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- The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.
- An account of the life of Jesus Christ according to the New Testament, told as a series of tableaus interspersed with Bible verses.
- An orphan in early 19th century England escapes the poorhouse only to fall among a gang of pickpockets in London.
- Although some scenes were re-enacted after the fact, this is a real documentary on the struggle of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to overthrow dictator Porfirio Díaz . Directors Christy Cabanne and Raoul Walsh took a camera crew to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution of 1912 and traveled with Villa, filming footage of his army on the march and engaged in battle with federal troops (director Walsh confirmed in an interview the long-rumored story that Villa insisted on the filming of execution by firing squad of several dozen federal prisoners, but that when he returned to Hollywood the studio thought the footage too grisly and cut it out).
- Richard of Gloucester uses manipulation and murder to gain the English throne.
- The forerunner of all serials, "What Happened to Mary" was a series of 12 monthly one-reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action. Episode Titles (q.v.): #1: "The Escape from Bondage"; #2: "Alone in New York"; #3: "Mary in Stage Land"; #4: "The Affair at Raynor's"; #5: "A Letter to the Princess"; #6: "A Clue to Her Parentage"; #7: "False to Their Trust"; #8: "A Will and a Way"; #9: "A Way to the Underworld"; #10: "The High Tide of Misfortune"; #11: "A Race to New York"; #12: "Fortune Smiles."
- A dramatic story in which Civil War battles around Chattanooga are re-created.
- The story of Lt. Joseph Petrosino, an Italian-American New York City police detective, who was assigned to investigate the Sicilian Mafia, which was beginning to become a major problem in New York. He did such a good job that the city sent him to Sicily to gather information on the Sicily/New York Mafia connections. He was murdered in Palermo by Mafia gunmen. The 1960 film Pay or Die! (1960) starring Ernest Borgnine was also based on his life.
- After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
- Consists of two parts: Part One: The Life of John Bunyon (2 reels); Part Two: The Pilgrim's Progress (3 reels).
- John White's sweetheart, May Webster, refuses to marry him while her old father is in need of her, and John goes west to take a government farm. Finding that their two ranch grants adjoin each other, he and Bob Strong become partners. Five years later Bob suggests that they get a housekeeper, and in spite of John's contempt of the idea. Bob adds a postscript to an order for some goods from a Chicago mail-order house, stating that if the company has any young woman who would care to go west and marry, to include her in the order. It is May who opens the letter and reads the postscript. After some correspondence between her and Bob, arrangements are made for the wedding, but the plans are suddenly changed when the young woman appears and meets her old sweetheart, John. The old love awakens and Bob is finally forced to give the girl up to his partner.
- An account of the year-long expedition into Africa of explorer Paul J. Rainey.
- During the early Christian era, Karma, a very spiritual and virtuous High Priest of the Temple of India, resists with all his religious fervor, Quinetrea, a beautiful and fascinating enchantress. Quinetrea eventually conquers and Karma falls a victim to her wiles. She triumphantly taunts him, and outraged at her cruel deception. Karma curses her, and Quinetrea is transformed into a huge snake. Fifteen hundred years later, Karma appears, reincarnated in the personality of Leslie Adams and loves the beautiful heiress, Lillian White. Together they visit the ancient Temple of Karma and are shown the reptile, which every hundred years resumes human form. While Leslie gazes fascinated, the snake uncoils and Quinetrea stands before him in all her bewitching charm. She holds him with her hypnotic power and forces him to accept an amulet for his betrothed, upon receiving which Lillian falls dead. Karma beholds a vision of his former self as High Priest, again curses Quinetrea, and drops dead across the prostrate body of his betrothed.
- Dave Martin, who has lately become a motorcycle enthusiast, leaves his Denver home on his machine for a visit with his uncle and cousin who live in the Rockies. His uncle, William Martin, leaves his daughter, Lillian, at the mountain cabin, while he goes to bait his bear trap. While tramping through the woods he accidentally falls into an old abandoned mine and is unable to get out again. A half-breed, in the meantime has stopped at the cabin door, and after begging a drink of water from Lillian, he insults her. She slams the door in his face. Out of fear for her father, who he expects to return at any moment, the half-breed postpones his revenge until later. He finds the bat and gun of Martin and discovers his accident. With the knowledge that the old man is safely out of the way, he returns to the cabin and induces Lillian to go with him up into the mountains, on the explanation that she will see her father. After he has her in his possession be again attempts his assaults, but his career as a bad man is short-lived. The unexpected entrance of Dave at the cabin and his failure to find his relatives there, starts that young man upon a tour of investigation. After a most thrilling ride on his motorcycle along the sky-line drive and an exchange of bullets he manages to recover his cousin without injury to her. Soon afterward he discovers his uncle, and the little family are once more reunited.
- A frontier plains family has their home attacked by a group of Native Americans.
- The story opens with an attack by Indians on a "prairie schooner." The father and mother are killed, and a small boy is carried away by the savages. After the marauders have disappeared a little girl crawls out of the wagon and is found by a body of soldiers on the body of her mother. The boy is taken to the Indian camp and adopted by the old chief. The girl, Dolores, is taken to the fort and given into the care of the commander's wife. The boy and the girl each wear a crucifix. Years later the boy, grown to manhood, leads a party of Indians in an attack on the settlement. But one man escapes. He reaches the fort and gives the alarm. The Indians later are captured. Flower Face, an Indian girl, watches the approaching soldiers, and manages to give a signal to White Hawk. The Indian dashes from the group and jumps to the back of a waiting horse and rides away with the girl. Lieutenant Lawrence and Dolores leave the fort for a canter. They are waylaid by three Indians and taken into camp. Dolores is restrained in a tent. Her companion, captured with her, is outside tied to a stake. Young White Hawk, a chief, but of white blood, has entered tent to look over the prisoner. His eye is caught by a crucifix hanging at the girl's neck. It is exactly the same as the one he wears. The two discover just what the audience has seen before, that it is brother and sister. The young Indianizcd white man orders the officer cut down, Just as Lawrence is cut free the troops appear in sight, sent out to find the officer and the girl. White Hawk rushes out in front and raises his arms. The troops ride into camp. The situation is explained to the commander and White Hawk returns to the fort with the soldiers, after all have smoked the pipe of peace. Here there is a reunion. The adopted Indian refuses, however, to remain in the society of his own kind and returns to Flower Face, who is awaiting him. Lieutenant Lawrence wins Dolores.
- A little country village comedy in which Mr. Costello plays a young grocer's clerk. This clerk and the daughter (Clara Kimball Young) of a G.A.R. fire-eater (Mr. Eldridge) are in love, much to the old man's disgust. He wants his daughter to marry a brave man, a soldier. AN unexpected denouement makes the clerk seem to be a hero. Moving Picture World
- Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age. Jess, the elder, was brilliant and educated; Bess, the younger was beautiful, but frankly admitted that she did not possess the mental attainments of Jess. The two were great friends, and Jess, although the senior by only three years, had almost a motherly affection for her pretty little sister. Croft, finding old age stealing upon him, advertised for a partner, stipulating that he must be a gentleman. Probably it was his secret idea that the right man might come along, and fall in love with his favorite, beautiful Bessie. Captain John Neil, an English army officer, who had found his income insufficient to support him in his profession, heard of the business opportunity and accepted it. Jess, the unimpressionable, speedily fell in love with him, and her womanly intuition told her that she could win him, for he was fascinated by her. The girl was happy for a while, but suddenly learned that her little sister was also in love with the handsome Englishman. The elder sister realized that happiness for her, meant sorrow, probably life-long sorrow, for Bess. Accustomed to making sacrifices for the girl she so tenderly loved, Jess made another. On the pretext of a visit to an old school friend, she absented herself from home, knowing that Neil would be bound to fall in love with Bess, who was beautiful and amiable. The expected happened. At the time Jess departed, Neil liked both girls, but preferred Jess. Thrown into daily companionship with Bess, he soon grew to love her, and made her happy by proposing to her. And little sister wrote to big sister, telling her the glorious news, never even suspecting the truth. Jess received the letter in her place of refuge, and rejoiced that she had been able to ensure the happiness of Bess, while at the same time she wept in secret over the fate that had taken all romance out of her young life. At this time, the rebellion which freed the Transvaal from British rule was brewing. Croft, who at first doubted that any trouble was impending, at last realizes the gravity of the situation, and Neil consents to go to Pretoria and bring Jess home before it is too late. The gallant soldier arrives in the city, but is unable to leave with his charge, because the Boers have besieged the place, and even couriers cannot pierce the lines. A certain Frank Muller, son of a Boer and an Englishwoman, is one of the leaders in the revolt. He had proposed to Bess and been rejected. Learning that his successful rival is in Pretoria, he plans to dispose of him. Pretending great friendliness, he sends Neil a pass for Jess and himself, signed by Oom Paul Kruger. The unsuspecting Englishman falls into the trap, and with the girl, leaves under the charge of a Boer escort, furnished by Muller. These men have been tricked into believing that Kruger has ordered that the couple be killed, and while they are crossing a river, fire upon them and believe they are slain. Jess and Neil, however, have a miraculous escape. Following the crossing of the river under fire, on their way to Pretoria, Jess and Neil become separated, and the girl reaches the farm alone. There she finds that the villain Muller has been ahead of her, and that her uncle is a prisoner, on a charge of treason. Muller, who is military head of the district, tells Bess that Croft will be convicted and hanged unless Bess consents to marry him. The girl, however, refuses, the court-martial is held, and when Jess arrives, her uncle is under sentence to die at dawn, a few hours away. There is no one to whom she can appeal, and Jess, grief-stricken, decides to be her own avenger. Muller is asleep in his tent, waiting for the dawn when the last of the protectors of the girl he covets shall be separated from her by death. He awakes with a start. Bending over him is Jess. He believes it is a visitor from another world, for he could have sworn that he had seen her die a horrible death. Stricken with terror, unable to speak or make a motion, he goes to his death, his last thought being that there is a life beyond the grave, and that evil brings its own punishment. Jess wanders away into the desert and dies. Neil, searching, finds the body. The troubles of the others are finally swept away, and Neil and Bess live happily many years in their English home, never realizing that they owe everything to the self-sacrificing Jess, although they sincerely mourn and miss her.
- There is no documentation that a film bearing this title was directed by D.W. Griffith, or was produced by Biograph at this time. It may have been suspended before completion or else released under another title.
- Life in arctic Alaska and Siberia, with Eskimos at work and play, a stream of ice floes in the Bering Strait, a U.S. mail run by dog sled, hunting walrus, and gold mining in Nome.
- Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of Alaska and Siberia to study the natives and the animal life.
- Allen Gordon, a young clerk, is discontented and longs for great wealth. His discontentment causes his sweetheart to break their engagement, as his lust for money would only make her miserable. That evening in his room, Gordon falls asleep and has a startling dream. He receives a telegram from his lawyer, advising him that his uncle in Italy has suddenly died and left him one million dollars. Upon receipt of the money Gordon adopts a life of ease, dons expensive clothes and is introduced into society by his lawyer. Here he meets Will Graft, a foppish dude, who instantly schemes to marry his sister to Gordon. A few evenings later a brilliant social function is held at the Graft home and Gordon is the guest of honor. During the course of the evening Will's sister enchants him with every trick and artifice within her power and Gordon, enraptured with her charms, puts an engagement ring upon her finger. A few moments later he is shocked to hear her boasting of her conquest to her mother and brother and to hear Will congratulate her upon lauding him. Seeing through their deceit, Gordon now arranges with his lawyer to send a fake telegram announcing his fortune has been swept away in disastrous speculation, and determines to prove his fiancée's love. The telegram is delivered to him at the Graft home, and the engagement is immediately broken. While the servant is bringing his coat, Gordon now sternly rebukes the sneering brother, strikes him in the face with his glove and departs, and the dream ends. With a start Gordon arouses, and he is delighted to find it has all been only a fancy. Cured of his discontent he hastens to his sweetheart's home, restores the ring on her finger and joy once more fills their lives.
- Young Hazel Phillips is courted by two young men, Evans and Porter, in a Western town. She favors Porter, and the two are married. Evans conceals his chagrin and jealousy, and continues as a friend of the young couple. One day a prospector comes into town with a bag of gold dust and nuggets, and tells an interested crowd of the big strike made in the southwest. Evans decides to seek his fortune there, and persuades Porter to accompany him. Hazel consents, and bids her husband an affectionate farewell. The two men strike through the desert, and after months of hardship and privation Porter finally finds gold. His extreme jealousy has made Evans content to have Porter with him, as he gloated to himself that he was keeping him away from Hazel. When Porter runs in with the glad news, Evans becomes madly angered, as he realizes that Porter will go back to his wife with a fortune. An insane rage, seizes him as he realizes how happy they will be. Before the astonished Porter can defend himself, Evans leaps upon him and strikes him to the earth with the butt of his pistol. The injured man staggers to his feet, but is no match for the infuriated Evans, who rains blow after blow upon his partner's head. Porter sinks to the ground, and Evans leaves him for dead. Evans goes to Hazel and tells her a false story of how Porter died of illness, how he nursed him through it all, and how he had come to convey her husband's dying message to her. Porter is found by a tribe of Indians and nursed back to life. He recovers his health and strength but his memory is a blank, and he is adopted into the tribe. Evans goes back to the gold mine and works it. Knowing that Hazel will soon be in want, having lost her parents and with a baby to support, he sets his trap cunningly. When he goes back to ask her to marry him he finally wins her consent by persuading her it is for the good of her baby, and she accompanies him back to the wild, western country, where he has built a cabin. A few days after her arrival, the baby wanders off into the woods and is playing on the banks of a brook when it is taken by Indians. As they are hurrying away with the child Porter appears, and the sight of the innocent baby arouses him. Not knowing that it is his own child, he makes them set her free, and she runs home with a tale which her mother believes is only childish imagination. Silently and noiselessly, Porter watches the woman through the window, and the sight of her face touches his slumbering memory, but does not awaken it. Troubled, he goes back to the camp, unable to untangle the confused thoughts which crowd upon his brain. At this time the government agent, accompanied by an escort of soldiers, calls upon the Indians and serves notice on them to vacate the land and move to a reservation. The Indians resent the order, and wild disorder prevails in the village. Somebody strikes a blow, ready weapons spring forth, and in a moment an avalanche of redskins throw themselves upon the soldiers. Porter is struck on the head with the butt of a rifle, and the shock instantly clears his mind. The face of the woman in the cabin comes before him, and he knows it is Hazel. The soldiers put up a futile resistance, and are soon dispatched. Porter knows that it is but the beginning, that the Indians will go on the warpath, that they will hurl themselves upon the emigrants and settlers, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake, and he thinks of Hazel and the baby. He rushes away, hoping to reach the cabin before the rest of the tribe arrive, and succeeds. With the lapse of years, in his paint and feathers, he is not recognized by Hazel at first. From the window they see the long line of Indians thundering toward them. There is no time to be lost, so Porter throws a table behind the door, crowds Hazel and the baby behind it, and stands there unconcernedly. The Indians rush in and demolish and steal everything, but are adroitly kept from discovering the woman and child. Evans comes home. The Indians hide, and as he approaches the cabin he is attacked and killed, his body stripped of his clothes, and the Indians go on. In the meantime the soldiers have been rushed to the scene of warfare, and corner the redskins engaging them in a terrific fight, in which the Indians are badly defeated. Porter, with the cunning learned from the Indians, has managed to bring his wife and child to a place of safety, and the reunion is splendidly acted. The last scene shows the vengeance of fate, the dilapidated cabin, with Evans' lying in front, around which coyotes are sniffing.
- An excursion through Montana's new national park, situated a few miles west of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, shows natural scenery rivaling that of the famous Yellowstone Park in Wyoming. The park includes many mountains of volcanic origin and the rocks, formed of innumerable strata, are brilliantly colored. The park was opened by the Government less than two years ago and bids fair to become one of America's leading resorts.