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Walloping Kid (1926)
Character: N/A
A handsome boxer is sent out to manage his father's ranch. This is no easy task, as the ranch foreman's a no-good louse!
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The Desert Secret (1924)
Character: N/A
Bud Lawler has struck gold with his friend. The friend is an alcoholic and talks them into trouble.
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The Invisible Hand (1920)
Character: N/A
The conflict between the Secret Service and a powerful combination of crooks who would wreck society. Every known device is employed in the pursuit of crime and of crime detection: Underground tunnels and secret vaults under the bay, chests of jewels and disappearing walls, submarine dips and airplane fights - these are just a few of the thousand thrills that sprinkle the action of... The Invisible Hand!
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His Daughter Pays (1918)
Character: Margery La Tour
To pay off his extensive debts, Armand La Tour agrees to sell government secrets to a gang of spies, but when he fails to produce any information, Ben Hassan, the ring leader, kidnaps Louise, La Tour's eldest daughter, and forces her to perform Turkish dances in his cabaret.
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The Solitary Sin (1919)
Character: Dorothy Morton
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
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Her Boy (1918)
Character: Virginia Gordon
When the United States enters World War I, the widowed Helen worries that she will lose her only son David, who has just turned 21. Although David patriotically urges the employees at his factory to enlist, he reluctantly gives in to his mother's pleas to remain at home with her. When David is drafted, his panic-stricken mother alters the date on his birth certificate, although the later birth date implies that he is illegitimate. Disgusted, David enlists under an assumed name, thus shaming Helen, who confesses her dishonesty to the townspeople. Her son, now in uniform, then forgives her.
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Intrigue (1917)
Character: Princess Alice
While traveling to meet her sweetheart, Richard Carr, in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bonaluria, Peggy Dare's train compartment door is thrust open and a little boy is thrown at her feet. Peggy is so taken with the child, who tells her that his name is Manouche, that she looks after him. She foils an attempt to kill Manouche, before arriving in Bonaluria where she learns from Richard that the boy is really the Grand Duke.
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The Turn in the Road (1919)
Character: Evelyn Barker
Paul Perry, the son of Perryville's wealthiest citizen, marries Reverend Matthew Barker's younger daughter Evelyn, while her sister June, who disputes her father's sermons preaching that it is God's will that sends affliction, hides her own love for Paul. When Evelyn dies in childbirth, Paul nearly goes insane.
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Cassidy (1917)
Character: Grant's Daughter
Cassidy, a derelict suffering from tubercular lungs, who is stranded in San Francisco, realizes that death is imminent and desperately seeks to return to his home town of New York. Determining to rob a house in order to procure the funds to complete his journey, Cassidy breaks into District Attorney Grant's home but is caught by Grant.
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Code of the Range (1927)
Character: N/A
A cowpuncher is out for revenge on the gent who seduced his sister into a dance hall by advertising for a school teacher and then finished her off before he blew town. Rex the Dog and Starlight the Horse do their part in Jack Perrin's victory over the villain and his assistant.
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Hands Off! (1921)
Character: Ramona Wadley
Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves Ramona's sister from a stampede, and is then awarded a job on the Wadley ranch. The obligatory showdown features Pete and the gang.
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Smoked Out (1923)
Character: Marcia Graham
Walt Rogers finds a man that has been injured and robbed. The man was returning home after a long absence. When Walt goes to his ranch he is assumed to be the long missing son. Unable to tell the dying mother he assumes the part. But then there is trouble when the robber arrives with the papers to prove he is the son.
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The Pell Street Mystery (1924)
Character: Nell Blake
The police find Queenie Ross murdered. Tip O'Neil, a newspaper reporter, is detailed to solve the mystery.
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The Landloper (1918)
Character: Kate Kilgour
At a lavish luncheon in Palm Beach, Walker Farr, a wealthy and idle young man, bets that he can live in perfect contentment as a penniless hobo and sets out to prove it. On the road, Walker meets Kate Kilgour and her fiancé, Richard Dodd, but upon his arrival in the town of Marion he learns that she is being forced into the marriage by her mother, who owes Richard $5,000.
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Lost, Strayed or Stolen (1923)
Character: Josephine Jones
After Jones kicks David Phillips off his ranch, Phillips finds Jones' young grandson who had strayed away from the ranch. Not allowed on Jones' ranch, he leaves the boy at another ranch with a note. With a reward being offered for the boy's return, Jones' foreman finds the boy and alters the note to make it look like a kidnaping.
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Life Without Soul (1915)
Character: Claudia Frawley
A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results. Early adaptation of Frankenstein with the names changed.
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Border Law (1923)
Character: Ellen
Texas Ranger Chuck Williams is the bashful sweetheart of the daughter, Ellen, of the captain of his Texas Rangers troop. He is working with the Mexican Rurales in an effort to stop a gang of gun runners. The gang-leader shows up, posing as an artist, and Ellen takes him in as a boarder to make Chuck jealous. But Chuck is wise to the boarder, who kidnaps Ellen and heads for the mountain hideout of his gang.
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The Valley of Tomorrow (1920)
Character: Cecelia May Morgan
Upon discovering that his sister has been driven to suicide by the betrayal of Enrico Colonna, young mountaineer Dabney Morgan swears to avenge her death.
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The Locked Door (1929)
Character: N/A
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
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Ridin' Wild (1925)
Character: Betty Blake
Like many Easterners who suffer from consumption, "The White Plague," Jim Warren goes to Arizona for the curative powers of its dry climate. When he arrives in Tucson, though, he cannot find a room because he is a 'lunger.' Ill and despondent, Jim is befriended by Betty Blake, the daughter of rancher and town sheriff Frank Blake, who suggests that he try the open desert. Wandering the desert, Jim happens upon members of the gang headed by Scar-face Jordon, a notorious rustler.
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Pony Express Rider (1926)
Character: N/A
Bill Miller, youngest member of the notorious Range Riders, gets job as pony express rider. Indians become dangerous on the war path. Bill forestalls plan of a bandit chief to rob mails while trying to win the love of a girl and the respect of "Uncle Sam."
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Power (1928)
Character: A dame
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
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The Fall of the Romanoffs (1918)
Character: Princess Irena
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
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Bound in Morocco (1918)
Character: Ysail
A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Frank Campeau) has seized a young American woman for his harem. Disguised as an inmate of the harem, George nearly wrecks the place while he rescues her. One thrilling incident follows upon the heels of another in their attempts to get away, and it ends with him setting one tribe against another, leaving them free to peacefully ride away.
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The Man Beneath (1919)
Character: Mary Erskine
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.
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Where North Holds Sway (1927)
Character: Landeau's Wife
A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.
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