Mary Latimer, Nun is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Malvina Longfellow, Warwick Ward and Ethel Fisher. The film is based on a novel by Eve Elwen. A girl from the slums marries the son of an aristocrat. When he abandons her, she makes a living as a music hall performer.
, 1h38 Réalisé parBasil Dean, John E. Burch OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame, Policier ThèmesAdaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursRobert Loraine, Frank Lawton, Warwick Ward, C. Aubrey Smith, David Hawthorne, Dorothy Boyd Note54% At his country estate, Arthur Hilton (C. Aubrey Smith) is regaling his dinner guests of his exploits as a police officer decades earlier in Africa. He keys in a case where he had to track down a gang of three men who were suspected of a series of murders. He does stumble on them, but they actually end up capturing him. Fortunately, he was able to talk his way out of that predicament, and later on tracked them down again and captured them. One was hung for his crimes, while the other two were sentenced to twenty years in prison.
Captain Fairweather has deposit money with the banker Gideon Bloodgood. After learning that Bloodgood's bank is shaky, Fariweath tries to retrieve the money and dies in an argument with the banker. Bloodgood keeps the money but his clerk, Badger, finds out about it. Years later he blackmails his old boss with proof of the murder.
Réalisé parJ. Walter Ruben OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame ThèmesAdaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursDouglas Fairbanks, Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Colleen Moore, Frank Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman Note63% Joe, an amoral capitalist and boyfriend of Sarah Griswold, gets a job as a clerk in a New York City advertising agency and starts to work his way to the top. He is fired, but Sarah intervenes on his behalf and he manages to create an ad that earns him a promotion. He meets the mistress of his boss and decides he wants to win her from him. The company is in trouble, but Joe has invested wisely and sells out his boss to his competitor. He abandons Sarah and proposes to the mistress, who marries him. Joe becomes head of his agency, but because he neglects his new wife, she becomes the mistress of another man. He attempts suicide, but Sarah rescues him and nurses him back to health.