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1931
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An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The matriarch (Blanche Frederici)...
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1931
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In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his...
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1931
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Percy Crosby's popular newspaper comic strip Skippy comes to life in this 1931 film. Designed as a vehicle for Our Gang's...
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1931
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Two of Paramount's best contract comedians made a rare joint appearance in Dude Ranch. Jack Oakie heads the cast as Jennifer...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son is set in 1931 America in this interesting drama that centers on an egotistical,...
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1931
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Sooky was the sequel to Paramount's smash-hit sentimental comedy Skippy; both films were based on characters created by comic...
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1931
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In the wake of such cinematic Calamity Janes as Jean Arthur and Doris Day, it comes as a shock to find a film in which the...
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1931
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The continental-flavored comedy drama Beloved Bachelor was based on a play by Edward H. Peple. Unmarried sculptor Paul Lukas...
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1931
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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1930
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1930
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Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading...
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1930
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Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a...
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1930
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The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery....
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MacDonald, Studio Watcham
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1929
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The gruff but lovable Wallace Beery starred in this Zane Grey adaptation from Paramount. He plays the prototype outlaw with a...
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1929
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Filmed at glorious locations on the Navajo reservation at Tuba City and in Flagstaff, AZ, this Zane Grey adaptation stars...
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1929
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Although Broadway star Hal Skelly never quite made it in films, it wasn't for lack of trying. In Woman Trap, Skelly is cast...
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1929
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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1929
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In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly...
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1929
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This silent Paramount Zane Grey Western marked the screen debut of the then 7-year-old Tim Holt. Young Tim's father,...
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1928
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An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining...
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1928
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1928
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The Clara Bow vehicle Three Week Ends was based on a story by Elinor Glyn, the romance novelist who bestowed the "It Girl"...
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1928
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Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert...
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1928
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1928
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The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical...
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1928
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Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in...
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1927
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After a lengthy apprenticeship in bits and secondary roles, Gary Cooper was promoted to stardom in the Zane Grey western...
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1927
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Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon). The villain is...
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1927
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1927
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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1926
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Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a...
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1926
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This sophisticated and well-made comedy-drama was one of Pola Negri's best vehicles for Paramount. More often than not, the...
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1925
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By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to...
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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1925
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Mary Pickford starred in the 1915 version of this film, based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett story, and it's easy to imagine...
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1924
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North of 36 was conceived in the wake of the immensely popular Covered Wagon, right down to the casting of that earlier...
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1924
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1924
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James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the spectacular 1923 film The...
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1923
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Edward Everett Horton, who was still new to film, was perfectly cast as the meek and mild English valet Ruggles in this...
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1923
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Hefty comedian Walter Hiers stars in this tepid comedy. Jimmy Kirk (Hiers) is a soda jerk in love with Mamie Smith...
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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1923
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This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals....
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1923
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Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a...
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1923
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The quality of Wallace Reid's films were starting to slip, quite possibly because of his drug problems, and this comedy-drama...
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1922
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1922
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This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood,...
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1922
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May McAvoy was on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's most popular stars when she appeared in this pleasant comedy-drama....
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1922
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This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The...
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Cate Higginson, Dan's Friend
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1922
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Wallace Reid starred in a legion of comedy-dramas involving speeding cars and most of them (generally written by Byron...
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1922
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Although this expensive drama was "suggested by" a short story, The Laurels and the Lady, by Leodard Merrick, one can't help...
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1921
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It's hard to say what Metro's intention was when they bought the film rights to Big Game, an unsuccessful melodrama by...
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Congressman Hamill
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1921
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The ill-fated Wallace Reid -- who would die of morphine addiction in 1923 -- was in top form in this Paramount action...
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1921
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Director William DeMille was stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place with this light comedy, based on the play by...
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James Wylie
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1921
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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1921
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Jim Montgomery (Thomas Meighan) is the country mechanic who comes to New York to seek his fortune. The naive rube is talked...
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1921
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Wallace Reid once more brings home the box-office bacon for Paramount in Always Audacious. The ever-popular Reid plays a dual...
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1920
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For some mysterious reason, producer Adolph Zukor decided to set the slapstick aside for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's first...
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1920
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The trade magazine Motion Picture News called Mary Miles Minter "a clever little star when she has the right backing." Read...
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1920
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When "Speed" Carr (Wallace Reid) has to travel from New York to Los Angeles to meet his uncle and claim an inheritance, he...
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1920
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Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse,...
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1920
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During the early '20s, Wallace Reid starred in a number of snappy car racing films. This one was adapted from the Saturday...
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1920
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1919
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1919
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Paramount's silent matinee idol Wallace Reid plays John Craig, a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked...
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1919
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Wallace Reid could have appeared in a filmed version of the classified ads and made a fortune for his home studio of...
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1919
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Douglas Fairbanks starred in the original Broadway production of James B. Fagan's Hawthorne of the USA, but Doug was too...
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1919
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1919
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This picture began life as a Saturday Evening Post serial by Wallace Irwin. It involves the newly rich Buddy McNair...
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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1919
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Previously filmed in 1915, the Bret Harte story M'liss served as one of Mary Pickford's most memorable vehicles. The...
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1918
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that...
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1918
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Rimrock Jones (Wallace Reid) is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already...
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1918
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The plot of Less Than Kin hinges upon the astonishing resemblance between its two protagonists (both of whom, for the sake of...
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1918
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Abstaining from his usual "Italian" characterization, George Beban played a roistering French Canadian in Paramount's Jules...
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1918
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1917
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Many film critics felt that Wallace Reid graduated from mere leading man to full-fledged star in his 1917 vehicle...
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1917
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Japanese film star Sessue Hayakawa carries the dramatic weight of this "Never the Twain Shall Meet" melodrama. Rhandah...
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1917
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When New England schoolmarm Faith Miller (Anita King) comes West to inspect a mine she has bought, she discovers it is a...
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1917
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Richard Landry (C.H. Geldert) is a Southern aristocrat who works for the U.S. government in the days before the Civil War....
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1917
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Handsome silent screen idol Wallace Reid takes a job as manager of a stage-line in this early silent western directed by the...
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1917
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In this mystery, Aunt Ray Innes (Eugenie Besserer), an affable old maid, is spending time with her nephew Halsey (Guy Oliver)...
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1915
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Kathlyn Williams, who starred in the 1913 serial The Adventures of Kathlyn (the very first serial made in the U.S.), also...
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1915
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The daughter of a professor falls in love with what her father considers an unworthy young man (Harold Lockwood) in this...
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1914
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A typical early silent melodrama, The Dangling Noose starred Harold Lockwood as a cavalry officer whose rival (Guy Oliver) is...
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1913
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The very first fictional version of the legendary disaster, Saved from the Titanic was rushed into production mere days...
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1912
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