Enemies of Children is a lost 1923 silent film drama directed by Lillian Ducey and John M. Voshell. It is the only screen director credit for Ducey and one of two for Voshell. Both were in the film industry in other fields. This was an independent production released by an independent distributor.
, 1h10 Directed byVictor Fleming OriginUSA GenresDrama ActorsPercy Marmont, Shirley Mason, Noah Beery Sr., Raymond Hatton, Joseph J. Dowling, George Magrill Rating55% Ayant déserté son navire lors d'un naufrage, un marin, incapable de retrouver du travail, se lie à un propriétaire qui fait le commerce des esclaves. Il tombe amoureux de la fille de ce dernier et gravit peu à peu les marches jusqu'à devenir chef du village local…
, 1h7 Directed byMarshall Neilan OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance ActorsMary Pickford, William Scott, Norman Kerry, Kate Price, Ida Waterman, Gustav von Seyffertitz Rating60% Set in San Francisco during the early 1900s, the film revolves around Amarilly (Mary Pickford), the daughter of a widowed scrubwoman. Amarilly is proud of her hard-working Irish family, and takes care of her five roughhouse brothers. She is engaged to bartender Terry McGowan (William Scott), who gets her a job as a cigarette girl in his cafe after a fire unfairly causes her to lose her job as a theater scrubwoman. While working as a cigarette girl, she meets Gordon Phillips (Norman Kerry), a handsome and wealthy but frivolous young man, who is a society sculptor.
A young man by the name of Jack Standish, played by J. Warren Kerrigan, disappears on the eve of his marriage after the discovery of a financial scandal involving his father, John Standish, played by Winter Hall. In order to protect his father from public disgrace, Jack suddenly flees Boston and thus takes the fall. The young Bostonian ends up fleeing to Java and inevitably succumbs to the lure of the tropics. Months later, his fiance, Mary Rogers, played by Anna Q. Nilsson, follows him to Java in hopes of bringing him home. Once Mary finds him, she is faced with the challenge of reviving him, both mentally and physically. Her task becomes more difficult when a native by the name of Lullaby Lou, played by Winifred Bryson, and a Dutch trader by the name of Gordon Van Brock, played by Thomas Santschi, try to interfere with the couple. Mary and Jack are able to escape when a tropical storm hits and spawns a typhoon that destroys the coastal settlement.