Kittens Reichert

Broken Fetters

Rex Ingram

Kittens Reichert, Violet Mersereau

The Scarlet Letter

Carl Harbaugh

Mary Martin, Stuart Holmes

The film tells the story of a noble but poor woman who arrives at Boston in the 17th century. There she marries an old but quite rich doctor but does not become happy.

The Great Problem

Rex Ingram

Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon

A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.

So's Your Old Man

Gregory La Cava

W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce

Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.

Forbidden Fruit

Ivan Abramson

Paula Shay, Everett Butterfield

The BFI and The Library of Congress both hold complete copies.

The Eternal City

Hugh Ford, Edwin S. Porter

Pauline Frederick, Thomas Holding

Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to be brought up by nuns, then enters a monastery. David is brought to London and is raised to be a beggar and thief until he is rescued by Dr. Roselli, an Italian political refugee, who raises David with his daughter Donna Roma. Years later David gets heavily involved in Italian politics and incurs the enmity of the corrupt Italian Prime Minister, which leads him to discover the hidden secrets of his family's past--and present.

House of Cards

Alice Guy-Blaché

Catherine Calvert, Frank Mills

The Mannings are a professional couple--she's a doctor, he's a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their young daughter Louise, who is basically left to be raised by their servants. They're shaken out of their single-minded pursuit of their careers when Louise--feeling neglected, unloved and unhappy--runs away with a young newsboy.