The French Duel

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple’s home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon…

Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary’s sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke offers to raise the daughter. Years later…

Harry’s rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry’s wife has to play the part of the housekeeper so Uncle doesn’t discover the truth.
Jones’s mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone.
“A pathetic story of mother’s grief. No more intense emotion can be imagined than a mother’s grief for her dead child. and this Biograph subject beautifully portrays a story of maternal bereavement. It also shows the seemingly cruel workings of…
Marie has two suitors. She accepts Victor and rejects Tony, who stabs Victor in a fit of jealousy. When he learns that Victor is still alive, he breaks into the room in Marie’s house where Victor is convalescing and attacks…

Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents’ house. George leads the search party, but doesn’t reveal his brother’s hiding…