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Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Conniving con artist Mrs Oliver targets the family of Mrs Carruthers, seducing her husband and framing her son for the theft of a valuable necklace. With her family facing ruin and disgrace, Mrs Carruthers resorts to increasingly violent measures to protect them.
A shopkeeper's daughter marries a cad who ruins the business.
A widow enlists the support of a King's Counsel to help clear herself of the accusation she had murdered her husband by a suspicious coroner
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Villainous convict Ralph Vickers plots against a Mill owner Mr. Lucas. Vickers works to undermine Lucas while pursuing his daughter, Geraldine. Vickers' schemes are eventually thwarted by the mill’s office boy, who manages to baffle the villain's designs.
When a Lord and family are shipwrecked on an island their butler becomes a king.
Silent historical film depicts the significant events of Queen Victoria's reign through the experiences of three young girls.
'1860-1910. Life of a mayor's daughter if she married (a) a rich baronet; (b) a poor shopkeeper; (c) nobody.' (British Film Catalogue)
A doctor learns his pregnant patient is engaged to his son.
Victoria, a young woman wants to study law faces pressure from her social-climbing father to marry rich, leading her to accept wealthy Bruce Schuyler, only for him to get caught in a bear trap, setting up a comedic battle of wills as she tries to maintain her independence within their engagement.
Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her mercenary and socially ambitious mother , Genevieve consents to marry Daniel's wealthy brother Albert (Langhorn Burton). In despair, Daniel sinks into drug addiction. However the marriage is not a success,...
A telephone supervisor saves a banker's son from a theft charge.
'1837-1901. Main events during Queen Victoria's reign.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Soldier poses as dead captain to comfort blind mother while girl poses as dead Jew's wife to comfort family.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a safe-deposit box, leading him to confess and return it, testing his integrity and romance amidst temptation, with the story unfolding as a confession about a potential theft.
John Wynn returns to his family after serving time in prison for a crime they believed he didn't commit, or perhaps for an action they had largely moved past. His return creates a "thread" of tension that threatens to unravel the lives his wife, Amelia, and their children have built in his absence. The film focuses on the emotional and societal adjustments required to reintegrate a disgraced family member into a respectable British household.
The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. Made at Isleworth Studios, and based on the novel of the same name, the plot involves a poverty-stricken author so depressed that he agrees to sell his soul to the Devil.
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
