Cast: Frank Powell

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Frank Powell · Grace Henderson · James Kirkwood · Linda Arvidson

Synopsis A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity lines and further into poverty. The film continues to contrast the ironic differences between...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Kate Bruce · Adele DeGarde · Gladys Egan · Rose King

Synopsis While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Mack Sennett · Florence Barker · Kate Bruce

Synopsis Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over. Feeling sorry for him, Adonese helps him up and...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Marion Leonard · Frank Powell · Frank Evans

Synopsis During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Florence Lawrence · Frank Powell · Owen Moore · James Kirkwood

Synopsis Rising Moon loves Little Bear, but her father prefers Standing Rock, a richer suitor. Standing Rock takes her to his teepee under guard, but she escapes and joins Little Bear as they attempt to escape.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Marion Leonard · Frank Powell · David Miles

Synopsis A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his anger he joins a communist group who plan to blow up a rich capitalist's house. When he realizes it's Helen's house, he...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Frank Powell · Florence Lawrence · Linda Arvidson · Edwin August

Synopsis A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Florence Lawrence · James Kirkwood · Harry Solter · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis The noble sacrifice of a devoted wife and mother. The pages of Roman history do not chronicle a more noble deed of self-sacrifice than that set forth in this Biograph story, which shows how a devoted Roman wife and mother...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Frank Powell · Stephanie Longfellow · George Nichols · Linda Arvidson

Synopsis Ben is a young family man with a wife and three year old daughter. But Ben is overly fond of drink. When his wife cannot take his drinking any longer he leaves for good. The wife becomes deranged and wanders...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast James Kirkwood · Marion Leonard · Frank Powell · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful husband, she yearns for something which appears better than her lot. She reasons: "Have I not youth and beauty and attainments far above...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Marion Leonard · Dell Henderson · W. Chrystie Miller · Arthur V. Johnson

Synopsis A lone miner and his daughter make the journey to California by prairie schooner.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Frank Powell · Arthur V. Johnson · Marion Leonard · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Frank Powell · Mary Pickford · Kate Bruce · Robert Harron

Synopsis George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Providence always bestows in...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Owen Moore · Frank Powell · Mary Pickford · Arthur V. Johnson

Synopsis An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys tries to get the information and go as far as kidnapping the Indian's wife.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Linda Arvidson · George Nichols · James Kirkwood · Kate Bruce

Synopsis Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast John R. Cumpson · Florence Lawrence · Mack Sennett · Arthur V. Johnson

Synopsis Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he’s gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in time to catch him. Instead of calling for the police, he restages the...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Kate Bruce · Frank Powell · Owen Moore

Synopsis Duty is above all consequences, and often, at a crisis of difficulty, commands us to throw them overboard. It commands us to look neither to the right nor to the left, but straight forward. These were the noble principles instilled...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Rose King · Herbert Prior · Caroline Harris · Mary Pickford

Synopsis Miss Louise Leroque was one of those charming young ladies, born, as if through an error of destiny, into a family of clerks, and after she married John Kendrick, she suffered an incessant yearning for all those delicacies and luxuries...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Charles West · Herbert Prior · Anita Hendrie · Mary Pickford

Synopsis Will Sanderson's father kept the village inn, but Will being deeply enamored of pretty Mary Clark had aspirations above the plebeian and rather impecunious calling of village boniface, and so decided to go to the big city and fight for...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast David Miles · James Kirkwood · Linda Arvidson · Florence Barker

Synopsis A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.