Acting
Part of the 'Grand Guignol' series of 1-reel macabre drama shorts.
A suffragette protests against marriage by openly living with her lover.
A farmer's sick wife dreams she shoots her housekeeper for flirting with her husband and son.
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A rich Englishman arrives to Chamonix and finds accommodation in a hotel: here he realizes that he has been robbed along the way and that he no longer has a penny. Abruptly expelled from the hotel, the man wanders through the woods, where he meets a mountain guide. A crazy idea flashes through his mind: with a stone he hits the guide and deprives him of clothes, boots, the ax and all the mountain gear. Then, making himself go for guidance, look for customers to take to the mountains and earn some money. Hired by a group of compatriots, he ventures into a long hike and, having reached the Bossons glacier, he leaves his customers and flees. But the robbed guide reaches him with a vengeful purpose...
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
Based on the 1906 play by Walter Howard.
A naval lieutenant saves his fiancée from drug smugglers.
British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
An outlawed Earl forms a robber band and saves a girl from a knight.
A burglar confesses to killing a woman in this incomplete early crime drama.
'1815. Wellington defeats Napoleon.' (British Film Catalogue)
In Wales, a gypsy queen changes her sister's dead baby for one by the same father. The child grows up to marry her daughter.
A woman frames her stepson for theft and he takes the place of his father's drugged champion and wins a boxing match.
Lord Byron's wife leaves him after a jealous lady plots his ruin.
Walter poses as a detective to impress his girlfriend and ends up having to fend off thieves who try to steal her father's valuable diamond, kept on board his houseboat.
Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer:
An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
