The Mainspring

A 1921 film.

Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she...

A Greek man falls for an injured French woman. When he is informed of her death, he continues to sing under her hospital window every night.

Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to...

The picture starts with Robert Warwick walking into the office of director Albert Capellani (the film's actual director). Capellani offers him the...

Seventh entry in the Leather Pushers series of two-reel shorts.

The "Kid" is in the studio playing the star role in a "super-feature." The director gets his cast to put extra snap into the big scene by making each...

The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home,...

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

Robert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big colleges until they both fall in love with Viola...

Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair. John Tralee, the cheater, feels a pang of guilt...

Albert Jordan, publishing house manager, lavishes his salary on his adored wife, Rita, and little daughter Edna. She is a churchgoing woman, while...