Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a young girl who speaks encouragingly to him. Later he is surprised to discover that Hilary…
When Marcel, a waif, saves master crook Burke from the police, Burke adopts the youngster and teaches him his profession. Years later, Marcel has become a master crook himself, working under the name of Michael Lanyard. His clever work baffles…
Ben Randall ist einer der erfahrensten Rettungsschwimmer der US-amerikanischen Küstenwache und hat bereits mehrere hundert Menschen gerettet. Doch bei einem schweren Unfall auf hoher See muss er hilflos mit ansehen, wie alle seine Kameraden ums Leben kommen. Kurz darauf wird…
Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger — when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the camera shoots the…
Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and…
A Francis J. Grandon film directed by , released in 1917.
Nancy Glenn is a pupil in Pop Hogland’s school for crooks. When, attired as a boy named “Spider”, Nancy fails at her lessons as a pickpocket, Pop decides to pair her with Pliny Drew, a graduate thief and swindler.
Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all.
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her up for divorce. She kills him and weds his business manager Sterling, but a detective…
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