An scheming adventurer attempts to blackmail the daughter of a country squire into marrying him.

Lord Kewes seeks to marry a wealthy woman but she refuses when she discovers why they were introduced.

Good Dr. Jekyll seals his fate when his experiments unleash the evil within him.

Lady Godiva rides naked through the streets of Coventry to save her people from an onerous tax.

Orphan Oliver Twist becomes an unwilling member of Fagin’s band of thieves.

Queen Elizabeth tries to prevent her lover’s death as predicted by a psychic, but Nottingham conspires to ensure that the future plays out as foretold.

Raffles, a gentleman thief, pulls off daring robberies while narrowly avoiding capture.

King Richard’s enemy the Duke of Monserrat steals the English flag and Sir Kenneth engages him in mortal combat to avenge the insult.

Lucie falls in love with a man who is secretly the nephew of the aristocrat who condemned her father to decades of imprisonment in the Bastille.

Becky Sharp tries to scheme and manipulate her way to the top in this early and ambitiously scoped three-reel retelling of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.