Italy 1920

Touted at the time as a "$3,000,000 Entertainment for the Hundred Millions," this Old Testament spectacle delivered what it promised, "from the creation of Adam and Eve to the parting of the Red Sea." The advertising claimed it was filmed over a period of five years at the "Exact Locations of Biblical History." Little is known about the actual production, which has puzzled film scholars given its international box-office success. This edition was made from the only complete copy known to exist, a mint 16mm print of the 1929 7-reel sound reissue.

Miss Dorothy is a strange type of tutor, whom the old Duchess Sangro chose to educate Mara, her distant relative, a very rich orphan, with a capricious and rebellious character.

Madeleine is a beautiful married woman, hopelessly attracted to her former lover, Jacques. This obsession leads to the destruction of her life and eventually drives her to suicide, while her husband goes insane.

This film is about the 1527 Sack of Rome, where the mutiny us troops of Charles V of the Hapsburg Empire marched into Rome to pillage the city and capture Pope Clement XVII. The 189 in the service of Heaven defended the Holy line in 1527, they gave their lives on the steps to heaven and they were done.

Dorsenne, a cynical novelist, who finds the corruptness of modern Roman society a fascinating human study, is especially interested in the notorious Countess Steno, who unknown to her married lover, the Polish Count Gorka, is commencing an intrigue with Maitland, an American painter. Maitland's Chapson, endeavors to shield him, but Gorka discovers the intrigue through an anonymous letter written by the painter's vindictive Creole wife, and a duel with Chapson, and afterwards with Dorsenne, is the result. But meanwhile, Countess Steno's innocent daughter, Alba, whom Dorsenne has long admired, receives an anonymous letter denouncing her mother, but she refuses to believe these statements until Maitland's wife cruelly plans for the horrified girl to witness ocular proofs. Alba is so overcome by the knowledge of her mother's guilt, that she visits the marshes with the object of contracting fever, and eventually dies. Realizing, too late, how deeply he loved Alba, Dorsenne leaves Rome forever.

A young duchess who, after her husband's death, marries a young military captain, but keeps the marriage a secret in order that she may continue to enjoy the property which she conditionally inherits. When the captain is ordered to the front the Duchess vainly tries to hold him back. She writes him that she is going to become a mother and asks his advice He urges her to proclaim the fact of their marriage. Both are aware that this confession means tho loss of the inheritance, and Helen cannot face love in a cottage. She determines to evade the role of motherhood, and when her husband returns and asks for the child she tells him that her letter was merely a ruse to get him back. For a time the captain believes her. But a blackmailing nihilistic doctor Bets a thought germinating in the brain of a dwarf who has been dismissed by the Duchess, and through his instrumentality, the conscience-stricken woman is literally blown by a bomb into eternity. A subsidiary plot centres about the statue of Nemesis which is unearthed in the grounds of an old monastery after being buried, some hundreds of years.

Alexandra swore to avenge her father's murder- and in a moment of frenzy, plunged a dagger into the heart of the man she believed guilty But he was innocent-and the law descended to force Alexandra to pay the full price for her crime.

Hedda, the daughter of a general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is George Tesman, a young, aspiring, and reliable academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. It becomes clear in the course of the play that she never loved him, but married him because she thinks her years of youthful abandon are over.