Daisy Campbell

An IRA man races to Dublin to warn his colleagues of a forthcoming raid, but he is captured by British forces.

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.

In Paris, a wild girl becomes possessed by the soul of her twin who died to save her life.

A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.

A tramp is hired to pose as a financier to obtain a Balkan radium concession.

The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.

A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen