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...Francisco (Dolores Costello). With her proud father she dwells on the sunny, ivy-grown rancho of the Vasquez family, who founded San Francisco. There she might have breathed rose-laden zephyrs and married Terrence O'Shaughnessy (Charles Mack) but for Buckwell (Warner Oland), villainous politician. He wants to take away her rancho. Because she senses that, despite appearances, this wretch is a Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord...
...Million Bid (Dolores Costello, Warner Oland). The title indicates how much Millionaire Geoffrey Marsh (Warner Oland) paid Mrs. Gordon (Betty Blythe) for arranging his marriage to her glossy daughter, Dorothy (Dolores Costello). The film indicates how Villain Marsh gives over to Hero Brent (Malcolm McGregor) after a storm...
...Third Degree (Dolores Costello) was once a startling play dealing with brutal police and their peculiar methods of bleeding confessions out of tortured hearts. The picture staggers ineffectually over the same plot. Everybody suffers: strong, silent men; good, beautiful, true women; the audience...
...Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound for the U. S. and freedom. A Vitaphone concert preceded the film...
...Little Irish Girl (Dolores Costello-Johnny Harron). This tale of the San Francisco underworld affords Dolores Costello the opportunity of playing the decoy for a grimy cafe of doubtful purpose. While she is concentrating on the business of luring in as many pocketsful of money as possible, there swims into her calculating ken the inevitable handsome youth - with whom she falls in love and to whose farm her comrades in crime depart in a body. Whereupon his grandmother proves that sharp wits are not all urban products. Miss Costello contributes another of her decorative and deft characterizations...