Tag Archives: 1920s

A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about.

A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be blackmailer and suffers a crisis of conscious when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.

Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin’s Wedding district.

Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.

Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a “girl of the streets” than her.

A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.

Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton.

When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company.

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine’s father’s treachery.