Joseph W. Smiley Movies

A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his...

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure...

Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury,...

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.

A 1919 film directed by Edward José.

A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results. Early adaptation of Frankenstein with the names changed.

Professional thief Joe Grim is killing time in New York City's Central Park before he robs the Wall Street subtreasury. He spots pretty young Laura...

Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?

Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and...

A Wall Street financier fed up with the city drives to the old country homestead where he was born and takes a walk through the orchard. Full of...

In a jealous rage dancer Anna Janssen shoots her common-law husband Alastair De Vries in a cafe when she discovers him with a chorus girl. Fleeing to...

An arrogant young man leaves his Ohio home to make it big on Broadway in New York City when he inherits the family business and $1-million. However,...

A lost film.

While visiting New York, Ogden Fenn finds himself charmed with Diana Manners, wife of Frank Manners, an architect who is away on business in San...

Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds work with a private detective agency. She meets Tod...