The Tragic Swing

In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a...

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of...

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later...

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds...

A fortune teller helps a woman gain the affections her beloved, with deathly consequences.

Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace leads to tragedy.

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

Well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Gilton live next door to a large family, the Biltons, that struggles to make ends meet. Despite their desire to be friendly,...

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.