£500 Reward is a 1918 Australian silent film starring, written, produced, financed and directed by Claude Flemming who later described it as "a very lurid melodrama".
Synopsis
A "five-act" drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en route to Queensland. The heroine Irene is kidnapped by a ship captain and winds up wrecked on the Queensland coast. She is rescued by the hero.
Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between Suzette, a nasty lady (Renée Adorée) and his virtuous secretary Alathea (Harriet Hammond) in wartime Paris.
Comedy about a naval officer, Harry Mallory (Conrad Nagel) and his would-be bride Marjorie Newton (Norma Shearer) who spend most of their time running up and down a train looking for a clergyman to marry them.
Manuel Granado rediscovers a son he thought had died years before to see him engaged to the daughter of the bandit who had kidnapped the son and turned him into a matador.