constructed for experiments on models of submarines. Perry turns on the water and leaves Harry and Ilma to drown. To cover his crime he decides to burn down the house. The episode closes with the conflagration raging above their heads while they are about to sink in the water which almost touches the roof of the cellar. Episode 6: "The Abandoned Mine" Ilma and Harry are about to be drowned in the cellar of Perry Mason's home when the floor of it caves in and they drop into the shaft of an abandoned mine. Perry, who knows about the mine, has also taken refuge in it and is struck on the head by some of the debris. He is knocked unconscious and loses his memory. Wandering around in the mine he finds Harry and Ilma and attaches himself to them. He takes one of the pearls in his pocket and after playing with it for a while, throws it away. Ilma picks it up, recognizing it as one of the pearls she is seeking. Wandering around in the mine, Harry, Ilma and Perry follow a figure with a light and come to a counterfeiters' den in the mine. Realizing their danger Harry makes Ilma and Perry conceal themselves and he also hides from the gang of counterfeiters, who are returning to their den. Perry, thinking it some sort of a childish game, comes from his hiding place and shows the gang members where Harry and Ilma are bidden. Realizing that Perry is harmless the gang allows him to wander around but bind Harry and Ilma and decide to put them out of the way for fear of being betrayed to the police by them. As the leader is about to shoot Harry, Perry, who has gone into their storeroom, returns with a can of nitroglycerin in his hand. The leader threatens Perry, who. realizing from childish experiments that the substance in the can will explode, makes as though to throw it at him. The gang hastily backs out of the den and Perry, Ilma and Harry are knocked senseless by falling timbers. Episode 7: "The False Pearl" Harry and Ilma, lying insensible on the ground, are rescued by officers, who carry them to safety. While nobody is looking Kismet steals in, picks up Perry and steals off with him. Sitting him down in the light he produces a small vial from his pocket, opens it and holds it up to Perry's nose. Perry opens his eyes and asks what has happened. Kismet says: "The first shock took away your memory; the second returned it." The next morning Harry and Ilma see Stayne. This man has been saved by Harry, but it is only after a fight that he gives up the pearl, as he had promised. Later he apologizes with every sign of sincerity, and Harry and Ilma forgive him. Stayne speaks: "And to prove to you I'm sorry I'll tell you where to find two more of your pearls." Believing him, Harry takes an address from him. In the meantime Perry, wearing a mask, sneaks in the window of Harry's apartment, takes the pearl from where Ilma laid it and places a substitute in its place. Stayne gazes over his shoulder with amazement. Harry and Ilma look up at Stayne, who hesitates whether or not to tell what he saw. He concludes not to say anything and leaves. Harry makes love to Ilma. Kismet, who has been listening, draws the Sultan's carved dagger. Hearing a knock at the door Ilma is alarmed. Kismet standards in the doorway, holding his dagger towards Ilma. She speaks: "I will obey." As soon as the door is closed Harry demands to know what is meant. "That's the Sultan's spy, sent to kill us both if I should fall in love, but of course, I won't." Going over to the table Ilma discovers that the pearl is gone and in its place is a piece of marble. Harry and Ilma trace the pearl to Miss Sunderlee's home, and sneaking in, Harry recognizes Stayne's footprints from the fact that he is wearing Harry's shoes. Coming from behind Harry knocks Stayne down, takes the pearl, and with Ilma, runs away. Stayne and his pals pursue and trap Harry and Ilma on a little point of land on the edge of the Hudson. Harry sees some boys flying a kite. He and Ilma grab the kite string from the boys and plunge into the Hudson. Stayne and one of his men jump into a little boat near the boathouse. They raise the sail and pursue, guns in hand. Episode 8: "The Man Trap" The episode opens with a fight between a sailing vessel and a fast naval launch, in which Mason and Stayne were pursuing Harry and Ilma. The naval officers rescue Harry and Ilma from the river and take them to the shore. One of the seven pearls Ilma is seeking is sold to the leader of a pagan cult, who fits the pearl into one eye of a bronze god, which his followers worship. He seeks the mate of the pearl for the other eye of the god, and the member of Grady's gang who sold him the pearl gives him Ilma's address, telling him she has some pearls. The priest calls on Ilma and tries to buy her pearl, but she in turn offers to purchase the one he has from the priest. The priest lures her to the temple by telling her he will put the matter up to his followers. When she reaches the temple he makes her an offer of marriage, and when Ilma refuses he drugs her tea, steals her pearl and is just taking her in his arms when one of his ardent followers enters. She is jealous, and while the priest is fitting Ilma's pearl into the second eye of the bronze god the jealous woman drugs the priest's tea. He is about to kill her when the drug takes effect. Harry, being informed by Kismet of Ilma's danger, hastens to the temple. He revives her and she discovers her pearl is lost. He forced the jealous follower to tell where the pearl is, and Harry goes alone into the temple room to get the pearl from the eye of the bronze god when Perry Mason, also on the trail of the pearls, enters and holds him up. Harry steps aside while Mason takes a pearl from the eye of the god. As he does so the outstretched arms of the statue come together, holding Mason in their deadly embrace. His screams bring Ilma and the followers to the room, and when the woman relaxes the arms Mason falls to the floor. Harry and Ilma snatch the pearls and flee from the room. They start to open the door of the house, and Harry looks out to see if the coast is clear. He beckons for Ilma to follow him, but just as she starts to do so an unseen figure emerges from his hiding place near the door, grabs her, and taking her pearls, shoves her through the open door. Harry saves Ilma from falling. She is telling him of the loss of the pearls as the episode ends. Episode 9: "The Warning on the Wire" A voice on the wire says to Ilma: "Parsons, the jeweler, has one of the pearls." Ilma repeats the news to Harry. They leave for the store at once, where they are shown the pearl, which they discover to be a perfect match. At that moment Mayor Winton and his daughter, Marjorie, are ushered up to the counter. The Mayor wishes to purchase a large pearl to be placed in the center of a necklace. Turning to Ilma the clerk asks if she cares to purchase the pearl for $20,000. She refuses. The Mayor is staggered at the price but finally agrees, requesting that it be delivered to him. Harry and Ilma determine to follow the Mayor and his daughter. On the street Harry hears the Mayor say that he has a toothache, and that he is going to the dentist. Jumping into his machine he leaves followed by Harry. Marjorie gets into a taxi, and leaves for home. Ilma, who heard the address, follows. The Mayor arrives at the dentist's and is seen by Perry, who is disguised as a woman. He looks vindictively after the Mayor, mutters something villainous and follows. Harry, who happened to be near, hears the vindictive muttering, and suspects that something is wrong. In the office the Mayor explains his trouble and the dentist starts to work. He is interrupted by his office girl, who brings him a note. It reads: "I want to see you this minute. Remember Sing-Sing. Signed, Bennet." Excusing himself, he goes into the next room, only to see Perry in his disguise of an old woman. Drawing the man close to him, Perry instructs him to do away with the Mayor. To refuse would mean exposure, so he consents. Ilma, who has followed the Mayor's daughter, manages to see her at her home. Explaining that the pearls were stolen from her and what it will cost her, if she does not recover them, Ilma gets Marjorie to agree that she will have her father return the pearl. Harry endeavors to warn the Mayor, but he refuses to listen to him, saying that he is too busy. That night the Mayor receives a note from Perry telling him that the District Attorney is dead, and the same fate is to fall to him. The Mayor promises to give Ilma and Harry the pearl if they solve this mystery. While Harry goes in pursuit of Mason, Ilma follows the Mayor to the dentist's office the next morning. While she is waiting, she sees a gunman enter and slip a note to the maid, instructing her to have it delivered to her employer. Reading the note, the dentist leaves, so excited that he leaves the note behind. Ilma picks it up, but it is written in code form. Wondering what it is, Ilma rushes to Harry. Harry reads the note, sees the word Algol, and guesses the answer. He speaks, "That means under the crown on the Mayor's tooth. Death in six hours." For safety's sake, the Mayor goes to his summer home in the Adirondacks. Harry and Ilma try to call him up on the 'phone, but are unsuccessful, because, as Ilma is about to explain, a dead tree falls across the wire and breaks the connection. They jump into a machine. Rushing up a mountain road, the machine breaks down. Walking up the mountain, Harry gazes over the edge of the ravine. He sees an electric wire. Running back to the machine, he gets a long rope and some hooks. Ilma ties the rope around her and much against Harry's wishes has him lower her. Ilma reaches the wire and sends a message to the Mayor. Ilma makes another flash, then receives a shock, twists convulsively and hangs limp. Episode 10: "The Hold-Up" Ilma, who has been rendered unconscious by an electric shock as she flashed a warning to the mayor and saved his life, is revived by Harry and carried to the railroad station by the mayor and his daughter, who agree that she deserves the pearl they have. Harry and Ilma return to the city with the pearl, and Harry attends a meeting of Grady's gang trying to recover some of the other pearls that the members have in their possession. He learns that one of the gang has sold his pearl to a fence, and a banker by the name of Nello Falenti is going to buy it. Ilma discovers the banker is trying to convince one of his honest bookkeepers that the accounts in the bank are all right, when he knows they are not. Harry forces the crooked banker into "a business proposition." Falenti agrees to have $100,000 in the bank by the following Saturday. He will take $80,000 of this for himself and leave $20,000 for Harry and Grady's gang. Harry secures the combination of the safe and the keys to the bank, and reports to Grady. The gangster plans the robbery. That night Harry again goes to Falenti and proposes that he take the entire $100,000 and split the $20,000. Falenti agrees, and when the gang opens the safe it is empty. After leaving the gangsters, Harry goes to Falenti to demand his $100,000. Falenti gives it to him and Harry buys the pearl that Falenti had secured from the "Fence." Ilma steps in and Harry gives the Pearl to her. She covers Falenti while Harry calls up the police, stating that he is the banker, and that he wants a guard to protect the money he had taken home from the bank. While Harry is talking, Ilma disappears and he goes in search of her. Episode 11: "Gems of Jeopardy" At Ilma's apartment, Perry demands the three pearls. She refuses. He draws his revolver and gives her three minutes to decide. Ilma faints. Perry binds her to a chair. Recovering, Ilma is again commanded to deliver the pearls. She shakes her head vigorously. He takes a jar from his pocket and a pair of jeweler's scales. Holding the jar he says: "This is vitriol." He places the scales so that the pan is above Ilma's head, then takes a candle, lights it and asks if she is ready. Ilma will not relent. "This may not kill you, but your beauty will be gone forever." Perry is interrupted by the entrance of Kismet, who covers Perry, then knocks the scales over. Perry meets Stokes, who informs him that he is wanted by the police. Stokes tells Perry unless he gives him a pearl he will call the police. Perry gives him a pearl. Ilma hears a knock and is overjoyed to see Harry. She tells him that Perry has two pearls. Ilma finds a note from Kismet, telling her Perry has surrendered one of the pearls to Stokes. That evening Ilma calls at the Stokes home, and poses as a detective. Harry, as an inspector, calls to read the meter. Examining the pearl, Ilma refuses to return it to Mrs. Stokes. Ilma pretends to throw it on the floor. Stokes starts toward her. Harry blows the fuse, putting the house in darkness. Stokes grapples with Ilma. Harry picks Ilma up and rushes out. She tells him the pearl is under the table. Harry goes back, runs his hand under the table, is seen by Stokes, who orders his servants to seize him. As Harry rushes up the stairs, he is seen by Perry. Harry gets through the skylight, sees a ladder lying against a chimney, mounts it. Perry sends one of the men after Harry. He gives the chimney a push, which sends the ladder toward the other roof. As the film fades out, the man is bending Harry over the edge. Episode 12: "Buried Alive" The fight on the edge of a roof opens this episode. Harry is struggling with one of Perry Mason's henchmen on the roof of the Stokes home, while Ilma watches from the street below. When Mason's henchman pushes Harry over the roof he manages to grasp a drainpipe, as with a final effort he pulls the man from his secure footing on the roof and sends him hurtling to his death five stories below. Harry pulls himself up to the roof, and to his dismay sees Perry come after him. He starts down the drainpipe, and when he is near the ground the pipe breaks and he falls. He picks himself up, and runs to Ilma's machine. As they drive away he gives her the pearl he had secured. Plotting against Ilma, Perry persuades Stayne to secure a job as an ambulance driver for a sanitarium. Ilma is down-hearted at the prospects of being unable to secure the pearls in time to save her father's life. She is warned by Kismet that the time is approaching when she will have to return to his master if he does not secure the pearls. Harry suggests that she go for an outing with him, and as they are about to start on an automobile trip she is told over the 'phone that one of the pearls can be secured at a certain place. She persuades Harry to drive to this place, and on the way, when they are passing through a lonely wood, all the tires on Harry's car are punctured. He is forced to leave Ilma alone, while he goes to secure other tires. Telephoning to his man, he finds Kismet at his apartment, who tells him to go back to Ilma at once as it is a plot of Mason's to get her in his power. Harry returns and finds that Ilma has been captured by Mason and Stayne, and has been taken to a sanitarium, instead of a girl for whom they have an order for commitment. Harry's man arrives in his car with Kismet and they start after Ilma. Ilma is sent to the sanitarium in spite of her protests to the physician in charge and is locked in a room. She manages to get out and sees the man attired as a mason and seemingly working at his trade. She runs up to him and asks him to assist her. He promises to do so and leads Ilma out of the sanitarium and tells her to crawl into a cave where he will conceal her from her pursuers. He conceals her only too well and tries to seal her in the cave and bury her alive as the episode closes. Episode 13: "Over the Falls" Ilma is being carried away helpless by Perry Mason and Stayne in an automobile. They take the girl to an old warehouse and leave her there a prisoner. Harry and Kismet, on the trail of Ilma, reach the warehouse and seek to enlist the aid of a policeman. The policeman says it is against the law for him to enter, but at that moment the fire alarm in the warehouse is heard and the policeman decides to enter and investigate. Ilma had set off the alarm by means of a lighted cigar which Stayne had dropped in his struggle with her. She held the burning end of the cigar against the automatic sprinkler, with which the warehouse was equipped. They rescue Ilma as Stayne and Mason watch them from a distance. Mason and Stayne arrive at their lodging and find there a distinguished Oriental, who presents credentials and orders from the Sultan telling Perry to deliver Ilma in Canada, where the Turk's yacht is waiting. The next morning Ilma finds a box marked "piano player" in her apartment when she returns from a walk. She calls Hairy on the phone and tells him about it and he warns her it must be some trick of Mason's, and to take good care of herself. As she hangs up the receiver the end of the box opens and Mason leaps out and captures Ilma. He binds her and gets into the box with her. A girl about Ilma's size, who had been in the box, dresses in Ilma's clothes and leaves the apartment. The men who left the piano player box in Ilma's apartment return for it and carry it away on a truck. Kismet and Harry go to Perry's old hiding place and find there some carrier pigeons. Harry says they will lead him to Perry and consequently to Ilma, and the next morning the pigeons are released and Harry and Kismet follow them in an aeroplane. The pigeons lead the men in the aeroplane to a little farmhouse near Niagara Falls. Perry and Stayne see the aeroplane as they shove the box in which Ilma is a prisoner on an auto truck. Harry and Kismet see Perry in the truck and follow it. Perry throws the box in which Ilma is a prisoner into the river above the falls and Harry and Kismet abandon their chase to rescue Ilma. They rush to a bridge across the river and Harry is lowered from it by a rope around his chest. He carrier another rope with him and manages to put the noose around the case. As the men on the bridge, whom Harry and Kismet enlisted in the rescue, attempt to pull up the case, the noose slips and the case falls back into the stream. Harry is pulled up to the bridge as the case starts over the falls to what looks like Ilma's certain destruction. Episode 14: "The Tower of Death" The fourteenth episode opens with a surprise for Harry when he is drawn to the bridge from over the rapids. He is greeted by Ilma, who, he thought, was in the piano box that went over Niagara Falls. She explains that when Perry Mason and his men threw the case into the river she managed to escape from it. Home again, Kismet warns Ilma and Harry that the next day is the last one set by the Sultan for the return of the pearls and that if she fails to secure the entire seven pearls she must go into the Sultan's harem. They hear that Jeo. Gudgeon, a member of Grady's gang, has the seventh pearl and is offering it to the highest bidder. After many adventures Ilma obtains it, and hands it to Harry for safekeeping. He returns it to her as he does not want to be responsible for it. Perry and Stayne attack Ilma and Harry and secure the pearl. In the fight Harry is knocked unconscious and Ilma pretends to be senseless, but when Perry and Stayne start away she follows after them. Perry and Stayne discover her and corner her near a big tank. To escape them she climbs up the ladder of the tank and Stayne follows. He is about to capture her when she pushes him from the ladder. In the effort she loses her balance and falls into the tank. She lies unconscious at the bottom of the tank, which has only a few inches of water in it. Stayne wants to rescue Ilma so that Perry will be able to get the Sultan's reward, but Perry wants to leave her to her fate. Their difference of opinion results in a fight and Perry throws Stayne under a locomotive engine passing on the tracks near which they are struggling. Harry regains consciousness and seeing the tank climbs up its ladder to get a drink of water. Perry sees him and is about to shoot him when Stayne, who has been badly injured, opens his eyes and seeing the situation, shoots at Perry to obtain revenge on him. Stayne's shot goes wild and dislodges the tank. It falls to pieces and Harry falls to the ground. Perry is knocked unconscious but Ilma is not to be seen. Episode 15: "The Seventh Pearl" The preceding episode closed at the water tank near the railroad tracks. When this tank fell, Perry Mason and Harry Drake were unconscious. The water revives Perry, who finds that Ilma has been thrown from the water tank close to Harry and that both are unconscious. He draws his revolver to shoot Harry but the gun fails to explode as all the cartridges had been used. He looks in his pockets for more cartridges and finds the seventh pearl, which he had secured. Hearing some men approaching he jumps on a passing freight train. Harry revives and carries Ilma to the station, where she is revived. They then board the train for the city. Perry goes to Ilma's apartment and is searching for the pearls when Harry and Ilma enter. Ilma tells Harry that the six pearls she has secured are in the Security Safety Vaults. Perry overhears this and leaves Ilma's apartment without being discovered. He goes to the Security Vaults and rents a safety deposit box. In this Perry places a package containing chemicals, which he has prepared, sets a clock, which controls these chemicals, and locking the safety deposit box, leaves the vault. The Sultan's Ambassador calls on Ilma for the seven pearls and reminds her that it is the last day she has to secure them. Ilma pleads with him and tells him she will give him the six pearls she has secured if he will cable to the Sultan for a few hours' extension of the time she has to secure the seventh. He agrees to do so. They go to the Security Safety Vault to get the pearls. Perry has been there before and had secured the pearls from the safety deposit box where Ilma had placed them. The chemicals Perry had placed in his safety deposit box gave off a gas that rendered the guards senseless, and Perry, wearing a gas mask, had been immune to this vapor. He is escaping with the pearls when Ilma, Harry and the ambassador enter; they are overcome by the gas when they attempt to capture Perry. A general alarm is sent out and Harry learns that Perry was seen at Coney Island. He and ILma and the police go to that resort and hear that Perry has been seen near the Eden Musee, which contains the wax figure of himself in the act of murdering his brother Charles. Ilma spies Perry and follows him into the Eden Musee. She loses track of him and Harry and the police tell her she must have been mistaken. As they leave the building, they hear a shot fired and return to find Kismet with a bullet hole through his head and Perry with the executioner's dagger through his heart. Kismet had discovered Perry in the act of gloating over the seven pearls he had obtained after he had thrown Harry, Ilma and the police off the scent by taking the place of his own wax figure in the murder group. Kismet had demanded one of the seven pearls, saying it belonged to his people, and Perry could have the others if he gave up that one. Perry refused, and in the fight that followed both men were killed. Ilma finds the seven pearls and returns them to the Sultan's ambassador. In Harry's apartment after the wedding, Ilma is dressed in a Turkish costume. Harry enters. She puts a Turkish fez on his head and he sits beside her. Turning to him she says, "My Harry," and he answers, "My Harem." END.Fragmentary prints of this serial are held by the Library of Congress (Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City collection).
- DirectorGeorge W. LedererStarsIrene FenwickClifford BruceReine DaviesOnly the trailer of this lost film survives. Opening with Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden, she survives as a vampireA trailer survives in the National Film and Sound Archive and the Academy Film Archive.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsLon ChaneyWilliam StowellWhile awaiting the train to Broadway, Nell Baxter meets the leading man of a repertory company to whom she confides her ambitions. Upon arriving in the city, Nell attracts the lascivious eye of stage manager David Montieth, who eventually gives her the starring role in a play with the expectation that he will be favored with her affections. Nell, however, has fallen in love with playwright Paul Neihoff. On the afternoon that the show is to open, Montieth learns of Nell's romance and cancels the show. Nell goes to Montieth's apartment to plead with him to open the show, and he consents after setting Nell's virtue as the price of her ambition. When he attempts to collect, Nell stabs him and rushes to Neihoff's apartment. The playwright tells her to go to the theater as if nothing has happened, writes a letter confessing that he killed the manager, and then takes an overdose of a drug and dies. Word comes to Nell after the second act that Neihoff has sacrificed himself, and in the last act, she substitutes a real dagger for the fake one and stabs herself to death. It has all been a story, however, concocted by the leading man to cure Nell of her infatuation with the footlights, and no one has died.Three of the five reels survive.
- DirectorWillis H. O'BrienStarsAlan V. DayChauncey A. DayHerbert M. DawleyIn a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.Only 19 minutes survive.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierJames W. HorneStarsRuth RolandGeorge ChesebroGeorge LarkinA newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.Only a "promotional short film" of this 15-part serial remains, in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsDouglas FairbanksMarjorie DawHerbert StandingJerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market, " and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsPearl WhiteAntonio MorenoJohn Webb DillionA young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...An incomplete print of this 20-part serial is in the Gosfilmofond film archive with Russian and/or Ukrainian subtitles.
- DirectorWilliam S. HartLambert HillyerStarsWilliam S. HartKatherine MacDonaldLon ChaneyRiddle Gawne seeks revenge on the man who stole his wife and killed his brother. Gawne saves Kathleen Harkness from cattle rustler Bozzam and discovers that Bozzam is the man he seeks.One of the five reels is in the film archive of the Library of Congress.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHarry CareyMolly MaloneVester PeggA man declined admission to fight in the American Civil War joins a gang of marauders and winds up as a fugitive.The Getty Images Archive possesses just over 30 minutes of footage
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsAurora MardiganianIrving CummingsAnna Q. NilssonThe story about the Armenian Genocide based on the account of survivor Aurora Mardiganian.A 24-minute segment was restored and edited from a surviving reel in Soviet Armenia. It released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsMarguerite CourtotGeorge B. SeitzNellie BurtOur Hero's fiancée, who has broken off their engagement, agrees to make a trip around the world, starting absolutely naked, without money or help of any sort from others in order to prove his worth to her.Four of the ten episodes of this spoof serial survive in the Library of Congress film archive.
- DirectorIrvin WillatStarsHarry HoudiniThomas JeffersonAnn ForrestJailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.The International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House possesses a five-minute fragment.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHarry CareyJ. Barney SherryKathleen O'Connor"Cheyenne Harry", owner of the biggest cattle ranch in his corner of the West, is having trouble with John Merritt, a land-grabbing Chicago meat-packer. By some artifice of shrewd legal aid, Merritt manages to seize Harry's ranch under a bogus writ of foreclosure. Failing to get justice by his many letters to Merritt, "Cheyenne Harry" goes East and calls at the millionaire's mansion. At first, Merritt refuses to see him. Then, to cause amusement for his daughter Helen and her guests, he invites the "uncouth" Westerner into his dining hall. He is sure that he will make some grave error in table deportment and afford them all a laugh. To the amazement of Merrit and the guests Harry's table manners are faultless. Then, to trick him into an embarrassing position, Merritt eats with his knife. Harry, realizing that it is proper for the guest to follow the example of the host, does likewise. He leaves the house chagrined but more determined than ever to get justice from Merritt.Only three reels of originally five or six are believed to have survived.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsRomuald JoubéMaxime DesjardinsSéverin-MarsThe 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.The original film was in four episodes with a film length of 5,250 metres (17,220 ft). The most complete reconstruction is 3,525 metres (11,565 ft) long.
- DirectorGeorge E. MiddletonStarsBeatriz MichelenaWilliam PikeAndrew RobsonA Native American woman is embittered after being abandoned by her white husband, Jimmy Dorr. Years later, the dying woman asks her half-Indian son never to tell his sister, Fawn, that her birth mother was also white. When Fawn falls in love with a white stranger, she is warned by her brother, now a fugitive known as the Phantom, not to marry. The stranger identifies himself as the son of the murdered Sheriff Hollister and leads a posse to the Phantom's cave, believing he killed a man during a stagecoach robbery. In reality, the guilty party is Snake Le Gal, who abducted Fawn as a child and delivered her to the Indian village. Snake also robbed the stagecoach, and murdered Sheriff Hollister years earlier. His cohort, Romney, is stabbed trying to rescue Fawn from the lecherous Snake, but lives long enough to stop the Phantom's lynching. The Phantom then races to Snake's cabin and Jimmy shoots the outlaw. With his dying breath, Snake reveals the truth about Fawn's parentage, enabling her to marry young Hollister.The Library of Congress has four of five reels.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsErnst HofmannBlandine EbingerMargit BarnayThomas von Weerth lives as the last descendant of an aristocratic family in the decayed castle. He is fascinated by the picture, 'The Boy in Blue', which shows the so-called Death Emerald.Murnau's debut film. The Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to eleven frames in length.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsThomas MeighanBetty CompsonLon ChaneyA gang consisting of the Frog, who can dislocate his limbs; the Dope, a drug addict; Rose, who poses as the Dope's brutalized mistress; and Burke, the leader; prey on the sympathies and contributions of Chinatown sightseers, until Tom, reading about a deaf, mute, and nearly-blind supposed faith-healer called the Patriarch, living upstate, plans to take greater advantage of the public's gullibility. and Rose poses as the patriarch's long-lost niece and the Frog fakes a cure, when a real crippled boy, inspired by seeing the Frog's contorted limbs healed, walks for the first time. When news spreads and other cures occur, the gang collects much money, but gradually, each member, influenced by the Patriarch and the country atmosphere, changes for the better. The Frog becomes a widow's adopted son, while the Dope falls in love. When Rose almost falls for a millionaire, Tom overcomes his murderous jealousy and, renouncing his past, declares his love. After the Patriarch dies, Tom and Rose marry.About three minutes survive, including two clips in compilation films released by Paramount: The House That Shadows Built (1931) and Movie Memories (1935).
- DirectorRobert EllisLouis J. GasnierPaul HurstStarsRuth RolandGeorge LarkinMark StrongA cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her.A "fragmentary print" of the 15-episode serial exists.
- DirectorJack L. WarnerSam WarnerStarsGrace DarmondPhilo McCulloughJack RichardsonThe thrilling adventures of the daughters of Professor Stanton, scientist and explorer, in their search for hidden treasure in the Central African jungles.The UCLA Film and Television Archive has all but chapter 12 of the 15-chapter serial.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsJack DempseyJosie SedgwickHerschel MayallJack Derry accidentally becomes involved in a mystery surrounding Glory Billings, when fate makes him her rescuer in a kidnapping episode.Episodes 1-4 and one unidentified one of the 15 episodes of this adventure serial are in the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
- DirectorKenneth BramptonStarsJackie AndersonVera ArcherKenneth BramptonTwo brothers, Dick and Jim Marsden, become involved with the bushranger, Captain Starlight. They romance two girls, work on the goldfields, and are captured by the police after Starlight is shot deadA "copy comprising about three quarters" of this Australian production was found and combined with already known footage to produce a near-complete version. A five-minute sequence is still missing.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsWarner OlandEileen PercyJack MowerA "fragmentary print" survives.
- DirectorRobert F. HillScott SidneyStarsElmo LincolnLouise LorraineScott PembrokeWhen Jane is abducted by Arab slave traders, Tarzan comes to her rescue, only to see her kidnapped again by Queen La of Opar. To save Jane, Tarzan must battle both the queen's minions and William Clayton, who seeks Tarzan's family title.Originally released as a 15-chapter movie serial, only the 10-chapter 1928 re-release remains.
- DirectorDuke WorneStarsAnn LittleJ. Morris FosterJoseph W. GirardThe daughter of a white father and an Eskimo mother is taken to be raised in the U.S. after her father is murdered by members of the tribe who were jealous that he had married an Eskimo woman. When the daughter grows into adulthood, she returns to her village, determined to find and punish the people who killed her father.The UCLA Film and Television Archive has chapters 1-12 in its collection; episodes 13-15 are believed to be lost.
- DirectorWinsor McCayA female centaur (a creature half-human and half-horse) enters a clearing in the woods, and picks some flowers. She is soon met by a male centaur, and the two then romance each other. They then seek parental consent for their union.Ninety seconds of footage of this animated film survives.
- DirectorEmmett J. FlynnStarsHarry MyersPauline StarkeRosemary ThebyIn 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.According to silentera.com, reels 2, 4 and 7 remain of the original eight.
- DirectorKarl R. CoolidgeDell HendersonStarsJack HoxieArthur MackleyHelene RossonSwooping into a town, especially to rid it of a troublesome highwayman, Dawson forcibly overpowers sheriff and assumes office. Ignoring warning of former sheriff's friends to leave, he ultimately is accused of being the robber and a tar and feather party is made ready for him. The sheriff's daughter, retained as deputy, helps in the unmasking of the bandit, who turns out to be Dawson's rival for her love. The widow in the town is found to have directed the robberies.Thirty-eight seconds of footage from this Western, found in a mislabeled tin, were the subject of an investigation in a 2006 episode of the PBS series History Detectives.
- DirectorHenry KolkerStarsGeorge ArlissFlorence ArlissMargaret DaleThe story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.The entire film was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1947. Reel 3 is held at George Eastman House. A complete print is reputedly held at the Gosfilmofond in Moscow.
- DirectorAndré DeedStarsGiulia CostaAndré DeedValentina FrascaroliThe story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.Originally around an hour long, only about 26 minutes remain.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsBetty BlytheFritz LeiberClaire de LorezThe story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.Seventeen seconds of footage has tentatively been identified as being from this film.
- DirectorFord BeebeJ.P. McGowanAlbert RussellStarsArt AcordEva ForrestorDuke R. LeeWayne Allen, a young westerner, inherits some apparently worthless land. A complicated system of mines is discovered on the land, which shelters a treasure hidden by an extinct band of Indians. The story then develops into a struggle over this treasure between the hero, his girl's villainous uncle, and a band of outlaws, headed by "The White Spider."A "handful of print clippings" remain of this Western serial.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsAlice BradyRobert EllisDavid PowellA six-minute fragment of the film remains.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsEmil JanningsHarry LiedtkePaul BiensfeldtThe Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.Long thought lost completely, it has been restored from various sources, but still lacks 10 minutes of the roughly one hour and 50 minute original running time.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsTzwetta TzatschewaAdele SandrockHarry FrankAll men are under lovely Maritza's spell.Tired of working for the old woman Yelina, who forces her to cajole customs officials to help the smugglers, she flees and finds work at Mrs. Avricolos' farm.The Cineteca Nazionale film archive possesses a fragmentary print of the first reel.
- DirectorFred JackmanStarsRuth RolandBruce GordonVal PaulA young woman is heir to vast timber lands which the timber trust seeks to secure. She is opposed by a cousin who seeks to prevent her from marrying before she is twenty-one, as under the terms of her father's will he will then inherit the property. In her fight against these odds she is assisted by a lumber foreman who falls in love with her.The UCLA Film and Television Archive has episodes one, four, eight and nine of 15, as does a private collection.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsWill WallingVirginia True BoardmanVirginia ValliIn a prologue, Johnnie, one of the village blacksmith's two sons, falls from a tree that the squire's son Anson Brigham dared him to climb, and is crippled. The squire is an enemy of the blacksmith, who married the woman the squire loved. The main story shows the children grown up. Bill, the other son, has become a doctor, and Alice, the daughter, is having an affair with the squire's son, who has just returned from college. Bill is injured in a train accident, and Alice, accused of stealing some money belonging to the church, tries to commit suicide. The blacksmith rescues Alice; the elder brother recovers and successfully operates on Johnnie's legs, and the film ends happily.One of the eight reels survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsRudolph ValentinoWanda HawleyPat MooreA young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.An incomplete 16mm reduction positive, missing the first third, resides in the Library of Moving Images. Turner Classic Movies financed a restoration using surviving footage from the film and trailers, still photos and title cards to bridge the gaps.
- DirectorKing BaggotStarsBaby PeggySheldon LewisGladys BrockwellSantussa is sent to New York to be cared by for her grandfather. She is sent with jewels, and after being separated from her nurse, is cared for by gangsters.One of the popular "Baby Peggy" movies. Only the last reel showing the fire exists.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsColleen MooreMilton SillsElliott DexterAn ingenue becomes a bob-haired flapper and enters into a ménage-à-trois with her mother's lover amid the sexual revolution of the Jazz Age.Only one reel and a film trailer exist.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsCharles BrinleyJack MowerEileen SedgwickThe trailer of this 15-episode Western serial is available on the DVD More Treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 : 50 films.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsHouse PetersPauline StarkeAntonio MorenoFaulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her daughter Lorna marry native leader Waki, although she loves Lloyd Warren. While searching for a doll for his other daughter Baby Madge, Captain Blackbird comes to Pago Pago and gruffly refuses to aid Lloyd and Lorna, whom he doesn't recognize, but a chance encounter with Faulke reveals the evil doings and Lorna's identity. The captain and his men rush to the island and rescue Lorna from the warring natives.One reel survives.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsGabriel de GravonePierre MagnierGeorges TérofA railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.The original version encompassed 32 reels, which ran for either seven and a half or nine hours (sources disagree). In 1924, Gance edited it down to two and a half hours for general distribution. A modern reconstruction from five different versions, available on DVD, is nearly four and a half hours long.
- DirectorGraham CuttsStarsBetty CompsonClive BrookHenry VictorIn Paris a wild girl becomes possessed by the soul of her twin who died to save her life.Alfred Hitchcock received his first screen credit, as a writer and assistant director. Three of the six reels were found in New Zealand in August 2011.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsGeorge A. BillingsDanny HoyRuth CliffordA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.Incomplete prints of the film, including some color-tinted and color-toned footage, exist in various film archives, including the National Film and Sound Archive and the Library of Congress.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJay WilseyJean ArthurWilliam H. TurnerLightning Bill Lewis sets out to capture Gómez, the leader of a ruthless gang that has been tormenting a border town. He prevents Gómez from kidnapping his girl Mary, but Gómez escapes. With the aid of Captain Duerta, Lightning Bill pursues the gang, and when they are captured by Mexican soldiers, he is free to marry.Reel two of five is in the Library of Congress.
- DirectorWilliam DuncanStarsWilliam DuncanEdith JohnsonEdward CecilA fragmentary print of this 15-episode serial exists.
- DirectorErich von StroheimStarsGibson GowlandZasu PittsJean HersholtThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.Initially running 7 hours and 42 minutes, the film was cut by Von Stroheim to just under four hours, and then trimmed by the studio to 140 minutes of surviving footage. The remaining footage was later accidentally discarded by a janitor while cleaning the vaults. Today the 140-minute version survives, along with a few stills from some of the lost scenes.
- DirectorJoseph HenaberyStarsRudolph ValentinoNita NaldiHelena D'AlgyA nobleman seeks to rescue his bride, who has been kidnapped by his former lover and a bandit.Less than one reel has survived.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsLloyd HamiltonBen AlexanderMatt MooreYoung Sonny's dying father leaves him in the care of Breezy, a hobo he has mistaken for a wealthy businessman. Breezy takes Sonny and his dog along with him on his travels, and they find themselves in the health resort of Sulphur Springs, where Cyrus, the owner, mistakes Breezy for the medical advisor for whom he's been waiting. They soon discover that Cyrus actually isn't who he appears to be and that something shady is going on at the resort.One of the longest feature comedies up to that time. A trailer, only, survives at the Library of Congress.
- DirectorGeorge W. HillStarsColleen MooreForrest StanleyMargaret SeddonDuring a rebellion of prisoners at the San Quentin State Prison, Boston Blackie makes a lightning escape aided by Mary McGinn while chased prison guards.The last two reels, 7 and 8, are missing.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanJohn GilbertAileen PringleGifted but neurotic novelist Jeffrey Dwyer is attracted to young, innocent Joan Converse, but neglects her when he meets sultry Inez Martin. After a short, passionate affair, Inez discards Jeffrey in favor of Harry Todd, whom she marries; Jeffrey turns to drink and debauchery and no longer writes. When he realizes the waste and futility of his life, he marries Joan, rents a lodge in the mountains, and writes a second successful novel. He and Joan are happy until Inez, whose marriage has failed, decides that she wants to resume her relationship with him. She rents a lodge near his, and after a sharp conflict between the idealistic and the sensual in his nature, Jeffrey leaves a letter for Joan, telling her that he is deserting her, and goes to Inez. Quickly realizing, however, that his infatuation with Inez is over, he returns to Joan, who forgives him and gladly welcomes him home again.Four seconds of Boardman can be seen in the MGM promotional short Twenty Years After.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsPaul RobesonMarshall RogersLawrence ChenaultA malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.Originally running nine reels, it was cut to five reels to gain approval from New York censors. The surviving copy is based on the censor-approved edited version; the original nine-reel version is considered lost.
- DirectorHarry O. HoytStarsWallace BeeryBessie LoveLloyd HughesThe first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.It initially had a running time of 106 minutes. Though partially restored, the longest cut runs at approximately 100 minutes.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsAlice TerryLewis StoneJohn BowersThe King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress.Originally running five reels (64 minutes), the last reel has never been found.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsEsther RalstonLawrence GrayFord SterlingMary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.Two trailers and a short color clip are held by the Library of Congress.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsJohn GilbertEleanor BoardmanRoy D'ArcyIn the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.Long thought to have been lost, a nearly complete print was found. It is missing reel three.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsNorma TalmadgeGilbert RolandLilyan TashmanCamille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.An incomplete 35mm positive print exists in the Raymond Rohauer collection of the Cohen Media Group
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsWarner BaxterLois WilsonNeil HamiltonNick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbour, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.A one-minute trailer exists.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsDorothy MackaillJack MulhallLouise BrooksJimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split 50-50 "even steven" on anything they get or do. Jimmy, a confirmed bachelor, doesn't care for women but Scotty falls in love with Diana O'Sullivan, a Coney Island girl. They decide that Jimmy needs a girlfriend and they opt for Jeannie Cavanaugh. But, following their 50-50 pact, Jimmy, although he has fallen in love with Jeannie, praises Scotty to her. It takes an airplane ride to get everybody matched up correctly.The UCLA Film and Television Archive possesses a fragmentary 20 minutes of this film.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsJohn StuartAlf GoddardHumberston WrightA French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.The BFI National Archive possesses fragments amounting to about a third of the film.