By Hook or Crook

Once a Gentleman

A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.

1930

High Steppers

Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets

1926

Ladies Must Dress

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talkin

1927

Women They Talk About

Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon a

1928

The School for Scandal

Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.

1930

Finders Keepers

Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself only able to get cabaret gigs. She then becomes enta

1921

Cheap One Costs

A short burlesque that is lost today.

1917

Resurrection of a Corpse

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost. In this black comedy scene, the bottom falls out of a coffin, the corpse t

1898

Case Dismissed

Slim appears as a police court judge and Bobby as one of the jurors who is later given a job as bailiff. The reel deals with three or four different c

1924

My Friend the King

Taxi driver Jim befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London. A plot is afoot by sinister forces to kidnap Ludwig,

1932

Table Steaks

The city chap arrives in a flivver and makes love to the daughter of the proprietor. The rival plays a strong hand but is not quite strong enough to r

1922

Sherlock Brown

The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S. government. William Brown, a clerk who aspires to be a detect

1922

The Two O'Clock Train

A young man in love with a cabaret dancer is refused money by his father. He joins the dancer and her accomplices to rob his father's bank. The robber

1916

The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction

The story centers on Flapjack Ike (played by John Bunny), a dominant local figure or "autocrat" in the titular town. Ike faces off against Edith, the

1913

The Eavesdropper

Alice takes her little siblings Billy and Kitty to a matinee. They immediately become imbued with the wonderful idea that they are actors. They set up

1912

Red, White and Blue Blood

A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.

1917

Her Choice

Mrs. Letitia Summers, owner and principal of an exclusive boarding school, decides to give her two nieces an education while deciding which will be he

1912

Salaviinanpolttajat

No prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original screenplay has also been lost. However, some plot de

1907

Minnie

Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been working on a wireless device. Subject to the sneers

1922

The Bartered Bride

Directed by Max Urban.

1913