Philip Lonergan

A rather complex interweaving of romance and crime is squeezed into one reel. A "respectable" couple of city "card sharpers" invite a distant country relative to visit, then use her as a pretty, unwitting decoy to lure rich victims. They flee town a step ahead of the law. At a resort, the innocent girl falls in love with the latest victim, but they help expose and apprehend the guilty parties. (thanhouser.org)

The police set out to take down a gang of counterfeiters, using every tool they have including police dogs. (imdb)

An innocent man is accused of murdering his aunt. (imdb)

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear (imdb)

After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser. (imdb)

In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays a prostitute (which is only implied by her walking the streets and, at one point, being harassed by a policeman). Later in the film, Eagels's walk ends with her regeneration. She walks the path to church and to God. She becomes a faith healer, while the drama is in whether her past will catch up with her. (imdb)

Helen Randall and Ruth Foster were little tots. The two children lived side by side on one of the fashionable streets in New York City. One day Helen and her parents were starting for the park when the little one suggested that they invite Ruth to go with them. The idea pleased them all, and as to Ruth, she was in an ecstasy of delight. She skipped down the steps into the Randalls' automobile, and her father (a widower), watching her as the machine whizzed off.... (thanhouser.org)

Young Angus Burke accidently shoots the sheriff, who is leading a posse to get the boy's father, a thief. Angus' mother dies, and he is taken to trial alone. Found not guilty, he is given a job with the local newspaper office. He leaves when several citizens object to his presence, only to return several years later. He takes over the newspaper and saves the townspeople from a gang of crooks.