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- DirectorRichard OswaldArthur RobisonStarsEmil JanningsWerner KraussLorenz KöhlerAn extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsBernd AldorErnst PittschauErnst LudwigA variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.
- DirectorNorman DawnStarsGeorge HuppRaymond LeeA boy, who has been reading the adventures of Sinbad, falls asleep and, in his dreams, goes through Sinbad's experiences.
- DirectorTony Sarg
- DirectorChester M. FranklinSidney FranklinStarsGeorgie StoneGertrude MessingerLewis SargentAli Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical phrase, "Open Sesame." Learning that the cave is filled with stolen treasure, he takes home as much as he can carry, but his greedy brother forces him to reveal the cave's location. After gaining admittance to the cave, Ali Baba's brother is seen by the thieves and killed. Meanwhile, Ali Baba falls in love with Morgianna, a slave girl forced to dance in the local inn, and by securing her freedom, he wins her love and loyalty. The leader of the band of robbers suspects that Ali Baba knows the secret of the treasure cave, and in the guise of an oil merchant, he visits Ali Baba with his forty thieves concealed in oil jars. When Morgianna discovers the robbers, she fills the jars with boiling oil, thereby killing them all. Ali Baba defeats the robber chief in combat and then marries his beautiful Morgianna.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsMargarita FischerMonroe SalisburyKathleen KirkhamWhen Marta marries John Lane, Dr. Lorenz, a former suitor, determines to take her away from her husband. A year later John and Marta's happiness over an expected event is turned to grief, for the child dies and Marta suffers intensely. Dr. Lorenz attends her and administers dope, until she becomes a confirmed "fiend." Marion, who loved John, conspires with the doctor, pretending to be Marta's friend, and attempts to win John. Driven desperate by her husband's apparent neglect of her, and craving the "dope" which the doctor withholds, she leaves with Lorenz. Taking refuge from the storm in a hut, the doctor attempts to take advantage of the situation, but lighting strikes the hut and they are buried in the ruins, The doctor is killed, but Marta is saved from the ruins by John and they start life anew.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsRobert Z. LeonardMargarita FischerThere is a mysterious flooding of the American market with gems of astonishing brilliancy which alarms the Kimberly interests controlling the output. Unable, through their own efforts, to locate the source of the new stones, they secure the services of Westerly, a detective. Westerly gets a clue on Shedah, who is always guarded by two Hindoo servants. Only through his double, disguised to represent himself, is he able to shadow Shedah to the sacred laboratory, where the alchemist manufactures the diamonds. He is found and a fight takes place. The detective is battered out of the place, as Shedah destroys the laboratory with all its secrets. They elude the detective and his assistants for some time. Westerly traces the Hindoo party to another seaport and at length rounds them up at a fashionable ball. Again they escape. Here the Hindoos are overpowered, and again they are followed to their private yacht, where the Hindoos are overpowered and as the alchemist is about to be taken in the custody of the law, he slips from his pocket a small bottle of poison and drinks it. A minute later he drops to the floor dead, taking with him the secret of the manufacturing of the fake diamonds.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsAnita BerberConrad VeidtWerner KraussDida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsBilly FraneyGale HenryLillian PeacockA burlesque of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsFannie WardJack DeanWinifred GreenwoodRose Jorgenson, a poor tenement dweller who lives with her daughters Rose and Norma in a slum and whose husband is in prison, finds out that he is to be electrocuted. Distraught, she commits suicide. The children are adopted--Rose by the wealthy Judge Keith, who brings her up in the lap of luxury, and Norma by a poor neighbor, who raises her in the squalid tenement she was born in. After they reach adulthood Norma is hired as an assistant to the shady hypnotist Caistro, who also knows Rose and notices the strong resemblance between the two. Complications ensue.
- DirectorHoward S. MossStarsMarguerite ClaytonJohn CossarRod La RocqueA cracked-brain chemist, appropriately named A. Knutt, in a big toy factory, claims the discovery of an elixir which will bring dolls to life. Ruby, the beautiful daughter of the toy king, overcome by the fumes of the fluid while the chemist is out summoning others to witness the work of his discovery. A doll the chemist has given life to seizes the elixir and pours it on Ruby. She is changed into a doll. Together the two leave the shop. The chemist, the toy king and Ruby's fiancé rush into the place and are horrified to find Ruby missing. They summon the police and a search is instituted. Meanwhile, the dolls journey to the display room of the factory, and with more elixir, bring a doll justice of the peace to life. He marries them and they speed off in a miniature automobile. After the honeymoon trip they select the kennel of Sherlock, the watchdog, as their home. The dog likes the dolls and keeps them supplied with food. Then, one evening, while strolling through the plant, they discover a bomb set by striking workingmen to destroy the building. The dolls realize their peril but it is too late to escape. The bomb explodes and Ruby comes to life. She is puzzled, then realizes that all was simply a dream, inspired by the ravings of the cracked-brain chemist.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMargaret BannermanOwen NaresEdward O'NeillA old occultist exchanges souls with a young man, whose friends force the souls to change back.
- DirectorRichard RidgelyStarsHelen StricklandHerbert PriorRobert ConnessThe nefarious Mother Morro is a disreputable innkeeper who charges smugglers protection money. After she procures an innocent young girl for Capt. Jose's pleasure, the girl's father puts a curse on the old woman. Soon after, Morro's beloved convent reared daughter Mercedes falls in love with the lecherous Jose. To avenge her daughter's stolen innocence, Morro arranges for Amadio to kill Jose, but Mercedes overhears the plan and offers her life to save Jose's. Upon learning that her daughter's body has been thrown over the cliff, Morro becomes demented and falls to her death. On moonlit nights her ghost haunts Morro Castle.
- DirectorPaul ScardonStarsEarle WilliamsCorinne GriffithWebster CampbellA doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.
- DirectorHarry RevierStarsLillian WalkerJack MowerHarry RevierLois Craig (Lillian Walker) is the daughter of a man, now dead, to whom money and power were all-important. While at school, she becomes engaged to Byron Masters (Jack Mowers), who is very much like her father. His company helps support the college Lois is attending, and at her graduation, when Professor Mason gives a speech warning of the evils of wealth, Masters becomes annoyed. He fires Mason in spite of Lois' protests, so she breaks up with him. But she also gives him an award-winning essay she has written called "The Lust of the Ages." It's an allegorical story that begins with a group of shepherds who are happy with their humble lives. They are driven out of their homes by invaders as part of a war in which the rulers of one country want to take over the world. When a Princess (also played by Walker) and an officer (Mowers) decide to stop them, the country's monarch puts them to death. The story causes Masters to reconsider his position, and he ultimately rehires Mason and reunites with Lois. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsPauline FrederickThomas MeighanFrank LoseeCharm and Valor fall in love and are married. Jealousy, however, is angry at their happiness and decides to ruin their marriage, so she arranges for Charm to find an old photograph of her husband's former sweetheart Forgotten. Valor is also led to mistrust Charm, and the two return to their respective parents: his, Finance and Display, and hers, Commerce and Pride. While Charm spends her days with Sorrow, Treachery endeavors to ruin Valor by luring him to a disreputable roadhouse, and when Valor's father tries to bring him home, the young man strikes his father with a bottle. The two sets of parents are in the midst of a financial battle when Charm gives birth to a child, Happiness. The child reunites the couple, and Madame Jealousy, along with her servants Mischief, Treachery and Rumor, finally are banished.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy DaltonHolmes HerbertPhilo McCulloughA country girl goes to visit friends in the big city, and observes a different kind of life.
- DirectorGregory La Cava
- DirectorÉmile CohlAn eccentric criminal trio make a series of unlikely escapes from the attentions of a hapless detective.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinSidney FranklinStarsFrancis CarpenterF.A. TurnerVirginia Lee CorbinThe story of Aladdin and the Princess Badr al-badr's adventures as told through child actors.
- DirectorArthur BertheletStarsBryant WashburnPat CalhounBert GloverJames Wilbur Scovill has a mine, but no capital with which to operate it. He comes east in search of backing, but finds that capital doesn't grow on trees. Soon the miner is among the city's down-and-outers. Then Scovill learns of a capitalist willing to listen to argument. Without clothes, however, he realizes he has little chance to impress a rich man. Ne returns to his room in despair, and, lo and behold! there is a complete outfit of high-priced clothing awaiting him. Scovill puts over the deal and immediately is arrested, charged with passing bogus checks on clothiers. It happens, though, that a youth is run down by a motor car, and makes a dying confession that he is a swindler who had passed the bogus checks.
- DirectorWilliam F. HaddockDonald MacKenzieStarsHerbert RawlinsonMarguerite MarshEthel Grey TerryShelby Carter, owner of big chemical works, whose secret formula are being stolen and given to his competitors abroad, is driven by fear from his secret observation tower and killed by the mysterious 'Avion." His daughter, Anita, despite the protests of her fiancé, Lester Mason, calls in Craig Kennedy to solve the mystery of the death of her father and of the missing formula.
- DirectorWalt DisneyHugh HarmanCarman MaxwellStarsVirginia DavisWalt DisneyHugh HarmanAlice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a (live) cat until it moves; a couple mice boxing, while the animators crowd around cheering and acting as corner-men. That night, she dreams of taking a train to cartoon-land, where a red carpet reception awaits. She appears in live action. They have a welcoming parade, with Alice riding on an elephant. The cartoons dance for her, and she dances for them. Meanwhile, the lions break out of the zoo. The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down a rabbit hole. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and awakes back in her bed.
- DirectorPhillip DyeStarsArt AcordTheda BaraGenevieve BlinnA video reconstruction of the lost film 'Cleopatra' starring Theda Bara, utilizing the last surviving clip and more than five hundred still photos taken during the original production.
- DirectorGuy McConnellStarsMary BurtonWhile lost in the woods, the prince of Drowse Castle is shown an image of his bride-to-be, Cinderella, by Titania, the queen of the fairies. Cinderella, who is virtually a servant in the home of her father, the Baron Balderdash, and her stepmother, is not permitted to accompany her two stepsisters to the royal ball at which the prince must choose a bride. After the rest of the family leaves for the ball, however, Cinderella's fairy godmother appears and creates for Cinderella the clothes and livery necessary for her to attend the ball. Cinderella and the prince fall in love at first sight, but in accordance with the fairy godmother's instructions, Cinderella leaves the ball at midnight. Because she has left her glass slipper behind, the prince searches the countryside for the woman who can wear it, eventually finding his beloved at the Balderdash home. The prince and Cinderella are married.