, 1h Réalisé parJ. Gordon Edwards OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Aventure ActeursTheda Bara, Herbert Heyes, Stuart Holmes, Joseph Crehan, Claire Whitney Note62% As described in a film magazine, British nobleman Bertie Cecil (Heyes) takes upon himself the blame for his brother's forgeries and, when supposed dead, enlists in the French Foreign Legion, serving in Algiers. There he wins the friendship of Emir, a native whose wife he had saved from the lust of his commanding officer. old friends visit Algiers and recognize Bertie, and urge him to return and claim his own. His refusal leads to a scene were he strikes his commanding officer, and for this he is condemned to death. Cigarette, the "daughter of the regiment," rides to obtain a pardon for Bertie and makes a terrific trip through a sand storm. She arrives too late with the reprieve, but just in time to receive in her own body the bullets intended for Bertie.
Bernard Chetwin est pensionnaire à la ferme de John Anderson, en Angleterre. Il n'est pas impressionné par Bella, la fille gâtée d'Anderson, et il est attiré par leur servante orpheline, Lydia Wilton. Celle-ci lui raconte ses rêves de vie plus heureuse et ils tombent amoureux. Wilton rencontre aussi Eustace Pelham, qui l'initie à sa philosophie de la vitrine de la vie' : beaucoup de gens prennent des décisions de vie sur des bases purement superficielles. Bernard Chetwin épouse Lydia Wilton lors d'une cérémonie secrète.
Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her. She lives at a parish house, and at the outbreak of World War I, she becomes a Red Cross nurse. At the front she meets war correspondent Lloyd Stanley (Stuart Holmes). Stanley tries to have his way with her but she is saved when the hospital tent is bombed.
Réalisé parJ. Gordon Edwards OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Romance ThèmesL'enfance ActeursTheda Bara, Walter Law, Walter Law, Herbert Heyes, John Webb Dillon, Louis Dean Note65% The wealthy girl Esmeralda (Theda Bara) is kidnapped by gypsies at birth and becomes, as one might assume, the darling of Paris. She is loved by the bell ringer and former hunchback Quasimodo (Glen White), Frollo (Walter Law), the wicked surgeon who cares him, and an equally wicked Captain Phoebus (Herbert Heyes).