After an idyllic mountain life in Russia, Berna goes to live with her uncle in the Jewish section of Kiev, arriving just as Cossacks massacre most of the Jews in the city. Berna escapes to New York and works at a sweatshop controlled by Boss Jim McManus, but he seduces her, then throws her out on the street, and she becomes a prostitute. Berna later marries Nicolay Turgenev, a young musician,
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William H. Thompson as Boss Jim McManus
Anna Lehr as Berna
Jack Standing as Nicolay Turgenev
Dorothy Dalton as Ellen McManus
Clyde Benson as Jacob Weil
Charles E. Kaufman Director of Photography
Charles Giblyn Director
C. Gardner Sullivan Writer
Thomas H. Ince Producer
United States 23 April 1916
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1916:
27 February 1916
Scott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot to ruin Haldeman.
10 March 1916
Ranger Frank rescues a family from a devastating outlaw band.
22 January 1916
The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict.
01 April 1916
Jack Marston is the sheriff of a western town and Jennie, his sister, is postmistress and operator at the stage station.
01 June 1916
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
13 February 1916
After the death of her father, a friend hides Dimples' inheritance in a doll, which Dimples carries to her new home at her aunt's boardinghouse.
10 September 1916
Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her.
12 March 1916
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders.
16 April 1916
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage.
01 January 1916
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
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