Neptune Film Company

A showgirl's baby has an adventure with brigands.

This moral tale of temptation, desperation and childish devotion has echoes of Dickens' classic fable A Christmas Carol. A lowly office worker of slender means is unable to buy his invalid wife the "good food and good wine" she requires. Incensed by the Scrooge-like manner of his boss, Charles is at the brink of despair. The suitably soppy ending is sure to get you in the Christmas spirit. BFI

A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.

A poor child strikes matches for warmth and dies in the snow.

After events such as the bombardment of historic Rheims and its cathedral, the German Emperor was haunted by bad 'dRheims' and insomnia.