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The Light That Failed
EnglandAbout Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places. He meets Torpenhow, a war correspondent, at Port Said, and accompanies him into battle.
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Beyond the Rocks
EnglandA young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
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Sherlock Holmes
EnglandSherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. Prince Alexis is accused of a theft that he insists he didn’t commit. The evidence is stacked against him, but Holmes’ trusted friend, Dr. Watson, vouches for the prince. As the famed detective investigates, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
England The 16th CenturyMary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
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The Masquerader
EnglandJohn Loder looks exactly like his cousin, John Chilcote, who is a member of Parliament. Because of his dissolute ways, Chilcote collapses, and Loder is called in to take his place so that the family honor can remain unsullied. Loder's masquerade is so successful that no one suspects him of being an impostor, not even Chilcote's estranged wife, Eve. Loder distinguishes himself with his actions, both in public and private, while the real Chilcote sinks further into the gutter until he finally dies. Loder decides to remain as John Chilcote, and marries Eve, who, up until Loder reveals his true identity, has believed she was falling in love with her husband all over again.
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Boy Woodburn
EnglandA horse trainer's daughter agrees to wed a broke banker if her foal wins a race.
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Belonging
EnglandIn Paris a Count's enforced wife takes the blame when her ex-lover is killed by the diplomat she loves.
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A Bill of Divorcement
EnglandMeg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....
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The Crimson Circle
EnglandPolice battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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A Debt of Honour
EnglandIn India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
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Dick Turpin's Ride to York
England The 18th CenturyA highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
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The Wheels of Chance
EnglandA clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.
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Die Königin von Whitechapel
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Cocaine
EnglandA decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.
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Kean
England The 19th CenturyThe actor Edmund Kean, adored by his fans and critics, makes another brilliant performance. The young Anna Danby clings to his lips. But Kean has a liaison with a married woman. — The actor Edmund Kean, adored by his fans and critics, makes another brilliant performance. The young Anna Danby clings to his lips. But Kean has a liaison with a married woman.
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The Glorious Adventure
England The 17th CenturyAn Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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The Street of Adventure
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Flames of Passion
EnglandDorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
EnglandAn American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
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Ninety-Three
England The 18th CenturyIn Britain, during the revolution, the nephew of the Marquis de Lantenac, Gawain (P. Capellani) befriends Cimourdain (H. Krauss), a priest who follows the precepts of the Revolution. During the Terror, the Marquis went into exile in England while his nephew is a soldier in the Revolutionary Army ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
England The Middle AgesIn 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.
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Christie Johnstone
EnglandA bored Lord saves a fishergirl's lover from drowning
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The Four Just Men
EnglandIts plot concerns four vigilantes who seek revenge for the public against criminals.
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Disraeli
England The 1870sThe story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
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How Kitchener Was Betrayed
England The 1910sA dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.
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Jim the Penman
EnglandA bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
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Die Frau in Weiß
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Pilgrims of the Night
EnglandThe son of a British earl, Philip Champion is exiled to Paris after having served a prison term to shield his wife and there forms an alliance with his brother-in-law, Marcel, who conducts a fashionable gambling establishment as the head of a band of criminals. Marcel is arrested and sent to prison, and Champion escapes. Ambrose, a hunchbacked street musician, escapes with Christine, Champion's daughter, and frames Champion for robbery.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
EnglandThe world's greatest actor in a tremendous story of man at his best and worst! — A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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Anna Boleyn
England The 16th CenturyThe story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
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Suds
EnglandAmanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
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The Lure of Crooning Water
EnglandA London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
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A Dark Lantern
EnglandAlthough loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours, she has a nervous breakdown and her faithful doctor restores her to health - and to himself.
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The Gift Supreme
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The Call of the Road
England The 1820sIn 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man.
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