Our Better Selves

Our Better Selves 1919

1

The marriage of a wealthy and frivolous member of French nobility, Loyette Merval, to an American aristocratic idler named Willard Standish, is a loving one, except for their mutual dissatisfaction with Willard's idleness. After Willard becomes a chauffeur, Loyette's subsequent disgust causes him to quit. When the war begins, Willard joins the French Secret Service, while Loyette continues her social life, upset about their separation. After Willard, wounded, hides in a convent, Loyette leaves to find him.

1919

Kick In

Kick In 1917

1

Kick In is a lost 1917 silent film crime melodrama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play of the same name by Willard Mack.

1917

Hands Up

Hands Up 1918

1

A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.

1918

The House of Hate

The House of Hate 1918

6.60

A 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...

1918

The Lightning Raider

The Lightning Raider 1919

1

A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her latest theft.

1919

The Simp

The Simp 1920

5.50

A simpleton finds love but can't get past a pesky dog and some no-good kids.

1920

The Naulahka

The Naulahka 1918

1

Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife.

1918

The Mark of Cain

The Mark of Cain 1917

1

After old Trowbridge is mysteriously murdered, his nephew, Kane Langdon, is accused of the crime. Trowbridge's adopted daughter Alice makes every effort to prove Kane's innocence, but to no avail. When Kane escapes from the clutches of the law, Alice works with him to investigate the crime. They soon discover that Judge Hoyt, a great friend of Trowbridge and an ardent admirer of Alice, killed Trowbridge after forging the old man's will to read that Alice would only inherit his fortune if she married the judge. The judge, confronted with the accusation, becomes so unnerved that he confesses to the crime, and all ends happily with Alice in Kane's arms.

1917

The On-the-Square Girl

The On-the-Square Girl 1917

1

Anne Blair is a model at a modiste's shop who accepts the attention of wealthy Thomas Brockton so she can help support her invalid mother. One day Brockton tries to force himself on her and she stabs him. Later that day Anne finds out that her mother has died, and delirious from the shock, she wanders out into the snow where she is found, unconscious, by artist Richard Steel.

1917

The First Law

The First Law 1918

1

When her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.

1918

A Japanese Nightingale

A Japanese Nightingale 1918

1

A Japanese girl becomes a Geisha in order to avoid marrying a dastardly baron.

1918

Arms and the Woman

Arms and the Woman 1916

1

Rozika is a Hungarian girl who can sing quite nice. She goes to the place known as the United States with her brother whose name happens to be Young Carl. Rozika marries a chap named Trevor and a predicament ensued after the Great War comes knocking at the door.

1916

Dynamite

Dynamite 1920

6.00

Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.

1920

The Fatal Ring

The Fatal Ring 1917

1

A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz.

1917

The Tiger's Trail

The Tiger's Trail 1919

1

A 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.

1919

The Narrow Path

The Narrow Path 1918

1

Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her shop, preferring city editor Dick Strong, who lives in her boardinghouse. Dick's sister Gladys, however, is intrigued by the wilder side of life in New York and allows one of the boarders to take her to a lively party.

1918

The Third Eye

The Third Eye 1920

1

A pretty movie star is stalked by a strange gang whose leader is infatuated with her in this superior Pathé serial written by genre specialist H.H. van Loan. Released in 15 chapters between May and August of 1920, the serial offered a glimpse into the still mysterious world of movie-making

1920

A Fresh Start

A Fresh Start 1920

7.00

Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell.

1920

The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket 1918

1

Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.

1918

Mayblossom

Mayblossom 1917

1

In this tale of the South in the mid-1800s, Annabel Lee and Warner Richmond get married, but they keep the wedding a secret so that Warner can inherit the fortune of his misogynist grandfather. But after the grandfather's death, Warner dumps Annabel for an opera singer. Warner destroys the evidence of his first marriage so he can wed the singer, who then takes his money and leaves him.

1917