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- An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
- A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on his assistant, a dog, himself and two young couples.
- Episode Three of 'Les vampires', 'The Red Cryptogram'
- With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
- Episode 2 of 'Les vampires', 'The Deadly Ring'
- A mischievous young boy foils his boastful uncle's attempt to make a false demonstration of his skill with the shotgun.
- The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.
- A reporter who is investigating a criminal organization called the Vampires, receives a telegram stating that the body of the national security agent in charge of the Vampire investigations was found decapitated.
- A general considers his son to be a deserter but he continues to oppose the German army.
- The mutilated body of a man has been found near Durnkrut. Jules Brandt, the detective, is informed at the same time of a mysterious airship which comes and goes. He resolves to stay in the village on the border of the forest. The next time the airship appears he gives chase after telephoning M. Charles Illner, the Austrian aviator, who joins in and they fellow the airship to its shed. There Brandt learns of the sudden disappearance of a young American, James Stirner. He is shown a picture of Stirner which is that of the mutilated man. He visits Stirner's villa and finds a torn bit of paper containing these words: "I cannot bring myself to do it, and I beseech you not to disturb the peace and quiet of our home." The detective introduces himself to the aeronaut's wife, Marie Weyer, and gives her to understand the nature of his investigations. Terrified, she confesses to him that unwelcome attentions had been paid her by Stirner after her marriage to the aeronaut. Hoping that the wealthy young American would finance the building of the airship, she had written him that she would visit him to plead her cause. She did not go, but the American held the letter over her head after as a threat. When the airship was completed, Stirner jumped aboard with the aeronaut and his wife and later, when her husband was busy with the rudder, he rushed at Marie, whose screams were drowned by the sound of the machinery. The pair struggled, Stirner lost his balance and fell. Max saw nothing of the tragedy. At the completion of the story the detective expressed his sympathetic understanding by leaving the young woman and her husband undisturbed.
- Sadunah, the Dancer, has a daughter whom she wishes to defend from worldly perils, whom she wishes to shield from the life the mother had led. Pursuing her sole ambition, Sadunah marries a rich financier and when he gets into serious trouble and it would seem that he will lose all his money, she tempts him to commit a terrible crime. But she, too, is ready to sacrifice all for mother love. The call coming, Sadunah, at whose feet the artistic world has paid homage, gives her life for her child.
- Bonace is a kind-hearted old tramp but whose honesty is not rewarded. For instance the day he finds a lost wallet and brings it to the gendarmerie, what does he get? A six month prison sentence for being a vagrant? And why? Because after giving the lost money to the gendarmes he had none with him? And when, after being released, he uses the money he earned at the prison workshop to buy a toy for the little girl of a farmer who gave him shelter and accommodation, what is his reward? Another prison sentence! And why? Because two gendarmes arrested him on his way back to the farm for vagrancy? And why? Because after giving all his money to the toy shopkeeper, he had no money left with him. The law is the law. But, as the Romans put it, it is "dura lex".
- A patriotic short made during the Great War about the hospital care for French soldiers.
- Jeanne Doré's profligate husband is hopelessly addicted to gambling, and is threatened with expulsion from his club because of his heavy indebtedness to another gambler member. Confessing his disgrace to his wife (Mme. Bernhardt), she offers to save him from disgrace by selling her jewels. With the money thus obtained he goes to his club, determined to pay his debts and live up to the pledge he has made to his wife to gamble no more. However, the lure of the roulette wheel overcomes his resolve; he loses all his money on "just one more turn of the wheel," and rather than face his disgrace, commits suicide. Left with her young son to support, Jeanne Doré is forced to sell her remaining possessions and live as best she can until her husband's uncle takes pity upon her and buys for her a small stationery shop in Paris. Here mother and son prosper until the boy reaches early manhood. One day he falls suddenly and violently in love with a married woman, who comes to his mother's shop to make purchases. An intrigue with the unscrupulous female leads the young man to murder the same uncle who had befriended himself and mother. The youth, with the assistance of Jeanne Doré, makes good his escape. Well clear of immediate capture, the boy comes back to the scene of his crime and succeeds in his efforts to once more affect a liaison with his mistress. By accident he is discovered and captured, thrown into jail, is tried and convicted of the murder and sentenced to the guillotine. Even in these desperate straits he seeks to gain some response to his affection for the woman, who promptly spurned and repudiated him. He prevails upon his devoted mother to become a messenger in his service and her appeals, likewise, fall upon deaf ears. Instead of telling the boy that her quest has been fruitless, Jeanne Doré goes to the prison herself, on the evening before the boy's neck is to be given to the knife, and poses as the woman he had expressed himself, to his own mother, as the one he most wished to see. The boy goes to the guillotine, and the final scene depicts the devoted mother in the extreme agony of watching, from a window across the street, the execution of her son.
- Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.