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Actors: John Boles, Sam de Grasse, James Marcus, Harry Cording
Synopsis: This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national anthem. In addition to many scenes of angry peasants, the film also feature's many songs by Lisle. The film makes no claim for historical accuracy. Songs include: "Song of the Read More
Actors: Ralph Ince, Sam de Grasse, Philip Strange, Ernest Hilliard, James Finlayson
Synopsis: A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Read More
Actors: Marian Nixon, Richard Walling, Mary Nolan, Otis Harlan, Claire McDowell
Synopsis: The racetrack provides the setting of this drama that tells the tale of a jockey who throws a race to impress a sexy girl. Later, the jockey redeems himself to his former employer and the boss's daughter, who has loyally loved him all along, by riding a dangerously spirited horse that no one else Read More
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Leslie Fenton, Fred Mackaye, Gus Partos
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with the young thief who has become the magician's student. Another assistant gets jealous of the affair and tells the master. In retaliation, the thief kills the snitch and then Read More
Actors: Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, George E. Stone, John Darrow
Synopsis: This solid gangster flick from director Lewis Milestone was based on a stage play and earned a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards. Louis Wolheim stars as Nick Scarsi, a tough-guy bootlegger with political connections that enrage a local police captain, McQuigg (Thomas Meighan). In order Read More
Actors: George O'Brien, Estelle Taylor, Leila Hyams, Tom Santschi, Frank Cooley
Synopsis: George O'Brien, Fox Studios' general-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Honor Bound. The story opens in the bedroom of hero John Ogletree (George O'Brien), who is awakened from his slumbers by the unexpected arrival of Evelyn (Evelyn Brent), a total stranger. Claiming that she's fleeing from Read More
Actors: William Welch, Mairy Mabery, Perry Murdock, Bob Steele, Sam de Grasse
Synopsis: Popular young B-Western star Bob Steele left the prairie behind this time around and instead found himself playing Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falling in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet (Barney Read More
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Actors: Robert Sweeney, Jules Cowles, Walter Maly, Mairy Mabery, Ranger
Synopsis: Canine star Rin-Tin-Tin had dozens of movie competitors and imitators. One of the best of these was FBO Studios' Ranger the Dog,, the "hero" of 1928's Dog Law. Ranger races to the rescue when human protagonist Robert Sweeney is framed on a murder charge. The actual killer is Jules Cowles Read More
Actors: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page, Kathlyn Williams
Synopsis: Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can never forget the indelible images of Joan Crawford tearing loose with one Charleston after another. Since everyone in the film is rich, the wild parties that dominate Our Read More
Actors: Lars Hanson, Marceline Day, Ernest Torrence, George Fawcett
Synopsis: Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man of the cloth. Anson Campbell (Hanson), however, has his doubts as he studies for the ministry -- he loves the sea at least as much as he loves God. Bess Morgan (Pauline Read More
Actors: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam de Grasse, Stuart Holmes
Synopsis: The same winning combination responsible for Don Juan-star John Barrymore, director Alan Crosland and screenwriter Bess Meredyth, once more aligned their talents for When a Man Loves. This adaptation of the classic novel and opera Manon Lescaut has been slightly rearranged to make the titular Read More
Actors: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Synopsis: Having scored big-time box office with his first Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), Cecil B. DeMille hoped to top this success with his 1927 The King of Kings. Inasmuch as he was now dealing with the life of Christ, DeMille had to be careful to serve up equal amounts of showmanship and Read More
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver, Sam de Grasse, Max Barwyn, Julia Faye
Synopsis: This Cecil B. DeMille-produced swashbuckler was based on Brigadier General, a story by Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle. Set during the Napoleonic era, the film stars Rod La Rocque as young adventurer Etienne Girard, who becomes involved in the political intrigues fomented by the Read More
Actors: Sam de Grasse, Virginia Bradford, Francis Ford, Alan Hale
Synopsis: Wreck of the Hesperus was "suggested" by the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It will be recalled that the bulk of the Longfellow original was devoted to an impassioned dialogue between the captain of the ill-fated Hesperus and his daughter, whom he has lashed to a post to keep Read More
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, George Siegmann
Synopsis: Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack and Erno Rapee, Paul Leni's near masterpiece remains one of the silent era's last great romantic melodramas. Based on Victor Hugo's 1869 novel L'Homme qui Rit, The Man Who Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Piggott, Donald Crisp, Anders Randolf, Sam de Grasse
Synopsis: The Black Pirate was hailed in 1926 as the "return" of the Douglas Fairbanks who'd breezed through several peppy comedies before starring in lavish costume epics like Robin Hood (1922) and Thief of Bagdad (1924). The story involves a young nobleman (Fairbanks) whose father is killed by pirates. He Read More
Actors: Florence Vidor, Ricardo Cortez, Sam de Grasse, André Beranger, Mitchell Lewis
Synopsis: Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a bold American pirate captain who proves to be putty in the hands of New Orleans belle Louise Lestron (Florence Vidor). While dancing with Louise at a masked ball, Sazarac Read More
Actors: Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Dresser, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jerry Miley, Stuart Holmes
Synopsis: Warner Brothers' Broken Hearts of Hollywood is still another of the "mother love" dramas that festooned the silent era. Louise Dresser plays a selfish woman who deserts her child in pursuit of movie stardom. The years pass, and the girl grows up to be Patsy Ruth Miller. With no mother to guide Read More
Actors: Sally O'Neil, William Haines, Charlie Murray, Ned Sparks
Synopsis: Sally O'Neil is "Mike," the hoydenish daughter of railroad-construction foreman Charles Murray. Our heroine tries to help out Harlan (William Haines), who's been having trouble finding work since serving a prison term for a crime he didn't commit. She arranges for Harlan to get a job on her dad's Read More
Actors: Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Lilyan Tashman, Sam de Grasse, Douglas Gilmore
Synopsis: Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor Glyn. This is the story of Jewish maiden Vanessa Levy (Pauline Starke), the daughter of a somewhat disreputable moneylender (Sam De Grasse). Deeply in debt to Vanessa's Read More
Actors: Lucille La Verne, Pauline Starke, Conrad Nagel, Sam de Grasse, George K. Arthur
Synopsis: Just as Reginald Denny could only play an all-American boy until talkies revealed his British accent, Conrad Nagel could only have played a hillbilly with his glorious voice silenced. He's the star of this silent drama, based on the play by Lula Vollmer. Lucille LaVerne, who played Ma Cagle on Read More
Actors: Aileen Pringle, Dorothy Mackaill, Sam de Grasse, Rosemary Thebv, Leo White
Synopsis: Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star (Aileen Pringle). She falls ill, and to keep her by his side, he tells her that she only has a year to live. Instead of making Elise a homebody, it inspires her to make a stab at Read More
Actors: Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil, William Haines, Henry Kolker
Synopsis: Based on a musical comedy by Edward Dowling, this picture was Joan Crawford's breakthrough film. Her Charleston in this and other films would be defining moments for the 1920s. The worldly Sally (Constance Bennett), dreamy Irene (Crawford), and naïve Mary (Sally O'Neill) are friends who have risen Read More
Actors: Colleen Moore, Ben Lyon, Charlotte Merriam, Joseph Striker, Charlie Murray
Synopsis: Ellie Byrne ($Colleen Moore}) and Don Lane (Ben Lyon) are childhood pals -- their fathers (Charles Murray and Russell Simpson) work together as glass blowers. They hope for better things in life, especially after they land an invitation to a fancy society party, where their shabby outfits look Read More
Actors: Kenneth Harlan, Dorothy Revier, Sam de Grasse, Frank Lackteen, Rosa Rosanova
Synopsis: This romantic drama of love and revenge is taken from the Spanish ballad by Julio Sabello. David Kent (Kenneth Harlan) travels to San Blas to investigate the circumstances behind his father's murder. He falls in love with Maria Valdez (Dorothy Reiver), who is unaware her father was killed by Read More
Synopsis: Having achieved fame and fortune in a series of bucolic country-boy roles, Charles Ray decided he was ready to become his own producer. For a while, Ray did all right by himself, turning out "typical" vehicles that pleased his fans. Then he became fatally ambitious-and the result was the infamous Read More
Actors: Jackie Coogan, Barbara Tennant, Russell Simpson, Claire McDowell, Cesare Gravina
Synopsis: Circus Days is the first film version of the James Otis novel Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks With a Circus. Jackie Coogan plays 10-year-old Toby, who runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top. The glamour of circus life tarnishes quickly for Toby, but he sticks it out, graduating from lowly Read More
Actors: Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson, Ford Sterling
Synopsis: This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister (Milton Sills) and his partner, Joe Dextry (Robert Edeson), are tricked out of their Alaskan gold mines by a pair of crooked politicians. Alex McNamara (Noah Beery Sr.) and Read More
Actors: Lenore Ulric, Forrest Stanley, Joseph J. Dowling, André de Beranger, Sam de Grasse
Synopsis: This tale of the Canadian Northwest was originally a stage play by Willard Mack and David Belasco. Belasco worked with Warner Brothers on this production -- it was the second of a series of plays which he brought to the studio. Lenore Ulric performed the role of Rose Bocion on Broadway, and she Read More
Actors: Wheeler Oakman, Colleen Moore, Sam de Grasse, Edith Yorke
Synopsis: This heart-warming drama was one of Colleen Moore's first films for First National, but her star would not ascend until later that year when she starred in Flaming Youth; here she primarily supports Wheeler Oakman, who plays the title role. Slippy McGee is a notorious safecracker who is seriously Read More
Actors: Blanche Sweet, Edmund Lowe, Hobart Bosworth, Pauline Starke, Sam de Grasse
Synopsis: This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous of his powerful and popular brother, Don John (Edmund Lowe), so he sends him to fight in the Moors, hoping that he will not return. John leaves behind the woman he loves Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse, Enid Bennett, Paul Dickey, William Lowery
Synopsis: Robin Hood, Douglas Fairbanks' biggest (though not necessarily best) production of the silent era, represents the first time that many familiar of the elements of the Robin Hood legend were presented on screen. To bring the project to full fruition, Fairbanks and his wife Mary Pickford purchased Read More
Actors: Colleen Moore, Cullen Landis, June Elvidge, Sam de Grasse, David Torrence
Synopsis: Colleen Moore had not yet become the epitome of Flaming Youth when she co-starred with Cullen Landis in this pleasant little comedy. After the proliferation of mother-as-martyr films during the early 1920s, it was refreshing to have a selfish, conniving matriarch here in the form of Mrs. Newell Read More
Actors: William Russell, Seena Owen, Jack Brammall, Sam de Grasse
Synopsis: Silent matinee idol William Russell has a dual role in this drama. He plays twin brothers, minister Luther McCall and Lefty, a crook. Thomas Edinburgh (Sam de Grasse) wants to get rid of his wife and woo the minister's spouse, Carol (Seena Owen). He tries to convince Carol that her husband was Read More
Actors: Naomi Childers, Sam de Grasse, Lionel Belmore, Adolphe Menjou, Lloyd Whitlock
Synopsis: Sidney Franklin, formerly the principal director of the "Fox Kidlettes" series, works with grownups in the silent Courage. Sam DeGrasse plays a brooding Scotsman who spends 18 years in prison on a trumped-up murder charge. Only his wife Naomi Childers believes in DeGrasse's innocence. She nobly Read More
Synopsis: This minor dramatic programmer was an independent production. In spite of the fact that she's loved by Howard (William P. Carleton), a fine upstanding fellow, Florence (Fritzi Brunette) decides to marry the scheming George Otis (Sam De Grasse). Otis uses her to help him put over some questionable Read More
Actors: Sylvia Breamer, Rosemary Thebv, Conrad Nagel, Robert Cain, Sam de Grasse
Synopsis: Miriam Holt (Sylvia Breamer) is an innkeeper's daughter who is born with psychic abilities. She falls for a young hunter who lodges at the inn, but he goes away when he mistakenly believes she loves another man. Miriam moves to the city to make use of her unusual abilities for the benefit of Read More
Synopsis: The conservative, political sentiments of Americans in the 1920s were decidedly anti-communist, and this comedy-drama lends a mocking, satiric touch to the Bolshevists that it portrays. Because he is an idler, Timothy Webb, Jr. (H.B. Warner) is disinherited by his father. Instead, his uncle Roger (Percy Challenger Read More
Synopsis: Edith Storey plays a French girl who, as a child, wandered into an Arab tribe after her mother was murdered. The tribe raises her as their own, and when she reaches adulthood, the chief's son proposes to her. But she decides she'd rather run off with a French artist who brings her to Paris. After Read More
Synopsis: Made in between his two classics, Blind Husbands and Foolish Wives, this drama from director Erich von Stroheim centers on a restless American wife married to a rich but unsuccessful playwright who reels after his newest work is rejected. The trouble begins when she finds herself strongly Read More
Actors: Sam de Grasse, Harold Goodwin, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert
Synopsis: This film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She is a Kentucky mountain girl in this romantic adventure film, and Harold Goodwin is the boy who befriends her. Sam DeGrasse was the villain. Future silent-screen idol Jack Gilbert Read More
Synopsis: During her years at Universal, Priscilla Dean became known for her lady crook roles. Here she is Blue-Jean Billie, who is very well off as a result of the heists she has performed with her associate, Shaver Michael (Sam DeGrasse). When the Vanderhoofs throw a dinner to announce their daughter's Read More
Synopsis: Jack Boyle's Boston Blackie stories were a popular part of Redbook magazine in the late 'teens, and this film wasn't the first time the fictional crook was brought to the silver screen. In this particular scenario, Boston Blackie (Sam DeGrasse) finds an ad in the newspaper from someone looking for Read More
Actors: Sam de Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich Von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Synopsis: Because of his portrayals of villainous Prussians in pictures such as Hearts of the World and The Heart of Humanity, Erich von Stroheim was already famous as "the man you love to hate." But Stroheim had also been quite busy behind the camera over the years, as an assistant director to D.W. Griffith Read More
Synopsis: After striking it rich in Alaska, Smith (Monroe Salisbury) is robbed of his gold by Amy (Betty Schade) and her partner (Sam deGrasse). He unsuccessfully pursues them through a snow storm and when he is finally saved by Harkness (Alfred Allen), he has been rendered mute from an injury. But Amy and Read More
Synopsis: Fannie Ward plays Marion Clark, a manicurist who gets involved with a family who live in the boardinghouse where she resides. She is in love with the son, Dick Strong (W.E. Lawrence); the mother is an invalid and the sister, Gladys (Irene Aldwyn), is pretty but naive. Gladys falls in with a fast Read More
Synopsis: This drama was based on the then-popular novel by Richard Hardin Davis. Billy Winthrop (Franklyn Farnum) is the idle son of Samuel Winthrop (Al Filson). When Billy discovers that it's destroying his father financially to constantly get him out of trouble, he straightens up. Although Billy loves Read More
Synopsis: Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) is the extremely naive son of a wealthy Eastern family -- he loves the Old West so much that he virtually lives it in his room. The knocker on his door is a pistol and he has a dummy horse which he leaps on now and again (actually Fairbanks was a little old for Read More
Actors: Franklin Farnum, Claire Du Brey, Marjory Lawrence, Mary St. John, Sam de Grasse
Synopsis: Playboy Franklyn Farnum inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain (none other than Lon Chaney) makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but Farnum, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property. Read More
Actors: Wilfred Lucas, Olga Grey
Synopsis: Though he was obliged to share directorial credit with Wilfred Lucas, Tod Browning graduated to "prestige" pictures with his 1917 release Jim Bludso. The film was based on a popular ballad, written by former U.S. Secretary of State John Hay. The original ballad ended tragically, as steamboat Read More
Synopsis: One might be inclined to dismiss the title of this film as a contradiction in terms -- but with Lillian Gish in the lead, how could the heroine be anything else but innocent? Based on a story by D.W. Griffith, writing pseudonymously as "Granville Warwick," the story concerns a Kentucky belle named Read More
Synopsis: Wilfred Lucas plays a distinguished banker, falsely accused of murder. Though acquitted in court, Lucas' reputation is destroyed, and he force from his job. Like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, Lucas decides that he's worth more dead than alive; thus, he plans to kill himself so his family Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks
Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s splendid physique was seen in all its pristine glory in the 1916 western The Half-Breed. In what might have been a movie first, the title character is sympathetically portrayed, despite the "onus" of having Indian blood. Living as an outcast, young Lo Dorman (Fairbanks) is Read More
Actors: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tully Marshall, Alfred Paget
Synopsis: Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives Read More
Synopsis: The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls himself "Passin' Through." Orphaned at birth, Our Hero grows up to be a Robin-Hood-like bandit, robbing the rich so that he can finance a home for unwanted children. In this Read More
Actors: Alfred Paget
Synopsis: Supervised by D.W. Griffith, Martyrs of the Alamo was directed by Griffith's loyal but considerably less inspired assistant William "Christy" Cabanne. The film never lags in its action sequences, notably the climactic siege of the Alamo. Only in the dramatic scenes does the film cry out for Read More
Synopsis: A rare visitor to films in general and westerns in particular, Broadway actor Henry Woodruff starred in this primitive oater from the Reliance company. The film had Woodruff battling an Asian villain (Caucasian actor Sam de Grasse) for the love of prairie flower Gladys Brockwell. Miss Brockwell Read More
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Ralph Lewis
Synopsis: The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of two families. The Stonemans hail from the Read More
Actors: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper
Synopsis: While busy with The Birth of a Nation, director D.W. Griffith began a small-scale contemporary drama called The Mother and the Law. The film was designed as an indictment against professional do-gooders who take it upon themselves to "reform" the poor. One victim of this misguided treatment is Read More
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