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Dir: Sidney Franklin

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Primitive Lover perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Hoodlum perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Originally a Broadway play by Willard Mack, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and she reprises her role in this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post, in the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Canadian Northwest comes a story of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Following the death of her father; Rose lives at the trading post where she soon falls in love, but when her new love is in trouble, in her quest to keep him safe; Rose discovers that she is capable of much more than she thought.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Tiger Rose perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Susan Allenby's (Enid Markey) father is killed during a robbery staged by Bannack's corrupt sheriff Tom Slade and his men, leaving her to care for her eight brothers and sisters. Andy Crawford and his father William take the orphans in, but after Andy's father is killed, the young prospector vows to avenge his death and clean up the town. Learning that Slade's deputy, Ned Skinner, is his father's murderer, Andy orders his arrest, but Slade ignores Andy, who finally kills Skinner in a duel. While Andy's vigilante committee is searching for the outlaws who held up the stage, Slade imprisons Susan in the saloon. Informed of the kidnapping by the children, Andy returns and rescues her, killing Slade in the process. The appreciative townspeople then name Andy the new sheriff, and Susan happily agrees to become his wife.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

The storyline is loosely-based on Buffalo candy-maker August Merckens' opera-singer daughter Baroness Platon Von Wrangel, who married the Russian leader in the fight for restoration of the Russian monarchy.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Brass perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying him by her guardian John Carteret. John is haunted by memories of his thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A housewife poses as her sister, a notorious dancer, in order to fool her husband and teach him a lesson.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

After the half-breed daughter of a Comanche chief falls for a young engineer who deserts her, she turns to a white Indian agent who marries her.