Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (1926)

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Class 8 — Dramas 111 REEL MO. TITLE PRODUCER 8020 Code SADA Twelve Ten World Featuring Marie Doro Laid in Paris, beside the beautiful river Seine, the opening scene of "12.10" reveals an aged sculptor, Fernande, with his daughter, Marie. Despairing in his struggle to gain a living he deserts his child and plunges into the river to end his troubles. He leaves Marie an orphan. In her frenzied search for her father, Marie stumbles upon Lord Chatterton, who adopts her and takes her to his home in England. There Marie becomes the sole delight of the ageing man and his heiress. Her loveliness causes Lord Chatterton's Secretary to fall in love with her, and Marie becomes involved in a series of complications that make "12.10" a mystery picture. 4564 feet standard lengfJi — on 5 reels Rental $6.25 8021 Code SADE The Corsican Brothers Dintenfass Featuring Dustin Farniim and Winifred Kingston A colorful, romantic dream of the last century, enhanced by the picturesque settings and costumes of the country where the scene is laid. Fabien and Louis are twin brothers so alike in appearance, action and thought that they are hardly distinguishable. A local quarrel breaks out among the hotheaded Corsicans and a vendetta is established over a trifling incident. The Governor of the Island arrives with his beautiful daughter Emily, just after an assassination due to the vendetta, which is temporarily quelled by Fabien. Louis goes to Paris to study law. where he continues the romance which was started with Emily in Corsica. A celebrated duelist, Chateau Renaud, is also a rival for the affections of the fair Emily. Renaud, however, is a dissolute young man of wealth with whom Emily has carried on a flirtatious but innocent correspondence during her school days. She begs him to return the letters, which he promises to do if she will meet him at the Bal Masque to be held that night at the Grand Opera House in Paris. The scenes of revelry at the P»all are lavishly displayed, as is a rather bacchanalian dinner party given by Renaud at the early morning hour of 4 A. M. Louis is present as one of the guests, although not at all in harmony with the surroundings. Through a subterfuge Emily is persuaded to come for the letters at that hour, without realizing that she will be precipitated into a meeting with the dissipated diners. In mortification and embarrassment she undertakes to depart, only to find that the door is locked. Louis, in the most polite manner, solicits the privilege of escorting her to her home. This act so provokes Renaud that he challenges Louis to a duel, in which he is killed by the superior skill of Renaud, w^hose own seconds point out to him that a duel under the circumstances is nothing less than murder, unless Renaud should restrain his anger. At home in Corsica, through a mysterious mental influence, Fabien is conscious of his brother's death, and leaves for Paris to avenge him. Events now move rapidly to a dramatic climax. Fabien visits Emily to discover just what has become of Louis and then follows Renaud to the country where he has fled to escape public indignation over the death of Louis. Emily and her father follow rapidly to undertake to prevent the avowed purpose of a meeting but arrive only in Select plenty of alternates