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- A picture dramatization from Sir Ed Burne-Jones' famous painting, with suggestions from that world famous poem by Rudyard Kipling, each conceded a peer in the literary and world of art. This great subject handles deftly the realms of the imaginary inner circle of society. (Even as you and I) A fool there was and he made his prayer, To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool called her his lady fair (Even as you and I). Guy Temple, as "the fool there was" marries his brother's ward, his boyhood sweetheart, Emily. The young husband becomes ensnared in the toils of the Vampire (a destroyer of souls). Clandestine meetings are arranged and the cunning, unscrupulous, satanic actions of the Vampire compels the poor weakling, Temple, to falter and fall before her charms. John Temple, the other brother, determines to save the young husband when he discovers his perfidy, and to recover the jewels given the Vampire by Guy. In a dream he remembers where he had seen Loie before. She it was who had ruined the life of Emily's father and rendered the then slip of a girl an orphan. Seeking out the brother, John Temple told him Loie was a Vampire, that she had ruined his own wife's father and to quit her under threat of his life. He offers Loie a large sum of money to leave America. But her promise is soon forgotten; her direful work continues, the tightening strands on wrecking souls of mortals. The fool was stripped to his foolish hide (Even as you and I). Which she might have seen when she threw him aside (But it isn't on record the lady tried) So some of him lived but the most of him died (Even as you and I). The young husband's mind is rent; his honor gone and the yawning abyss of the great beyond seeks its own.
- Kipling's world-famous lines on the faithfulness of the Indian regimental water carrier, is the inspiration for a picture portrayal that will prove immensely interesting.
- Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire. One day there passes the miserable hut in which these three strange people live, a wealthy banker, named William Corday, his wife and son. Derrick. Lispeth wields her magic power over the husband and soon has him in her power. When he attempts to kiss her, she repulses him. So clever is she that the wife has no idea of her husband's unfaithfulness. Acceding to the wishes of Lispeth to be taken away from her humble abode, the banker and his wife take her to the city and give her a home with them. In fashionable dress her fascinating powers seem doubled, and one day in his study the husband beseeches Lispeth to flee with him. This is overheard by the son, who denounces his father. In order that the son should not tell his mother, Lispeth assures him that it was with him whom his father wanted her to flee. The son, believing this, embraces Lispeth, but is thrown aside by the angry father. Then Lispeth tells the father that she had to win the son over in order that he should not tell his mother. Lispeth continues her play with the father and son; but at length arranges to elope with the old man. Just as they are leaving the house, Lispeth is interrupted by the son. Father and son are facing an awkward situation, when Ishmael arrives and takes Lispeth back home. In a maniacal burst of fury, Ishmael takes her life.
- Seeing Ma May, a beautiful Burmese maiden, cruelly beaten by Gunga Din, her father, Tommy Wilkins interferes on her behalf. He is a British soldier stationed at Mandalay and is aghast at the manner in which the native women are treated. Greatly struck by Ma May's tropical beauty he keeps on the watch for her, hoping someday to meet her again. He sees her in Rangoon, going to the Shwe Dagon pagoda, said to be the most costly edifice of its kind in the world, where she worships at a shrine of Buddha, praying for help in her troubles. After she leaves the pagoda, Tommy accosts her. Although at first much afraid of him, he is soon able to convince her that he is an honorable soldier and that he means no harm by her. After this meeting he meets her frequently in a beautiful park outside the city and is able to win her love. His regiment is suddenly ordered back to England and Tommy is obliged to go, not even being able to say goodbye to his pretty Burmese sweetheart. Back in "dear old London," Tommy has a right good time with the girls and enjoys himself immensely. It soon palls on him, however, for his mind constantly returns to the little park in Burma where he had been used to meeting Ma Mav. Ma May cannot understand why Tommy stays away from her and visits their favorite seat in the park almost daily, in the hope of meeting him there. At last her expectations are rewarded, for Tommy comes to her from behind and fondly clasps her in his arms.
- A country girl weds a socialite and leaves him to return to her own class.
- A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.
- Wealthy bachelor Jack has become blasé and craves some unusual excitement. On the suggestion of his friend Jones, he leaves home in the midst of a social function and sallies forth into the highways and byways of the meaner section of the great city. At a cheap dance hall he protects a beautiful young girl who, by her refined, quiet ways, has aroused the enmity of the other females present; by doing so, he involves himself in a fist fight in which he emerges victorious. He escorts the young girl home, which her father resents. Her father is an exiled foreign nobleman who is eking out a precarious living for himself and Olga, his daughter. Jack tries to reason with him, which only further arouses the old man's ire and he attempts to thrash Jack with his walking stick. Jack takes it from him, breaks it over his knee, and departs. This incident is seen by a passing policeman, who at the termination of the fracas, stops and questions the young man. Jack makes light of the incident, gives the officer his card and a cigar, and starts for home. Upon thinking the matter over he determines to return to the little shop, and make the old man listen to him. Rudolph, Olga's father, receives a letter threatening his life for the part he has played in a revolution in his native country. Jack arrived at the shop, just in time to intercept the writer of the letter who a moment before had consummated his threat by stabbing Rudolph to death. There is a fight during which Jack gives the assassin a terrific blow on the head. The latter escapes, but Jack is arrested and accused of the crime. He is handcuffed and led to the station house, but on the way he knocks over the arresting officer, and escapes to the house of his friend, Jones. The latter not only relieves him of his manacles but supplies him with a disguise enabling him to reach his own house undetected. Nevertheless detectives discover his hiding place, and he and his faithful valet are arrested and thrown in jail. In the interim the real assassin, delirious from the blow Jack gave him, is arrested by a policeman who thinks him drunk. He is placed in the same cell with Jack's valet and the latter, listening to the man's delirious babbling, discovers him to be the murderer. Jack is released, and later he and Olga are married.
- After many years, Dick Hedlar, a staff artist, stationed in the Soudan, returns to England to find his pictures have made him famous. He has always cherished memories of his childhood sweetheart, Maizie, and at an exhibition of his pictures he meets her again and the old romance is revived. She, still struggling to make a name for herself in the world of Art, refuses his offer of marriage, fearing that her acceptance would mean a hindrance to their careers. Dick tries to comfort himself with his painting. Bessie, a model, comes into his life and makes love to him. In the meanwhile love overcomes Maizie's decision and in a sudden resolve she goes to Dick's studio to tell him that she will marry him. She finds Dick repulsing the advances of Bessie and mistakes the situation as being Dick's overtures to the demi-monde. She leaves in disgust and refuses to hear his explanations the next day. An accident affects his eyesight, and gradually going blind, he completes his master picture. His bosom friend, Torpenhow, brings some of his friends to Dick's studio to admire the picture, only to find that Bessie has ruined the masterpiece. They keep the fact from the now totally blind Dick, and he as a last gift to Maizie sends the picture to her unknowing what has happened to it. Torpenhow, horrified at what has happened, goes to see Maizie, and she learns of the injustice she has done Dick. She and Torpenhow make haste to Dick's studio only to find him gone. Cursed with the blindness and with a deep ache in his heart, Dick has heard the call of the East. They follow the trail of the "mad Englishman," as he is called, for many hundreds of miles and reach him just as a horde of Dervishes are about to make an attack, in the skirmish both Maizie and Dick are wounded and die in each other's arms. In Dick's clenched hand Torpenhow finds the verse of their childhood dreams, cherished through all the years.
- Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife. Nick's fiancée, Kate Sheriff, having graduated from medical school, also goes to India, but her aim is to provide the Indians with modern medical care. The Naulahka is possessed by the Maharajah, whose second wife, a dancer named Sitahbai, hopes to have her son, rather than the real prince, named as the heir to the Maharajah's throne. Sitahbai plans to kill the young prince, the son of the Maharajah's first wife, but Nick repeatedly saves him. After Sitahbai's plot to kill Nick fails, Nick threatens to hold the dancer captive until daybreak unless she gives him the Naulahka. Sitahbai reluctantly consents, but Kate, knowing that the loss of the jewel will mean Sitahbai's death, convinces Nick to return it to her. Kate and Nick return to Colorado without the Naulahka to find that the railroad tracks have already been laid through Topaz.
- A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.
- Fultah Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the "property" of Salem Hardieker, a tough Bostonian. When Anne's eye drifts to a new potential lover, Hans the Dane, he spurns her, knowing she's Salem's girl. But hell hath no fury like a woman scorned....
- Similar in plot to "The Blue Angel, " this silent film tells the tale of a respectable businessman who leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.
- Although aspiring artist Dick Heldar is devoted to his childhood sweetheart Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places. He meets war correspondent Torpenhow at Port Said, and accompanies him into battle.
- Animated adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's story "How the Whale got his Throat".
- A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
- Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's.
- This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
- In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
- Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.
- Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England during its defense against the Nazi blitz in World War II. This short film serves as both propaganda and as a rallying cry to the British people.
- A boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.
- A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
- Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.