£500 Reward is a 1918 Australian silent film starring, written, produced, financed and directed by Claude Flemming who later described it as "a very lurid melodrama".
Synopsis
A "five-act" drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en route to Queensland. The heroine Irene is kidnapped by a ship captain and winds up wrecked on the Queensland coast. She is rescued by the hero.
, 1h20 Directed byTod Browning OriginUSA GenresDrama, Crime, Romance ActorsLon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée, Doris Lloyd, Sidney Bracey, Ernie Adams Rating66% The Blackbird (Lon Chaney) is a thief who uses a second identity when necessary: a rescue mission keeper with contorted legs, known as his bishop brother The Bishop. He lives above a cheap bar in the Limehouse district, where his alter ego The Bishop is beloved among all guests, unlike The Blackbird himself. One evenings, the police drops by looking for him after a robbery, and he flees to a vaudeville theater, where his ex-wife Limehouse Polly (Doris Lloyd) has an act. Since their divorce they have become bitter towards one another, but Polly is willing to admit that she once married The Blackbird 'because she saw the soul in him that he did not know he got himself'. Furthermore, she admits to her father that she is still in love with him.
Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between Suzette, a nasty lady (Renée Adorée) and his virtuous secretary Alathea (Harriet Hammond) in wartime Paris.
Comedy about a naval officer, Harry Mallory (Conrad Nagel) and his would-be bride Marjorie Newton (Norma Shearer) who spend most of their time running up and down a train looking for a clergyman to marry them.
, 2h21 Directed byKing Vidor, George William Hill OriginUSA GenresDrama, War, Historical, Romance ThemesPolitical films ActorsJohn Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams, Karl Dane Rating78% In the United States in 1917, James "Jim" Apperson's (John Gilbert) idleness (in contrast to his hardworking brother) incurs the great displeasure of his wealthy businessman father. Then America enters World War I. Jim informs his worried mother that he has no intention of enlisting, and his father threatens to kick him out of the house if he does not join. However, when he runs into his patriotic friends at a send-off parade, he is persuaded to enlist, making his father very proud.
Manuel Granado rediscovers a son he thought had died years before to see him engaged to the daughter of the bandit who had kidnapped the son and turned him into a matador.