A Fair Exchange

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she’s coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister’s apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds.
A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He returns to the castle and hides until the kidnappers…
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When…

“Fine feathers make fine birds”, and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker’s art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom…

While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it’s too late.

Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy.