Thomas Meighan

Cecil B. DeMille's social drama about Lydia Thorne (Leatrice Joy), a wealthy, reckless socialite whose careless driving kills a policeman and lands her in prison. There she encounters the district attorney who prosecuted her, Daniel O'Bannon (Thomas Meighan), a man who once loved her, and Evangelin (Lois Wilson), a selfless fellow inmate whose example forces Lydia to confront the moral emptiness of her privileged life. The film's parallels between Jazz Age excess and Roman decadence, conveyed through one of DeMille's trademark flashback sequences, gave it a moral weight that resonated with 1920s audiences. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Drama · Crime · Silent

Jackie Cooper plays Bill Peck, the mischief-making boy of George W. Peck's stories, whose pranks and misadventures keep landing him in trouble just as his father (Thomas Meighan) is running for mayor. When Bill's well-meaning meddling threatens to torpedo the campaign, he has to set things right the hard way. Directed by Edward F. Cline — a veteran of the Keaton shorts — for Sol Lesser Productions. The film is in the public domain.

Comedy · Family

A respectable but dull husband divorces his prudish wife and marries a vivacious younger woman, only for his ex-wife to transform herself into a glamorous flapper to win him back. Cecil B. DeMille's social comedy starring Gloria Swanson. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Drama · Romance