Conniving con artist Mrs Oliver targets the family of Mrs Carruthers, seducing her husband and framing her son for the theft of a valuable necklace. With her family facing ruin and disgrace, Mrs Carruthers resorts to increasingly violent measures to protect them.

A British drama film directed by G.B. Samuelson

A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.

A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.

In Switzerland an architect and a suffragist schoolteacher fall in love at a TB sanatorium.

An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.

A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?

Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.