Alice De Winton

A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.

Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.

The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. Made at Isleworth Studios, and based on the novel of the same name, the plot involves a poverty-stricken author so depressed that he agrees to sell his soul to the Devil.

A barrister abandons his mistress for a socialite but returns in time to save her from suicide.