Hester Prynne’s forced public shaming in a strict 17th-century Puritan colony. She wears a scarlet “A” for having a child out ...

Moving Picture World described the film: “There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so ...

William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William’s father has saved enough money to set up ...

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master’s daughter after her mother’s death. He ...

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer ...

Two sisters, Nellie and Florence, support themselves and their mother by sewing. A man accompanying a wealthy client tempts first Nellie and then ...

An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local ...

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money’s limitations.

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a ...

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple’s happy life is turned about by an ...

A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?

The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young ...

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity ...

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors ...

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. ...

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the ...

“Fine feathers make fine birds”, and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a ...

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady’s pretty daughter, but she was of ...

An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a ‘sure thing’ borrows the coin and ...

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a ...

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance ...

After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken ...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the ...

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life ...

After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then ...

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. ...