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- A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
- Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
- A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a "little guitar", Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told.
- In response to the days following 9/11, a covert government agency funds a black book project to develop a live virus, Nano-Technology based truth serum. Nanotrack Industries successfully develops Veritas PVH 13 and although it produces psychological anomalies in some subjects, this chemical crowbar permanently removes a subjects ability to deceive. Large scale testing on enemy detainees in a secure, off the grid, New Mexico research facility initially exceed all expectation, but when the virus mutates, it indiscriminately kills both prisoners and researchers alike. Ten years later, a group of racially diverse college students and their Professor, unwittingly stumble upon this buried secret while out on an extra credit assignment to document the mysterious Passion Valley Hospital hidden in plain sight in the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. The story is a science fiction, horror/thriller that entertains while at the same time offering deeper themes that explore who we really are when we lose the ability to live by deception.
- An archaeological expedition uncovers a prehistoric hominid burial site. When their team is unexpectedly attacked they are forced to take refuge in the catacombs of an unmapped cave. One by one they fall to an ancient predator.
- Although an advertisement for this film appears in Moving Picture World on 17 January 1914, no film bearing this title was ever distributed at this time. The film was condemned by the National Board of Censorship as "inflammable" because of the battle scenes and the subversive tone of Capitol versus Labor. In June 1914 the negative and all release prints were destroyed in a catastrophic explosion and fire in the film vaults at the Lubin plant in Philadelphia.
- Senor Don Alma Bendadoso, who has been away from his native home, has sent word to his adherents that he is returning to his castle for the purpose of teaching the true word of God. One of the local newspapers printed a warning to the natives, who are all superstitious to a terrible degree. In his boyhood, the don, while out hunting, met with an enraged mountain lion, which he held with his eye and escaped unharmed, the people then giving him the title of "He of the Evil Eye," and fearing him from that day forward, therefore the unjust title held fast to this quiet man of love. Upon his arrival the people were warned by one Don Immonco Superstisioso and his daughter's sweetheart, Ocloso Ignoranto. The girl, Sobre Superstisioso, wishing to know more about the man with the evil eye, fled the house to the thick of the fray and there met the cursed one, who fascinated her, much to the chagrin and envy of the one who has been selected for her. Later the girl cultivated the acquaintance of Alma, and finds him to be a master, and superior in every way to those with whom she had come in contact, and respect and admiration slowly ripened into love, which was returned by he of the evil eye. Her father demanded that she marry Ocloso Ignoranto, and she finally declared herself by saying that one month hence she will marry him who is most worthy. Senor Don Alma Bendadoso rises clear from the darkness of ignorance to that lightness of reason and understanding, enveloping the girl with the halo from his own soul.
- A young sheep herder, whom his associates had dubbed "The Cringer," because of his physical fear, was one day attending to a sick kid out of his flock, when some cowboys, who are a sheep herder's natural enemy, come upon him. They make sport of him and rough him up a bit, leaving him cringing on the ground. They then ride into town and have a blow-out. Muck Peters, the owner of the sheep, a renowned character for stinginess and brutality, happens to see the cringer nursing the goat and in his anger strikes the cringer to the ground. The cringer drags himself away from him back to his sheep, where he tells Joe, a stoic herder, of his mishaps and is again knocked to the ground by his fellow herder. His thoughts are not so much of himself as for the poor little kid. When he thinks of the suffering of the little goat his whole nature transforms itself. He determines to show them that he fears nothing. He steals one of his employer's horses, rides into a mountain city, sets fire to a barn, so that the citizens may be drawn thereto by the conflagration, enters a hank and holds it up, the cashier being alone as the remainder of the clerks have gone to the fire. He falls an easy prey to the cringer, but presses a button to the Protective Service Office, thereby giving the alarm that the bank is in danger. The cringer gets away with a sack of money, but through a daughter of the captain of the Protective Service, who runs to the fire and warns the cowpunchers that the bank has been robbed, the cringer is soon compelled to take to cover in an old abandoned log hut, where he makes his last stand, and he compels the posse to shoot him, dying with the words on his lips, "I wasn't afraid."
- Pedro Mendez is a big, simple-minded Mexican farmer. He is strong, but slow and so dull mentally as to be a mere clod. With him on his farm are his wife and a crippled mother, all of the same stolid type. When Pedro is in town getting his supplies he learns of an intended revolution and is asked to join the recruits. He cannot understand what it is all about; they try to explain, but his simple mind cannot grasp the meaning. He sees the drilling, but goes on his way back to the farm saying nothing to his wife or mother. Later a troop of revolutionists coming by confiscate his horses. He would remonstrate, but the gold lace of the man in command and his authoritative manner cow the clod and he permits the theft. Later a band of guerrillas raid the farm and carry off his chickens and cattle. A retreating band of rebels use his house as a barricade. He sees his home begin to crumble. Their members become fewer and they try to make him fight, but he will not, so he and his mother are sent to the attic out of the way, and his wife commanded to bind the wounds of the injured. She is killed by a bullet. The house catches fire and the rebels exit to meet the other soldiers. Pedro staggers out with his crippled mother in his arms. Outside he lays her under a tree and goes back for his wife. When he brings his dead wife out he finds that his mother has died. He looks at the two figures, at his burning home and then at the battle that is swinging about him. His dormant passion and strength are at length aroused. He gives vent to the terrible cry, and wrenches a musket from a dead soldier near him. He turns upon the battling soldiers. There is no desire for heroic action, but simply a mad animal desire to kill and appease his passion. He rushes into the melee and lays about him with the clubbed musket. As the battle passes around him they turn and shoot him with a laugh. He staggers against a support and looks about him dully. Everything has gone, wife, mother, home and all. He understands less now what it is all about than before, and slowly sinks to his knees, falls forward and rolls over on his face.
- Dick McKnight, a deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Ariz., receives a telephone message from Sheriff Wheeler, of the adjoining county, to the effect that Pedro Aquilla and his band of cattle rustlers and outlaws are in San Luis Canyon. His brother, Bill McKnight, the sheriff, being away, the young deputy determines to go out alone and corral some of the gang. He leaves a note to that effect for his brother and starts upon his mission. After getting into the mountains he runs across a note fastened to a tree, which reads: "Go Back or You Die With the Sun." Dick is not an impressionable young man, but the words make him think and he gives it more weight than is usually given to anonymous communications. He continues on his journey, but cannot get the note out of his mind. As he goes forward the words burn into his brain and every little noise in the mountains startles him until fear grabs him in its deadly grasp and drives him, a frightened thing, into an old abandoned adobe hut, where his nerve is worn to a raw edge by the fear which the words signified to him. He places his pistol to his head, the revolver explodes and we leave him in darkness. His brother Bill, the sheriff of Santa Cruz County, coming home after a hard ride finds the note that the youngster has left for him and knowing the difficult task that Dick has taken upon himself, he determines to follow his brother. He trails him to the cabin and entering same finds all that is left of a once brave, light-hearted boy. He takes the cursed note from his brother's clenched hand and receives the same fatal suggestion of fear that his brother had felt and when his innocent horse inadvertently rubs his head, against the door of the adobe, he is more startled than he has ever been before. He clutches his revolver, running from what seems to him to be a haunted place. He mounts his horse and rides from that which he had loved most, his brother. Continuing madly along divers trails not knowing just what to do, the insidious note causing that destroying thought, fear ever augmenting and increasing until from a brave man. Known throughout the territory for his loyalty and bravery, he becomes a cringing, incapable child trying to hide from that thing which is seizing him in its grasp. He attempts to hide in an old abandoned monastery, going back further into the depths of the broken walls until he eventually sinks into a deep crevice, almost an imbecile, firing his revolver at unseen things. The last cartridge of his revolver loosens the old clay and they tumble down upon him, burying him in the tomb. The sun breaks through as we see his hand twitching as he smothers, paying the penalty of the suggestion offered by the piece of paper clenched in his hand even unto the end in the agony of fear. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed at this time. Most likely the film was either announced but never made, begun but never completed, or completed and then released under a different title, now unidentifiable.
- An outlaw in holding up a stage meets "the girl;" he leaves his trace of felony, deserts his fellow bandits and becomes a hermit and an honest man. Ten years later he returns to the city and there, through an accident, meets "the girl" of his dreams. An unknown power draws them together in spite of the fact that she is married. A jealous and impotent traitor tries to deliver him to the hands of justice, but his attempts are frustrated by Gentleman Jack and he leaves and returns to the humble life of a wood chopper, only later to see his sweetheart riding along with her husband. He determines to play a joke on them. He holds up the girl and her husband, but she recognizes him and introduces him to her husband. It breaks Jack's heart and he determines to again become a knight of the road, but as he is buckling on his guns, the vision of Mary, his sweetheart, appears to him and he removes his belt, drops his irons on the ground and takes up his axe.
- Years before the story opens, a gentleman came out of the east and settled in New Mexico. No one knew who he was or from whence he came, except that he paid as he went, feared no man, and never told a lie. He was dubbed by all "A Gentleman of New Mexico" and was respected and loved by all law abiding citizens. He was a dead shot and a law unto himself. Mr. Stillwell, president of the Queen mines, is visiting one of his camps, accompanied by his daughter. Rose, and her fiancé, Percy. The fiancé is in a nearby saloon purchasing cigarettes. A renegade, Mexican Joe, thinks to play a little trick on tenderfoot Percy, by compelling him to drink of the firewater served in these parts. The young man refuses and serious consequences are in the making when "The Gentleman of New Mexico" happens in and stops the proceeding, thereby saving the young man from meeting with fatal results. Rose, who is out in the hills, hears the shot, warns her father and the superintendent of the mine, and they hasten to the saloon. There Rose meets "The Gentleman" for the first time and they are mutually attracted. The renegade, seeing, recognizes the fact that the two are drawn, one to the other, sees an opportunity of not only securing ransom, but also revenge upon his enemy, the unknown. He gets some of his kind to assist him. They abduct Rose and take her to the mountains. "The Gentleman" hearing of the abduction, takes the trail. He rescues the girl from the renegade, but in turn is nearly shot to death. Finally overcoming the crooks, he returns to camp and turns the other prisoner over to the United States marshal. The superintendent of the mine has. In the interim, received a note from the hands of the president's daughter, Rose, to be delivered in person to "The Gentleman." He delivers it to the unknown, who reads it. A week later we find him back in Boston, the home of the girl. He calls, sends in his card in reply to her note, which simply said, "Please come to Boston and get your hat," referring to a Mexican sombrero which he had presented to her because she admired it. Rose's father secures the card and gives the "not at home" to the butler. "The Gentleman" understanding, breaks through the servants and enters the musicale which is in progress and tells her he will wait outside for five minutes only. Rose realizes her heart has gone out to him and she turns, defies the conventional scorn of her social set and leaves to the man and master the care of her future happiness.
- In 1954 during the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War, the controversial labor film "Salt of the Earth" was made despite numerous attempts by the film industry and the US government to prevent its production. "A Crime to Fit the Punishment" explores the background events and political atmosphere that surrounded the film's production and movingly chronicles the filmmakers' defiance of the Hollywood blacklist.Interviews with some of the film's principals ad scenes from Salt of the Earth are combined with news clips and broadcasts from the early 1950's which puts it into an overall political context.
- There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed at this time. Most likely, the film was announced but never made, begun but never completed, or else completed and then released under a different title, unidentifiable at this time.
- Ferro Cararo, a Mexican pagan in the hills of Mexico, has abducted two children in their youth and taught the older one to become a highwayman. Carlos, the older boy, a gentleman by birth, rebels against this life and at last determines to desert the old brigand. He divides his spoils with his teacher and departs for the States, taking his younger brother with him. Ten years later we find him well established in the community, having gained recognition by honesty and straightforwardness. He meets a beautiful girl through an accident to her brother. They become sweethearts. Ferro, the Mexican, finding it too hot for him in his native home, also departs for the States. An incident brings the teacher and the slave children together. Ferro recognizes the scar which he himself had made upon the wrist of Carlos. Ferro, fearing he would be recognized, determines to give Carlos up to the authorities, and inveigles the sheriff into running Carlos down and shooting him as a murderer and desperado. His sweetheart feeling something is wrong, arrives in time to take charge of the little brother as she sees her sweetheart dying.
- John Field, head bookkeeper of the First National Bank, and in charge of the safe deposit vaults, was rather a rapid young man. His associates of a like caliber, have given him evil suggestions, and he, acting upon them, steals, not only from the bank funds, but from the deposit boxes, of which be secures duplicate keys. He attempts to cover up his irregularities, but it is found out by an old German customer who has a safe deposit box. He informs the president of the bank, who immediately sets the wheels of the law in motion to find out the defaulter. He secures Mary Ryan, an expert detective, who "ropes" the impressionable young man, and he, fascinated by her, informs her that he is leaving, that evening, and asks her to come with him. She agrees. They part to prepare for the journey. She immediately informs the bank president, who secures two plain clothes men. Field, coming to the station, sees them talking, takes alarm and seeing another engine standing on a siding, determines to make his getaway. In his youth his father was an engineer, and he learned how to run an engine. The female detective and the two plain clothes men, with the assistance of the bank president, give chase after discovering his departure and capture him. The feminine in the girl detective asserts itself after a strenuous jump from the engine and she realizes that she is going to faint, but first locks one handcuff on the captive and one on herself, and immediately afterwards falls unconscious. Field, the culprit, who has been knocked unconscious, regains his senses and realizes the situation. He carries the girl with him to what he deems a place of safety, but is overtaken by the plain clothes men and the banker, where womanlike, she comes to long enough to inform the bank president that she guesses she fainted, but she got him. The bank president, whose admiration had previously been strongly augmented, now shows his love for the girl and clasps her in his arms.