Margaret has given up her stage career to marry inventor Jerry Benson. Jerry fails to impress oil executive William Graves with his idea, but Margaret has better luck when she catches Graves' attention and she both makes the sale and becomes the object of Graves' obsession. Profits from the invention make the Bensons wealthy; however Graves schemes to steal Margaret from Jerry ...
In the court of French king Louis XIII, a courtier named Bardelys carries with him a grand reputation as an irresistible ladies' man. When another figure in the court, Chatellerault, fails to win the hand of the beautiful Roxalanne (whose family fortune the king wishes to bring under his control), Bardelys suggests that he could win the young woman's hand. Thus a bet is made, a...
创作于1848年的《哈当格尔的婚礼》是挪威民族浪漫主义美术作品中最为著名的油画之一，布雷斯坦的影片《哈当格尔的婚礼》出品于1926年，生动地体现了新娘乘船首航的情景，是挪威最为成功的默片之一。在民族浪漫主义的背景之下，这部影片讲述了一个充满戏剧性的欺骗与宽恕的故事。由于这部电影拍摄于挪威独立建国的年代，所以挪威民族服装、民间音乐和壮丽风光等民族象征则倍受挪威人民的珍视。
Based on the novel "Marit Skjlte" by Kristofer Janson, this Norwegian silent movie tells the story of young Marit and her love, Anders, who travels to America to seek his fortune. Without Mari...
This adaptation of Arnold's 1861 Orientalist epic opens with documentary shots of tourists in Bombay watching street performers. Then a white-bearded old man sitting under the bodhi tree tells the tourists the story of Gautama (Rai), son of King Suddodhana (Ukil) and Queen Maya (Bala), who left his consort Gopa (Seeta) and became a wandering teacher credited with founding Buddh...
In Recife, Dr. Paulo is an important lawyer that has a daughter, Heloísa, with his paramour and living in the country. A few days before traveling to Europe, Dr. Paulo asks to a close friend to bring Heloísa to Recife. Meanwhile, his bohemian and irresponsible son Helvécio meets Heloísa, and without knowing that she is his sister, he tries to rape her, and she kills him. Heloís...
万家有两姐妹。姐姐叫万如华，与丁宇光相爱，拒不嫁表兄章志容，被父亲万古愚赶出家门，妹妹叫万如玉，顺从父命代姐嫁给了章志容。丁宇光的父亲丁世芳自己纳了宠妾，却不准儿子自由择偶，闻知丁宇光欲与万如华成婚，亦将宇光逐出家门。丁宇光从此更名丁尚工，与如华一道远走他乡。一转眼，宇光和如华的儿子一新已经15岁了，而宇光却因劳累过度一病不起。一日，宇光趁一新不在家，拿出一家三口的照片叫如华去邮局寄给父亲，自己给儿子写下遗嘱，要他做一辈子光荣的工人。写罢，即气绝身亡。此时的丁世芳亦身患重病，其妾又与别人私通，郁闷的丁世芳十分想念自己的儿子，收到宇光寄来的照片极为高兴。丁世芳得知正在此地招股的章志容与宇光同在一厂，即托他带去路费，请儿子一家三口回家。章志容回到工厂，方知宇光（丁尚工）已死，归家时正遇债主金福山上门讨债。被逼得走投无路的章志容忽然发现，自己的妻儿与照片上...
