The Keeper of the Bees

The Shop Girl

1916

Peter is smitten with Winifred, a model, whom he met on board the steamer returning from Europe, but is discouraged by his sister, Ena, who is more ambitious for him. Peter is the son of Peter Rolls, the wealthy New Yorker. Ena tells Winifred that Peter is engaged to Eileen, sister of Lord Ravglan and that he is just trifling with her.

Lights of New York

1916

The story of two small-town barbers, Eddie and Gene, who are tricked into fronting a speakeasy for bootleggers in New York City. Eddie reconnects with his sweetheart, Kitty, now a perfor

A Man's Girlhood

1919

A Man's Girlhood examines in comic form the conundrums of intersexuality. Depicts the memories of the author, published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under the pseudonym NOBody, but was, following the taste of the time, dramatically oversubscribed. A child born without a clear gender is raised by the father as a boy, later by the uncle as a girl and dissected after death.

The Antique Engagement Ring

1914

George Darrel presents Helen Gray, his fiancée, with a very valuable engagement ring of antique design, which is an heirloom. They have a serious quarrel over Dave Brower, one of her friends, and Darrel leaves for the west.

Marianna

1915

Pietro Roma, maker of plaster figures, is struggling for existence in one room in a tenement with his blind wife and their granddaughter Marianna, who markets her grandfather's products in a pushcart.

Two Stepchildren

1914

Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez, his uncle, who owns the farm, is a hard, matter-of-fact man, utterly out of sympathy with his nephew's ambitions.

Victims of Persecution

1933

Jewish judge, intent on ensuring a black man gets a fair trial, finds himself subject to acts of anti-Semitism and domestic terrorism

The Crash

1928

The Crash (1928)

The Avenger

1933

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.

Te odio y te quiero

1957

El farol de la ventana

1958

Antonio falls in love with Marena, the daughter of a blind woman who believes Antonio is her missing son.

The Builder of Bridges

1915

Edward Thursfield, chief engineer of the bridge building firm of Henry Killick and Company, is building the largest concrete bridge in the world. Employed in the New York office is a young man named Arnold Faringay. Arnold sees an opportunity of using money from the payroll for a big deal.

John Glayde's Honor

1915

John Glayde is a stone-hearted man intent on wealth to elevate his family, losing his wife to another man in the process.

Vanity Fair

1923

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

The Cry of the First Born

1915

Owing to his father's illness, Cecil Crenwell is sent to inspect the family rice plantation in Hawaii. While there he falls in love with Hawai'ian girl Uana and wins her away from her native beau Kau.