The Working Man
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
John G. Adolfi
Casts & Crew
George Arliss
Bette Davis
Theodore Newton
Hardie Albright
Gordon Westcott
J. Farrell MacDonald
Charles E. Evans
Frederick Burton
Pat Wing
Edward Van Sloan
Claire McDowell
Ruthelma Stevens
Harry C. Bradley
Don Brodie
James Bush
Wallis Clark
Clay Clement
Edward Cooper
James Donlan
Douglass Dumbrille
Helena Phillips Evans
Harrison Greene
Selmer Jackson
Edward LeSaint
Carl M. Leviness
Harold Minjir
William V. Mong
Herbert Rawlinson
Charles Sherlock
Gertrude Sutton
Richard Tucker
Also Directed by John G. Adolfi
The Burden of Proof is a 1918 film starring Marion Davies. It is considered a lost film.
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.
Film was released in 1927
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Young Herbert Thompson, wanting to attain wealth and social status, marries Ann Morton, who comes from a rich and prominent family, throwing over pretty young Angelina Kilboure, who really loves him. Years later Herbert has become the local District Attorney and has two children, Bert and Virginia. One night Bert, a patron at a seedy roadhouse, defends his sister's honor from a ruffian and winds up killing the man. Angelina persuades Herbert to leave his post as D.A. to defend his son in his murder trial. Herbert wins the case, but it turns out to have unexpected consequences.
The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.