The Purple Highway

Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April…

Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April…

Howard Spurlock, wrongfully accused of theft, believes police are seeking his arrest. On “the ragged edge,” he takes refuge in China, where he meets and is nursed back to health by Ruth Endicott, daughter of a missionary. They marry and…

A Wesley Ruggles film directed by , released in 1923.


Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together — he is England’s Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is…

Billy Winthrop is in love with Beatrice Forbes, who is engaged to Ernest Peabody, a reform candidate for mayor backed by Billy’s father. When Billy learns that Peabody has betrayed Violet Gaynor and plans to doublecross Mr. Winthrop, he exposes…

Silent feature directed by Victor Schertzinger

Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony’s father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, where he attracts the attention of Mrs. Edith Cortlandt. He subsequently falls in love with Chiquita, the daughter of a Panamanian general, gets a railroad…

Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man’s estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him. To escape his arduous pursuit, she takes her little daughter on a trip…

Gabrielle is caught while attempting to rob the home of philanthropist William Chatfield, but, rather than turn her over to the police, Chatfield offers her a home and rehabilitation.