G.B. Samuelson

Conniving con artist Mrs Oliver targets the family of Mrs Carruthers, seducing her husband and framing her son for the theft of a valuable necklace. With her family facing ruin and disgrace, Mrs Carruthers resorts to increasingly violent measures to protect them.

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

A shopkeeper's daughter marries a cad who ruins the business.

'Soldier poses as dead captain to comfort blind mother while girl poses as dead Jew's wife to comfort family.' (British Film Catalogue)

A doctor learns his pregnant patient is engaged to his son.

A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath.

Follow Waffles the dog, as he enters quarantine, after arriving in England on the Queen Mary with his owner.