The Girl He Didn't Buy

Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announced, Newland finds himself attracted to May's older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.

Runtime

1h 10m

Director

Wesley Ruggles

Cast

Edith Roberts, Elliott Dexter, Willard Louis

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang. Lost film, only the most famous scene has survived.

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

George Loane Tucker

Cast

Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Joseph J. Dowling

Robert Fisher Clarke is a promoter who comes to a small Canadian town. He harnesses the power of the rapids and builds a pulp mill. One of his employees, Jim Belding, has a fiancée, Elsie Worden, with whom Clarke falls in love.

Runtime

1h

Cast

Mary Astor, Harry T. Morey, Walter Miller

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.

Runtime

44m

Director

Victor Sjöström

Cast

Richard Lund, Rasmus Rasmussen, Greta Almroth

A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.

Runtime

1h 20m

Cast

Myrtle Stedman, Curtis Cooksey, Betty Blythe