Harry Myers

Intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!

The dewy-eyed tramp sweeps street manure, dodges a prizefighter in the ring, and serves a term in the clink—all for the love of a blind flower girl.

A class president turns to his pals and pesky little sister for help in outsmarting his rival and getting out of a move to Seattle.

Running away to join the circus was a popular romantic sentiment in the 1920s for those wishing to escape life's drudgery. For wannabe actress Violet (Beatrice Lillie), it was joining a third-rate traveling actors troupe specializing in over-the-top melodramas of love and loss. Too plain to play the vampy vixen, she was relegated to the menial but necessary tasks to keep the show afloat. Known for her rubbery features and comic timing, Lillie taps her higher Chaplinesque qualities and deep humanist emotions in beguiling balance to the laughter. Violet's real-life drama rises far above the on-stage fiction, as with her tutoring and support of a handsome young recruit (Jack Pickford) who becomes the male lead, a man whom she falls in love with but withholds her heart. This silent classic is a riveting time capsule into a pre-Depression world that will fascinate, draw tears and ultimately...cheers.

In Vienna, Doctor Franz Braun is happily married to Charlotte, while Professor Josef Stock is unhappily married to Mizzi, Charlotte’s best friend. Mizzi decides to chase Braun, while Braun’s business partner is hoping for an affair with a disconsolate Charlotte. Then things really get complicated…

A powerful family drama about a father's prison sentence.