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High Steppers, 1h10
Directed by Edwin Carewe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lloyd Hughes, Mary Astor, Dolores del Río, John T. Murray, Alec B. Francis, Clarissa Selwynne

Julian Perryam (Lloyd Hughes) gets thrown out of Oxford University and returns to the family estate outside of London. He discovers that his sister and his mother are caught up in the "jazz" life and their father, who's the editor of a tabloid scandal rag, is too busy to notice. He also discovers that his sister is in love with the scoundrel son of his father's publisher, Victor Buckland. Learning that Buckland is actually an embezzler, Julian gets a job as a reporter on a muckraking publication and sets out to expose Buckland.
Good Gracious, Annabelle, 50minutes
Directed by George Melford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Billie Burke, Herbert Rawlinson, Crauford Kent, Frank Losee

As described in film magazines, Annabelle Leigh (Burke) lives extravagantly on a quarterly allowance that she spends monthly, until she is tricked out of two shares of a mining stock by crude, western miner John Rawson (Rawlinson), who compelled her to marry him after the death of her father in a squabble over the stock. The marriage is little more than form and rater than keeping her in a lonesome cabin where she cries perpetually, her magnanimous husband sets her free to go to New York City where she lives in an extravagant style. During a struggle for possession of her stock certificates with financier George Wimbledon (Kent), she takes a violent fancy towards a mysterious millionaire whom she meets during a party at Kent's Long Island estate. She tells him that she is resorting to all of the tricks she plays simply to save her husband, whose interests are threatened. The mysterious millionaire turns out to be that husband, who has shaved off his beard and wins her this time through love.
Who Cares?
Who Cares? (1919)
, 50minutes
Directed by Walter Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Donald MacDonald, Spottiswoode Aitken, Claire Anderson, J. Morris Foster

As described in a film magazine, Joan Ludlow (Talmadge) is living with her grandparents, a grouchy old couple, when a young man, Martin Grey (Ford), moves next door. After the grandparents discover that they have been having secretly meetings for happy and harmless fun, Joan receives such a scolding that she goes over to Martin's and asks him to take her to her friend Alice Palgrave (Randolph), who lives in the city. Upon arrival at the Palgrave residence they discover Alice is not there, and Martin offers to marry Joan to resolve the situation. Pleased with the arrangement, Joan accepts, and after the ceremony they live in Martin's city residence, where he continues to respect her extreme innocence and maidenly existence. Martin spends time at the club while Joan is free to attend several wild parties and conducts what she supposes is an innocent flirtation with Alice's husband Gilbert (MacDonald). Toodles (Anderson), a chorus girl from the club, tempts Martin on his yacht, but he knows how to resist. However, when Joan discovers that Toodles is visiting her husband at the country home, she flirts harder with Gilbert Palgrave. Gilbert, who is suffering from a medical condition ("brain fever"), gets Joan alone one night in a seaside cottage, and threatens to shoot himself unless she consents to his desires. Martin arrives in time to save the day, with Joan discovering her love for Martin and Martin taking her back as his wife.
The Very Idea, 1h5
Directed by Frank Craven, Richard Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Sally Blane, Frank Craven, Hugh Trevor, Olive Tell, Doris Eaton Travis, Theodore von Eltz

Alan Camp has written a book on eugenics, and is looking to prove his theories. His sister, Edith Goodhue, and her husband, Gilbert have been frustrated for years with their inability to have children. Alan convinces them to let him to create a child through eugenics for them to adopt. Chosen to be the parents of this eugenic child are Joe Garvin, who happens to be Alan's chauffeur, and Nora, the Goodhue's maid. The two are offered $15,000 each if they conceive and deliver a child within twelve months, to which they agree.
The Shriek of Araby, 50minutes
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Ben Turpin, Kathryn McGuire, George Cooper, Charles Stevenson, Dick Sutherland

The film is a spoof of Rudolph Valentino’s hit 1921 film The Sheik and features Turpin as a bill poster daydreaming about having various adventures as an Arabian sheik.
East Is West, 1h20
Directed by Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Constance Talmadge, Nick De Ruiz, Warner Oland, Edmund Burns, Lillian Lawrence, E. Alyn Warren

En Chine, une jeune femme du nom de Ming Toy, est proche d'être achetée aux enchères comme esclave quand Billy Benson, un jeune et élégant américain, surenchérit et la sauve. Il l’emmène aux États-Unis à San Francisco où elle est remarquée par Charlie Yong, le roi de Chinatown qui souhaite prendre Ming Toy pour femme. Devant le refus de la jeune femme, il décide à plusieurs reprises de l'enlever de force mais échoue grâce à Benson qui, une fois encore, la sauve. Ce dernier décide alors de la prendre chez lui. Mais ses parents, horrifiés à la pensée de voir leur fils épouser une chinoise, la rejettent. Crainte vite effacée quand elle leur explique qu'elle est une femme blanche, qu'elle a été enlevée, enfant, par un couple de missionnaires qu'ils l'ont élevée en Chine, expliquant alors sa proximité avec la culture et les mœurs chinoises, ayant été imprégnée par celles-ci. Les parents consentent enfin à bénir leur union.