Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent

Birthday: 1899-10-18

Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida, USA

Biography: Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs) was an American film and stage actress.

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Fast Company
Fast Company

Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is...

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The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her b...

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Mr. Wong, Detective
Mr. Wong, Detective

A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective W...

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Forbidden Cargo
Forbidden Cargo

A vivacious young woman known only as Captain Joe captains a rum-runner operating between the Bahama...

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Lady Robinhood
Lady Robinhood

Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, ave...

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Heart of a Painted Woman
Heart of a Painted Woman

Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York Cit...

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Framed
Framed

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l...

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Underworld
Underworld

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but c...

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A Night of Mystery
A Night of Mystery

Bound for Africa the next day, Captain Ferréol visits Gilberte Boismartel, his former sweetheart who...

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High Pressure
High Pressure

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company"...

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Sudden Bill Dorn
Sudden Bill Dorn

Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over t...

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Wide Open Town
Wide Open Town

Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, ...

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Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Hopalong Cassidy Returns

A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rif...

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The Desert Outlaw
The Desert Outlaw

Tom Halloway, compelled through circumstances to become an outlaw, robs the express office on the da...

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The Last Command
The Last Command

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie...

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The Golden Eye
The Golden Eye

A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable mon...

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The Dangerous Flirt
The Dangerous Flirt

The naïve Sheila Fairfax (Brent) plays with men’s emotions without fully comprehending the risks lea...

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Dangerous Lady
Dangerous Lady

Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clea...

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Help! Help! Police!
Help! Help! Police!

While vacationing with his father Edward at a Palm Beach hotel, George Welston becomes smitten with ...

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Daughter of Shanghai
Daughter of Shanghai

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring....

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King of Gamblers
King of Gamblers

Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for...

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Queen o'Diamonds
Queen o'Diamonds

Chorus girl Jerry Lyon, is persuaded to pose as her look-alike, Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star who...

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The Mating Call
The Mating Call

A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Pr...

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The Payoff
The Payoff

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding o...

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Panama Lady
Panama Lady

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tu...

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The President's Mystery
The President's Mystery

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Fra...

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Stage Struck
Stage Struck

A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency....

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The World Gone Mad
The World Gone Mad

A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fr...

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The Showdown
The Showdown

Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman....

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The Weakness of Strength
The Weakness of Strength

Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose ...

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Emergency Landing
Emergency Landing

A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pi...

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Broadway
Broadway

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder...

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The Law West of Tombstone
The Law West of Tombstone

A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town....

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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps ...

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The Silver Horde
The Silver Horde

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll....

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The Millionaire's Double
The Millionaire's Double

After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. A...

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The Pagan Lady
The Pagan Lady

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a ...

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Symphony of Living
Symphony of Living

Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is ...

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Interference
Interference

Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose loft...

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Spy Train
Spy Train

People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb....

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Woman Trap
Woman Trap

The younger brother of a police captain is a wanted fugitive, so when the captain railroads his brot...

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It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)

When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime....

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The Sad Horse
The Sad Horse

A lonely boy finds companionship with a horse....

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Attorney for the Defense
Attorney for the Defense

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent ma...

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Border River
Border River

A Mountie searching for known moonshiners falls in love with the sister of a man associated with the...

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The Impostor
The Impostor

The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling de...

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Held to Answer
Held to Answer

John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become ...

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The Crusader
The Crusader

Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughte...

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Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim

Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune....

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Daughter of the Tong
Daughter of the Tong

A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring....

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Robin Hood of Monterey
Robin Hood of Monterey

Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting ...

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The Shuttle of Life
The Shuttle of Life

An actress poses as an heiress who died, and dies fighting blackmailing detectives in a burning hous...

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Tip-Off Girls
Tip-Off Girls

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of ...

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Traveling Husbands
Traveling Husbands

A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit....

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Trapped by the Mormons
Trapped by the Mormons

Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the origi...

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Daybreak
Daybreak

Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), a...

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The Iron Woman
The Iron Woman

Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and cari...

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Secret Orders
Secret Orders

At the outbreak of the World War, Janet Graham, a telegrapher, is persuaded by Eddie Delano, a crook...

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The Spanish Jade
The Spanish Jade

When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his fr...

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Why Bring That Up?
Why Bring That Up?

George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George the...

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The Mad Parade
The Mad Parade

The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I....

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Silk Stocking Sal
Silk Stocking Sal

Silk Stocking Sal is discovered burgling a palatial townhouse by its owner, Bob Cooper. Intrigued wi...

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Speed Limited
Speed Limited

A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing t...

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Darkened Rooms
Darkened Rooms

Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evely...

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Laughter and Tears
Laughter and Tears

Bohemian drama. A woman falls in love with a struggling artist, who later becomes famous and decides...

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The Nitwits
The Nitwits

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a ...

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Forced Landing
Forced Landing

On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military offic...

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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals pr...

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Night Club Scandal
Night Club Scandal

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But F...

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Paramount on Parade
Paramount on Parade

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...

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Westward Ho
Westward Ho

The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time...

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Song of the Trail
Song of the Trail

A cowboy realizes too late that his girlfriend's father had been cheated out of everything in a croo...

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Silent Witness
Silent Witness

District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers J...

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The Glorious Lady
The Glorious Lady

During an annual celebration in which English peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame is ...

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The Experiment
The Experiment

A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major....

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Raiders of the South
Raiders of the South

Johnny Brownell, former Confederate officer turned Federal agent, is sent to Texas during the recons...

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Again Pioneers
Again Pioneers

Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp ...

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Love's Greatest Mistake
Love's Greatest Mistake

On a train bound for New York, where she hopes to find work, Honey McNeil captures the appreciative ...

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Holt of the Secret Service
Holt of the Secret Service

Feature version of the 1941 American serial film of the same name, made for export only, never shown...

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The Soul Market
The Soul Market

Having made public her disdain for wealthy men, musical comedy actress Elaine Elton is nonetheless a...

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Slightly Scarlet
Slightly Scarlet

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the...

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Home on the Range
Home on the Range

Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted...

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Beau Sabreur
Beau Sabreur

The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the L...

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Wrecking Crew
Wrecking Crew

Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a build...

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A Broadway Lady
A Broadway Lady

Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but...

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His Tiger Lady
His Tiger Lady

A variety extra falls in love with a beautiful duchess, and tries to impress her by posing as a raja...

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Holt of the Secret Service
Holt of the Secret Service

A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him t...

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The Law Divine
The Law Divine

A war worker wins back her wounded husband with recollections of their honeymoon....

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Married to a Mormon
Married to a Mormon

A Mormon weds a rich English girl, takes a second wife in Utah, and is killed by his first wife's lo...

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The Arizona Express
The Arizona Express

A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and...

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Women's Wares
Women's Wares

Salesgirl Dolly Morton becomes disillusioned about men after an incident with her boyfriend, so she ...

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Circus Jim
Circus Jim

After the death of their father, a travelling showman, Iris Belmore and her little brother Billy are...

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Midnight Molly
Midnight Molly

Midnight Molly' is hit by a car while evading the police, and mistakenly identified as the wife of J...

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Who's Your Neighbor?
Who's Your Neighbor?

Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District....

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Madonna of the Streets
Madonna of the Streets

Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn....

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The Mad Empress
The Mad Empress

The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I ...

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Loving Lies
Loving Lies

A tug boat skipper never informs his nervous wife when he has a dangerous job to do. This leads to c...

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The Drag Net
The Drag Net

Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first ...

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Without Children
Without Children

Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high soci...

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The Shadow of the East
The Shadow of the East

Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's ...

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Pages of Life
Pages of Life

A composer's neighbour rescues a seduced waif and discovers she is his daughter....

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The Lure of Heart's Desire
The Lure of Heart's Desire

Socialite Ethel Wyndham turns down Jim Carew’s marriage proposal because of his working-class status...

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Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire

Jean Servian's eyesight is failing and is desperate for money, marries wealthy widower Geoffrey Vane...

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The Spell of the Yukon
The Spell of the Yukon

Having forced Jim Carson to leave town in order to avoid a trumped-up embezzling charge, now Albert ...

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The Last Train from Madrid
The Last Train from Madrid

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....

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Flame of the Argentine
Flame of the Argentine

Doña Aguila, owner of a vast ranch and a valuable emerald mine in the Argentine, longs for her lost ...

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In the River
In the River

A mail-order bride arrives at a Maine lumber camp but doesn't like her prospective husband....

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Blind Alleys
Blind Alleys

Merchant marine Captain Dan Kirby arrives in New York City with his Cuban bride, María. Leaving his ...

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The Lone Chance
The Lone Chance

Penniless inventor Jack Saunders, in search of a girl he loves, assumes the guilt for a murder in re...

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My Husband's Wives
My Husband's Wives

Vale Harvey invites Marie Wynn, an old school friend, to visit her, not knowing that Marie was once ...

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To the Death
To the Death

Bianca, a Corsican, supports her frivolous sister, Rosa, by making laces. The sculptor, Manatelli, v...

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