Frederick Burt

The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film stars Eulalie Jensen, Florence Roberts, Una Merkel, and Nance O'Neil.

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.

The Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her ranch. After developing a good relationship with Sally’s children, he risks life and limb in order to save her little one.

En 1913, Marya Kalish, une jeune fille pauvre d'origine juive, tente de gagner Saint-Pétersbourg dans l'espoir de revoir son père mourant. Obligée de voyager clandestinement, elle obtient un passeport jaune, le même que les femmes de petite vertu. Lorsqu'elle arrive enfin à Saint-Pétersbourg, c'est pour apprendre la mort de son père. C'est alors qu'elle rencontre le baron Andrey, sinistre chef de la police secrète tsariste, qui ne cache pas ses vues sur la jeune femme. Marya lui préfère la compagnie de Julian Rolfe, un journaliste britannique auquel elle dévoile les conditions de vie atroces auxquelles doit se soumettre le peuple. Andrey décide de faire arrêter Rolfe.

The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.