William Desmond Movies

Blood and Steel

The president of a railroad that is trying to build a new line in the west travels to the site to find out why construction is so far behind schedule. What he doesn't know is that his ... See full summary »

Women Men Love

The Pretender

Outwitted

A Treasury Department agent captures the head of a counterfeiting ring, and the man is sentenced to 20 years in prison. His gang later breaks him out, however, and he swears vengeance on ... See full summary »

Captain of His Soul

At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pistol factory to Martin...

The Dawn Maker

Joe Elk, half-Indian, half-white, attempts to secure for his tribe the benefits of schools and medicine such as he had seen on a trip to Montreal, far to the south. Joe loves Alice McRae, ... See full summary »

Shadows of the North

Bare-Fisted Gallagher

The uncle of "Bare-Fisted Gallagher" dies and leaves the Eagle Mine in the San Rafael Valley. When he arrives to take possession of it, he meets and falls for pretty Jem Mason, a woman who ... See full summary »

The Winking Idol

Dangerous Waters

Jimmie Moulton, a member of a prominent New York City family, spends two years on a ranch out west and returns to the city, only to find that his fiancee Cora Button has come under the ... See full summary »

A Gamble in Souls

Arthur Worden, who runs a mission on San Francisco's Barbary Coast, is derided by chorus girl Freda Maxey when he asks her to attend services. These two meet again on board a ship when ... See full summary »

Tongues of Scandal

Fighting Back

Cashiered out of the army by what he believes was an unjust court-martial, the man known as The Weakling wanders aimlessly in the desert and is found by cowboys from the Lazy Y Ranch. They ... See full summary »

Paws of the Bear

Barriers of the Law

When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's leader locks her up in a brothel. She ... See full summary »

Blood Will Tell

Young Samson Oakley III is the only son of Samson Oakley II, the distinguished head of a prominent Wall Street firm. When he is expelled from college--although for an offense he didn't ... See full summary »

Fightin' Mad

Old Hartwell's Cub

The Meddler

Beyond the Shadows