THE ACE OF HEARTS (1921):

A secret society holds a meeting to determine what to do about a powerful, dangerous man whom they have been studying closely for the past three months. They all agree that he deserves to die. Two of the members, Farallone and Forrest, are both in love with Lilith, the group's only female member, but Lilith accepts neither of them, preferring to devote herself to the group's cause. When the group meets again and deals cards to all the members, Forrest draws the ace of hearts, meaning that he will be the one to carry out the assassination. Lilith then suddenly agrees to marry him, in order to give him courage. But after their first night together, both of them feel differently about what they have planned.

DVD-r has English intertitles with no subtitles. Approx. 74 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!

PADLOCKED (1926):

Edith Gilbert, the daughter of Henry Gilbert --- a wealthy, but bigoted and puritanical, reformer --- leaves home following her mother's death, to seek her fortune on Broadway. Through her boardinghouse roommate, Edith gets work as a cafe dancer. At the cafe, she attracts man-about-town Monte Hermann and also Norman van Pelt, a youth who falls in love with her. At Hermann's suggestion, Mrs. Alcott, an unsavory society woman, takes Edith under her protective wing. Meanwhile, Gilbert, who has married Belle Galloway, a designing spinster, is shocked to learn that Edith is a cabaret dancer and has her committed to a reformatory, where she is crushed mentally and physically. 

DVD-r has English intertitles with no subtitles. Approx. 78 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!