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:
28 August 1916
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments.
08 October 1916
A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested.
28 May 1916
A young girl is betrothed to a rich Count by her family who have hopes of partaking in the Count's fortune.
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.
25 September 1916
On New Year's Eve, the convicted murderer, Strong Henry, escapes from prison and collects his son from the orphanage.
18 September 1916
Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his wife, he is accused of a murder that was actually committed by crooked attorney Herman Slade.
12 November 1916
Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector.
08 May 1916
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry.
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.
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