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- After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
- The Sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community, populated by New York City police officers, slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.
- In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
- Unpleasant story of rape and murder involving a disturbed veteran of the war in Vietnam.
- Harold is ensnared by the wiles of Sybil, an adventuress. The boy forgets Helen, his country sweetheart. Sybil's influence over him is so evil that he can no longer apply himself to his work. His employer finally discharges him. When Harold's money is gone, the adventuress throws him over. He becomes a drunkard. Helen, failing to hear from him, comes to the city, where she secures a position. Harold decides to become a hold-up man. To pass away the time before midnight, he goes to a theater where Bert French and Alice Eis are presenting their famous "Vampire Dance." The characters are an artist and a vampire, in the guise of a wood nymph. Harold sees the artist attracted by the beautiful creature and then his struggles as he realizes what the result of the fascination must inevitably be. The victim beats her in his frenzy of fear, but is irresistibly drawn into the coils by the vampire's fiendish wiles. The vampire fascinates the man by her beauty and lures him toward a forest dell There the horrible creature succeeds in taking his life. Harold feels that a veil has been torn from his eyes. He seems to have reviewed his life with Sybil, and vows to reform. He succeeds in regaining his position and once more takes his place among men. The boy learns of Helen's presence in the city, but can find no trace of her. Sybil, learning of Harold's prosperity, attempts to drag him into her net once more, but the boy, with the memory of "The Vampire Dance" before him, resists her efforts. That night he finds Helen, and to insure his reformation, proposes immediate marriage. His sweetheart consents, and the knot is tied.
- This is the story of Myke Hideous and the punk rock music industry.
- V has turned into everything that women hate, but still has no trouble finding a number of them to sleep with...and then not call. When he realizes that his womanizing ways can't erase what's been plaguing him, he turns to his friends Nick, Scott (also known as "Squatty" for his urination techniques), and Desmond, whose lives aren't as cozy as they seem either, and they head upstate for a month-long bonding adventure. In the woods of their childhood summer stomping grounds, they are met with freedom, temptation, euphoric outlets, and a powerful dose of reality. It is here that they are visited by a free-spirited local and her bag of goodies who provides them with unconventional wisdom, but it's up to them to know what to do with it. As the summer nears its end, their friendship is inevitably tested as each must confront his own inner demons before they all head back home to straighten out their lives. The film takes a look at issues that people face as they head into their 30s and more specifically touches on broken and failing relationships while examining how vulnerable lifelong friendships truly are. We never realize how fragile our connections with people really are. This film plays with the strings that bind friends and family, and it sometimes pulls too hard.
- A psychosexual thriller about a boy who thinks he gets his mother pregnant by masturbating in the shower.
- Preaching religion to young Burton Harris has about the same effect on him as waving a red cloth in front of a bull. Religion to him is a species of hypocrisy and he knows no God. No church for him; he is going fishing. Coming home, he meets his mother walking with a neighbor and the minister, just as they are leaving church. The minister, seeing the fishing tackle in his hand, administers a sharp reproof to Burton, who, in a sudden storm of anger decides to leave for the big city, where he can do as he pleases. Several years speed by, and Burton, now a man about town, is leaving a gambling house where he has just made a "killing," when he drops his watch, the back cover of which flies open, disclosing his mother's face. The picture brings to his memory a letter he received that morning in which his mother requested him to come home before she dies. So Burton decides to return home. But he comes too late, and all the money he has won over the gambling table cannot bring her back to life. Overcome with remorse, he decides to earn an honest living and secures a position at a stone quarry nearby. Promotion comes rapidly, and with it as time passes, a wife and daughter. While at the quarries one day, an explosion which buries several of his men comes simultaneously with a message from his wife telling him their daughter is dying. Tom 'twixt love and duty he knows not what to do. Falling upon his knees he cries to Heaven, "God, save my child, give me strength," and rushes to help his men. When Burton finally arrives home, he finds that his prayer has been answered and that his daughter has returned from the edge of the Valley of the Shadow.
- When Madame Vavin, whose marriage to her second husband in England was not recorded in France, dies alone in a small French village, her divorced husband James Fullerton and his tyrannical sister Cornelia take custody of Dora, the young daughter that she left behind. Fullerton takes Dora to America and raises her as his natural daughter, indoctrinating her with the belief that she has inherited her mother's irresponsible nature. When Dora decides upon a theatrical career, Fullerton considers his fears justified. On stage, Dora meets and falls in love with playwright Willard Holcomb, but the fears implanted by Fullerton and his sister make Dora incapable of romantic fulfillment. As Dora despairs of her fate, Professor Vavin, who has spent years searching for Dora, discovers his daughter and exonerates her mother's besmirched character. Her confidence thus restored, Dora is able to continue with her life.
- While in New York seeking work, Cynthia, a young English girl, meets Bruce Crittenden and George Rhode who introduce her to Madame Savarin, a wealthy woman seeking a companion for a sea voyage. She hires Cynthia, and while at sea, Cynthia discovers that Bruce is the ship's purser. Cynthia's father was a famous wireless expert who taught her how to read code, which enables her to overhear a plot to sink the ship and steal Mrs. Savarin's jewels. Soon after, the crew mutinies, and while Rhode and Bruce fight the crew, Cynthia sounds the alarm. As he is attempting to foil the jewel thieves, Bruce falls overboard, and Cynthia swims to his rescue with the jewels strapped to her back. They are rescued by a government patrol boat and taken back to New York where Cynthia and Bruce are married.
- London Bell shames his family, which contains a long line of legendary ball boys, when he gets banned from baseball for life for objectionable behavior. Down in the dumps, London's friends, Roman and Dublin, convince London to try out for Women's Tennis Federation despite London's reservations about tennis not being a team sport. The WTF is run by a wacky Orthodox Jewish Rabbi known as the Rabbi Mendel, who is assisted by the scheming Saul. At the tryouts, London goes up against some very athletic competitors, with the exception of one mentally challenged ball boy hopeful. The tryouts feature duels, where ball boys go one on one, as two guest players, the sexy champion Vlada and the no-nonsense number two contender Bella, smack volleys against each other. London ends up losing most of these duels and trudges back to his favorite dive bar, the OZbar. The one saving grace for London: He may have caught the attention of Bella. The OZbar also happens to be the celebrations location for the ball boys who won jobs. The obnoxious and steroid-inclined ball boy, Sebastian, ridicules London for thinking he could win a job in tennis just because he was a famous baseball ball boy. London, humiliated, gets a surprise visit from Coach Sven, the coach of the number one player Vlada...You can guess what happens...And no, London does not end up as a Ballboy for Coach Sven.
- Uncle Tom and Eliza's child are sold to Haley, a slave dealer. When Eliza learns that her son is to be taken from her, she steals the boy and runs away. Her flight is discovered. The slave crosses the ice-filled river and joins her husband, George Harris, who is also a runaway slave. The two foil their pursuers and get away. Uncle Tom is placed aboard a steamboat to be taken down the river. Later, he saves the life of little Eva, who has fallen overboard. St, Clare, her father, purchases Uncle Tom in gratitude for the slave's heroism, Uncle Tom and Eva become firm friends. St. Clare, as a joke, presents Aunt Ophelia, his New England relative, with Topsy, a mischievous imp. Always a delicate child, Eva fades away and dies. Shortly afterward, St. Clare is killed while attempting to stop a saloon brawl. His estate is sold and Uncle Tom is purchased by Simon Legree. One of the field hands turns in a cotton basket that is short weight. Uncle Tom is ordered to flog the woman. Upon his refusal, Legree orders Tom flogged. Later, Emmaline and Cassie, two slaves, hide themselves in an attempt to escape. Legree believes that Uncle Tom knows their hiding place. He orders the old slave to reveal the whereabouts of the two women. When Tom pleads ignorance, Legree has him flogged to death. Young Shelby, the son of Uncle Tom's former master, comes upon the scene just as the faithful old slave dies. The boy turns furiously upon Legree and knocks the man down. Legree drowns the humiliation of the blow in drink and dies in delirium shortly afterward. Shelby reverently takes Uncle Tom's body back to the old plantation, where it is laid away near the old slave's cabin.
- Margaret Kennard takes her baby daughter Agnes and leaves her husband Eustace for James Carroll. Upon discovering that Carroll is a thief, she leaves him, joins the Salvation Army and places Agnes in a convent. Twenty years pass. Agnes marries young Congressman Blake, and Eustace has become a priest. Carroll is now a lobbyist trying to prevent Blake from passing an anti-profiteering bill. Attempting to help her husband by proving that Carroll is a scoundrel, Agnes goes to Carroll's house. Eustace hears of her intentions and follows. Blake and Margaret also arrive, and Agnes is informed of her mother's true identity. Margaret then recognizes Eustace and the family is reconciled.
- Hunting Season explored duality of sexuality through perspective of a "cross dresser," named Madeline LaRue. While escaping from the fundamental life as George, Madeline meets the woman who opens his eyes of love, adventure and betrayal.
- The Zulu chief of the Amatabele tribe has an only daughter who dies of fever at age 4; in the opening scene of this Biograph story he is burying her. Scarcely has the poor bereft father laid the little one in the ground, when the war cry is heard resounding in the hills. There is an uprising and the chief is summoned to action. Tearing himself from the grave of his little girl, he arms himself with his assegai and oxhide shield and is soon at the head of his band of savages, with sinister designs on the Boers. The Boers themselves have become active, and scouts have been sent out to warn those nomadic South Africans who might be on the road. One family, comprising a Boer, his wife and a four-year-old girl, is trapped, and despite extreme measures to elude the merciless black brutes, soon overtaken. Finding escape hopeless, the Boer leaps from his wagon, and sending his wife and child into the woods, seizes his rifle, in the vain hope of holding the savages at bay while the woman and child seek a place of safety. There is a shower of assegais, one of which pierces the poor fellow, dropping him into the road. Up rush the prancing, jibbing, gibbering barbarians. Finding the man dead, they rush on to find the others. The distracted woman hides the girl in a niche in the rooks, while she goes to find some avenue of escape, but she is at once apprehended and taken by the band to their camp, their chief remaining behind. The baby now comes forward to appeal to the Zulu, who is so reminded by her of his own lost treasure that his cruel nature at once softens as the little one offers her dollie as ransom for her mother. The chief is so moved that he vows to save the mother's life, if it costs him his own. Placing the little one in a crevice in the rocks, where she soon falls asleep, he goes to find the mother. Arriving at the camp, he demands the release of the woman, which his followers grant with protests. Back he goes to get the child, but the wily devils have anticipated him and carried her off. He soon overtakes them, however, and after slaying three in a terrific conflict, delivers the child to its mother, and then sees them safely to their destination. The subject is a beautiful story of parental affection, portrayed in a most novel manner, besides being intensely thrilling.
- The paymaster of one of the mines is stricken with heart disease while on his way to pay his men. He staggers to the railway station and leaves the money with Dick, the telegraph operator for safe keeping. Two tramps witness the incident and plan to steal the money. A trackwalker reports a dangerous landslide. Dick sets the danger signal to warn the Overland Express. He decides to remain on duty until the track is cleared. To pass away the time he calls up his sweetheart, Margaret, the operator at the local exchange. The tramps overpower Dick after a desperate struggle. They bind and gag their victim, after which they rifle the safe. Learning of the landslide, they remove the danger signal, thinking the train wreck will hide their theft for a while longer. Dick knocks the phone off his desk with his feet. Margaret answers but can only hear peculiar mumbling over the wire. Dick finally removes the gag and tells his sweetheart of what has taken place. Margaret dashes over to the station just in time to flag the express. The train crew go in pursuit of the thieves. The hobos are found a mile down the track fighting over a division of the spoils. They are captured and led away. Margaret and Dick receive the congratulation of the railroad officials because of their splendid work.
- Tully loses his savings in the stock market. He receives a tip which promises to net him a fortune if he can raise a few hundred dollars. Leonard is assaulted by Tully and dies.
- Harvey, manager of his father's mine, sees Anna struggling in the embrace of Sanders, a mine foreman. He knocks the man down. Later, the boy accompanies Anna to her home. The two fall in love with each other. A number of men are discharged by Harvey's father, in an effort to cut down expenses. Sanders sees an opportunity for revenge. The man incites the miners to strike for the reinstatement of their comrades. Davis, Anna's father, is one of the men who has lost his job. The family is thrown into dire want. Unable to pay their rent, they are dispossessed. Harvey comes to the rescue. Sanders later tells Davis that Harvey is a spy in the interests of the mine owner. The boy is ordered from the house. Sanders plots to blow up the mine office while the young manager is at work inside. Anna overhears the man discuss his deadly scheme. The foreman makes his way to the office and plants a bomb in the vestibule. Anna arrives a moment later. Seizing the infernal machine she hurls it into the street. The girl faints as the result of the nervous strain. The bomb explodes. Sanders, lurking outside, to witness the result of his scheme, is knocked unconscious. Harvey and his father rush out of the office. Anna recovers and reveals the foreman's dastardly plan. The man is led away under arrest. Filled with admiration for his sweetheart's courage, Harvey informs his father of his intention to marry Anna. The mine owner gives the lovers his blessing and in gratitude for his son's narrow escape, reinstates the miners.
- Ethel Andrews is interested in settlement work. Her father refuses to cooperate with her. Ethel kidnaps her five-year-old brother Archie and places him in a tenement as an object lesson. To make the kidnapping appear the work of criminals, Ethel sends her a father a note demanding $10,000. Gangsters learn of the plan. Andrews engages Madelyn Mack, a girl detective, to find his son. Madelyn unearths several clues, among which are fragments of a tin soldier belonging to Archie. She strongly suspects Ethel of being implicated in the matter. Ethel, regretting her rash act, goes back to the tenement to bring Archie home. The gangsters capture them both, and send a note to Andrews telling him his son and daughter are prisoners. One of the gangsters shoots the note into the Andrews' library with a sling shot, just as Madelyn is telling the father of her suspicions concerning Ethel. The note upsets her theories. Madelyn discovers that the paper on which the gangsters' note is written has contained powdered Jasco berry, an Oriental drug used in cigarette form. Later, she succeeds in tracing Ethel and Archie to the tenement, but finds them gone. Passing a crowd collected on a corner, Madelyn scents the odor of Jasco berry and finds the man who is smoking it. She follows him and discovers the cottage in the suburbs where Ethel and Archie have been taken. She slips into the house and enters the room where the two are confined. Discovering a telephone wire outside the window, Madelyn taps the line with a pocket phone and summons assistance. She is discovered by the gangsters, who are just about to break into the room when the police arrive. A desperate battle ensues, which ends in the capture of the kidnappers. Andrews presents Madelyn with a check for $10,000 for her splendid work. The detective gives the check to Ethel for settlement use, but Andrews, returning the check, smilingly donates the money himself.
- Roger and Donald are rivals for Amy's hand. Donald is the victor; Roger vows to get his rival out of the way. Donald's employer gives him a large sum of money to take to the firm where Roger is one of the clerks, Donald delivers the money and gets a receipt for it. The cashier who receives the money dies of heart failure immediately afterward. During the excitement, Roger steals the money and later purloins the receipt from Donald's pocket. Roger's firm has no knowledge of having received the money and Donald has no receipt to show that he has delivered it. He is charged with having stolen the cash and is sent to prison for five years. Amy finally marries Roger. Amy learns her husband's true character. She also discovers the stolen receipt, which Roger has kept. Donald is discharged from prison. He meets Amy by accident and learns of Roger's treachery. The latter overhears the conversation and learns that Donald proposes to break into the house and recover the receipt. Roger hastens home and so arranges the drawer of his dresser in which the paper is hidden that Donald, in opening it, will be shot by a revolver fastened within. Amy learns of the plan, but her husband imprisons her in an outhouse. Donald breaks into the house and commences his search. Amy escapes from the outhouse and arrives outside the window of Roger's room in time to see Donald about to open the dresser drawer. She fires her revolver to warn the man. Donald starts back in fright. Roger, in the next room, believes his plot has succeeded and rushes into the room. Seeing Donald alive, he thinks the shot has gone wild. He rushes to the dresser and pulls the drawer open. A shot rings out and Roger falls with a bullet in his heart.
- John Dickson, millionaire candidate for mayor, is in love with Dora Malcom, a society girl. He finds, however, that she is engaged to marry Frank Stevens. He hides his grief and promises to be best man at the wedding. Higby, a political boss, determines to discredit Dickson as he fears he will be elected. He hires Maggie Lee, an unscrupulous woman, to appear at Dora's wedding and claim that Dickson is her husband. The program is followed out to the letter. Maggie appears and makes the accusation, but on questioning, says that Dickson hired her to do it. Dickson's infatuation for Dora is so well known that the statement is believed and he quickly loses his popularity. Dora postpones the wedding, but does not lose her faith in Dickson, whom she knows to be an honorable man, Stevens is angered at her defense of the man, an altercation follows and Dora breaks the engagement. Maggie Lee, although a hard, calloused woman, has a little daughter whom she worships. The child is lost one day and Dora is the means of restoring her to the mother. Maggie's gratitude is so great that she confesses her crime and makes a public denunciation of Higby, who hired her to lie. Public sympathy quickly shifts to Dickson and he is elected by a large majority. As a further reward, Dora promises to become his wife.
- Billy Wayne, railroad detective, is ordered to run down a gang of freight car thieves. In one of the rifled cars he finds a piece of paper on which several Italian words are written. He is led to suspect a gang of section hands working in the vicinity and fixes upon an Italian called Nick as their leader. Billy saves the life of Tony, a laborer. Nick, who loves Rosa, Tony's daughter, resents this friendship and quarrels with Tony. That evening the latter receives a threatening missive and in alarm sends Rosa for Billy. The detective finds that the writing in the letter is identical with that on the paper in his possession. The following day Billy accidentally loses a pair of handcuffs, which are found by Nick. The detective is waylaid that evening and is placed in a sack. Noticing a mall pouch hanging from a crane, and waiting to be picked up by the fast mail, Nick removes the pouch, replacing it with the sack containing Billy. The gang then proceeds to Tony's house. They attack him, after informing the man of the fate in store for his friend. Rosa dashes out of the house to save Billy, but the whistle of the fast mail tells her she cannot reach the crane in time. In desperation she snatches a stiletto from her bosom and hurls it into the mail car as it dashes by. The knife strikes the clerk, who is holding the mail catcher, in the arm. He releases his hold just in time to miss the sack containing Billy. The train is stopped and Billy liberated. The passengers, headed by Billy, rush to the house in time to save Tony. The desperadoes are soon in custody, and as Nick is taken away, Billy asks Rosa to be his wife.
- Johnny falls and is seriously injured. Marie, his little playmate, considers herself to blame. A doctor declares that although the boy will recover, he will be a hunchback. Marie becomes melancholy. Her parents take her abroad to make the child forget the incident. Fifteen years later, "Humpty" Johnson, otherwise known as "The Fiend," is the terror of his companions in the underworld. The man is wanted by the police. "Humpty" learns that "Rat" Donovan, his pal, has betrayed him to the officers. He follows the man home and strangles him. The crime is discovered. "The Fiend" resolves to commit one more robbery and escape to other parts. He breaks into a house that promises a rich haul. The man hears voices in the next room. Cautiously approaching the portieres, he listens. Marie cannot forget the terrible fate of her little playmate. Her sweetheart, David, finds her in a melancholy mood when he calls and learns the story. Marie tells him she is anxious to find her former playmate and do what she can to help him forget his affliction. "Humpty" overhears this with glee. Later, the man appears before Marie. He announces himself as the crippled Johnny and demands assistance. Horrified, Marie empties her purse in his hands. The man leaves. That evening he conceives the idea of compelling her to marry him. The following day, David meets the real Johnny. Despite the doctor's prediction, the boy had regained his health. David breaks the news to Marie, who realizes she has been hoodwinked. Meanwhile, the police run "Humpty" to bay. The man sees them approaching, and shoots at them through his window, until he has but one bullet left. When the officers break into Johnson's room, they find him lying dead.
- Imogene is a flirt, but really loves Jack, and they become engaged. While visiting a relative she meets Bob, a sturdy country youth. Her propensity for flirting comes to the surface and Bob becomes madly infatuated. It is his first great love and he fairly worships the woman. This is a new experience for Imogene and although it appeals to her vanity, she fears that the youth will commit some mad act and promises to marry him rather than undeceive him. Imogene returns home. The weeks pass and Bob receives no answer to his letters. He goes to the city in search of his sweetheart and finds her in Jack's arms. The boy loses his head and shoots Jack. He makes no attempt to escape and is sentenced to five years' imprisonment, while Jack, who has recovered, marries Imogene. Five years later Imogene is a widow, and again starts on her mad career of breaking hearts. She meets Count De Launay and falls in love with him. They are married. After the ceremony they repair to their hotel. To Imogene's surprise, her husband steps into an adjoining room. The vain woman sits down in front of the dressing table and admired herself in the mirror. Suddenly her husband's reflection appears in the mirror before her, not Count De Launay, with his distinguished "Imperial," but Bob, the ex-convict, in his prison apparel. She falls at his feet without a cry as he gazes sternly upon her.