Stephen S. Norton

Love's Prisoner (1919)

, 47minutes
Réalisé par John Francis Dillon
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Olive Thomas, Ann Forrest, William V. Mong, Joe King, Jean Hersholt, Harvey Clark
Rôle Directeur de la Photographie
Note62%

A poor girl named Nancy (Olive Thomas) leaves to take care of her two younger sisters, Sadie (Ann Kroman) and Jane (Dolly Dare), while their father (Walter Perry), who is a former criminal, is sent to prison for a crime which he has not committed and dies there. At that time Jonathan Twist, a quaint philosopher and their somewhat mysterious neighbor who operates a watch repair shop and part-time fence, offers them help, and Nancy finds with his help a job as a seller of Cocoa Climax. Nancy marries with a British business man and peer Lord Cleveland, and she becomes Lady Cleveland. However, Lord Clevelend dies very soon without a will and . Nancy does not have enough income to keep up the estates of Lord Cleveland in England, which pass to his other relatives, but receives the palatial home in America. She manages to keep this home and its servants without any visible means of support, and during this time the activities of a crook called by the police "The Bird" is mystifying the authorities. On the night of a reception at her house there is a large diamond theft, and Jim Garside is detailed to catch The Bird. Jim discovers that Nancy is The Bird and Jonathan is her fence for the jewels she has taken, where much of the moneys have gone to the poor. Jim maintains her works for charity while she serves out her prison term, and in the end they are married.

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Where Are My Children? (1916)

, 1h2
Réalisé par Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Thèmes La grossesse, Sexualité
Acteurs Tyrone Power Sr., Marie Walcamp, George Berrell, Mary MacLaren, Tyrone Power
Rôle Directeur de la Photographie
Note62%

Richard Walton, a district attorney, is presented with an obscenity case: A medical practitioner has been arrested for distributing 'indecent' birth control literature. On the stand, he makes a case for his thesis that breeding and financial planning are integral to raising healthy and happy families, and that sex education and contraception information should be available to prospective parents.

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Shoes (1916)

, 1h
Réalisé par Lois Weber
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Mary MacLaren, Lina Basquette, William V. Mong, John George
Rôle Directeur de la Photographie
Note68%

Avec sa maigre paie, la jeune Eva doit subvenir aux besoins de ses parents et de ses trois petites soeurs. L'achat d'une nouvelle paire de chaussures, dont elle aurait cruellement besoin, semble hors de sa portée. Un client lui fait des avances...

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