John Raymond

Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

Fiancée très jeune au baron Badeau, Fidèle Tridon, fille d'un riche importateur de la Nouvelle-Orléans, tombe amoureuse de Philip Collett, le jour ou le Baron vient de déclarer qu'elle était sa fiancée. Le Baron refuse de la libérer et Fidèle prévoit de s'enfuir avec Philip.

Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.

After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. After hearing of his wife's death years later, he returns home but finds it lonely there and heads West. While he is gone his house is robbed, and the leader of the crooks, Richard Glendo, leaves Bennington's coat and identification on an East River pier. The newspapers pick up on this and announce Bennington's "suicide." Since he is now officially deceased, Bennington decides to start life all over again -- but first he must foil a scheme by a gang of con artists, who have forced pretty Constance Brent to pose as Bennington's widow so that they can lay claim to his estate.

Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair. John Tralee, the cheater, feels a pang of guilt when he discovers that he has taken all of Carrington's money and adopts the dead man's little girl, Lois. The girl grows up and the gambling hall becomes her second home.

A 1920 film directed by Roy William Neill.

A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson and Richard Rosson.

A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.

New York City society girl Evelyn Whitney is determined to prove that she can make her own living on the Lower East Side. Having no luck with her first attempts she succeeds as cafe singer Mary Malone falling for former gang leader Larry Marshall along the way. Trouble comes when the jealous Stella attempts to stab Evelyn and is shot by Larry. Evelyn flees to her home and becomes seriously ill, but learning that Larry is on trial for murder, she rallies to testify on his behalf.