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After running over a police officer's motorcycle, Ben and Billy are chased by the law onto a docked ship where they disguise themselves as a European baron and general. In the same guises they then invade a high society party with the gendarmes in close pursuit.

I have a 1916 book "Film Flashes",which has an interview with Linda Arvidson and includes a photo attributed to Biograph showing Mrs Griffith, David Griffith,Ann Lorey and Harry Salter in "When Knighthood was in flower.In the interview she talks about making this film.

Although an advertisement for this film appears in Moving Picture World on 17 January 1914, no film bearing this title was ever distributed at this time. The film was condemned by the National Board of Censorship as "inflammable" because of the battle scenes and the subversive tone of Capitol versus Labor. In June 1914 the negative and all release prints were destroyed in a catastrophic explosion and fire in the film vaults at the Lubin plant in Philadelphia.

This is a completely bogus title; there is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was ever produced or distributed at this time. The only film in which Love, Myers and Talmadge all appeared in was D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916).

This is a completely bogus entry; no film bearing this title was either produced or distributed by Selig or any other company during this time period; Tom Mix, as well as the other players listed, never appeared in any film with this title at any point in their careers. The only possibility is that it's a re-release title for other film, identity unknown, filmed after 1910.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was ever produced or distributed at this time. It's yet another bogus title emanating from the error-filled Universal Silents by Richard E. Braff; the alleged release date is bogus as well. Most likely, it's a working title for some other film, released at some other time, under a different title.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or released at this time; most likely it was planned, but never completed, or else it is a working title for another film, possibly 'Bare Knees' (1931) (q.v.).

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was released at this time with Semon and Dwan; most likely, it is the working title for one of several other films in which Semon and Dwan appeared together, a film which was eventually released under a different title, identity unknown.

There is no documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed by Biograph or General or directed by D.W. Griffith at this time. Production may have been suspended before completion or else the film may have been released under a different title. An entirely different film, The Flaming Arrows, was, however released by Pathe in 1911 (q.v.).

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced during this time period, nor directed by Allan Dwan at any time. Most likely, the production may have been suspended before completion or else released under a different title.

Who Pays? (1915) was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing different roles each time, with a variety of supporting players who varied from one episode to another. Each episode told a complete and individual story, but they were all inter-related by a uniform theme. Although there were no cliff-hanger endings, each episode did, in fact, end with a challenge to the audience: Who was responsible for the misfortune of the principal characters? The titles of the twelve episodes were: #1: The Price of Fame; #2: The Pursuit of Pleasure; #3: When Justice Sleeps; #4: The Love Liar; #5: Unto Herself Alone; #6: Houses of Glass; #7: Blue Blood and Yellow; #8: Today and Tomorrow; #9: For the Commonwealth; #10: Pomp of Earth; #11: The Fruit of Folly; #12: Toil and Tyranny.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed at this time. Most likely this is a working title for some other unidentifiable Selznick film which was eventually released under a completely different title.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or released at this time; it was never reviewed in Moving Picture World, never copyrighted, does not appear on any comprehensive release chart, and is not mentioned in any reliable Tod Browning filmography. Most likely, it was planned or announced, but never completed, or completed but never released.

An ex-convict reunites with his father.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or distributed by Universal at this time. It seems to be another bogus creation from the prolific pen of error-prone researcher Richard E. Braff, author of The Universal Silents. Most likely, it's the working title of Black Orchids, produced by Universal's Bluebird unit, which included Madison, Dyer and McDonald among its cast members and was released 1 January 1917 (not 1915).

This is a bogus title; there is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced by Selig at this time; most likely, it's a working title for another film, identity unknown, or else an announced title for a film that was never made.

There is no documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or distributed by Biograph at this time. Either the production may have been suspended before completion or else it was released under a different title, most likely the latter, as A Pueblo Legend (1912) q.v.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or distributed at this time by either L-KO or Universal. There was no L-KO film released on the alleged 11 December 1914 release date, under this or any other title; this title is either entirely bogus, a figment of some contributor's imagination, or else a working title or a re-release title of another unidentified film.

This film is another bogus title gleaned from the pages of Richard E. Braff's extremely error-prone Silent Short Film Working Papers. There is no reliable documentation that a film bearing this title was produced by Pathé at this time. At the time of its alleged release (9 November 1913), Pearl White was working for Crystal, not Pathé, and Pathé did not release any film, under any title, on that day anyway. A variation of the same mis-information finds its way into Buck Rainey's also error filled Those Fabulous Serial Heroines, where it's listed as Daisy Wins the Day, but two wrongs don't make a right.

Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."

This is another bogus title emerging from the error-prone pages of Richard E. Braff's Silent Short Film Working Papers; it is not the same film as A Counterfeit Santa Claus (1912/I), which features a different cast, and there is no reliable documentation that the listed players, Bosworth, Cox, Daniels and Leighton, ever appeared together in a film bearing this title at this time. It is probable that the film was announced, but either never completed, or else completed but never released.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was ever produced by Mack Sennett or featured actress Louise Fazenda. Most likely, it's either a working title or a re-release title for another film, identity undetermined at this time.

There is no documentation that a film bearing this title was distributed by Universal, or directed by Allan Dwan during this period. Most likely, the production may have been suspended before completion or else released under a different title.

No such film bearing the title Little Hero was either produced or distributed by Universal at this time. The production may have been suspended before completion or else it may have been released under another title. There is also the possiblity that this is the re-release title of another film, identity unknown.

There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced by IMP, or released by Universal at this time. Chances are production of the film was either suspended before completion, or else the title was changed before release, quite possibly to avoid confusion with the similarly titled Vitagraph release The Old Guard (1913) (q.v.).