Pitfalls of a Big City

Tenement dweller Molly Moore, trying to forget her crooked past and go straight, runs a cheap restaurant in the underworld district in order to educate her younger sister Marion.

Tenement dweller Molly Moore, trying to forget her crooked past and go straight, runs a cheap restaurant in the underworld district in order to educate her younger sister Marion.

A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.


The marriage of a wealthy and frivolous member of French nobility, Loyette Merval, to an American aristocratic idler named Willard Standish, is a loving one, except for their mutual dissatisfaction with Willard’s idleness. After Willard becomes a chauffeur, Loyette’s subsequent…

Flotsam (Thomas) is the daughter and helper of crusty old lighthouse keeper Joe Clark (Edward Ellis, in fine form). The reason why Clark lives ‘out yonder’ is because he’s a fugitive from justice: years ago, he killed a man under…

Faith’s life is shattered when her lover dies. Her brother Job locks her away in a lighthouse, but she jumps from the tower rather than be imprisoned. Faith’s daughter, however, lives on. The girl Eve grows into her teens, sheltered…

In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.

A bookkeeper’s embezzling scheme is discovered by his wife, while his boss’s romantic feelings for her complicate matters further.


More Deadly Than The Male is a 1919 silent film comedy adventure directed by Robert G. Vignola.