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Film di Frank Borzage
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Il grande pescatore
Dramma incentrato sull'ultima vita di Pietro, uno dei discepoli più vicini a Gesù.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.6/10
Bambola cinese
Il pilota americano Cliff Brandon, combattendo i giapponesi in Cina, si ritrova involontariamente "proprietario" di una governante cinese, Shu-Jen . La coppia si innamora e sposa, ma non senza una tragedia causata dalla guerra.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.8/10
The Day I Met Caruso
A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. She admonishes him for his extravagant lifestyle, but she is softened up somewhat when Caruso begins to sing arias from her favorite operas.
A Ticket for Thaddeus
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully understand American life, and believes he will be sent to a concentration camp.
Day is Done
During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate his men with a bugle picked up by the side of the road.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
La luna sorge
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
Questo è il mio uomo
Un impiegato di banca scopre un puledro prodigioso e diventa ricchissimo. Più tardi ritira il cavallo dalle corse e, per colpa del vizio del gioco, ritorna povero. Abbandona la famiglia, ma la moglie saprà ridargli la fiducia nella vita facendo tornare a correre l'animale.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
La magnifica bambola
Dolly Payne rientra nella società di Washington all'inizio del 1800, dopo il suo breve e infelice matrimonio con John Todd. Catturando l'attenzione di due giovani politici, usa il suo fascino per influenzare le elezioni presidenziali.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
I've Always Loved You
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.4/10
Nel mare dei Caraibi
Laurent van Horn è il capo di una banda di profughi olandesi su una nave in cerca di libertà nelle Carolinas, quando la nave naufraga sulla costa di Cartagene. governato da Don Juan Alvardo, sovrano spagnolo. Alvarado fa mettere in prigione Laurent, ma quest'ultimo scappa e cinque anni dopo è un capo dei pirati. Si finge il navigatore di una nave in cui la Contessa Francesca, figlia di un nobile messicano, è in viaggio per sposare Alvarado, che non ha mai visto. I pirati di Laurent catturano la nave e Francesa, per salvare un'altra nave, dà la mano in matrimonio a Laurent, che la conduce al nascondiglio dei pirati. Questo irrita la gelosa Anne Bonney e, anche, il capitano Benjamin Black, che comunque era già irritato. Vincono Laurent e mandano Francesa ad Alvarado, poi Mario du Billar, fidato braccio destro, fa un patto per consegnare anche Laurent ad Alvarado.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.4/10
L'estrema rinuncia
Francia, secondo conflitto mondiale. Le suore di un convento aiutano validamente i partigiani proteggendoli e nascondendoli. Un giorno accolgono un pilota americano che deve consegnare ai superiori alcuni importantissimi documenti. Una novizia in abiti civili lo guida fino al mare e sacrifica la sua vita per salvarlo.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
His Butler's Sister
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.1/10
La taverna delle stelle
Il soldato Smith si reca a New York prima del suo servizio durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale e incontra Eileen, una dipendente a cui è stato imposto di mantenere una relazione solo professionale con le truppe.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.1/10
Sette ragazze innamorate
Sette sorelle sono ansiose di sposarsi con i propri fidanzati, ma la madre vuole dare la precedenza alla più vecchia.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
The Vanishing Virginian
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Smilin' Through
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Ritorna se mi ami
Un pilota della marina militare americana, è sospettato di avere una relazione con la moglie del comandante. Dà le dimissioni e durante un incidente aereo salva la vita del comandante dimostrando la sua innocenza e il suo valore.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
Bufera mortale
E' questa una pellicola di propaganda antinazista realizzata da un regista notevole e interpretata da attori di rilievo. Il film raggiunge i suoi scopi attraverso la narrazione delle vicissitudini di una famiglia tedesca travolta dal nazismo intorno al 1933, anno in cui Hitler fu nominato cancelliere. Il professor Victor Roth, di origine ebrea, sta festeggiando con i propri familiari il suo sessantesimo compleanno. Improvvisamente la radio annuncia che Hitler è stato nominato cancelliere. È l'inizio della fine: il professore, arrestato, morirà in un campo di concentramento e la figlia, mentre tenta di riparare in Austria, verrà uccisa dall'ex fidanzato, passato nelle file delle Ss.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.3/10
L'isola del diavolo
Un gruppo di galeotti (al quale si unisce in seguito anche una donna) evade dalla colonia penale di un'isola e cerca di raggiungere il continente. Tra i fuggitivi c'è un uomo di nome Cambreau, un misterioso individuo del quale nessuno sapeva nulla prima dell'evasione e che ora pare conoscere in anticipo tutto quello che accadrà. Lungo il pericoloso tragitto attraverso la foresta e a bordo di una barca a vela, Cambreau induce ciascun evaso a riflettere sul proprio passato criminale e soprattutto sulle azioni che intende commettere lungo la via che dovrebbe condurlo alla libertà. Alla fine il più coraggioso e determinato del gruppo, il ladro André Verne, comprenderà che le sole cose importanti sono l'amore della donna che l'ha seguito e l'espiazione in carcere delle proprie colpe.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.0/10
Disputed Passage
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Ossessione del passato
Ricco agricoltore (Douglas) del Wisconsin sposa una ballerina (Crawford), ma quando la porta a casa la donna deve far fronte all'ostilità di una cognata (Bainter), al corteggiamento di un cognato (Young) e alla generosità d'animo di sua moglie (Sullavan). Con un incendio si sfiora la tragedia, fino a una catarsi di grande commozione.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.6/10
Tre camerati
In Germania, negli anni Venti, tre amici hanno in comune la vita dura e l'amore per una fanciulla ricca di doti spirituali, ma malata di tubercolosi. Disperata storia d'amore con finale di grande efficacia emotiva. Da un romanzo di Remarque, sapientemente sceneggiato da F. Scott Fitzgerald ed Edward A. Paramore.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.3/10
La donna che voglio
Una ragazza mantiene con il proprio lavoro la famiglia. Lei crede di trovare la liberazione sposando un giovanotto che la corteggia. Ma ben presto deve accorgersi che costui non ha alcuna voglia di lavorare. La ragazza decide allora di abbandonarlo. L'ex marito pero' non la lascierà andare cosi' facilmente.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
La grande città
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.4/10
L'uomo che amo
Una donna americana si innamora di un romantico capo cameriere parigino che cerca di salvarla dal suo ex marito, un uomo ricco e possessivo che vuole tenerla sotto il suo controllo.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.7/10
La luce verde
Un giovane chirurgo, per salvare il proprio maestro, si lascia accusare della morte di una signora che muore durante un intervento. Si dimette dall'ospedale e sopporta tacendo anche la rottura del fidanzamento, che aveva stretto con la figlia della defunta. Per cercare di rifarsi una nuova esistenza si reca in una regione infestata da una grave epidemia. Scopre il vaccino e lo prova su se stesso. Riesce così a salvare sé e i molti ammalati colpiti dal contagio. Con la riabilitazione ritrova anche l'amore della sua fidanzata.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.4/10
Hearts Divided
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Desiderio
Madeleine ruba un filo di perle a Parigi e usa l'ingegnere statunitense Tom, che sta guidando in vacanza in Spagna, per portare le perle fuori dalla Francia. Ma recuperare le perle da lui si rivela difficile senza innamorarsi.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.9/10
Shipmates Forever
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
Living on Velvet
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Passeggiata d'amore
Innamorato della figlia di un generale si iscrive alla scuola militare di West Point. Si fa onore, ma si scontra con suo padre, un tradizionalista.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
E adesso pover'uomo?
Una giovane coppia che lotta contro la povertà deve tenere segreto il proprio matrimonio per permettere al marito di mantenere il proprio lavoro, poiché il suo capo non ama assumere uomini sposati.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.1/10
I ragazzi della via Pal
Adattamento cinematografico del romanzo autobiografico di Ferenc Molnar "I ragazzi della via Pal".
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.6/10
Vicino alle stelle
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.8/10
Segreti
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.8/10
Addio alle armi
Ferito a una gamba, il tenente americano Frederick Henry, di stanza sul fronte italiano, viene ricoverato in un ospedale di Milano, dove incontra Catherine, una giovane infermiera inglese, e se ne innamora.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.1/10
Young America
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
After Tomorrow
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
Bad Girl
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
Young as You Feel
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
Doctors' Wives
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.8/10
Song o' My Heart
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.1/10
The River
Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.2/10
They Had to See Paris
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
La stella della fortuna
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.6/10
Street Angel
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.0/10
Settimo cielo
Ricca vedova, proprietaria di un birrificio, finanzia opere di beneficenza, facendosi prestare forti somme da ricconi disonesti che poi, con l'aiuto di un complice, uccide e sotterra in giardino. Bel gioco dura poco. Scritta da Jean Bernard-Luc sulla base di un romanzo di André Lang, è una commedia macabra dove, però, l'accento cade più sull'aggettivo che sul sostantivo. Ben recitata con un brio distaccato, ma ripetitiva e prolissa. 34° e ultimo film di R. Bernard, figlio del noto commediografo Tristan che, dopo qualche film notevole tra le due guerre, dopo il 1945 si adagiò nel mestiere. Altri titoli originali La belle jardinière e On ne badine pas avec les fleures.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.4/10
Marriage License?
When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his mother, reject her because of her outsider status. Lady Heriot engineers a scandal that ruins their marriage and after has Wanda’s child declared illegitimate. Years pass during which Wanda and her son Robin rebuild their lives through toil. Now grown Robin enters the military, and Marcus reenters their lives wanting to give the young man his name.
Early to Wed
Tommy and Daphne Carter, a young married couple, following the advice of a pretentious friend, decide to impress their friends by appearing to be prosperous. Their efforts end in disillusionment when Tommy loses his job and their furniture is collected for nonpayments. However, by feasting a millionaire with a borrowed dinner and accommodating him for the night in a borrowed bed, they gain his sympathy; and he offers the young husband a substantial position.
The Dixie Merchant
Goodnatured J. P. Fippany loses his home and takes to the road on a chicken-wagon with his wife and daughter. The wagon is wrecked in an automobile collision involving Jimmy Pickett, who falls in love with daughter Aida, and through a misunderstanding involving Marseillaise, Fippany's racehorse, his wife Josephine and Aida go to live with relatives. The disconsolate Fippany sells Marseillaise to Jimmy's father, sends the money to his wife, then disappears. Meanwhile, Jimmy finds Aida and convinces her of his love. Marseillaise, badly driven in a race, loses a heat, but Fippany emerges and rides her to victory, following which there is a reconciliation between husband and wife.
The First Year
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds organise for an important financial partner of the husband's.
Wages for Wives
Nell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother, agrees to marry Danny Kester provided that he will split his paycheck 50-50 with her. When, after marriage, he refuses to honor the agreement, she goes on strike, getting her sister and mother to join in. The three deserted husbands have a difficult time but hate to give in. A vamp complicates matters, but everything is straightened out in the end with each side meeting the other halfway. —Pamela Short
Lazybones
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.6/10
The Circle
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must decide whether to give everything up to follow her heart and run off with Ted.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.1/10
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differently—Edith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Una vera signora
Polly Pearl, ormai matura proprietaria di un caffè francese, racconta in flashback la sua storia a un gentile avventore del locale. Un tempo cantante di sala in Inghilterra, aveva sposato in segreto il rampollo della nobiltà Leonard St. Aubyns, immediatamente diseredato dal padre a causa della sua relazione con una donna di rango inferiore. Tradita e abbandonata già in luna di miele, si ritrova in un cabaret/bordello di Marsiglia con il figlio neonato da crescere da sola.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Secrets
An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
The Age of Desire
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ranny. Abandoned to the streets by Janet, Ranny eventually moves in with a bookseller and her granddaughter Margy. As the years go by Janet comes to regret abandoning her son and takes out ads looking for him. Marcio, a vicious blackmailer, sends Ranny to Janet posing as her son, not knowing that the young boy actually is her son. Complications ensue.
Children of Dust
Young Terwilliger, an orphan boy in New York City, "adopts" Old Archer, the caretaker of Gramercy Park, after the man is arrested for beating Terwiliger for picking a flower for his dead mother. As Terwilliger grows up, he falls in love with Helen Raymond, a pretty neighborhood girl, but finds a rival for her in Harvey Livermore. When World War I breaks out both boys enlist in the army and are sent to the front lines. Complications ensue.
The Nth Commandment
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
The Pride of Palomar
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
The Valley of Silent Men
The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a hot-blooded French-Canadian beauty, with a secret of her own...
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
The Good Provider
A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves fruitless and eventually his kin sees the error of their ways and return to their true home.
Billy Jim
Billy Jim is a rich cowboy who tries to seduce a young girl whose father exploits a mine.
Back Pay
Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.3/10
The Duke of Chimney Butte
Lambert, a young man out to make his fortune, is out west trying to sell a gadget that can peel potatoes, open cans, pull out nails and perform other handy tasks. He comes to a cattle ranch and runs into a group of cowboys eating supper. He impresses the cowboys so much that they make him their leader, and it's not long before he's hired by pretty young ranch manager Vesta Philbrook as her aide and bodyguard. "The Duke", as he's now called, falls in love with her and sets out to help her get rid of a gang of vicious cattle rustlers that are constantly raiding her ranch.
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
Humoresque
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more from him than just music.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.6/10
Prudence on Broadway
Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of the people, and he leaves for Belgium. When the war begins, the inventor saves a Belgian burgomaster's daughter from Prussian invaders. The inventor and the girl endure horrible suffering because of the war, but they find happiness at its end, while the formerly fighting nations direct their effort towards world peace at the Paris conferences. The assassination of Kurt Eisner of Bavaria occurs at the end.
Toton
In the Latin Quarter of Paris, American artist David Lane (Norman Kerry) marries his model Yvonne (Olive Thomas), but just prior to the birth of their baby, David's mother dies, and he is forced to depart for the United States. In David's absence, his father hires a lawyer to convince Yvonne that David has abandoned her, and grief-stricken, she dies soon after her little girl is born. Yvonne's trusted friend Pierre rears the girl as a boy, whom he calls Toton, and trains her to become a skilled pickpocket. Meanwhile, David adopts a boy named Carew, and when he grows to manhood, the two move to Paris to establish an art studio. In robbing the studio, Pierre recognizes David, and to avenge Yvonne's death, he claims that Toton has been taught to hate her father. Later, Pierre becomes convinced of David's innocence, and before he dies, he reveals the truth to Toton. Finally, the girl is reunited with her father and marries Carew.
The Atom
Jennie is a slavey in a theatrical boarding house. To her the actors are all wonderful, but Montague Booth is the chief. In an accident Booth is disfigured for life and is saved from suicide by Jennie. They join a medicine show in which Booth is lecturer, but Jennie cannot stand the road. Booth leaves the show and takes up a homestead claim. The manager of the show sends one of Booth's old loves to get him back, for his services are valuable, but Belle fails after very nearly wrecking everyone's happiness.
The Ghost Flower
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis McDonald), whereupon the heroine takes refuge in the villa of French playwright La Farge. Under La Farge's careful tutelage, Giulia develops into a famous actress, capturing the heart of the Duke De Chaumont. Though LaFarge himself has fallen in love with the girl, he does not stand in her way when she accepts the Duke's proposal. But Giulia has not reckoned with Tony, who is still crazy about her and still willing to kill any man who stands in his way. Tony murders LaFarge, then sets his sights on the Duke, intending to kill the poor fellow during the wedding ceremony. Hoping to save the Duke's life, Giulia pretends to have fallen out of love with him and returns to Tony.
Who Is to Blame?
Charmed by the bright smile of Taro San, a Japanese rickshaw boy, Grant Barton takes the young man to the United States as his valet. Grant marries Marion Craig, but when she departs for California to visit her sick mother, he becomes enamored of Tonia Marsh, a vamp. Marion discovers them together and leaves Grant, whereupon Taro resolves to help his kind employer out of his difficulties. Persuading Tonia that he is a member of the imperial family of Japan, Taro pays court to the adventuress, and when Grant finds them in each other's arms, he immediately fires Taro. Grant and Marion are reconciled, while Taro sadly returns to Japan.
An Honest Man
When Benny Boggs, a good-natured hobo, is rejected by the U.S. Army, he decides to overcome his aversion to work and offers assistance to a farmer known as Old Man Cushing. Cushing falls seriously ill and, believing he is about to die, asks Benny to deliver a package to his daughter Ruby, who left home to pursue an acting career. Benny soon learns that the package contains $50,000, but resolves to earn the old man's trust, despite his poverty. After arriving in the city, Benny rescues Beatrice Burnett from an attacker, and the two become friends. Later, Beatrice takes Benny to visit her ailing friend, who identifies herself as Cushing's long-lost daughter. Benny gives the money to Ruby and accompanies her back to the farm, where they receive a warm greeting from Cushing, who has recovered from his illness. The army finally accepts Benny, and Ruby promises to marry him when he returns from active duty.
Society for Sale
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it turns out that her late father actually was a lord, they decide they now can marry.
Innocent's Progress
Tessa Fayne, unhappy in her life as a clerk in a small town candy store, leaves her Aunt Lottie and journeys to New York City to search for Arnold Fuller, an actor who once offered her love as well as a career on the stage. After learning that Arnold is married, Tessa rushes out into the rain and runs headlong into Carey Larned, a young millionaire. Carey takes her to his apartment, where a fellow clubman, Olin Humphreys, tries to attack her. In defending her, Carey suffers a lung hemorrhage and is ordered West by his physician to recuperate. In his absence, Tessa is cared for by Madeline Carson, who, although deeply in love with Carey, has inspired only his friendship in return. Under Madeline's watchful eye, Tessa grows into a beautiful and cultured woman. Several years later, Madeline is killed in an accident, and when Carey returns to visit Tessa, he realizes his love for her and proposes.
The Shoes That Danced
Shopgirl Rhoda Regan is in love with the Harmony Lad, the leader of a New York street gang called the Hudson Dusters. After two gang murders are committed in the Pepper Box, a local cabaret, the Harmony Lad promises his worried sweetheart that he will abandon the gang for a singing career, and true to his word, he soon accepts a job on the Pepper Box stage. When Stumpy Darcy, the new leader of the Dusters, kills rival gang leader Wedge Barker, who had flirted with Stumpy's girlfriend, Mamie Conlon, the Harmony Lad flees to New Jersey to escape police interrogation.
The Curse of Iku
American sailor Allan Carroll, an American sailor, is shipwrecked of the coast of Japan in the 19th century. He makes it to shore and is rescued by kind Yori. The local ruler, Prince Iku, has ordered that all foreigners who are "trespassing" on Japanese soil should be killed. He hears about a foreign sailor who washed ashore and has been hidden by villagers, so he sends his sister Omi San to investigate. She finds Alan, and instead of turning him in to be executed, she falls in love with him. Prince Iku captures both Allan and Yori and intends to execute both of them. Complications ensue.
The Gun Woman
A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they're married. Instead, he takes the money and buys a saloon in another town.
Until They Get Me
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arrested by Selwyn, a member of the North West Mounted Police, who allows him to say a last farewell to his wife. After visiting his wife's deathbed, Kirby eludes Selwyn and becomes a fugitive from the police. Each year he returns to visit his son and, during one of his sojourns, meets Margy, a little farmhouse servant who has run away from her life of drudgery.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.8/10
Flying Colors
Brent Brewster, formerly a Yale athlete known for his pole vaulting prowess, is unsuccessful in business. When his wealthy relatives send him out to fend for himself, Brent joins a detective agency. After Craig Lansing, a family friend, hires Brent to investigate the numerous jewel thefts in Poughkeepsie, Brent works undercover at Lansing's house party and recognizes Captain Drake, an English crook. Although Brent temporarily forgets detective work when he meets Ann, the beautiful sister of Lansing's wife Ruth, Ann's remark that $40,000 a year would be enough for her to live on brings Brent back to the job.
Immediate Lee
Immediate Lee, employed on the ranch owned by one Masters, is discharged by the manager through the influence of one of his men, who is in the brand blotting game with Masters. Beulah, a dance-hall girl, has attracted the attention of Hurley, a brand blotter, but prefers Lee. Hurley entraps Lee and cuts his mouth open with a wide gash, which leaves a permanent scar. Lee vows vengeance and follows the man all over the country. He at last meets him face to face, but Hurley is saved by the intercession of Beulah. He later is killed in a fierce encounter. The brand blotters are discovered and punished by the aid of Immediate Lee, and Beulah receives the reward of loyalty and devotion by becoming Lee's wife.
Land O' Lizards
Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by Buck Moran, and he and his cowboys are a lawless bunch. They don't know about the gold, but Dave Moore does, and so does his daughter Bobbie, whom he dresses up like a boy. Her true gender is eventually sussed out by the stranger.
Matchin' Jim
Matchin' Jim comes to the "Flying A" ranch and is employed as one of its cowboys. His name is well justified, as he has a mania for matching coins. Not far from the ranch lives Ellings, an old placer miner. He has a daughter, Phyllis, whose sole delight in life seems to be in caring for a puny rose bush that she has planted at the side of her father's cabin. By diligent nursing she has managed to bring it to such a stage that it produces a single blossom. As Matchin' Jim is wandering near the cabin one day, hunting, a wild shot from his gun narrowly misses Phyllis and cuts from the rose bush its one lone flower. She calls to Jim, and when he comes to her she points out the damage that he has done. But Jim only grins and tells her that he'll match her to see whether she is going to be mad at him or not.
The Forgotten Prayer
Mojava Matt realizes that he is slipping away from God, when one Sunday morning he cannot even remember the Lord's prayer. He goes as far as "give us this day our daily bread," and stopped there in self-abasement. Packing his burro, he deserts his camp and starts back toward civilization, to find somebody who can tell him the next words.
Nell Dale's Men Folks
John Dale runs a small, decent road house on a main trail between distant towns. Nell is his right-hand man. Nell has a half-witted brother, Zeb. She keeps their house and tends the small bar in Dale's absence. Zeb is trusted only with simple, odd jobs about the place. Nell is self-reliant and well able to hold the guests of the place at their proper distance. She is devoted to her incompetent brother. Bart Trevis and young Remsen are rivals for her favor. Trevis is favored and Remsen is not. Through circumstantial evidence Trevis is involved in a crime, Though innocent, he dare not risk standing trial. He escapes to the road house, tells Nell of the fix he is in and asks her to jump the country with him. He remains hidden there for the day, Zeb nearly betrays him while the pursuing sheriff and his son also stop at the road house. But in the end Zeb makes a supreme sacrifice and Nell runs away with Bart at nightfall.
The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
Dr. Charles Matthews, professor of philosophy in a small New England college, is dismissed, and though heartbroken he and his daughter, Prudence, start in a prairie schooner for the west. At St. Jo, which in 1850 was the outfitting point for the great west, they meet Calliope, so named because of the vast carrying quality of his lungs. He accompanies them on their journey. On the way west, it falls to Calliope's lot to do them many little services, which, on account of the native modesty of Pru and the innate manhood of Calliope, are necessarily surreptitious.
That Gal of Burke's
Tommie Burke is a tomboy, and she can braid a hackamore, rope a steer, ride a broncho, or do any of the things cowboys usually accomplish. Arnold Blake, son of the wealthiest cattleman, is her companion on many wild rides and innocent escapades. Away back in the back bay district of Boston, Charles Percival is starting for the west, with out the farewells of an uncle and two stern maiden aunts, who feel that he has disgraced them forever by his reckless habits. About the time he arrives at the Burke ranch, the latter receives his New York sister and her daughter Mabel.
Nugget Jim's Pardner
Nugget Jim's pardner (Borzage), is an easy-come-easy-go character, an heirling who has worn through the last of pater's patience, eaten through his allowance of allowances. Off he pops, after one last drunken hurrah, to makes his living way out west. He teams up with a prospector and his daughter and they develop a happy family situation.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.5/10
The Quicksands of Deceit
Kindly widowed farmer John Hardy takes in the orphaned Ida Allen and due to her care of him adopts her. While there is a plan in place for John’s other daughter Eleanor to marry neighboring farmer Hugh Conway she has fallen in love with a wastrel, Paul Denny. Foolhardy, she elopes with Paul who quickly abandons the now pregnant Eleanor who then entreats Ida’s help. Ida comes to her aid, but Eleanor expires leaving Ida with the baby. Meanwhile Hugh and John have been led to believe Ida has disgraced them but when Denny returns looking for hush money, they learn the truth. Hugh banishes the blackard, finds and declares his love for Ida and the family is reunited.
The Demon of Fear
James Oliver, has a delicate little wife about to become a mother. Their family doctor advises Oliver that he must not become engaged in any physical encounter or get hurt in any way or it would kill her. Soon thereafter Oliver is at the bar when a rough patron of the place invites him to drink. Oliver declines and on insistence by the rough, asks for soda water, which the rough throws in Oliver's face in disgust. Forced to fight or acknowledge himself a coward, Oliver admits cowardice. They all jeer him, when an old man a quiet spectator of the scene, tells the following story visioned in and out in pictures. He takes for his text the statement that, "No man who will admit that he is a coward for a principal is one". He depicts the story of a young man, Thomas Marsh by name, who had a feeling of fear born in his physical being.
The Pilgrim
A drifter enters town to establish himself. Working as a cowhand, he meets the boss's daughter, who's eager to absorb some local color.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.2/10
Jack
Jack is just a cowboy on the Gilman cattle ranch. Born and bred of the west, he is broad-mined and easy going. In direct contrast to him is Frances, a girl of the east, who comes to the west with Gilman's daughter. Frances has been born and brought up in wealth and culture and does not understand the cowboy who refuses to cater to her whim but who tries to dominate her. Later, when he proposes to her, she accepts him. She leaves for the east, promising to marry him when her course at school is finished. Jack sets about to build a cabin for their home. While at her home in the east, Frances is constantly being urged by Raymond Welton, a club man, to forget the rough cowboy, and to marry him.
Unlucky Luke
Luke Drummond, popularly known as "Unlucky Luke," and Seth Powers, his friend and chum, have a mock quarrel over a new school teacher as to who saw her first. They roll in the dirt to the disgust of the lady herself, who witnesses the bout, though she does not know the cause. Luke and Seth, in common with many other citizens, are unsettled by the charm and grace of the new teacher. The two young men vie with each other as to which shall escort her home from school, leading to humorous situations.
A Flickering Light
Jim, a cowboy, comes to town with the boys of the Lazy B, and stops at the Last Chance Saloon. One of the girls of the dancehall is Madge. Hardy, owner of a distant ranch, comes to her and offers her a position as housekeeper, which proposition she spurns. Jim has a flirtation with Madge, and she interests him. Late that night, Jim, well under the influence of liquor, chances to meet her again. On the impulse of the moment he asks her to marry him.
Two Bits
U.S. Marshal James Hardeman investigates counterfeiters in Red Gulch and meets flower-selling orphan Two Bits.
The Code of Honor
Captain Frank Marvin and Lieut. Bob Chase are army draftsmen in the Ordnance Department. Marvin is working on plans for a submarine that is expected to revolutionize warfare. One of the foreign governments is anxious to obtain the plans.
The Silken Spider
Brian Leonard is a millionaire whose sole occupation is the amassing of wealth. He is cold, hard, and the element of love has been almost extinguished. In this environment, his motherless, loveless daughter, Bona, grew up to womanhood.
Life's Harmony
Josiah Pringle, a benevolent old musician, who ekes out his livelihood by giving music lessons, after playing the organ for twenty years in the church of a little New England hamlet, must make way for a younger man, Gordon Howard, who comes from Boston. Faith Pringle, adopted by Josiah and his aged sister, Letitia, is leader of the choir, and when Pringle is replaced, she refuses to sing, but relents at Pringle's gentle insistence.
The Pitch o' Chance
One of the earliest surviving short films by Franke Borzage. A simple western about a man who enjoys boozing, gambling and women.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.5/10