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Browse 10 movies from Peerless Pictures
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
Mar 1932
A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelor.
Apr 1935
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."
Nov 1931
A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them.
May 1935
Newspaper reporter John Templeton is suspected of being "The Snake," the murderer of a banker who is the father of the reporter's sweetheart, Joan Renshaw. The reporter escapes from the police and, with the girl, trails "The Snake" to Shanghai, where they lure him into confessing that he was hired by the banker's partner.
Jun 1928
While in Singapore, a man and a pretty young girl find themselves mixed up in blackmail and murder.
Jan 1936
Silent Crime Film
Sep 1928
To protect a young woman's life, a man pretends to be her injured friend so he can investigate a murder and capture the killers.
Nov 1934
Two brothers, one rotten and one decent, battle for the attention of a local girl in their California lumber camp.
Dec 1927
Helene is forced into marrying blackmailer Vaughan Neil, who holds incriminating evidence of a scandal involving her father.
Aug 1927