13 December 1915 Drama 59 mins
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
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Fannie Ward as Edith Hardy
Sessue Hayakawa as Hishuru Tori [Haka Arakau]
Jack Dean as Richard Hardy
James Neill as Jones
Yutaka Abe as Tori's valet
Dana Ong as District attorney
Hazel Childers as Mrs. Reynolds
Arthur H. Williams as Courtroom judge
Dick La Reno as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Lucien Littlefield as Hardy's Secretary (uncredited)
Raymond Hatton as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Cecil B. DeMille Editor
Cecil B. DeMille Director
Hector Turnbull Screenplay
Alvin Wyckoff Director of Photography
Cecil B. DeMille Producer
Jeanie Macpherson Scenario Writer
Wilfred Buckland Art Direction
Jesse L. Lasky Executive Producer
Jeanie Macpherson Writer
United States 13 December 1915
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04 July 1915
Emphasizing themes of female independence and the esteem due to the men serving in the armed forces, the plot involves a strong-willed young woman (Agnes Vernon) who defies her father in order to marry a soldier (Hobart Henly) instead of the well-to-do suitor preferred by her father.
01 April 1915
A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.
19 October 1915
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05 January 1915
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