Violence in Blue

The Girl in the Rain

1920

A man and two women, suspected of stealing bonds, are traced to a country hotel. While Judith, one of the women, is out horseback riding, the other two, Walter and Vera, are arrested. When, during a storm, Judith is injured in a fall from her horse, Boone Pendleton comes to her rescue. Soon the river becomes impassable, and they are trapped in Boone's cabin, where the two fall in love.

Love Without Question

1920

Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns have mysteriously died. Silas' grandson Robert, whom Katherine loves, comes to visit the next day, suffering from amnesia.

The Circular Staircase

1915

The Two-Soul Woman

1918

Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers from dual personality disorder.

The Girl in the Dark

1918

Lois Fox, upon whose shoulder is branded a Chinese idiograph resembling the letters "A. Y.," is rescued from a gang of Chinese ruffians by Brice Ferris. His servant Ming, in attempting to steal from her finger a ring that bears a mysterious green seal, is killed, and soon afterward a stranger named Strang arrives, also in search of the girl. Despite Brice's efforts to protect her, Lois is abducted and taken to the headquarters of Lao Wing, the leader of a secret Chinese society known as the Tong.

A Scandal in Bohemia

1921

Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.

Chains of Evidence

1920

Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge Sturgis, but now working as a reporter while still maintaining an association with the Brownlow gang. Quarrelling with her stepmother, Edith leaves home, meets Dick and falls in love.

A Blind Bargain

1922

Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings. A lost film.

A Scarlet Week-End

1932

A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on her.

Sisters of Eve

1928

Young London realtor Leonard Tavernake becomes involved with two sisters, one good and one evil, which leads to much melodrama but things work out in the end.

A Chant of Silence

1973

A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.

The Book of Murder

1974

Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, planning to extort a sizable amount of money from each. When he is discovered dead, clues indicate that each of his four wives had motive and opportunity to murder him, and a young detective must sift through some ingeniously devised evidence.

Murder and the Computer

1973

After coming under suspicion for a computer technician's murder, six hackers team up to try to find the real killer.

C.O.D.

1932

A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather....

It Is the Law

1924

This silent mystery is considered a lost film.