The first feature-length adaptation, directed by and starring Rupert Julian as Scrooge. /// Scrooge was a "grouch," the greatest the world of literature has ever known. His former partner, Jacob Marley, had been dead more than seven years when the eventful Christmas Eve closed in on London. So imbued had Scrooge become with greed for money that his world, his sun, moon and stars were represented in bank notes and the securities he dealt in. He had not given Marley a thought since the day he buried him, and Scrooge celebrated that day by driving the best of business bargains. On this Christmas Eve Bob Cratchit, his faithful clerk, had been sent home with a gruff word instead of a "Merry Christmas" and had been told because he was to have the day off he must come to work extra early on the following morning. Scrooge's nephew had made his accustomed call to ask the old "grouch" to dine with him; and Scrooge had been his usual surly self in refusing. Kind-hearted collectors for charity h
Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Before she passes away, she makes the men promise to take care of her baby and get it safely through the desert. /// Three bandits, escaping from the scene of a bank robbery they have committed, are caught in a sand storm which serves to obliterate their trail, but works disaster in their immediate vicinity. A prospector strays from his traveling outfit and perishes in the storm. The three bandits come upon the "prairie schooner" just at the time the prospector's wife gives birth to a child and dies, leaving the infant in care of the bandits. Miles away from any habitation, the methods employed by these hardy men to sustain life in the body of the newborn babe, and the tenderness in which they fulfill their strangely imposed mission, constitutes a remarkable example of human kindness. When the three men are able to proceed toward the nearest settlement, two of them die as a result of wound
Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.
