Claire McDowell Filmes

Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected...

Hiding from the police in an alley, two crooks see, through a window, the dying miser entrust to the doctor the fortune he bequeaths to his erring...

Ben Shelby, a blacksmith, is in love with Caroline Swayne but her wealthy father rejects the marriage. When he is found murdered shortly afterwards,...

While packing her trunk preparatory to leaving home for the adjoining county, where she has been called to teach, the young schoolteacher discovers...

John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and...

A girl's family suddenly becomes rich and rejects her long-time sweetheart.

An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist,...

The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more...

Over Bentley's shoulder, the crook read the lawyer's letter telling the young man of his inheritance. He immediately wired his pals. When Bentley...

Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow...

A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.

His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. In order to reinstate himself he conceives a plot...

Engineer Daily is forced to discharge his fireman for habitual drunkenness. His young daughter, Rosanna, wanders down to the tracks, and the door of...

A comedy short about a man trying to get a new hat.

The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his...

At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way...

They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company...

Kenneth Marsden, a young artist in failing health is advised to go south to New Orleans, where he expects to find accommodation with an old-time...

During a raging Montana snowstorm, Doctor Jim Barnes collapses at Esther Anderson's cabin door. Esther offers Jim refuge, but when he discovers that...

Marriage by Contract is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by James Flood.