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- The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
- Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
- A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
- Cyrano de Bergerac is a joyous and witty poet filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th-century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman.
- A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
- George Melies's second adaption of the classical fairy-tale, from 1912.
- The assistant foreman of the San Francisco Chronicle press-room, Tom MacDonald is passed over for the post of foreman in favor of a younger man. He gains satisfaction, though, when his son, Ray, obtains a good job in the district attorney's office. Reporter Clarence Walker, in love with MacDonald's daughter, Polly, is sent to obtain evidence against notorious bootlegger Sam Blotz, who is protected by Assistant District Attorney Gerald Fuller. Blotz and Fuller frame Ray to put Walker off their track. Although his conscience bothers him, Walker reports the story in time for the last edition. MacDonald attempts to stop the presses, and when Blotz's henchman, "Red" Moran, blows up the building, MacDonald is blamed and put in jail with his son. Walker eventually uncovers evidence exonerating the father and son, MacDonald is made foreman, and a new newspaper plant is built.
- A young woman who believes a recluse millionaire has kidnapped and for eighteen years has held prisoner another young woman, tries to prove her suspicion by searching the millionaire's estate. Her quest leads her into numerous hazardous adventures and into a romance with a young officer of state troops. During the hunt several persons are killed by a mysterious archer, whose identity is learned when the millionaire's castle is finally besieged. The girl's romance leads to her marriage with the troop officer.
- John Blair, the District Attorney of a large city, is a drug fiend, and on the day he is to sum up the People's case in a celebrated murder trial, he finds that he is unable to continue. A young lawyer, named Gary, who has followed the case, calls upon Blair, seeking employment. The following scene is achieved by a double exposure which is perfectly accomplished. Confronting each other, the similarity of their countenances astounds them both and it gives Blair an idea. He offers Gary $1,000 to exchange positions with him. Gary agrees and they exchange apparel. Blair goes to the poor lodgings of Gary, while Gary, accompanied by Blair's wife, who has not detected the substitution, goes to court. With an eloquent summing up Gary wins the case. It is then he breaks the news to Mrs. Blair. She is at first unconvinced, but finally they both go to Gary's hoarding place where they find the real Blair dead. His good name and the reputation of his family are at stake, so a compact is arranged, whereby Gary becomes Blair and the real Blair is buried as Gary, the unknown.
- In the opening scene, Britannicus is seen wooing Junia, to whom he is betrothed. He is the rightful heir to the throne of Rome. The emperor having died, Nero, assisted by his scheming mother, is proclaimed emperor instead of Britannicus, who is informed by his friends that the throne has been usurped by his treacherous stepbrother. Britannicus, alarmed by these tidings, hastens to Rome to claim the throne, and is met by Nero, who cunningly offers to let the people decide. Nero is hailed by the people as their ruler to the disgust of Britannicus, who informs his betrothed of Nero's treachery, and enlists her influence to recover the throne. He entrusts this letter for delivery to a supposedly loyal friend named Narcissus, who, instead of delivering the message to Junia, hands it over to Nero. Narcissus returns to Britannicus, and makes him believe that Junia has spumed his love message and no longer cares for him. Britannicus, terrified by this second misfortune, can hardly believe his senses, and is for the moment crushed. So as to separate the lovers forever. Narcissus now counsels Nero to have Junia abducted, and the fair woman in the dark of night is made a prisoner by Roman soldiers, and carried to the emperor's palace, where Nero is waiting. He gloats over the lovely form cringing before him in deadly fear, and a violent passion is aroused in the tyrant. Nero, enraptured by the charms of this virgin, decides to make her empress and thereby remove her forever from the influence of Britannicus, his hated rival. He writes Junia to this effect, warning her not to show any further affections to Britannicus, whose life is threatened in that case. Britannicus, after the first shock, begins to hope again, and is seen entering Junia's home to satisfy himself of the true state of affairs. To his dismay, he finds his beloved gone and her attendants unable to inform him of her whereabouts. Immediately he sees the hand of Nero, on whom he calls to demand for information about the woman that is dearer to him than his life. Nero receives Britannicus, and makes him believe that he is his true friend by introducing him into the presence of Junia, who occupies an adjoining room. Britannicus bursts out in a passionate appeal to Junia, while Nero is seen crouching in the background observing the two. Junia has noticed Nero hiding behind a curtain, and therefore dares not confess her love to Britannicus. She treats him coldly, causing her unfortunate lover to rush in despair from the room. Nero, stepping out of his hiding place, again proposes to Junia, who spurns the tyrant, and in her extremity, whips out a dagger with which she threatens to end her life. Nero becomes frightened, desists and infuriated, leaves the room. We now see Nero shaking off the influence of his mother so as to better pursue his career of crime. His mother's armchair thus far was placed next to his throne. He orders the same removed as an outward sign of his future independence. His mother just then enters and a quarrel ensues between the two. She denounces her son before the people as a usurper to the throne, and leaves the palace vowing vengeance. Outside she comes upon Britannicus, and immediately conceives the idea of using her son's hated rival as an instrument in her revenge. She informs Britannicus by letter that Junia still loves him, and offers her assistance in his fight to recover the throne. Narcissus, the spy, is present when Britannicus receives this note. He manages to obtain possession of it, and hastens to Nero to inform him of the impending danger. Meanwhile, Agrippina has introduced Britannicus into the palace, and brought the lovers together. Nero suddenly enters, and beholding the situation. His anger knows no bounds. But before the strong will of his mother, he cowers and slinks from the room. He begins to realize that more desperate means must be employed to destroy his enemy. In such a moment, Narcissus suggests to him the use of poison, and Locusta, the official poisoner, is called in and consulted. She concocts a powerful poison which is tried upon a slave who quickly dies, convincing Nero that this is the quickest way to rid himself once and for all of his enemies. Nero addresses a letter to Britannicus, giving his consent to his marriage with Junia, and fixing a day for the wedding, which is to be celebrated in his palace. We see next the wedding procession and Nero plighting the troth between the lovers. The wedding feast follows, at which the court is sitting around the tables with Nero and his mother upon a raised platform in the center. Nero rises and drinks the health of the newly wedded couple. He bestows a signal honor upon Britannicus by sending him a cup of wine to reply to the emperor's toast. Britannicus rises, and unsuspectingly drinks from the faithful cup. He has hardly touched a few drops when he falls down in great agony. A general commotion begins, during which Nero leaves his table and comes rushing to Britannicus, who is writhing on the floor dying. Agrippina, in a moment sizing up the true situation, accuses her son of the crime amidst the consternation of the wedding party. Junia, seeing Britannicus about to die, has quietly seized the poisonous cup and drinks the rest of the contents. She falls to the floor over the prostrate form of Britannicus, and the two, in a last embrace, die amidst the pandemonium around them. Unable to be together in life, they are joined in death, never to be parted again.
- A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
- As a reporter, Dick Farrington is sent to cover an assignment that promises a big story. A lawyer has advertised for an ex-Marine who is a boxer. He makes good beating up a gang of roughnecks picked for the purpose, and secures the mysterious job that is filled with danger. It is to guard the heiress Lady Chatfield, but the hero is told nothing as to the secret in back of it all. Dick poses as Lord Grantmore, wears a monocle, and otherwise acts like a titled Englishman. They proceed to the mining town of Goldbrook, where the heiress is to occupy a mysterious mansion on the occupancy of which hinges a great fortune. The engineer of the mines is deeply interested in thwarting the plans of Lady Chatfield, and with his gang of roughneck miners makes things lively for the pugilist star in a series of fights that are hair raisers.
- Prince Algabert upholds the traditions of his forefathers and wages a feud against the house of Rodembourg, whose reigning lord has one daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Lying in ambush for their enemies one day, Algabert's vassals see the Princess setting out to ride, and capture her. Carried by them to camp, she is brought before Algabert, who forgets the feud, falls under the spell of her beauty, and gives her back her liberty, and later goes to her father to beg for her hand and the cessation of the feud. His overtures are haughtily repulsed, and the breach between the two houses widens. Thereafter Elizabeth, relinquishing all hope of a union between herself and the prince, enters a convent. On the day of her renunciation of the world, Algabert learns of her decision. He makes attempts to reach her, but is unsuccessful. Thrown into despair by this Algabert then provokes the Rodembourgs. He meets them single-handed in the convent cloisters and receives a death stroke. Elizabeth, hearing the clash of steel and the shouts of men, peers through the window of her cell and sees her lover pierced by the swords of her father's retainers. The dead prince is buried by the nuns, and to Sister Elizabeth is given the charge of tending his grave.
- A shot gamekeeper recovers in time to clear a framed Lord.
- Novelty short featuring a troupe of acrobats.
- A girl, Anita Wayne, finds herself an heiress of her mother's estate, but learns that her father lives in Alaska. Determined to find her father she travels to a mining town in the Klondike, but runs into "Cash" Gynon (a villainous saloon keeper) who claims to be her father. When the town drunkard, Old Skin Full, turns out to be her father, she is rescued by Jim Winston (a gold miner who recently discovered gold) when he fights Gynon who falls into a crevasse and dies.
- A fisherman suspects his wife of infidelity but is mistaken.
- Herbert Landis, who secretly loves Anne Travers, is sent by her father to supervise construction of a bridge in Oregon. Anne insists that society man Hilary Fenton join the party, and as a result Landis broods in his cabin, which he shares with his foreman Ole Bergson. Ole, who claims to know all about love, disguises himself as well-known desperado Blackie Blanchette and kidnaps Anne, leaving a note urging Landis to "rescue" her; however, Ole is captured by the real Blackie. While a raging forest fire breaks out, Landis rides to the cabin and confronts Blackie; as the fire reaches the cabin, Blackie meets a fiery death while Landis and Anne stagger through the flames to the river. The other suitor, finding country customs too rough, departs, leaving Anne to discover her true love.
- A forest ranger and an adventuress team up against a gang of bandits when all are cut off from the outside world by a blizzard. The gang is controlled by the mysterious Charles Redfield, whom none of the bandits have ever actually seen.
- An old ex-champion takes the place of an absent boxer and wins the match.
- Colonel Heeza Liar goes to Africa hoping to outdo Teddy Roosevelt; there he encounters various jungle animals.
- La Rue, a notorious smuggler, kidnaps Helen Bentley, whom Jim Adams saves from a "torture den" until the arrival of customs authorities.
- Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but she refuses, mainly because of his heavy drinking. However, after being brazenly insulted by his family, she accepts his proposal, just to get under their skin. She finds out that Bob's sister Phyllis is planning to run off with Martyn Edwards, a cad who once betrayed a close friend of Rosalie's. Rosalie goes to Phyllis' apartment to talk her out of it, but soon finds herself involved in, and arrested for, a murder.
- Frank Russell, a celebrated artist, is painting an Indian subject and has for a model an Indian girl around whom there seems to hang some mysterious suggestion of English ancestry. As the days go by the kindly disposition of the painter wins the heart of the Indian maiden. Mrs. Russell pays a visit to her husband's camp and is greeted affectionately by him. This enrages Silver Cloud so much that she attempts to kill her rival, and nearly succeeds. While this thrilling scene is being enacted. Russell has succeeded in learning from the Indian woman who claims to be the mother of the girl that Silver Cloud is really a white girl and that many years before, two children were saved from a shipwreck, one of them being adopted by white settlers and the other taken by the savages. This knowledge completes a chain of circumstances which convince Russell that his wife and the little Indian model are sisters, and the very interesting, finely photographed film ends happily.
- Cowhand Bruce Mason is framed and falsely accused of smuggling opium across the Texas-Mexico border near the ranch he works on. He walks, runs, rides and fights his way through many obstacles before he proves his innocence, and wins the hand of Lois Kincaid, daughter of the rancher.
- John Henderson, prospecting in the far west, is lost on the plains without food or water. Luckily, Lonefox, the young son of the Sioux chief, while riding, finds him and drags him delirious to his father's ramp, where attention and care are bestowed on him and he recovers. Before going on his way Henderson gives Lonefox a valuable ring tor having saved his life. Fourteen years elapse, and Lonefox has graduated at the Spendex Indian College, while Henderson, having met with great success in life, is now president of a bank in the east. Lonefox, on the strength of a recommendation from the college, obtains s position in the bank, but one day Charles Holstein, to be avenged on Lonefox, who has refused to be a party to certain villainous schemes, places a roll of notes in his pocket. The money is soon missed and Lonefox is denounced as the culprit. Pleading his innocence to Henderson, the latter notices the ring on the Indian's finger and mutual recognitions follow, with the result that Lonefox is acquitted of the crime and taken by Henderson to his home and introduced to his wife and daughter as the man who had saved his life years ago. At a lawn party Lonefox excels in archery, but is mocked for being an Indian by Holstein, who is a suitor for the hand of the daughter. Lonefox is also in love with Elsie, who, when he proposes to her, refers him to her father, knowing full well that he will not permit her to marry an Indian. This, together with the sight of Elsie and Holstein together, excites his Indian blood and he seizes a dagger with the intention of committing a crime. His training at college, however, appeals to his better nature and stops him from this, but the call of race is too strong and, destroying his diploma, he departs back to the west. Here he hunts out his tribe, and is welcomed back by his father, who, wrapping his own blanket around his shoulders, leads him into his tepee to once more revert to the manners and customs of his race.
- Enemies become friends after a coal mining disaster.
- In Mexico, two men conspire to compel a young woman to marry the man of their choice to satisfy their financial needs. An American mining engineer, who is an excellent gunfighter, wins the girl's love by saving her and her brother from the machinations of the two men.
- A young newspaper reporter is assigned to investigate mysterious goings-on in a coastal resort town. He discovers the existence of a gang of vicious liquor hijackers. He sets out to expose the ring and help federal agents break it up.
- Johnnie Gains, son of a farming couple, is industrious and imbued with a spirit of sacrifice. Rejected for military service because of an eye injury, he enlists in the Salvation Army. His indolent brother marries but is goaded into enlisting and dies on the battlefield. The parents are evicted from their home by the dead son's widow, but Johnnie returns and restores the homestead to them.
- Little Gerta, when her mother dies. is brought to her father, Carl Von Seydling, a government official, who deserted his wife and child a few years before. Councilor Van Seydling found the child's presence in his household to be cumbersome and for that reason turned her over to one Sarah Anderson, a nurse. Although Van Seydling did not know it, the Anderson woman was a notorious fagin. She promptly sold Gerta to a beggar, who taught her to beg and to steal. One of her begging trips brings Gerta to the attention of a young man named Alm Stoddard, He becomes interested in the pretty child and upon learning her story is horrified. The police are notified. They arrest her supposed father, but Sarah Anderson escapes. Little Gerta is adopted by Alm's mother and grows to be a beautiful young woman. Alm falls in love with her, but Gerta has lost her heart to the dashing Lieutenant Wiles. Through Alm's efforts the character of this man is shown to Gerta, and thus she is warned in time. Lieutenant Wiles challenges Alm to a duel and in the encounter Alm is wounded slightly. Gerta, frightened by the trouble she has caused, disappears, leaving a note begging the Stoddards to forgive her seeming ingratitude. Some years later a grand opera star, Mlle. Hauser, has taken the public by storm. Among her admirers is Alm Stoddard, although he is too fainthearted to write to her or tell her that he knows her to be little Gerta. She, from behind the footlights, has recognized him but, fearing he has not forgiven her, makes no sign of recognition. Another man, in constant attendance at the opera, is Councilor Van Seydling, who has long since believed his daughter dead. By a strange coincidence Sarah Anderson is employed as Gerta's maid. She has not reformed any and when she steals Mlle, Hauser's handbag she extracts a picture of a very little girl. Looking at the picture Sarah suddenly realizes that Mlle. Hauser is none other than little Gerta. That evening the audience is assembled when a fire breaks out. In the panic that follows Alm is the only one who remembers Gerta. At the risk of his life he brings the unconscious girl out of danger. At the corner drug store Sarah Anderson, mortally injured, is dying. She bares the story of her life and among the listeners is Councilor Von Seydling. The memory of his misdeeds strikes terror to his heart. Van Seydling hurries out and, finding his daughter in the arms of Alm, begs her to forgive him. The girl is mystified, but a little explaining clears the situation. Following custom, Alm asks her father for her hand. Von Seydling asks Gerta to decide and she, clinging to Alm, smiles her contentment.
- This film presents a series of remarkably colored, interesting views of native life in one of the largest cities of the Indian Empire. Interesting street views, gaily garbed natives, modes of transportation, and caravans of camels starting on a journey are successively shown. The training of the sacred monkeys in their mountain home is presented, and a number of scenes showing a native fakir exhibiting his troop of animals, which includes an intelligent monkey, a marvelously agile goat, a little bear cub, and several other interesting beasts. The entire film is colored with great care.
- Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. Someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted her own child, is now in charge of a large brood of children and very happy about it. But a possible problem arises when the real heir to the money appears.
- Doris Dunbar, a detective on the trail of stolen jewels, visits the Red Mill Inn, where Hooper (a jewel thief) and Steve Martindale (a man-about-town) are having a drink together. Hooper, who has some hot jewelry on him, puts it in Steve's pocket, fearing to be arrested by Doris. Doris and Steve are later kidnapped by Hooper and held prisoner at his hideout. Steve discovers that Doris is his childhood sweetheart, and they attempt to escape together. Their plans are foiled, but they are rescued by the police and decide to become partners for life.
- A man chases his eloping daughter but is too late.
- Everyone knows the story of The Babes in the Woods, a story which has stirred human sympathy as perhaps no other story ever has done. In this film the famous fairy tale is reenacted with a background of a beautiful woodland. The color photography brings out the contrast of colors which makes it so beautiful, as to be really remarkable. The wild, fantastic shapes, the creatures of the children's imagination, live again and are as gripping as they were in our younger days.
- A band of unscrupulous speculators seek to purchase for a mere pittance the rich lands of Iron Claw, a Yuma Indian. Iron Law is wavering in his determination not to sign the deed. His daughter, White Feather, hurries to her lover, Red Eagle, an Indian attorney, and tells him the story. Red Eagle hurries back with her and is just in time to prevent the swindle. The gang lies in wait for Red Eagle on his return to his office, and as he passes they lay him low with a blow from a revolver butt. The band resumes its operations and plies Iron Claw with firewater until he no longer cares what happens and willingly signs the paper. White Feather, roaming through the woods, finds the unconscious Red Eagle. He is quickly revived and she takes him to her wigwam to dress his wound. It is then he learns of what has taken place. He tells the story to the Government agent, with the result that the deed is declared void and the swindlers thrown into prison. White Feather is charmed by Red Eagle's cleverness and consents to his protecting her always.
- Bored with his daily routine, Breckenridge Gamble accepts a secret mission from some oil magnates to deliver a message to President Losada of the South American Republic of Centralia. Upon his arrival, Gamble learns from Angela, the president's daughter, that her father has been imprisoned by Cortez, the leader of the revolutionaries. Gamble also is imprisoned but frees all the prisoners as well as himself by impersonating the prison comandante. After forming an army, Gamble delivers the message--a large money draft sufficient to pay the army and secure President Losada's government--and is rewarded with Angela's love.
- A young man who believes, because everyone else believes, that he is a half-breed Indian, meets and falls in love with a circus woman who is heiress to a fortune but does not know it. The man's love is reciprocated, but he is restrained by the supposed barrier of blood. His greatest enemy is his own half brother, who also is a suitor for the hand of the circus performer. The hero avoids all the traps his enemy lays for him, and when his and his sweetheart's identities are cleared up the two are married.
- Max develops the bump of benevolence, and distributes his wealth, until he is informed that his account is overdrawn. He is in despair, and as he ponders a note arrives inviting him to a dance, where all the guests are to be dressed as Apaches. On the night of the ball he pretends to forget the regulation costume. He telephones for the police, saying that his house is attacked by desperadoes, and while the guests are being conveyed to prison Max robs the safe. He successfully escapes detection, and next morning is again able to visit his beggar friends.