The Straw Man

An upper class melodrama.

A husband, jealous of his wife's flirtations with another man, hatches a plot to make his wife jealous.

The year is 1025 and Arnljot Sunvisson has returned home after a long journey to find that his betrothed has married another.

An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.

Vera Souroff, a young Russian girl, is kidnapped off the street and raped by one of three officers of the Czar's guard. The crime is brought to the...

Mr. Bretton's wife decides she would rather pursue an opera career, so they separate, leaving him to raise their young daughter Daphne (Mildred...

The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to...

A widow's husband returns after her second marriage, and dies while assaulting her.

To assuage his grief over the death of his wife during childbirth, newspaper publisher John Briscoe resettles in Paris. Twenty-five years pass,...

Hugh and Henry Watson, two brothers, are in love with Helen Mallory. She rejects Hugh and accepts Henry. Hugh, broken-hearted, goes west, leaving a...

Hubby is anxious to get away for a little time at the beach with the boys, and works up a quarrel with wifey over a new hat, the bill for which he is...