Ann Little – MRQE

The Black Box

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Science fiction serial, presumed lost.

The Source

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Round Towners Quartet sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequence: Betty Boop and Bimbo go ice skating.

I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari.

Lightning Bryce

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two prospectors, one the father of Skye “Lightning” Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning’s father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate.

The Roaring Road

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.

The Squaw Man

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.

Less Than Kin

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who bears a remarkable resemblance to him. Lee is a worthless young chap whose father is anxious to have him return to the United States. On his death bed Lee turns his papers over to Vickers and begs him to assume his name. Arriving in New York, Vickers goes to the Lee home as Robert Lee, and discovers that the dead man has willed him a badly blotted past that includes a wife and two children and a large collection of debts. He also finds a beautiful adopted daughter in the Lee household and promptly falls in love with her. The only way he can stand any chance of winning the girl is by telling the truth about himself.

The Firefly of France

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The “Firefly of France” is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Dashing aviator Devereaux Bayne believes in Esme’s innocence and accordingly dons civilian garb and heads to Paris’ Latin Quarter to get the low-down on the Firefly’s whereabouts.

Believe Me, Xantippe

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year. After he forges a check, George heads West and does escape arrest for nearly a year, despite the proliferation of police circulars bearing his name and his favorite expression, “Believe me, Xantippe.” In a Colorado hunting lodge, he meets Sheriff Kamman’s pretty daughter Dolly, who recognizes and tries to arrest him. According to the terms of the bet, however, he must be captured by a genuine officer of the law, which Dolly is not.