Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mordant's daughter, Doris. Hearing of Evan's plan, Mordant devises a scheme of his own and `frames' Evans with five teenage girls and a prostitute.
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Marie Doro as The Kid
Thomas Meighan as Judge David Evans
Theodore Roberts as James Mordant
Mary Mersch as Doris Mordant
Horace B. Carpenter as Burke
Florence Smythe as Mrs. Dupont
Mrs. Lewis McCord as Housekeeper
Dr. Keller as Jones
United States 30 July 1916
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13 May 1919
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13 October 1926
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30 January 1929
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
11 May 1928
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04 February 1930
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19 June 1921
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A song about the terrible battle of the Somme 1916.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1916:
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.
02 January 1916
Illustrated travel lecture directed by Robert J. Flaherty, composed of film shot during his time with the Inuit in 1914-1915.
10 September 1916
When her husband Jim strikes it rich, Grace, who has had a lifelong fear of poverty, strictly raises her daughter Florence to accept only luxury.
30 October 1916
A father who despises his daughter, a boyfriend who refuses to marry the girl he knocked up, and a mother caught in the middle.
22 January 1916
"The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen".
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.
24 April 1916
Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday.
21 October 1916
To her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the butler's tall tales of being a pirate.
10 July 1916
When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture.
01 June 1916
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
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.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1916 Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
