Alexander Butler

'A housewife seeks solace in hats.' (British Film Institute)

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A doctor learns his pregnant patient is engaged to his son.

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aka Maisie's Marriage, based on Marie Stopes book, a fireman falls in love with a daughter from a large family. When she refuses to marry and have children, she is estranged from her family, and after being imprisioned after a failed suicide attempt becomes a maid. Controversial at the time for its views on marriage and birth control.

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Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.

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A telephone supervisor saves a banker's son from a theft charge.

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A band of Klan-like night riders have been running rampant, and ranch owner Julian Marbolt (Andre Beaulieu) -- who is afflicted with day blindness and can only see in the evening -- offers a reward for the leader's capture.

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A beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.

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A quack doctor 'cures' a victim of venereal disease, whose baby is later born infected.

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Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. Made at Isleworth Studios, and based on the novel of the same name, the plot involves a poverty-stricken author so depressed that he agrees to sell his soul to the Devil.

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An ex-convict tries to kill the detective who once posed as a member of an American hooded clan.

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Lady Helen Reynolds is forced to choose one of her two cousins to be her husband if she wants to inherit a large fortune.

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'Inventor's wife avenges death by posing as anarchist and exploding their den.' (British Film Catalogue)

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'Spy blackmails commander's wife into stealing treaty.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.

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Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.

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A band of Klan-like night riders have been running rampant, and ranch owner Julian Marbolt (Andre Beaulieu) -- who is afflicted with day blindness and can only see in the evening -- offers a reward for the leader's capture.

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