"Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a...
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1953
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Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology...
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1927
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This cheapjack melodrama gets under way when Harry Canby (Robert Agnew) commandeers a dilapidated taxi to rescue a "mystery...
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Fred Norris
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1926
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The Beautiful Cheat was a cute parody of the motion-picture business. Most of the story takes place in a fly-by-night movie...
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1926
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This drama was based on the play by Henry Wallace. Two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter...
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1925
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Germaine (Alma Rubens) is unhappy when her parents force her into a marriage with the wealthy Lucien D'Artois (Jack Mulhall)....
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Andre Landal
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1925
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1924
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1924
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This mystical tale of India was based on the novel by E.M. Hull, the author of The Sheik, the book which became the film that...
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Kunwar
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1924
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1924
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Although Milton Sills was a leading man in his own right, he also supported many female stars of the silent era. In this...
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Ramon Cordova
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1924
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Percy Schwartz (Matt Moore) has no desire to go into his father's garbage can manufacturing business. He'd rather write...
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Kotah
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1924
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Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia (John Gilbert), is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except...
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Boris Varishkine
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1924
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In this taut silent mystery, a young woman mends her recently broken heart by reluctantly accepting a young lawyer's...
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1924
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Carol Dolliver (Mary Miles Minter) is the young heiress sought by several suitors in this romantic adventure drama. She...
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1923
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It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was...
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1923
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Silent movie audiences must have had an insatiable appetite for mythical kingdoms because it seems like just about anything...
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1923
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Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from...
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Raj Singh
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1923
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Back in the 1920s one quality that benefited an actress was "the ability to wear clothes." The beautiful Katherine MacDonald...
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Clifford, Trent
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1922
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This average romantic melodrama is enhanced by the presence of Constance Binney and Jack Mulhall. After finishing her convent...
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1922
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When Erich Von Stroheim was casting Foolish Wives, he discovered a model named Patsie Hannon who he cast as Mrs. Hughes. He...
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1922
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Although Agnes Ayres is best-known today as Rudolph Valentino's co-star in The Sheik, she was a substantial star in her own...
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Francis Vincent
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1922
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This curious story seems even odder when you know it came from the pen of Western writer Zane Grey. Mercedes McDonald (Claire...
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1922
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Having played a sheik, it only made sense to cast Rudolph Valentino -- whose first name was still being spelled Rodolph -- as...
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1922
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Hung Chin Chung
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1921
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Tom Moore stars in this comedy-drama, which was based on Rupert Hughes' Saturday Evening Post story, "Canavan." Irish...
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Rodman Cadbury
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1921
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Harry Garson directed his then-wife, Clara Kimball Young, in this light comedy -- a departure for Young, who was better known...
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Robert Van Austen
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1921
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Clara Kimball Young (as directed by her then-husband, Harry Garson) suffers for her past indiscretions in this drama....
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Herbert Brooks
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1921
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1920
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Since much of this film takes place in rural Kentucky, where director D.W. Griffith grew up, it no doubt has many...
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1919
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Although a bit slow to get off the ground, this witty film shows what star Mae Murray and her director husband,...
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1919
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1917
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William Farnum's features never failed to pack 'em in, no matter what the plot. In American Methods, Farnum plays a...
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1917
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1917
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Rupert Julian was producer, director, author and star of the Universal three-reeler Gilded Youth. Julian plays Pinky...
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1915
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