All Movies From 1912 to 1915 - Part 2
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- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMontagu LoveElisabeth RisdonFred GrovesA colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.
- Though the weather outside was miserable, it had no effect upon the members within the pleasant room of the Astor Club. To pass the time merrily, a game of cards was proposed, and Lord Lister, a detective, arose from the table a lucky winner. Being naturally a close observer, his eyes fell upon an inscription on one of the dollar bills, "We are held prisoners by a Chinese gang at Cosia, near Sacramento. Send help." After discussing this appeal among his friends, he is determined to unravel the mystery and his friend, Charles Brand, consents to accompany him. On a vast farm in the small village of Cosia lives Mr. Wu Chung Foo, a rich Chinese merchant, of whom Lord Lister has often heard his friend, Gov. Morton, speak. Through him he secures a letter of introduction to the merchant, asking him to permit two close friends to have the use of his hunting grounds. The next day Lister and Brand start out on their journey, well prepared for all contingencies. At their destination they are met by Mr. Wu Chung Foo and escorted to his home. On the way Wu Chung, trying to make his guests uncomfortable, explains that his ground is the exact location where so many people have mysteriously disappeared. This does not set fear in Lord Lister but a firm resolve to carry out his plans. A peculiar stare in the eyes of the yellow man gives Lord Lister grounds for suspicion. At his home they are introduced to his adopted daughter Hattie, and not many words had passed between them before she cultivates a strong liking for Charles Brand. Wu Chung suspects that the purpose of their visit is to gain his secret. Not approving of their purpose, and of the friendship which has sprung up between Hattie and Charles, Wu Chung informs the agent of his subterranean city to capture the latter, and to set him to work in the mine as a slave. That night the detective decides to go one step further into the mystery and, disguising himself as a shadow, he ventures into the private room of the master of the house. Here he learns of the secret door built in one of the walls which leads to the solution of the enigma. As Wu Chung passes in, Lister follows, but his steps are halted by an iron gate to which he has no key. The next day while out riding, Hattie and Lister discover that Charles, who had ridden ahead, has mysteriously disappeared from his horse. To lessen the grief of Hattie, Lister acquaints her with the circumstances of which she had not the slightest knowledge. When the matter is explained to Wu Chung, he catches the accusing eye of Lister and decides to rid himself of his second burden. In a like manner as his friend, the detective is seized by an ape and carried into a cave through rocks. Horrified at her second discovery, Hattie determines to master the situation. She obtains possession of the key, and, with gun in hand, gains entrance to the subterranean city, where many white men are held as slaves and worked to death in her foster father's mine. Having presence of mind, she runs for the help of the soldiers. They arrive in time, capturing the criminals, and giving Wu Chung the just measures he deserves. Hattie is once more safe in the arms of her lover and the white men are freed, while Lord Lister, their liberator, having accomplished his purpose, happily looks on.
- DirectorCharles RaymondStarsPhilip KayLewis CarltonDouglas PayneA crook poses as a Lord to rob a merchant and holds a detective captive in his cellar.
- DirectorCarl WilhelmStarsErnst LubitschVictor ArnoldMartha KriwitzIn the role that brought him stardom, future director Lubitsch is a bumbling provincial who loses his clothing store gig after breaking a window.But moving on to classier Berlin, he becomes rich and dapper and marries the boss' daughter.
- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsHerbert Beerbohm TreeViva BirkettIan SwinleyA hypnotist makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
- DirectorErnest G. BatleyStarsFred MorganEthel BracewellHenry VictorA baron poses as a prince to elope with an anarchist's sister.
- DirectorPierce KingsleyStarsHerbert KelceyEffie ShannonRobert VaughnA little maiden / Climbed an old man's knee, / Begged for a story. / Oh, Uncle please. / Why are you single? / Why live alone? / Have you no babies? / Have you no home? The story he tells her follows: John Dale is an eminent bachelor lawyer who has never felt the sting of Cupid's dart. A millionaire friend of John's invites him to join a yachting party. The girl that John may have been waiting for appears in the person of Louise Tate, who is accompanied by her father, James Tate; it is love at first sight. John is made a welcome visitor at the Tate home. The family consists of four persons: Mr. and Mrs. Tate, their daughter Louise, and their son Gerald. While at college Gerald played card games with the other students which caused them to be expelled from the institution. Gerald's father, learning of his son's disgrace, is enraged beyond measure and is about to order Gerald from his home when Louise and her mother intercede for him. Gerald finds his mother's necklace upon the library floor where it had fallen in her attempts to shield her son from the father s attack. Gerald takes the necklace to a pawnbroker and pledges it, intending to gamble and try to win enough money to pay his debts and have sufficient left to redeem the necklace. Gerald soon loses the money on the races. After missing her jewels the mother summons detectives, who find the missing jewels in the pawnshop. While the pawnbroker is receiving his check from Mr. Tate, Gerald walks into the room and is recognized as the one who pawned the necklace. He is ordered from his father's house forever. For his reckless dissipation he is sent to prison for four years. After escaping from prison, he returns to the city to obtain honest employment but is found by one of his former pals, who forces him by threats of exposure to join them again. In the meantime John Dale and Louise have become engaged. The annual Charity Ball is announced. This item comes to the attention of Gerald's underworld friends who select him to go to the ball to play his supposed trade of a thief, yet in his heart, he had made up his mind not to do anything dishonest. He goes to the ball where he meets his sister, Louise, who nearly faints when she sees him. As she totters Gerald places his fingers to his lips to indicate silence, and John just turns in time to catch Louise and assist her to an ante-room. While he goes for a glass of water Gerald appears, and while fondly kissing his sister, is discovered by John, who becomes so enraged that the glass falls from his hand and breaks to shards. Having never met her brother, John stands rooted to the ground by his sweetheart's supposed infidelity and demands to know why the strange man was kissing her. John takes Louise home where the quarrel is renewed and the couple, misunderstanding each other, never met again. John turns over his office to a junior partner and sails for a tour of the world. In the meantime Louise has slowly been dying of a broken heart. Gerald again breaks away from the gang, and under an assumed name, obtains employment in a large factory, where he is discovered and brought back to the prison, where he saves the life of a keeper and his term is shortened for the deed. Returning to the city, he learns of his sister's illness and, without being seen by his parents, he gains admission to her room, and soon he learns for the first time that he had been the cause of the lovers' quarrel. Louise, before she dies, exacts a promise from her brother that he will explain the scene at the ball to John. The death of his sister kills all the ambition in Gerald, who drifts again to his underworld friends, one of whom has selected a place for good pickings, as the owner of the house is away. It happens to be the home of John Dale, who has unexpectedly returned to his native country. John dispatches Briggs, his valet, with a note to Louise, asking if he may call, but is met by an old servant who tells him that Louise is dead. John is stunned by the news. The night of the robbery, Gerald is forced to climb into the window first where he discovers the photograph of Louise and, picking it up exclaims, "My sister," which is heard by John Dale, who draws his revolver and compels Gerald to hold up his hands. In that position he is found by the next member of the gang. He cries to his chum to stand aside as he levels his gun at John, but Gerald sacrifices his own life by jumping in front of John, who, tearing the mask from his visitor's face, discovers it is the man whom he saw kissing his sweetheart that night at the ball. With his last dying breath Gerald says to John "My sister shielded me that night at the ball, because I was an escaped convict." John is thunderstruck, "My God, her brother. What a fool I was not to have listened to her explanation." The scene dissolves back to the little child with her arms around her Uncle John, who murmured, "That's why I'm lonely, / No home at all. / I broke her heart, pet. / After the ball."
- DirectorAntonio Garatti
- DirectorBert HaldaneStarsThomas H. MacDonaldFred PaulEdna MaudeA reformed slum landlord thrashes a cruel rent collector and adopts evicted orphans.
- DirectorErnest G. BatleyStarsLillian WorthDouglas MarsGeorge FoleyA captain tries to kill an heiress by fire but she escapes across telephone wires.
- Vigo Grexville, a foreign spy, king of the city's beggars, breaks into General DuRoy's house to secure possession of important government papers. DuRoy's daughter, Mona, interrupts the criminal, who, however, carries her off before she can give the alarm. As Mona has seen his face, Grexville decides to keep her a lifelong prisoner in his castle. From the papers the criminal learns that Mona is heiress to her father's vast fortune and he determines upon a bold coup. He forces Mona to write a letter to the general, telling him that for reasons of her own she stole the government papers. On receipt of the letter DuRoy is heartbroken, but Mona's fiancé, Dr. Garth, refuses to believe his sweetheart's guilt, and declares he will unravel the mystery. A night or two later Grexville visits the general's home and shoots him, leaving behind a revolver to give the tragedy the appearance of suicide. He then tells Mona that unless she agrees to marry him and share her father's fortune with him she will never see the outside world again. Mona is obdurate and by means of a swallow which has built its nest outside her prison window, she sends a message earnestly entreating the finder to communicate with Dr. Garth. Some days later Garth receives the letter, but it has been so badly mutilated that all he can learn is that Mona is a prisoner in the hands of a man who calls himself "King of Beggars." In order to solve the mystery Garth disguises himself and mixes with the beggars of the city. For a month his search is without avail, but at last he meets the king, whom he follows to his home. In a struggle with Grexville, Garth is overpowered and flung through a secret trapdoor into a sewer beneath the castle. He makes his way out by using an explosive cartridge he carries, and succeeds in rescuing Mona from her prison, which has caught fire. They then hasten to inform the police and a strong force is sent to arrest Grexville, who is attending a state ball. Grexville fights his way from the ballroom and escapes in a waiting motorcar, with the police in hot pursuit. Grexville's chauffeur is killed, and the crook badly wounded meets his doom when the motorcar plunges over a steep cliff. Later Mona finds happiness as the bride of her faithful lover.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsElisabeth RisdonFred GrovesA.V. BrambleA squire's disowned son dies to save his wife and her soldier lover from shipwreck.
- Count Landmann is engaged to be married to Hilda Ragnald, a famous dancer, and he writes to tell Detective Hayes of his engagement, and mentions at the same time that various valuable works of art have lately been disappearing from his house. He wants Hayes to help him solve the mystery. On the evening of the reception given by Count Landmann to celebrate his engagement, Hayes arrives, and is introduced as a relative. He thinks he recognizes Hilda's brother, and his suspicions are very shortly confirmed. Harry Ragnald is a swindler, well known to the police, but so far uncaught by them. Count Landmann allows his fiancée to wear a string of pearls, a priceless family heirloom, on the night of the reception, but tells her that it is usually kept in the bank and insured for 100,000 pounds. Hilda, in league with her brother, tries to steal the pearls, but they discover that Hayes is a detective and not a relative, and fearing detection they bide their time. To try and get rid of Hayes, Hilda complains to her fiancée of his conduct. She asserts that he has been making love to her and has tried to kiss her. Count Landmann is greatly incensed, and tells Hayes that he engaged him to protect his property and not to make love to his future wife. Hayes is indignant at this insult, but swallowing his pride he determines to watch Harry Ragnald closer than ever. The bank officials come to fetch the string of pearls to take them back to safe custody. Harry Ragnald follows them to the station and jumps into their compartment as the train leaves the platform, but Hayes, disguised as a porter, is on his track. Ragnald manages to chloroform the officials and steal the bag from them containing the pearls. An exciting scene follows. Hayes chases Ragnald over the roof of the train. Ragnald throws away the bag, and Hayes jumps off the train as it rushes long and finds that he has risked his life for nothing. Ragnald has cheated him, for the bag is empty. Suddenly Hayes remembers a message he once happened to see from Ragnald, saying there would be a letter waiting at the post office, "The Three Signs at the Cross Roads." Disguised, he calls for the letter, and after reading it he returns it to be called for later by Ragnald's accomplice. Without loss of time he dashes off in a motor to the crossroads, the place appointed in the letter for the meeting. Disguised as an old hag he awaits the swindlers' arrival. He follows, and disguised as a "Boots" he makes further discoveries. Ragnald recognizes him and again puts him on a wrong scent. Hayes traces Ragnald and Hilda to Rosenweig's house, where they are trying to dispose of the pearls. On the pretext of selling him a piece of jewelry, he manages to see the pearls in Rosenweig's safe. Notwithstanding the injustice Count Landmann has done him, Hayes acquaints him with his discovery, and that evening they arrange to meet outside Rosenweig's house. Forcing their way, they catch Rosenweig and the Ragnalds discussing how to dispose of the pearls. The police arrest them, and the pearls are returned to their rightful owner. Count Landmann is overcome with gratitude to Hayes for having saved him from taking a step which would have ruined his whole life. He begs him to forgive him for ever having doubted him. Hayes, delighted at the success of his efforts, willingly forgives him, and they end up as good friends.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsJane GailGerald AmesLanghorn BurtonA jealous socialite makes a curate believe his wife is in love with an artist.
- DirectorCharles CalvertStarsCharles VaneLionel d'AragonA detective saves a kidnapped heiress by hiding a film camera in the headlamp of the ransom car.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsTheodore ReibethAud Egede-NissenTheodore Reibeth, a medical student, is introduced to Mlle. Aut Nissen in a moving picture studio where she is taking one of the leading roles. He is attracted to her by her unusual beauty and charm. Circumstances later make it possible for him to see her frequently at her home, and he falls in love with her. Mlle. Nissen is very fond of animals and has in her apartments a private collection of lions which she shows to him. Reibeth's graduation is at hand when he receives a letter from his brother telling him that through unfortunate investments their fortune has been lost. In this predicament Mlle. Nissen comes to his aid and lends him enough money to finish his studies, which he accepts and graduates with high honors. Later at a reception Reibeth sees Mlle. Nissen flirting with another man. He protests very strongly and the controversy causes a rupture which separates them. Years pass and he almost forgets the celebrated actress. His wedding announcement in one of the papers, however, comes to the attention of Mlle. Nissen who asks him to call. He does so and the old love returns. His faith in his former love is still so great that he allows himself to be blindfolded by her and led into one of the lower portions of the house. When he tears the blindfold from his eyes he discovers he is in the den of lions. With death in a terrible form almost upon him he manages to escape. Mlle. Nissen seeing him free makes her own life a penance for the tragic deed she had planned.