
September 22, 1907 · 118 years old

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

A novelist aided by his future father-in-law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment.

The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine.

A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.

At the end of the Civil War, an embittered Southern belle joins forces with a Confederate guerrilla leader to raid Union towns.

Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java.

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

After a cunning, unscrupulous mobster is sentenced to a Florida prison farm, he launches a deadly escape plan.