Joseph W. Smiley Movies

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure...

A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his...

Pauline Cheraud risks her reputation to expose the man who killed her father.

In a jealous rage dancer Anna Janssen shoots her common-law husband Alastair De Vries in a cafe when she discovers him with a chorus girl. Fleeing to...

Prominent New York magazine publisher Frank Clayton visits Paris, France,with his wife Elinor and young son Dick. He is shown around the city by...

The Rev. Frank Speakman has been to a rural congregation, and is entertained by the members. He is considered a fine catch matrimonially and the...

Pigeon Deering, a girl of the tenements, while watching a society ball through a window, witnesses a murder and is arrested. Because she craves...

A woman is betrayed by her cruel husband, who uses their child to further torment her.

A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results. Early adaptation of Frankenstein with the names changed.

Once again, a secret agent risks life and limb for a packet of secret papers. This time around, the spy is a woman, attached to the United States...

Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and...

Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?

Two men attempt to commit suicide for vastly different reasons. They try various methods but find it increasingly difficult to finish the job.

Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury,...

While visiting New York, Ogden Fenn finds himself charmed with Diana Manners, wife of Frank Manners, an architect who is away on business in San...

Joan, an earnest little orphan who lives in an asylum near the World War I training camp at Plattsburg, reads the story of "Joan of Arc" and soon...

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.