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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 Traffic in Souls perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A gang consisting of the Frog, who can dislocate his limbs; the Dope, a drug addict; Rose, who poses as the Dope's brutalized mistress; and Burke, the leader; prey on the sympathies and contributions of Chinatown sightseers, until Tom, reading about a deaf, mute, and nearly-blind supposed faith-healer called the Patriarch, living upstate, plans to take greater advantage of the public's gullibility. and Rose poses as the patriarch's long-lost niece and the Frog fakes a cure, when a real crippled boy, inspired by seeing the Frog's contorted limbs healed, walks for the first time. When news spreads and other cures occur, the gang collects much money, but gradually, each member, influenced by the Patriarch and the country atmosphere, changes for the better. The Frog becomes a widow's adopted son, while the Dope falls in love. When Rose almost falls for a millionaire, Tom overcomes his murderous jealousy and, renouncing his past, declares his love. After the Patriarch dies, Tom and Rose marry.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A fanatical Boer farmer mistreats his young wife.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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

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

Dir: George Loane Tucker

A Lord's mob kills the cleric who sought to save the soul of a beloved actress.

Dir: George Loane Tucker

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.