The Inherited Taint

Fools of Fashion

1926

Mary Young is a young wife who wants beautiful clothes. Her friend Enid invites her to shop at Madame Francine's, where she meets the Countess de Fragni, an artist, and Mr. Norris, an elderly roué and he invites her to a poker game. She wins and buys an expensive fur coat with the money but tells her husband she won it with a pawn ticket.

Southern Love

1924

Gypsy dancer Dolores flees an arranged marriage and faces ruin by a count. After her admirer kills the count the other gypsies swoop in to save her from destruction.

The Wine of Life

RomanceDrama

1924

A newly divorced woman falls in love with an artist and a hypnotist at the same time.

The Briggs Family

DramaCrime

1940

During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car

Cardinal Wolsey

1912

King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. He appeals to Cardinal Wolsey to set aside the tenets of the Church and consent to his divorce from the Queen. The cardinal absolutely refuses to do anything so inimical to his office, as representative of the Holy See. Angered King Henry induces the Archbishop of Canterbury to call a special council through which he divorces himself from Queen Catherine. In punishment for his refusal to accede to the king's wishes, the cardinal is exiled to Leicester Abbey where he dies three days afterward, conscious that he had sustained the sacredness of his office, a martyr to his faith and of service to his king.

The Younger Brother

1911

When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solicitous about the younger brother and enjoins the older boy to care for and defend him at all hazards. The English army is transported lo the Soudan and is now encamped in the midst of the activities of the campaign.

Sail Into Danger

CrimeDrama

1957

In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives then kill his son, and harm his shipmate, sending the pilot, himself an ex-smuggler into such a rage that he kills two gang members and helps police capture the survivors and bring them to justice.

Thais

1917

The wanton dancer Thais, tries to entice Paphnutius from becoming a monk but fails. He later returns to reclaim her soul and follow in his footsteps. They attempt to live lives of simplicity, but the pull of worldliness is too strong.

The Scarlet Dove

DramaRomance

1928

The Scarlet Dove is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Gregor and starring Lowell Sherman, Robert Frazer, and Josephine Borio.

Sally Bishop

DramaRomance

1932

Sally Bishop, a headstrong young girl falls for a trashy novelist and insidiously enters his household. This prompts her former fiancé to conspire with the author's wife to expose her foolishness.

Marriage for Convenience

1919

Barbara Rand is blinded when she leaps through a window to escape an assailant. Her sister, Natalie, reluctantly abandons her fiancé, Ned Gardiner, and marries Oliver Landis, who can provide the money needed for Barbara's operation. Unaware that Oliver was Barbara's attacker, Natalie blames his business partner, Howard Pollard, who was with Barbara on the night she was injured. Natalie holds Howard at gunpoint, but when her husband arrives, he promises to deal with the villain making sure Howard falls to his death. Upon Barbara’s release from the hospital, Oliver tries to blind her once. Natalie threatens him with a pistol, but Oliver wrests it away from her. He then realizes that he can no longer hide his guilt from Natalie or the police and shoots himself. Barbara has been avenged, and Natalie is free to marry Ned.

White Heat

1927

A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.