Mirages
Nov 20, 1928Peggy Pepper arrive de Géorgie dans un grand studio pour devenir une grande vedette dramatique. Les choses ne se passent pas tout à fait comme prévu.
Comedy
Estelle Taylor
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Les dix commandements
Nov 23, 1923Dans sa première partie, le film raconte l'épisode biblique de la captivité des Hébreux en Égypte à l'époque du pharaon Ramsès II (Charles de Rochefort), leur exode vers la Terre Promise, la traversée de la Mer Rouge, Moïse (Theodore Roberts) recevant les tables des Dix Commandements.
La seconde partie se situe dans les années 1920. Elle relate l'histoire des deux fils d'une femme bigote (Edythe Chapman), l'un mauvais garçon (Rod La Roque), l'autre sérieux (Richard Dix), qui convoitent tous deux la même jeune femme.
Drama
La Ruée vers l'Ouest
Jan 26, 1931Quand s'ouvre aux colons le territoire d'Oklahoma en 1889, Yancey Cravat demande une parcelle et s'y rend depuis Wichita avec sa famille. Éditeur de journal, juriste, Cravat devient un citoyen de relief de la ville d'Osage. Mais quand la ville semble installée dans la routine, il repart vers le Cherokee Strip (bande de territoire cherokee), laissant sa famille derrière lui. Du fait de son absence, son épouse Sabra doit se débrouiller pour sa subsistance, et devient bientôt experte en matière de défense de ses propres droits.
Drama
L'Homme du Sud
Apr 30, 1945
Only a Shop Girl
Dec 15, 1922Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culprit is the least-suspected person, who makes a deathbed confession.
Crime
Bavu
May 07, 1923An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance on all who cross him, and incites the peasantry to burn the city.
Drama
Mary of the Movies
May 27, 1923Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Drama
Lady Raffles
Jul 15, 1928Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who plans to present his mother with a diamond necklace. Also in attendance are Lillian and Dick, two jewel thieves who recognize Lady Raffles and fear that she is there to rob Warren as well. But sparks fly between Warren and Lady Raffles, despite Dick and Lillian's attempts at sabotage.
Comedy
The Unholy Garden
Oct 06, 1931At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
Romance
Don Juan
Aug 06, 1926If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
Adventure
Hollywood
Aug 19, 1923Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Comedy
Street Scene
Sep 05, 1931The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Drama
Émeutes
Nov 30, 1935Bat Morgan, un marin désargenté, de passage à San Francisco est attaqué par des individus qui veulent l'embarquer de force dans un bateau, pratique courante à l'époque. Il s'en sort pourtant et revient leur demander des comptes. Dans la bagarre qu'il s'en suit, Bat prend le dessus. Le jeune homme devient rapidement puissant et redouté sur la "Barbary Coast", lieu de perdition de la ville...
Adventure
Liliom
Sep 27, 1930A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Drama
Loin vers l'Est
May 04, 1929Tiger Haynes chasse des fauves en Indochine pour le compte de cirques. Ce redoutable aventurier, couvert de cicatrices, devient un père attentionné au contact de sa fille Toyo, qu'il retrouve à Vientiane, sur la rive du fleuve Mékong. Celle-ci lui présente Bobby Bailey, fils d'un propriétaire de cirque, dont elle est éprise. D'abord méfiant, Haynes « adopte » le jeune homme. Ils s'embarquent ensemble sur un bateau, où Bobby fait la connaissance de Mme de Silva qui le séduit. Or, cette dernière est l'ex-femme de Haynes et la mère de Toyo...
Drama
Footfalls
Sep 08, 1921A blind cobbler is able, by dint of his extraordinary hearing, to recognize the identity of a murderer. His own son is accused of the killing, and the old man waits, knowing the murderer will return to prevent the blind man from revealing what he knows.
Mystery
Pusher-in-the-Face
Mar 28, 1929"A comedy drama of New York life of a restaurant proprietor and it's a scream from start to finish." - Sheffield Observer, 03/28/1929
Comedy
Monte Cristo
Sep 03, 1922Victime d'un terrible complot, Edmond Dantès est emprisonné au Château d'If alors qu'il est sur le point d'épouser celle qu'il aime. A sa libération et sous l'identité du comte de Monte-Cristo, sa vengeance n'épargnera personne.
Drama
The Alaskan
Sep 14, 1924
Call Her Savage
Nov 24, 1932A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Drama
Western Limited
Aug 05, 1932A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
Mystery
While New York Sleeps
Aug 23, 1920An anthology of three dramas over the course of one evening in New York, with separate characters in each story played in all three by Marc MacDermott and Estelle Taylor. In one, a woman who has married believing her first and wrothless husband has been killed finds him returning to her for blackmail. The second part is the life of a cabaret vamp and a detective tricking each other, while the third story recalls a man who realizes his son's wife is cheating upon him with the man who lives in the apartment above him.
Drama
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
May 24, 1924In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
Romance
The Revenge of Tarzan
May 30, 1920Tarzan and Jane are traveling to Paris to help his old friend Countess de Coude, who is being threatened by her brother, Nikolas Rokoff. Rokoff has Tarzan tossed overboard. He survives, comes ashore in North Africa, and goes to Paris to search for Jane. In Paris, Tarzan reunites with his old friend Paul D'Arnot, who informs him that Jane was taken to Africa. Tarzan returns just in time to save Jane from a lion attack, and soon defeats Rokoff and his henchmen.
Action
Mademoiselle et son bébé
Jun 30, 1939New York. C'est la période de Noël et Polly Parrish est employée par un grand magasin en tant que vendeuse. La jeune femme trouve un bébé abandonné et, suite à un malentendu, est prise pour la mère de l'enfant. M. Merlin, son patron, décide de la licencier. Polly n'a pas les moyens de garder l'enfant et le ramène à l'orphelinat. Le directeur de l'établissement décide alors d'appeler les employeurs de la jeune femme afin qu'ils augmentent son salaire et qu'elle puisse ainsi subvenir aux besoins de l'enfant. Le fils de M. Merlin, véritable séducteur, est alors chargé de veiller sur elle...
Comedy
New York
Jan 30, 1927A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her. A lost film.
Drama
Tiger Love
Jun 30, 1924The Wildcat, a Robin Hood of the Spanish hills and son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Marcheta, who is pledged to marry Don Ramón to save the family fortune. On her wedding day The Wildcat abducts her and reveals his aristocratic identity.
Drama
Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Dec 10, 1922While in Spain Alan Randolph falls for famed singer Rosita Mendez, but when he goes back to Louisiana, he returns to his fiancée Violet Beaton. On an American tour Rosita discovers Alan has married Violet. Consumed with jealousy she threatens to kill him with a revolver and in the scuffle is wounded. Full of vengeance Rosita has him jailed for five years. Suddenly contrite she then outlines a plan of escape to Alan, but he refuses until destiny takes a hand.
Drama
Wandering Footsteps
Jun 14, 1926Drama
Blind Wives
Dec 19, 1920A woman with a taste for expensive clothing has four nightmares. An impoverished disabled girl sells her hair, a trapper finds he has an unfaithful wife, the wife of a dying weaver finds she cannot work the loom, and a model harassed by her boss is driven to murder.
Drama
Honor Bound
Apr 29, 1928When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
Drama
The Golden Shower
Nov 30, 1919A rich libertine leaves all his money to a college girl who had refused his advances. The ensuing scandal makes her retire to a small town, where she meets the dead man's son.
Drama
A Broadway Saint
Jul 21, 1919Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to Boonsburg to visit his uncle (George Bunny) and aunts (Emily Fitzroy and Annie Laurie Spence). He finds small-town life far more wicked than living in the big city. A theatrical troupe comes to town, and Dick finds his match in chorus girl Mazie Chateaux (Helen Weir). Dick's uncle inherits a huge sum of money and insists that his nephew take him to New York and entertain him. Dick, knowing what his uncle expects, takes him through a number of wild adventures, but he is happy to put all that behind him and settle down with Mazie. (Janiss Garza)
Comedy
A Fool There Was
Jun 18, 1922A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.
Drama
The Whip Woman
Feb 05, 1928A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to forget about love!
Drama
The Lights of New York
Nov 12, 1922Silent drama with two different New York stories. One tells of a good man led astray until a dream causes him to change his ways. The other is about a man whose despair over his love marrying another is lifted through increasingly unlikely events.
Drama
