A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive
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Thomas von Weerth
Maja
Lisa Sutroff
Alter Diener
Dr. Perennius Bell
Theaterdirektor
Bobby
Landstreicherin
Dietrich
Bettlerin
After a harsh argument between her and her father, a young girl with artistic talent leaves home for a new life.
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Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.
John Steel is a poor boy with a gentle spirit, but he has a natural gift for fighting. His mother is a strict pacifist, so although he has opportunities to make a career as a boxer, he refuses--until hard times force him to enter the ring despite his mother's pleas.
The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
In Africa a typist is framed for killing a diamond smuggler who betrayed her father.
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
An Orthodox rabbi deals with tragedy and a rapidly changing way of life, as secularism becomes the norm.
Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into the family. Her scheming mother-in-law disapproves of her however colluding with Ned Ormsby, who wants Flo for himself, to make her appear faithless. When Ross suspects Flo of harboring Ormsby, he fires a pistol at her closet. Later when Ormsby is found shot in his house, Ross confesses, believing himself guilty. Sick at heart, Flo returns to the stage of the Winter Palace. Ross is freed, however, when Ormsby’s enemy, Maddox, confesses to the crime, and Flo is happily reconciled with Ross.
Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”.
A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major.
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves fruitless and eventually his kin sees the error of their ways and return to their true home.
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
