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Dir: George Loane Tucker

With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

Pete Quilliam, a fisherman on the Isle of Man, and his best friend, a lawyer named Philip Christian, are each in love with Kate Cregeen, an innkeeper's daughter. Pete is rejected by the girl's father and leaves for South Africa to seek his fortune. When Pete is reported dead, Kate is saddened yet relieved, for she really loves Philip. But Pete returns with enough wealth to overcome the father's objections. Obedient to her father, Kate weds Pete, hoping for the best.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

Joseph Chandler, owner of the Tatlow Potteries is in serious financial trouble and is about to be closed down by his creditors, which will mean the ruin of the small town. Cyrus Blenkarn, an employee, has discovered a new transparent glaze that will revolutionize the industry, which Chandler pays him fifty pound for, uses it to new funding from his creditors, and takes all the credit for being the savior of the town. Blenkarn vows revenge and it comes, via a discovery in South Africa.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. Learning that a young poet, Anthony Quintard, is living in poverty next door while working on the libretto of a great opera, she skips across the roofs and brings him a Christmas banquet. The poet sees Marjorie, and knowing that he detests wealth, she pretends to be the secretary of the Caner family. Marjorie volunteers to type his libretto, and a close intimacy grows between them. Tony wins a $10,000 prize for his work, but is enraged when he discovers that Marjorie is an heiress. Morris Caner, mellowed under his daughter's tutelage, comes to the rescue by feigning financial ruin, and manages to reconcile the two lovers.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A typist exposes a group of businessmen as German spies plotting to blow up a bridge.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

A man poses as a boxer to impress a barmaid and is forced to fight the champion.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

When the king is killed by his rival, his English double takes his place and is shot.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress.