Alec B. Francis Movies

Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although...

A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the...

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor...

"Coke" Morgan, a hopeless cocaine fiend with a brilliant but crooked mind, evolves a clever plan of wiretapping to separate the unwary from their...

A young man becomes a burglar due to hunger, but after gathering up his booty feeds himself from the victims' larders, and thus, no longer hungry,...

A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself...

A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which causes her to have a heart attack and die. He sends...

Owing more than just a passing nod to "Abie's Irish Rose," a kindly Jewish delicatessen owner in New York City, Sidney Cohen, adopts a young,...

The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They...

A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disaster. In the course of this, she falls in love...

A lost film. "The Beaten Path" was a 3-reel 3000-foot film produced by the Eclair company in the United States. The film was directed by O.A.C. Lund,...

Two foreign spies are commissioned by their government to secure at all costs a secret treaty which is in the possession of the Ambassador of...

A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French...

A 1917 silent film drama

When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solicitous about the younger brother and enjoins the...

After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

Life's Mockery is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Betty Compson.

The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz from "Alexander's Ragtime Band") on the piano; it is...

Old shoemaker Peter is beloved by the children in his neighborhood. His daughter, Rose, elopes with an artist named Harmon after Peter forbids their...

Johnson, a pharmacist, makes an illicit traffic in cocaine and morphine, which he cleverly sells through his drug counter to a select clientele. In...