The Quickening Flame

A Travers Vale film directed by , released in 1919.

A Travers Vale film directed by , released in 1919.

Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life for herself among the Europeans. But she…

Rich Matthew Thurlow, spends nearly every night at cabarets, admires Dazie, a leading dancer whom he calls “Redhead.” Dazie loves Matthew, but she is dismayed that he wastes his life in clubs. After Matthew, while intoxicated, marries Dazie to win…

The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.

Carlotta has been brought up in an Italian convent, unaware that she is the illegitimate child of American architect J. Winthrop Drake. When her mother, an Italian opera singer, dies, Drake finally learns of Carlotta’s existence and brings her back…

A film directed by , released in 1919.

A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he…

A 1919 film directed by Sidney Franklin.

Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge’s daughter Blanche because of her father’s money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a…

A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.