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Most of these films are in Black and White.
For more info on titles check out their IMDB page.
purchased in sets of 3. The 3 titles will be put on 1 dvd.
Each set of three will cost $3.00
Most of these films are in Black and White.
For more info on titles check out their IMDB page.
Film Noir
Comedy Coming soon
He Walked By Night - Bryan
Foy
Gripping film noir crime drama about a manhunt
for a ruthless killer who plays a deadly cat and mouse game with the police.
Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, and Jack Webb, this movie
was the basis for "Dragnet". Watch for Whit Bissell, the unsung but solid bit
player who has appeared in hundreds of films and TV shows
Keywords: crime drama; manhunt; film noir
The File On Thelma Jordan -
Break Wind Studios
Thelma Jordon (Barbara Stanwyck), late one night,
shows up in the office of married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey).
Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair.
But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help wondering if she is
hiding something. Thelma has a plan up her sleeve that will ruin Corey if his
love for her and his own weakness win out...
Keywords: Crime; mystery; Barbara Stanwyck
The Saint Louis Bank Robbery
Steve McQueen stars in a gritty, downbeat, and
sometimes savage heist movie that features a gang of very psychologically
warped men and a story that's based on an actual crime. Warning: this film is
devoid of humor, wit, cheerfulness, glamor, and mercy. It's grim to the brim.
Some will find that viewing it is an unpleasant experience. This movie is in
the public domain. Video-Cellar wrote: The film was originally published
without a notice, but most prints currently in circulation are later te...
Keywords: Steve McQueen; Crahan Denton; David
Clarke; bank robbery; heist; Saint Louis; St. Louis
The Red House - Sol Lesser
"Middle-aged farmer goes to extreme lengths to
protect the dark secret associated with a deserted house on his property. Murky
psychological thriller with resonant settings and an emotive Miklos Rozsa
score." - noir expert Spencer Selby
Keywords: Thriller; Film-Noir; Mystery
The Big Combo - Boo
Police captain Peterson (Robert Middleton) storms
into the office of police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) critical of
Diamond's spending exorbitant amounts of the city budget and his own personal
money in an attempt to arrest a crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Peterson
says it is a waste of time trying to find something incriminating to bring Mr.
Brown to justice because his crime combo does business without accounting
books, and furthermore Peterso...
Keywords: syndicate, crime, Cornel Wilde, Brian
Donlevy, film noir, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman, Robert Middleton
The Man Who Cheated Himself
- Felix E. Feist
"Tough cop helps his lover cover up the shooting
of her wealthy husband. Mainstream noir, primarily distinguished by its acting
and San Francisco visuals." - noir expert Spencer Shelby Cast: Lee J. Cobb,
John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard. 81 min.
Too Late for Tears
This is pure noir. Lizabeth Scott and Arthur
Kennedy are a couple who receive a satchel full of money that was intended for
someone else (Dan Duryea). He wants to turn the cash over to the authorities;
she wants to keep it---no matter what the consequences: "Jane, Jane, what's
happening to us---what's happening. The money sits down there in an old leather
bag and yet it's tearing us apart. It's poison, Jane...
Keywords: noir; suspense; murder; crime
Inner Sanctum - Richard B.
Morros
You can find more information regarding this film
on its IMDb page.
Please Murder Me
How's that for a title? Lawyer Raymond Burr
(seeming very much like Perry Mason) brilliantly defends Angela Lansbury, who
seems certain to be found guilty of murdering her husband, who was Burr's best
friend! Instead of spoiling it for you, I'll just say that a couple of
surprises lie ahead for him. It's a wonder this film was allowed to become p.d.
Don't miss it. Also appearing are Dick Foran, John Dehner, Lamont Johnson, and
Denver Pyle...
Keywords: murder; lawyer; Raymond Burr; noir;
thriller; Angela Lansbury; Perry Mason; Dick Foran; John Dehner; Denver
Pyle
The Hitch-Hiker
Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up a
hitch-hiker (William Talman) who turns out to be an insane escaped convict.
Keywords: suspense; terror; hitch-hiker; murder;
convict
The Scar - Steve Sekely
"Harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to
impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy
visuals and a very fine script that features a creative doppelganger theme." -
noir expert Spencer Selby Also titled "Hollow Triumph". Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan
Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen. 82 min.
Keywords: film noir, Joan Bennett, The Scar
The Chase - Seymour
Nebenzal, Eugene Frenke
Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran
Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve
Cochran), a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends.
The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help
Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) to escape. The
result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out
through dark streets...
Keywords: Film-Noir; Peter Lorre
Detour - Leon Fromkess
"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that
make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise
elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer
Selby A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000, but
cost $117,000 to make. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund
MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Roger Clark, Pat Gleason, Esther Howard...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery;
Thriller
Five Minutes to Live / AKA
Door-to-Door Maniac - James Ellsworth
A gang of bank robbers (Johnny Cash) terrorize a
small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.
Keywords: Crime; Music; Drama; Thriller
Fear in the Night - L.B.
Merman, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas
A film noir shocker, based on the story Nightmare
by Cornell Woorlich, in which average Joe Vince Grayson (De Forest Kelley)
dreams he murders someone and wakes up to find it may not have been a dream.
This is worth it for the clever plot twists alone.
Keywords: Film-Noir; Mystery; De Forest
Kelley
Woman on the Run
In San Francisco, a woman tries to track down her
husband, who is hiding from a killer and from the police. The IMDB entry is
here.
Keywords: noir; crime; suspense; thriller;
murder; witness
Scarlet Street - Fritz
Lang
"Sultry woman's boyfriend has her hook
middle-aged clerk for his money, leading first to ironic and then tragic
complications. Second of a pair of closely related middle class nightmares
directed by Fritz Lang. (Remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 French film, La
Chienne.)" - noir expert Spencer Selby
Keywords: Drama; Noir; Mystery
Stranger, The - Sam
Spiegel
Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger
is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the
Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has
assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new
intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme
Court justice. Originally uploaded by k-otic.com
Keywords: WWII; Suspense; Drama; Mystery
The Strange Love of Martha
Ivers - Lewis Milestone
"Man is waylaid by chance in old home town, meets
a girl down on her luck and a turbulent couple with whom he shares a dark
childhood secret. Significant noir melodrama focusing on provocative,
intermingling relationships of neurotic love, guilt and fear." - noir expert
Spencer Selby Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
(his first film), Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Darryl Hickman...
Keywords: Martha Ivers, Lewis Milestone,
Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas
Shock - Aubrey Schenck
This post-World War II suspense thriller sets off
an emotional roller coaster after the psychologically fragile wife of a POW
(Anabel Shaw) witnesses a brutal murder from a hotel window while waiting to be
reunited with her husband (Frank Latimer). By the time he arrives, she's nearly
comatose with shock. The hotel's psychiatrist (Vincent Price) is called in to
help Film noir classic, noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and
high-contrast lighting.
Keywords: Horror; Thriller; Film-Noir
D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
Acclaimed film noir story of man trying
desperately to find who has given him a slow-acting fatal dose of radium.
Keywords: suspense; film noir
Whistle Stop - Seymour
Nebenzal , Philip Yordan
When beautiful Mary (Ava Gardner) returns home to
her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two
of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
Keywords: Drama; Crime; Film-Noir; Ava
Gardner
Beat the Devil - John
Huston
This is a DVD image. Beat the Devil This movie
has not become a cult classic for nothing. Among its other merits, it is one of
the few films where a film noir is mixed with a comedy. It’s a whose who of
actors of it’s vintage and is directed by John Huston. It stars Humphrey
Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre.
Keywords: Humphrey Bogart; Jennifer Jones; Gina
Lollobrigida
The Second Woman - Mort
Briskin, Robert Smith
Robert Young plays Jeff Cohalan, a young man
whose wife was murdered while they were on their honeymoon, and who is plagued
by strange accidents and visions of her death. He meets a beautiful young woman
on a train, Ellen (Betsy Drake), and it becomes apparent that the two are very
attracted to one another. Ellen soon learns about Jeff's past and is quickly
drawn into his strange dark world, even when she begins to realize that Jeff
may be much more dangerous than he seems.
Keywords: Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery
Behind Green Lights
The action begins when a car occupied by the
corpse of a sleazy private detective glides down a hill and winds up in front
of a police station. (The title of the film stems from the fact that police
stations used to have green lights at the entrance.) Currently (2010-02-23) the
movie is rated 7.2 at the IMDB! Some of the stars are William Gargan, Carole
Landis, John Ireland, Charles Russell, and Don Beddoe...
Keywords: William Gargan; crime; drama; noir;
murder; mystery; police; reporters; John Ireland; Charles Russell; Don
Beddoe
Borderline - Milton H.
Bren
Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor are caught in
Mexican dope-smuggling ring, fearing each other is involved, but both
undercover agents. Cast includes Raymond Burr. For more info on this film see
its IMDB.com entry
Keywords: crime; adventure
Jigsaw - Edward J. and
Harry Lee Danziger
The plot is about a shadowy group called the
Crusaders, which has been organizing itself into a power center. Its poster
shows a handsome Aryan lad against the waving American flag. Their slogan,
"Join The Crusaders -- Fight for America!". The implication is clear...the
Crusaders will be against anyone who doesn't look, sound or believe the way
that Aryan poster boy does. When a columnist is killed while looking into the
Crusaders, Howard Malloy finds himself appointed a special prosecutor...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir
Detour
In a classic poverty-row noir, the protagonist
struggles helplessly in the grip of inexorable fate. Currently rated 7.4 at the
IMDB. This was the first poverty-row film chosen by the Library of Congress for
its National Film Registry, in 1992.
Keywords: noir; Tom Neal; Ann Savage; poverty
row; suspense; P.R.C
The Lady Confesses
Mary Beth Hughes, about to be married to Hugh
Beaumont, receives a visit from his previous wife, who was presumed dead. And
then the woman is found murdered. The video is interlaced in both the MPEG2
file and the Cinepack. If viewing with VLC, deinterlace with menu-path
Video/Deinterlace/Blend.
Keywords: Hugh Beaumont; Mary Beth Hughes;
murder
The Limping Man - Donald
Ginsberg
World War II vet Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges)
returns to London from America after six years to look up an old flame, Pauline
French (Moira Lister), now a successful actress. As he and the other passengers
deplane and walk across to the terminal, Frank pauses for a moment and asks the
man beside him for a light. There's a gunshot and the man crumples to the
ground, shot by a marksman with a high-powered rifle, an assassin with a
limp...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Lloyd Bridges
Jail Bait - Edward D Wood
Jr
Jail Bait (1954) Directed by Edward D Wood Jr. A
Howco Release A vicious criminal uses plastic surgery to escape the police.This
movie features Steve Reeves (undubbed). This is the original version of the
film released in 1954. This film was registered for copyright (1954 LP3883) and
never renewed. It entered the public domain on 1 January 1983.
Keywords: Edward D Wood Jr; Mystery; Crime
Thriller; Steve Reeves; Delores Fuller; Lyle Talbot; Ed Wood
The Amazing Mr. X - Ben
Stoloff
1948 B thriller shot by renowned cinematographer
John Alton, who was also involved with the following films already available on
the archive: T-Men (1947), He walked by night (1948), Hollow triumph (aka The
scar) (1948), The crooked way (1949), Reign of Terror (1949) and The big combo
(1955). IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040829/ Two years after the
accidental death of her husband, Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) is trying to put
her life back together and move forward...
Keywords: Turhan Bey; Lynn Bari; Cathy O'Donnell;
Richard Carlson; John Alton; Film Noir
Guest in the House
(1944)
Story of a young woman's obsessive love. Evelyn
(Anne Baxter), an emotionally unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor
Dan Proctor (Scott McKay). She meets and falls in love with the doctors brother
Douglas, but he is already happily married. Evelyn decides she will break up
the marriage. Mystic Nights Videos
Fear in the Night
DeForest Kelley in a Cornell Woolrich story. This
is a better copy than what is already on this site.
Keywords: suspense; thriller; murder; mystery;
noir
Big Bluff - W. Lee
Wilder
You can find more information regarding this film
on its IMDb page.
Blonde Ice (1948)
A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines
by marrying a series of wealthy men. They all die mysteriously afterwards
though. Mystic Nights Videos
Keywords: Robert Paige; Leslie Brooks; Russ
Vincent; Michael Whalen; Mystic Nights Videos
Strange Illusion - Edgar G.
Ulmer
"Adolescent believes that his widowed mother's
suitor may have murdered his father. Stylish cheapie by the recognized master
of stylish cheapies." - noir expert Spencer Selby
A Fool There Was 1915
Starring: Theda Bara, Edward Jos?,
Mabel Frenyear, Frank Powell, Creighton Hale.Notes: Silent 60 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
The film that launched the "Vamp" genre.
While away from his family on a foreign business cruise, a virtuous diplomat is
seduced and controlled by a beautiful, heartless woman. Based on the poem "The
Vampire" by Rudyard Kipling. Dir. Frank
Powell.
A Modern Musketeer
1918
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Tully Marshall.Notes: Silent 35 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
Due to his mother's obsession with French
novelist Alexandre Dumas, a Kansas lad is possessed with the spirit of
D'Artagnan, and must protect an innocent young girl from a lecherous old
millionaire. Filmed at the Grand Canyon. Written and Edited by Allan Dwan. Dir.
Allan Dwan.
A Mormon Maid 1917
Starring: Mae Murray, Frank
Borzage, Noah Beery, Hobart Bosworth, Richard Cummings.Notes: Silent 60 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Young woman & her family are saved
from Indian attack by a Mormon community, but are forced into a world of
bigamy, rape and
suicide.
A Student Of Prague
1913
Starring: Paul Wegener, Grete
Berger, Lothar Koerner.Notes:
German Silent 60
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Early filming of the "Faust" legend, as a
student sells his reflection to the Devil in order to get a beautiful girl.
German titles. Dir. Paul
Wegener.
American Aristocracy
1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel
Carmen, Albert Parker.Notes:
Silent 52
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Entomologist falls for a wealthy
industrialist's daughter, who is engaged to a Malted Milk Magnate that is
illegally shipping gunpowder to Mexico. Written by Anita Loos. Dir. Lloyd
Ingraham.
Americano 1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Alma
Reubens, Charlie Stevens.Notes:
Silent 58
mins RT:
B&W 1917
In a South American country, Fairbanks is
arrested by a tyranical politician, and finds he must lead a jailbreak to free
the country's president and his beautiful daughter from the dungeons and
restore political stability. Written by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Edgar
G. Ulmer.
Atlantis 1913
Starring: Olaf Fonss, Frederik
Jacobsen, Carl Lauritzen, Ida Orloff, Ebba Thomsen, Charles Unthan Notes:
Drama, Silent 113
mins 1913
Babes In The Woods
1917
Starring: Francis Carpenter,
Virginia Lee Corbin, Carmen De Rue.Notes:
Silent 44
mins RT:
B&W 1917
To test his wife's fidelity, a wealthy
man disappears after making his two children the chief beneficiaries of his
will, and soon finds that his wife and brother are conspiring to kill the
children for the money. Dir. Charles and Sidney
Franklin.
Bargain 1915
Starring: William S. Hart, J. Frank
Burke, Clara Williams.Notes:
British Silent 70
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Outlaw is wounded on his last heist and is
nursed back to health by a kindly miner and his pretty daughter. He tries to go
straight, but his past catches up to him when two miners recognize him from a
wanted poster.
Betsy Ross 1917
Starring: Alice Brady, John
BowersNotes:
Silent ##
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Birth Of A Nation
1915
Starring: Dorothy Gish, Lillian
Gish, Mae Marsh, Richard Barthelmess.Notes:
Silent 200
mins RT:
B&W,Color-tinted 1915
Controversial, sweeping drama of the
American South before and after the Civil War, including the rise of the KKK.
Dir. D.W. Griffith On A.F.I.'s top 100 of all
time.
Birth of Race 1918
1918
Blacks' views on BIRTH OF A NATION.
COLOR-TINTED.
Blind Husbands 1919
Starring: Sam DeGrasse, Francelia
Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Jack Perrin.Notes: Silent 67 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
During a vacation in the Alps, a famous
surgeon's neglected wife is wooed by an Austrian cavalry officer. Written by
Erich von Stroheim. Dir. Erich von
Stroheim.
Blue Blazes Rawden
1918
Starring: William S. Hart, Robert
McKim, Hart Hoxie.Notes:
Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Rugged lumberjack takes up residence at a
hotel and immediately gets in trouble by beating the hotel owner at cards and
stealing his girl. Dir. William S.
Hart.
Bolshevism On Trial
1919
Starring: Robert Frazer, Leslie
Stowe, Jim Savage, Pinna Nesbit.Notes:
Silent 80
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Social worker and soldier yearn for a
society where all are equals. To cure his son of such idealistic views, the
soldier's father sets up a commune on an island off the Florida coast to prove
it could never work.
Broken Blossoms 1919
Starring: Lillian GishNotes:
Silent 71
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Dir. D.W. Griffith. Weepy Victorian
melodrama with beautiful and stylish photography. Sensitive performances. Gish
is protected from the violence of life on the docks of the London Limehouse
district.
Broken Hearts Of
Broadway1919
Starring: Colleen Moore, John
Walker.Notes:
Silent 85
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Very early Moore in dramatic role, as the
successes and failures of various performers, producers, and other residents of
Broadway are examined.
Busher, The 1919
Starring: Colleen Moore, Jack
Gilbert, Charles Ray, Jay Morley.Notes:
Silent 54
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Hick pitcher's quick rise in the baseball
world turns him into a snob, and when he begins snubbing his home town friends,
his pitching suffers and he gets sent back to the bush-leagues. Produced by
Thomas Ince.
Cheat, The 1915
Starring: Fanny WardNotes:
Silent w/ Music 59
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Dir. De Mille. A High Society woman gets
into a mess when she bets the 10,000 dollars shehas been entrusted with (for
the Red Cross!) into the stock market, and she needs toget the money somehow,
so she turns to her friend, an Asian salesman, who has his own
ideas.
Civilization 1916
Notes: Silent w/ Music 87 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Dir. Thomas Ince. Jesus walks through
blotty battlefields in this classic silent about the horror and trajedy of
war.
Count Of Monte
Cristo1912
Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1912
Classic tale of man who is torn away from
his family and unjustly imprisoned for years before he can make his escape and
realize his plans for
revenge.
Custer's Last Fight
1912
Notes: Silent 50 mins
RT:
B&W 1912
Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Sioux and
Cheyenne tribes fight the white
man.
D'artagnan 1916
Starring: Orin Johnson, Dorothy
Dalton, Walt Whitman, George Fisher.Notes:
Silent 63
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Young D'Artagnan travels to France,
befriends the Three Musketeers and must protect the monarchy from being
discredited by the power hungry Cardinal
Richelieu.
Dancer's Peril 1917
Starring: Alice Brady, Philip Hahn,
Montague Love, Johnny Hines.Notes:
Silent 53
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Russian court refuses to recognize a
duke's marriage to a common ballerina, leaving her open to an assassination
plot. She flees the country, giving her daughter to the matron of a Ballerina
School to raise.
David Copperfield
1913
Notes: British Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1913
Dickens Classic tale, this is reported to
be the first feature length film made in England. COLOR
TINTED.
Down To Earth 1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen
Percy, Gustave von Seyffertitz.Notes:
British Silent 68
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Big game hunter returns home to find his
true love in a mental institution for the wealthy after suffering a nervous
breakdown. He proceeds to buy the Hospital, and takes all the hypocondriacs on
his yacht, which gets shipwrecked on a desert island. Written by Douglas
Fairbanks, Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Maclean
Rogers.
Eyes Of Youth 1919
Starring: Clara Kimaball Young,
Gareth Hughes, Edmund Lowe, Rudolph Valentino.Notes: Silent 78 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
Young woman gets help from an East Indian
fortune teller as to which path she should take in life: to marry for money or
for love, or to pursue a career in
opera.
False Faces 1919
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Lon
Chaney, Mary Anderson, Milton Ross.Notes:
British Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Lone Wolf is commissioned by the British
to find a German master spy who has set up headquarters in America. Dir. Carol
Reed.
Flirting With Fate
1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Howard
Gaye, Jewel Carmen, Lillian Langdon.Notes:
Silent 51
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Girlfriend of a penniless artist dumps
him, so he hires a hitman to kill him; but when the artist's life starts taking
a new direction, he decides he wants to live! What now? Dir. Frank
McDonald.
Forbidden City 1918
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Thomas
Meighan, A.E. Warren.Notes:
Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Chinese girl secretly marries a visiting
American official and lives happily for years, but in his absence, her father
offers her to the emperor's harem. Dir. Sidney A.
Franklin.
From The Manger To The
Cross 1915
Starring: Religious
(Silent)71
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Early silent about
Jesus
Girl's Folly, A 1917
Starring: Robert
WarwickNotes:
Silent w/ Music 66
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Farm girl falls in love with a movie star
shooting a film near her
farm.
Going Straight 1916
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Ralph
Lewis, Eugene Pallette, Carmen De Rue.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Reformed husband-and-wife criminal team
are now respected and affluent members of the community, until a former
associate threatens to expose them unless they help him pull one more heist.
COLOR TINTED.
Heart Of A Hero 1916
Starring: Robert Warwick, Gail
Kane, Alec B. Francis, Henry West.Notes:
Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Story of Nathan Hale, a revolutionary who
quickly rises through the ranks of the American militia, eventually becoming a
spy against the British.
Heart Of Humanity
1919
Starring: Dorothy Phillips, William
Stowell, Erich Von Stroheim, Walt Whitman, Lloyd Hughes.Notes: Silent 110 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
French girl marries one of five Canadian
brothers who all enlist to fight in Europe during WWI. Written by Allen
Holubar. Dir. Allen
Holubar.
Heart Of Texas Ryan
1916
Starring: George Fawcett, Tom Mix,
Bessie Eyton, Frank Campeau.Notes:
French Silent 56
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Straight-shooting, hard-riding cowpoke
falls hard for the daughter of a rugged cattle baron, but learns she has been
kidnapped by an evil Mexican
bandit.
Heart Of The Hills
1919
Starring: Mary PickfordNotes:
Silent ##
mins RT:
B&W 1919
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 also had a small role.
Hearts Of The World
1918
Starring: Lillian Gish, Robert
Harron, Dorothy Gish, George Fawcett, Josephine Crowell.Notes: Silent 100 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
French artist's son goes off to WWI and
eventually infiltrates enemy lines as a spy when his village is shelled by the
Germans, causing his girlfriend to go insane from the loss of her family.
Produced by D.W. Griffith. Dir. William Christy
Cabanne.
Hell's Hinges 1916
Starring: William S. Hart, Clara
Williams, Robert Mckim, Jean Hersholt.Notes: Silent 57 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Weak-willed Reverend is killed trying to
clean up the lawless town of Hell's Hinges, making bad guy Hart go straight to
avenge the murder. Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Dir. Andrew L.
Stone.
His Majesty The
American1919
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Lilian Langdon.Notes: British Silent 77 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
Millionaire thrill-seeker travels to a
small European kingdom to find his long lost mother and discover the source of
the mysterious income that supports him. Written by Joseph
Henabery.
His Majesty The Scarecrow Of
Oz 1914
Starring: Violet MacMillan, Frank
Moore, Mildred Harris, Fred Woodward.Notes:
Silent 80
mins RT:
B&W 1914
Also THE MAGIC CLOAK OF OZ. Two classic
stories from the creator of the Wonderful World of Oz. In "His Majesty" Dorothy
must enlist the help of all her Oz friends when she is enslaved by an evil
witch. In "Magic Cloak", Fluff of the Golden Hair and her brother Bud must
retrieve a coat that gives its owner one wish. Written by L. Frank Baum. Dir.
Joseph Henabery.
His Picture In The
Papers1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Clarence Handyside, Jean Temple, Loretta Blake.Notes: Silent 68 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Vegetarian health food tycoon is
embarassed by his carnivorous son, and states that junior must get his picture
in the paper before he can receive a half interest in the business and marry
his true love. Written by John Emerson and Anita Loos. Dir. L. Frank
Baum.
Intolerance 1916
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh,
Lillian Langdon, Constance Talmadge, Elmo Lincoln, Fred Turner, Lloyd Ingraham,
Eugene Pallette, more stars than we can list here!Notes: Silent 178 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Griffith"'s sweeping epic detailing four
eras (Judean, Midieval French, Babylonian, and Present Day) of predjudice and
inhumanity. Intense, melodramatic, influential film that set the stage for
American cinema to come. Produced, Written, Directed, Edited, and Score
Arranged by D.W. Griffith. Dir. Herbert
Wilcox.
Italian 1915
Starring: George Beban, Clara
Williams, J. Frank Burke.Notes:
Silent 78
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Italian immigrant in the slums of early
1900s New York is beaten and robbed while getting medicine for his unhealthy
baby. He is arrested for defending himself against his attackers, and swears
revenge when his baby dies while he is in prison. Written and Produced by
Thomas H. Ince. Dir. Reginald
Barker.
Judith Of Bethulia
1913
Starring: Blanche Sweet, Henry
Walthall, Mae Marsh, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmo
Lincoln.Notes:
Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Apocryphal Old Testament story of a
beautiful young widow who must betray the man she is falling in love with to
save her people from his
army.
Juve Contre Fantomas
1913
Starring: Rene Navarre.Notes:
Silent 45
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Action serial about a mysterious
black-hooded villain called Fantomas and Juve, the police inspector who
relentlessly pursues him. English
titles.
Lamb, The 1915
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Seena
Owen, Lillian Langdon.Notes:
Silent 60
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Son of a wealthy New York family loses
his fiancee when he's shown to be a coward during a beach bathing incident, but
must prove to be a man when his sweetie is kidnapped by Yaqui Indians.
Fairbanks' film debut. Written by William Christy Cabanne, Supervised by D.W.
Griffith.
Little American 1917
Starring: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt,
Raymond Hatton, Walter Long, James Neil, Wallace Beery, Colleen
Moore.Notes:
Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Young woman agrees to help the French
against Germany when she finds out her aunt has died and her lover is fighting
for the Germans. Written by Jeanie MacPherson and Cecil B. DeMille. Dir. Cecil
B. DeMille.
Love of Sunya 1914
Notes: (Silent w/ Music)
79
mins RT:
B&W 1914
In ancient Egypt, an evil priest drove a
pure maiden to suicide. In today's reincarnation, to free himself the priest
must find and help the maiden...now a young American singing student, Sunya
Ashling, who is torn between pursuing a career in European opera, going to
South America with fianc?e Paul, or saving her father from financial ruin by
marrying wealthy Robert Goring. The ancient priest, reincarnated as a gypsy
vagabond, grants her visions of her future life if she should follow each of
the three roads. Does each have a fatal
drawback?
Magic Cloak Of Oz,
The1914
Notes: Silent ## mins
RT:
B&W 1914
Produced Directed by L. Frank
Baum
Male And Female 1919
Starring: Thomas Meighan, Theodore
Roberts, Gloria Swanson, Raymond Hatton, Lila Lee, Bebe Daniels.Notes:
British Silent 110
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Educated butler secretly loves his lord's
daughter, while a scullery maid loves the butler, and shipwreck on a remote
island further confuses the situation. Written by Jeanie
Macpherson.
Man From Painted
Post1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen
Percy, Frank Campeau, Monte Blue.Notes:
Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Detective Doug dons the duds of a dude as
he goes undercover to thwart a gang of cattle rustlers who decide to add
kidnapping to their list of nefarious deeds. Written by Douglas Fairbanks. Dir.
Joseph Henabery.
Man From Texas 1915
Starring: Tom Mix, Bessie
Eylon.Notes:
Silent 40
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Mix is on the trail of his murdering
brother-in-law in this compilation of early Mix shorts. COLOR TINTED. Dir.
Joseph Kane.
Matrimaniac 1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Constance Talmadge, Clyde Hopkins, Fred Warren.Notes: Italian
Silent 48
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Man goes to great lengths to marry a
woman against her father's wishes, but what will they do when the bride, groom,
and reverend are separated by insurmountable circumstances? Written by Anita
Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Mario
Bava.
Mickey 1917
Starring: Mabel Normand, George
Nichols, Wheeler Oakman, Minta Durfee, Lew Cody, Minnie Ha Ha.Notes:
Silent 93
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Young orphan girl is brought up by her
father's gold mining partner and is invited to stay with a rich aunt, but when
the mine is proved to be worthless, the aunt forces the girl to become a
servant. Watch for Edgar Kennedy as a bookie and William Colvin as the butler.
Produced by Mack
Sennett.
Miracle Man
/Oubliette1919
Starring: Lon Chaney.Notes:
Silent 40
mins RT:
B&W 1919
The only remaining footage (5 minutes) of
THE MIRACLE MAN, a film about a gang of misfits, one of which can dislocate his
limbs, who terrorize Chinatown sightseers. *PLUS* The earliest existing Chaney
film, a version of the life of Francois
Villon.
My Four Years In
Germany1918
Starring: Halbert Brown, Willard
Dashiell, Louis Dean, Earl Schenk, Ann Dearing.Notes: Silent 105 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
Propaganda film based on the autobiography
of James W. Gerard, the U.S Ambassador to Germany from 1913-1917. Gerard
assisted Nigh in direction, and reportedly had a clause in his contract which
stated that the film could not be changed without his consent. Edited by
William Nigh, who also has a bit part as a socialist. Dir. Elliot
Nugent.
Narrow Trail 1917
Starring: William S. Hart, Sylvia
Breamer, Milton Ross, Bob Kortman.Notes:
Silent 56
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Tough cowboy with a troubled past hopes a
good woman can save him, but he finds out she is being victimized by her uncle.
Written by William S. Hart. Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Dir. William S. Hart,
Lambert Hillyer
Old Heidelberg 1915
Starring: Dorothy Gish, Wallace
Reid, Erich von Stroheim, Raymond Wells.Notes: British Silent 35 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
Karl Heinrich, Germany's young, bored and
lonely heir apparent, is sent to the University of Heidelberg where he becomes
enamored with an innkeeper's daughter, but is forced to choose between love and
duty. Written by John Emerson. Supervised by D.W. Griffith. Dir. Marcel
Varnel
Passion (Aka
Dubarry)1919
Starring: Emil Jannings, Pola
Negri.Notes:
Silent 105
mins RT:
B&W 1919
French country girl uses love affairs to
climb the social ladder, until she becomes a courtesan to King Louis XV.
English titles.
Patchwork Girl Of Oz,
The1914
Starring: Frank Moore, Pierre
Couderc, Fred Woodward, Violet MacMillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred
Harris.Notes:
Silent 56
mins RT:
B&W 1914
The Liquid of Petrification has been
spilled, and Nunkie, Margolotte, and Dr. Pipt's daughter have been turned to
stone! It's up to The Patchwork Girl and the Munchkins to find the ingredients
for the antidote: a six-leafed clover, three hairs from a Woozy's tail and gill
water from The Dark Well. Written and Produced by L. Frank Baum. Dir. J.
Farrell MacDonald.
Poor Little Rich
Girl1916
Starring: Mary Pickford, Madeline
Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks.Notes: Silent 64 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Title character is neglected by her
fun-loving parents, and left to be raised by a harsh servant. When the servant
wants an evening off, she gives the little girl an overdose of sleeping pills,
making her dangerously
ill.
Power Of Press 1914
Starring: Alan Hale, Lionel
Barrymore.Notes:
Silent 45
mins RT:
B&W 1914
A man falsely imprisoned through the
testimony of the real criminal, and must be exhonerated by "the power of the
press", a reporter who learns of his
innocence.
Pride Of Clan 1916
Starring: Mary Pickford, Matt
Moore, Warren Cook, Joel Day.Notes:
Silent 67
mins RT:
B&W 1916
When her chieftan father dies at sea, a
young woman takes command of the Clan. Dir. Maurice
Tourneur.
Queen Elizabeth 1912
Starring: Sarah Bernhardt, Lou
Tellegen.Notes:
British Silent 45
mins RT:
B&W 1912
Story of love, adultery and vengeance in
the court of the Queen.
Raffles, The Amateur
Cracksman 1917
Starring: John Barrymore, Frederick
Perry, Nigel Bruce, Frank Morgan, Evelyn Brent.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Exploits of a thief and his run-ins with
Scotland Yard, as well as with the wealthy citizens of London. Dir. Otto Brower
and Breezy Eason.
Raven, The 1915
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Warda
Howard, Ernest Maupain, Eleanor Thompson, Frank Hamilton.Notes: Silent 50 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
Psuedo-biographical tale of tortured poet
Edgar Allan Poe, from the death of his Irish immigrant mother, to his descent
into alcoholism and
hallucinations.
Reaching For The
Moon1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Richard Cummings, Eileen Percy, Frank Campeau.Notes: Silent 60 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Lowly clerk in a New York button factory
takes up the philosophy that a person may have anything he wants if he
concentrates on it. This costs him his job, but he soon finds he has been
proclaimed King in the country of Vulgaria. Written by Anita Loos and John
Emerson. Dir. Edmund
Goulding.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook
Farm1917
Notes: Silent 70 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Young girl is adopted by two stern aunts
to relieve her overworked mother, but her girlish ways make the austere aunts
send her packing to boarding school. Dir. John
Emerson.
Regeneration 1915
Notes: Silent 72 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
Early silent.
Reggie Mixes In 1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie
Love, Joseph Singleton, Frank Bennett, Lillian Langdon.Notes: Silent 58 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Wealthy man is charmed by dancer, and
takes a job as a bouncer in the bar where she works. Dir. Arthur
Dreifuss.
Roaring Road, The
1919
Starring: Wallace Reid, Ann Little,
Theodore Roberts, Guy Oliver.Notes:
Silent 57
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Car salesman continually fights with his
boss to let him drive in a big race, and marry his daughter. Dir. James
Cruze.
Scarlet Car 1917
Starring: Franklyn Farnum, Al
Filson, Lon Chaney, Edith Johnson.Notes:
Silent 50
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Town idler must find the bank embezzlers
who murdered a small-town bank teller, who happens to be his girlfriend's
father.
Seven Keys To
Baldpate1917
Starring: George M. Cohan, Anna Q.
Nilsson, Elda Furry, Joseph Smiley, Warren Cook.Notes: Italian
Silent 73
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Writer checks into the Baldpate Inn, and
makes a bet with the owner that he can begin a novel at midnight and finish it
before midnight of the next day. Written by Hugh
Ford.
She 1911
Starring: James Cruze.Notes:
Silent 20
mins RT:
B&W 1911
Earliest version of the classic Haggard
fantasy about a lost race and the beautiful, immortal queen, "She Who Must Be
Obeyed". Dir. Roger
Corman.
Shifting Sands 1918
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Joe King,
Harvey Clark, Lillian Langdon.Notes:
Silent 52
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Artist is framed by Clark and sent to jail
when she rejects his advances. Clark becomes a WWI spy for the Germans and
continues to threaten the artist's life, now that she's out of prison and
married to a wealthy
philanthropist.
Sold For Marriage
1916
Starring: Lillian Gish, Frank
Bennett, Walter Long, Pearl Elmore, William E. Lowry.Notes: Silent 43 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Young Russian girl's aunt and uncle try
to sell her into marriage to a wealthy scoundrel, but she is in love with a
peasant boy. Dir. Harry
Fraser.
Son Of A Gun 1919
Starring: G.M. Bronco Billy
Anderson, Joy Lewis, Fred Church.Notes:
Silent 68
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Unpredictable cowboy with a deadly aim is
banished from country for disturbing the peace. Produced and Written by G.M.
Anderson and Jesse J. Robbins. Dir. Victor
Schertizinger.
Son Of Man 1915
Notes: Silent 68 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
The Story of Jesus, filmed in Judea. A
print of this film was sent to a French convent in 1928, and over 200,000
frames have been hand-COLORED by
nuns.
Spoilers, The 1914
Starring: William Farnum, Tom
SantchiNotes:
Silent ##
mins RT:
B&W 1914
Stella Maris 1918
Starring: Mary Pickford, Conway
Tearle, Marcia Manon, Ida Waterman.Notes:
Silent 72
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Pickford in dual role as Stella, a
beloved, crippled young girl who has been brought up by adoring relatives and
servants, and as Unity, a cruelly treated orphan. Dir. Charles
Riesner.
Tarzan Of The Apes
1918
Starring: Elmo Lincoln, Enid
Markey, Gordon Griffith, Kathleen Kirkham.Notes: Silent 63 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
FIRST filming of the Edgar Rice Burroughs
novel about Lord and Lady Greystoke, who are shipwrecked in a remote jungle,
and their offspring who becomes The Lord of the Apes. Written by Scott
Sidney.
Three Brothers 1918
Starring: Wallace Reid.Notes:
Silent 35
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Orphan girl is adopted by family which has
three brothers each of whom are in love with
her.
Tillie Wakes Up 1917
Starring: Marie Dressler, Johnny
HinesNotes: Silent ## mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Tillie's Punctured
Romance1914
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Marie
Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Bennett, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Charley
Chase, Slim Summerville, Al Fuzzy St. John, Keystone Kops.Notes: Silent 73 mins
RT:
B&W 1914
Slick gigalo Chaplin convinces a naive
rich girl to steal money from her father and join him in the big city. Hailed
as the first American feature-length film, it also marks Chaplin's feature film
debut. Produced by Mack Sennett. Dir. Mack
Sennett
Torture Of Silence,
The1917
Starring: Emmy Linn.Notes:
French Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Psychological triangle wherein a doctor's
neglected wife looks for love in the form of her husband's best friend. English
titles. Dir. Abel
Gance.
Traffic In Souls 1913
Starring: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin,
Matt Moore, Irene Wallace.Notes:
Silent 50
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Two sisters are hired by a renowned
philanthropist who is actually the leader of a group of white slavers, and they
must use their wits to free the enslaved women. Written by George Loane Tucker.
Dir. George Loane
Tucker.
True Heart Susie 1919
Notes: Silent 90 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
Country girl secretly pays for her
sweetheart's education, but when he returns, he marries another. Dir. D.W.
Griffith.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1914
Starring: Sam Lucas, Hattie Delero,
Irving Cummings.Notes:
Silent 60
mins RT:
B&W 1914
Two versions of the classic Harriet
Beecher Stowe tale of slavery. Latter version features Sam Lucas, the first
black man to get the lead role in a movie, and also stars Hattie Delero, Irving
Cummings.(1903 & 1914) Dir. Robert
Daly.
Virginian, The 1914
Starring: Dustin Farnum, J.W.
Johnston, Billy Elmer, H.B. Carpenter, Tex Driscoll.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1914
Happy-go-lucky cowboy must go after his
best friend when the latter joins an outlaw gang. Based on the novel and play
by Owen Wister.
When The Clouds Roll
By1919
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau, Ralph Lewis, Albert MacQuarrie.Notes:
Silent 77
mins RT:
B&W 1919
New York broker blames his bad luck on an
opal ring which he throws away, only to be picked up by the beautiful daughter
of an oil baron, with whom he falls in love and must protect from a
gold-digging suitor. Written by Douglas Fairbanks and Thomas
Geraghty.
Whip, The 1917
Starring: Alma Hanlon, June
Elvidge, Irving Cummings, Warren Cook.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Devious bookie has a plan to ruin his
rival for the affections of a judge's daughter. "The Whip" is an uncontrollable
but fleet-footed racehorse around which the story revolves. Dir. Maurice
Tourneur.
Wild And Wooly 1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen
Percy, Joseph Singleton, Walter Bytell, Calvin Carter.Notes: Silent 58 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Railroad tycoon sends his cowboy-obsessed
son Fairbanks to the West to check on a railroad deal and cure him of his
preoccupation, but Doug soon finds himself in the middle of train holdups,
Indian raids and kidnappings; there's even a heroine named Nell!. Written by
Anita Loos and Horace P.
Carpenter.
Wishing Ring, The
1915
Starring: Vivian Martin, Alec B.
Francis, Chester Barnett, John Hines.Notes:
Silent 50
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Carousing son of an Earl is disowned
"until he can earn half a crown". The son takes a job as a gardener and falls
in love with a poor minister's daughter, who makes friends with the Earl in
order to bring the family together. Would make an interesting double-feature
with John Wayne's "His Private Secretary". Written by Maurice Tourneur. Dir.
Maurice Tourneur.
Comedy Coming soon
He Walked By Night - Bryan
Foy
Gripping film noir crime drama about a manhunt
for a ruthless killer who plays a deadly cat and mouse game with the police.
Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, and Jack Webb, this movie
was the basis for "Dragnet". Watch for Whit Bissell, the unsung but solid bit
player who has appeared in hundreds of films and TV shows
Keywords: crime drama; manhunt; film noir
The File On Thelma Jordan -
Break Wind Studios
Thelma Jordon (Barbara Stanwyck), late one night,
shows up in the office of married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey).
Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair.
But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help wondering if she is
hiding something. Thelma has a plan up her sleeve that will ruin Corey if his
love for her and his own weakness win out...
Keywords: Crime; mystery; Barbara Stanwyck
The Saint Louis Bank Robbery
Steve McQueen stars in a gritty, downbeat, and
sometimes savage heist movie that features a gang of very psychologically
warped men and a story that's based on an actual crime. Warning: this film is
devoid of humor, wit, cheerfulness, glamor, and mercy. It's grim to the brim.
Some will find that viewing it is an unpleasant experience. This movie is in
the public domain. Video-Cellar wrote: The film was originally published
without a notice, but most prints currently in circulation are later te...
Keywords: Steve McQueen; Crahan Denton; David
Clarke; bank robbery; heist; Saint Louis; St. Louis
The Red House - Sol Lesser
"Middle-aged farmer goes to extreme lengths to
protect the dark secret associated with a deserted house on his property. Murky
psychological thriller with resonant settings and an emotive Miklos Rozsa
score." - noir expert Spencer Selby
Keywords: Thriller; Film-Noir; Mystery
The Big Combo - Boo
Police captain Peterson (Robert Middleton) storms
into the office of police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) critical of
Diamond's spending exorbitant amounts of the city budget and his own personal
money in an attempt to arrest a crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Peterson
says it is a waste of time trying to find something incriminating to bring Mr.
Brown to justice because his crime combo does business without accounting
books, and furthermore Peterso...
Keywords: syndicate, crime, Cornel Wilde, Brian
Donlevy, film noir, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman, Robert Middleton
The Man Who Cheated Himself
- Felix E. Feist
"Tough cop helps his lover cover up the shooting
of her wealthy husband. Mainstream noir, primarily distinguished by its acting
and San Francisco visuals." - noir expert Spencer Shelby Cast: Lee J. Cobb,
John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard. 81 min.
Too Late for Tears
This is pure noir. Lizabeth Scott and Arthur
Kennedy are a couple who receive a satchel full of money that was intended for
someone else (Dan Duryea). He wants to turn the cash over to the authorities;
she wants to keep it---no matter what the consequences: "Jane, Jane, what's
happening to us---what's happening. The money sits down there in an old leather
bag and yet it's tearing us apart. It's poison, Jane...
Keywords: noir; suspense; murder; crime
Inner Sanctum - Richard B.
Morros
You can find more information regarding this film
on its IMDb page.
Please Murder Me
How's that for a title? Lawyer Raymond Burr
(seeming very much like Perry Mason) brilliantly defends Angela Lansbury, who
seems certain to be found guilty of murdering her husband, who was Burr's best
friend! Instead of spoiling it for you, I'll just say that a couple of
surprises lie ahead for him. It's a wonder this film was allowed to become p.d.
Don't miss it. Also appearing are Dick Foran, John Dehner, Lamont Johnson, and
Denver Pyle...
Keywords: murder; lawyer; Raymond Burr; noir;
thriller; Angela Lansbury; Perry Mason; Dick Foran; John Dehner; Denver
Pyle
The Hitch-Hiker
Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up a
hitch-hiker (William Talman) who turns out to be an insane escaped convict.
Keywords: suspense; terror; hitch-hiker; murder;
convict
The Scar - Steve Sekely
"Harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to
impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy
visuals and a very fine script that features a creative doppelganger theme." -
noir expert Spencer Selby Also titled "Hollow Triumph". Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan
Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen. 82 min.
Keywords: film noir, Joan Bennett, The Scar
The Chase - Seymour
Nebenzal, Eugene Frenke
Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran
Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve
Cochran), a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends.
The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help
Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) to escape. The
result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out
through dark streets...
Keywords: Film-Noir; Peter Lorre
Detour - Leon Fromkess
"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that
make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise
elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer
Selby A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000, but
cost $117,000 to make. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund
MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Roger Clark, Pat Gleason, Esther Howard...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery;
Thriller
Five Minutes to Live / AKA
Door-to-Door Maniac - James Ellsworth
A gang of bank robbers (Johnny Cash) terrorize a
small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.
Keywords: Crime; Music; Drama; Thriller
Fear in the Night - L.B.
Merman, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas
A film noir shocker, based on the story Nightmare
by Cornell Woorlich, in which average Joe Vince Grayson (De Forest Kelley)
dreams he murders someone and wakes up to find it may not have been a dream.
This is worth it for the clever plot twists alone.
Keywords: Film-Noir; Mystery; De Forest
Kelley
Woman on the Run
In San Francisco, a woman tries to track down her
husband, who is hiding from a killer and from the police. The IMDB entry is
here.
Keywords: noir; crime; suspense; thriller;
murder; witness
Scarlet Street - Fritz
Lang
"Sultry woman's boyfriend has her hook
middle-aged clerk for his money, leading first to ironic and then tragic
complications. Second of a pair of closely related middle class nightmares
directed by Fritz Lang. (Remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 French film, La
Chienne.)" - noir expert Spencer Selby
Keywords: Drama; Noir; Mystery
Stranger, The - Sam
Spiegel
Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger
is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the
Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has
assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new
intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme
Court justice. Originally uploaded by k-otic.com
Keywords: WWII; Suspense; Drama; Mystery
The Strange Love of Martha
Ivers - Lewis Milestone
"Man is waylaid by chance in old home town, meets
a girl down on her luck and a turbulent couple with whom he shares a dark
childhood secret. Significant noir melodrama focusing on provocative,
intermingling relationships of neurotic love, guilt and fear." - noir expert
Spencer Selby Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
(his first film), Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Darryl Hickman...
Keywords: Martha Ivers, Lewis Milestone,
Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas
Shock - Aubrey Schenck
This post-World War II suspense thriller sets off
an emotional roller coaster after the psychologically fragile wife of a POW
(Anabel Shaw) witnesses a brutal murder from a hotel window while waiting to be
reunited with her husband (Frank Latimer). By the time he arrives, she's nearly
comatose with shock. The hotel's psychiatrist (Vincent Price) is called in to
help Film noir classic, noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and
high-contrast lighting.
Keywords: Horror; Thriller; Film-Noir
D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
Acclaimed film noir story of man trying
desperately to find who has given him a slow-acting fatal dose of radium.
Keywords: suspense; film noir
Whistle Stop - Seymour
Nebenzal , Philip Yordan
When beautiful Mary (Ava Gardner) returns home to
her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two
of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
Keywords: Drama; Crime; Film-Noir; Ava
Gardner
Beat the Devil - John
Huston
This is a DVD image. Beat the Devil This movie
has not become a cult classic for nothing. Among its other merits, it is one of
the few films where a film noir is mixed with a comedy. It’s a whose who of
actors of it’s vintage and is directed by John Huston. It stars Humphrey
Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre.
Keywords: Humphrey Bogart; Jennifer Jones; Gina
Lollobrigida
The Second Woman - Mort
Briskin, Robert Smith
Robert Young plays Jeff Cohalan, a young man
whose wife was murdered while they were on their honeymoon, and who is plagued
by strange accidents and visions of her death. He meets a beautiful young woman
on a train, Ellen (Betsy Drake), and it becomes apparent that the two are very
attracted to one another. Ellen soon learns about Jeff's past and is quickly
drawn into his strange dark world, even when she begins to realize that Jeff
may be much more dangerous than he seems.
Keywords: Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery
Behind Green Lights
The action begins when a car occupied by the
corpse of a sleazy private detective glides down a hill and winds up in front
of a police station. (The title of the film stems from the fact that police
stations used to have green lights at the entrance.) Currently (2010-02-23) the
movie is rated 7.2 at the IMDB! Some of the stars are William Gargan, Carole
Landis, John Ireland, Charles Russell, and Don Beddoe...
Keywords: William Gargan; crime; drama; noir;
murder; mystery; police; reporters; John Ireland; Charles Russell; Don
Beddoe
Borderline - Milton H.
Bren
Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor are caught in
Mexican dope-smuggling ring, fearing each other is involved, but both
undercover agents. Cast includes Raymond Burr. For more info on this film see
its IMDB.com entry
Keywords: crime; adventure
Jigsaw - Edward J. and
Harry Lee Danziger
The plot is about a shadowy group called the
Crusaders, which has been organizing itself into a power center. Its poster
shows a handsome Aryan lad against the waving American flag. Their slogan,
"Join The Crusaders -- Fight for America!". The implication is clear...the
Crusaders will be against anyone who doesn't look, sound or believe the way
that Aryan poster boy does. When a columnist is killed while looking into the
Crusaders, Howard Malloy finds himself appointed a special prosecutor...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir
Detour
In a classic poverty-row noir, the protagonist
struggles helplessly in the grip of inexorable fate. Currently rated 7.4 at the
IMDB. This was the first poverty-row film chosen by the Library of Congress for
its National Film Registry, in 1992.
Keywords: noir; Tom Neal; Ann Savage; poverty
row; suspense; P.R.C
The Lady Confesses
Mary Beth Hughes, about to be married to Hugh
Beaumont, receives a visit from his previous wife, who was presumed dead. And
then the woman is found murdered. The video is interlaced in both the MPEG2
file and the Cinepack. If viewing with VLC, deinterlace with menu-path
Video/Deinterlace/Blend.
Keywords: Hugh Beaumont; Mary Beth Hughes;
murder
The Limping Man - Donald
Ginsberg
World War II vet Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges)
returns to London from America after six years to look up an old flame, Pauline
French (Moira Lister), now a successful actress. As he and the other passengers
deplane and walk across to the terminal, Frank pauses for a moment and asks the
man beside him for a light. There's a gunshot and the man crumples to the
ground, shot by a marksman with a high-powered rifle, an assassin with a
limp...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Lloyd Bridges
Jail Bait - Edward D Wood
Jr
Jail Bait (1954) Directed by Edward D Wood Jr. A
Howco Release A vicious criminal uses plastic surgery to escape the police.This
movie features Steve Reeves (undubbed). This is the original version of the
film released in 1954. This film was registered for copyright (1954 LP3883) and
never renewed. It entered the public domain on 1 January 1983.
Keywords: Edward D Wood Jr; Mystery; Crime
Thriller; Steve Reeves; Delores Fuller; Lyle Talbot; Ed Wood
The Amazing Mr. X - Ben
Stoloff
1948 B thriller shot by renowned cinematographer
John Alton, who was also involved with the following films already available on
the archive: T-Men (1947), He walked by night (1948), Hollow triumph (aka The
scar) (1948), The crooked way (1949), Reign of Terror (1949) and The big combo
(1955). IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040829/ Two years after the
accidental death of her husband, Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) is trying to put
her life back together and move forward...
Keywords: Turhan Bey; Lynn Bari; Cathy O'Donnell;
Richard Carlson; John Alton; Film Noir
Guest in the House
(1944)
Story of a young woman's obsessive love. Evelyn
(Anne Baxter), an emotionally unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor
Dan Proctor (Scott McKay). She meets and falls in love with the doctors brother
Douglas, but he is already happily married. Evelyn decides she will break up
the marriage. Mystic Nights Videos
Fear in the Night
DeForest Kelley in a Cornell Woolrich story. This
is a better copy than what is already on this site.
Keywords: suspense; thriller; murder; mystery;
noir
Big Bluff - W. Lee
Wilder
You can find more information regarding this film
on its IMDb page.
Blonde Ice (1948)
A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines
by marrying a series of wealthy men. They all die mysteriously afterwards
though. Mystic Nights Videos
Keywords: Robert Paige; Leslie Brooks; Russ
Vincent; Michael Whalen; Mystic Nights Videos
Strange Illusion - Edgar G.
Ulmer
"Adolescent believes that his widowed mother's
suitor may have murdered his father. Stylish cheapie by the recognized master
of stylish cheapies." - noir expert Spencer Selby
A Fool There Was 1915
Starring: Theda Bara, Edward Jos?,
Mabel Frenyear, Frank Powell, Creighton Hale.Notes: Silent 60 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
The film that launched the "Vamp" genre.
While away from his family on a foreign business cruise, a virtuous diplomat is
seduced and controlled by a beautiful, heartless woman. Based on the poem "The
Vampire" by Rudyard Kipling. Dir. Frank
Powell.
A Modern Musketeer
1918
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Tully Marshall.Notes: Silent 35 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
Due to his mother's obsession with French
novelist Alexandre Dumas, a Kansas lad is possessed with the spirit of
D'Artagnan, and must protect an innocent young girl from a lecherous old
millionaire. Filmed at the Grand Canyon. Written and Edited by Allan Dwan. Dir.
Allan Dwan.
A Mormon Maid 1917
Starring: Mae Murray, Frank
Borzage, Noah Beery, Hobart Bosworth, Richard Cummings.Notes: Silent 60 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Young woman & her family are saved
from Indian attack by a Mormon community, but are forced into a world of
bigamy, rape and
suicide.
A Student Of Prague
1913
Starring: Paul Wegener, Grete
Berger, Lothar Koerner.Notes:
German Silent 60
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Early filming of the "Faust" legend, as a
student sells his reflection to the Devil in order to get a beautiful girl.
German titles. Dir. Paul
Wegener.
American Aristocracy
1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel
Carmen, Albert Parker.Notes:
Silent 52
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Entomologist falls for a wealthy
industrialist's daughter, who is engaged to a Malted Milk Magnate that is
illegally shipping gunpowder to Mexico. Written by Anita Loos. Dir. Lloyd
Ingraham.
Americano 1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Alma
Reubens, Charlie Stevens.Notes:
Silent 58
mins RT:
B&W 1917
In a South American country, Fairbanks is
arrested by a tyranical politician, and finds he must lead a jailbreak to free
the country's president and his beautiful daughter from the dungeons and
restore political stability. Written by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Edgar
G. Ulmer.
Atlantis 1913
Starring: Olaf Fonss, Frederik
Jacobsen, Carl Lauritzen, Ida Orloff, Ebba Thomsen, Charles Unthan Notes:
Drama, Silent 113
mins 1913
Babes In The Woods
1917
Starring: Francis Carpenter,
Virginia Lee Corbin, Carmen De Rue.Notes:
Silent 44
mins RT:
B&W 1917
To test his wife's fidelity, a wealthy
man disappears after making his two children the chief beneficiaries of his
will, and soon finds that his wife and brother are conspiring to kill the
children for the money. Dir. Charles and Sidney
Franklin.
Bargain 1915
Starring: William S. Hart, J. Frank
Burke, Clara Williams.Notes:
British Silent 70
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Outlaw is wounded on his last heist and is
nursed back to health by a kindly miner and his pretty daughter. He tries to go
straight, but his past catches up to him when two miners recognize him from a
wanted poster.
Betsy Ross 1917
Starring: Alice Brady, John
BowersNotes:
Silent ##
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Birth Of A Nation
1915
Starring: Dorothy Gish, Lillian
Gish, Mae Marsh, Richard Barthelmess.Notes:
Silent 200
mins RT:
B&W,Color-tinted 1915
Controversial, sweeping drama of the
American South before and after the Civil War, including the rise of the KKK.
Dir. D.W. Griffith On A.F.I.'s top 100 of all
time.
Birth of Race 1918
1918
Blacks' views on BIRTH OF A NATION.
COLOR-TINTED.
Blind Husbands 1919
Starring: Sam DeGrasse, Francelia
Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Jack Perrin.Notes: Silent 67 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
During a vacation in the Alps, a famous
surgeon's neglected wife is wooed by an Austrian cavalry officer. Written by
Erich von Stroheim. Dir. Erich von
Stroheim.
Blue Blazes Rawden
1918
Starring: William S. Hart, Robert
McKim, Hart Hoxie.Notes:
Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Rugged lumberjack takes up residence at a
hotel and immediately gets in trouble by beating the hotel owner at cards and
stealing his girl. Dir. William S.
Hart.
Bolshevism On Trial
1919
Starring: Robert Frazer, Leslie
Stowe, Jim Savage, Pinna Nesbit.Notes:
Silent 80
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Social worker and soldier yearn for a
society where all are equals. To cure his son of such idealistic views, the
soldier's father sets up a commune on an island off the Florida coast to prove
it could never work.
Broken Blossoms 1919
Starring: Lillian GishNotes:
Silent 71
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Dir. D.W. Griffith. Weepy Victorian
melodrama with beautiful and stylish photography. Sensitive performances. Gish
is protected from the violence of life on the docks of the London Limehouse
district.
Broken Hearts Of
Broadway1919
Starring: Colleen Moore, John
Walker.Notes:
Silent 85
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Very early Moore in dramatic role, as the
successes and failures of various performers, producers, and other residents of
Broadway are examined.
Busher, The 1919
Starring: Colleen Moore, Jack
Gilbert, Charles Ray, Jay Morley.Notes:
Silent 54
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Hick pitcher's quick rise in the baseball
world turns him into a snob, and when he begins snubbing his home town friends,
his pitching suffers and he gets sent back to the bush-leagues. Produced by
Thomas Ince.
Cheat, The 1915
Starring: Fanny WardNotes:
Silent w/ Music 59
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Dir. De Mille. A High Society woman gets
into a mess when she bets the 10,000 dollars shehas been entrusted with (for
the Red Cross!) into the stock market, and she needs toget the money somehow,
so she turns to her friend, an Asian salesman, who has his own
ideas.
Civilization 1916
Notes: Silent w/ Music 87 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Dir. Thomas Ince. Jesus walks through
blotty battlefields in this classic silent about the horror and trajedy of
war.
Count Of Monte
Cristo1912
Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1912
Classic tale of man who is torn away from
his family and unjustly imprisoned for years before he can make his escape and
realize his plans for
revenge.
Custer's Last Fight
1912
Notes: Silent 50 mins
RT:
B&W 1912
Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Sioux and
Cheyenne tribes fight the white
man.
D'artagnan 1916
Starring: Orin Johnson, Dorothy
Dalton, Walt Whitman, George Fisher.Notes:
Silent 63
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Young D'Artagnan travels to France,
befriends the Three Musketeers and must protect the monarchy from being
discredited by the power hungry Cardinal
Richelieu.
Dancer's Peril 1917
Starring: Alice Brady, Philip Hahn,
Montague Love, Johnny Hines.Notes:
Silent 53
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Russian court refuses to recognize a
duke's marriage to a common ballerina, leaving her open to an assassination
plot. She flees the country, giving her daughter to the matron of a Ballerina
School to raise.
David Copperfield
1913
Notes: British Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1913
Dickens Classic tale, this is reported to
be the first feature length film made in England. COLOR
TINTED.
Down To Earth 1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen
Percy, Gustave von Seyffertitz.Notes:
British Silent 68
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Big game hunter returns home to find his
true love in a mental institution for the wealthy after suffering a nervous
breakdown. He proceeds to buy the Hospital, and takes all the hypocondriacs on
his yacht, which gets shipwrecked on a desert island. Written by Douglas
Fairbanks, Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Maclean
Rogers.
Eyes Of Youth 1919
Starring: Clara Kimaball Young,
Gareth Hughes, Edmund Lowe, Rudolph Valentino.Notes: Silent 78 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
Young woman gets help from an East Indian
fortune teller as to which path she should take in life: to marry for money or
for love, or to pursue a career in
opera.
False Faces 1919
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Lon
Chaney, Mary Anderson, Milton Ross.Notes:
British Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Lone Wolf is commissioned by the British
to find a German master spy who has set up headquarters in America. Dir. Carol
Reed.
Flirting With Fate
1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Howard
Gaye, Jewel Carmen, Lillian Langdon.Notes:
Silent 51
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Girlfriend of a penniless artist dumps
him, so he hires a hitman to kill him; but when the artist's life starts taking
a new direction, he decides he wants to live! What now? Dir. Frank
McDonald.
Forbidden City 1918
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Thomas
Meighan, A.E. Warren.Notes:
Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Chinese girl secretly marries a visiting
American official and lives happily for years, but in his absence, her father
offers her to the emperor's harem. Dir. Sidney A.
Franklin.
From The Manger To The
Cross 1915
Starring: Religious
(Silent)71
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Early silent about
Jesus
Girl's Folly, A 1917
Starring: Robert
WarwickNotes:
Silent w/ Music 66
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Farm girl falls in love with a movie star
shooting a film near her
farm.
Going Straight 1916
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Ralph
Lewis, Eugene Pallette, Carmen De Rue.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Reformed husband-and-wife criminal team
are now respected and affluent members of the community, until a former
associate threatens to expose them unless they help him pull one more heist.
COLOR TINTED.
Heart Of A Hero 1916
Starring: Robert Warwick, Gail
Kane, Alec B. Francis, Henry West.Notes:
Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Story of Nathan Hale, a revolutionary who
quickly rises through the ranks of the American militia, eventually becoming a
spy against the British.
Heart Of Humanity
1919
Starring: Dorothy Phillips, William
Stowell, Erich Von Stroheim, Walt Whitman, Lloyd Hughes.Notes: Silent 110 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
French girl marries one of five Canadian
brothers who all enlist to fight in Europe during WWI. Written by Allen
Holubar. Dir. Allen
Holubar.
Heart Of Texas Ryan
1916
Starring: George Fawcett, Tom Mix,
Bessie Eyton, Frank Campeau.Notes:
French Silent 56
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Straight-shooting, hard-riding cowpoke
falls hard for the daughter of a rugged cattle baron, but learns she has been
kidnapped by an evil Mexican
bandit.
Heart Of The Hills
1919
Starring: Mary PickfordNotes:
Silent ##
mins RT:
B&W 1919
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 also had a small role.
Hearts Of The World
1918
Starring: Lillian Gish, Robert
Harron, Dorothy Gish, George Fawcett, Josephine Crowell.Notes: Silent 100 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
French artist's son goes off to WWI and
eventually infiltrates enemy lines as a spy when his village is shelled by the
Germans, causing his girlfriend to go insane from the loss of her family.
Produced by D.W. Griffith. Dir. William Christy
Cabanne.
Hell's Hinges 1916
Starring: William S. Hart, Clara
Williams, Robert Mckim, Jean Hersholt.Notes: Silent 57 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Weak-willed Reverend is killed trying to
clean up the lawless town of Hell's Hinges, making bad guy Hart go straight to
avenge the murder. Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Dir. Andrew L.
Stone.
His Majesty The
American1919
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Lilian Langdon.Notes: British Silent 77 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
Millionaire thrill-seeker travels to a
small European kingdom to find his long lost mother and discover the source of
the mysterious income that supports him. Written by Joseph
Henabery.
His Majesty The Scarecrow Of
Oz 1914
Starring: Violet MacMillan, Frank
Moore, Mildred Harris, Fred Woodward.Notes:
Silent 80
mins RT:
B&W 1914
Also THE MAGIC CLOAK OF OZ. Two classic
stories from the creator of the Wonderful World of Oz. In "His Majesty" Dorothy
must enlist the help of all her Oz friends when she is enslaved by an evil
witch. In "Magic Cloak", Fluff of the Golden Hair and her brother Bud must
retrieve a coat that gives its owner one wish. Written by L. Frank Baum. Dir.
Joseph Henabery.
His Picture In The
Papers1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Clarence Handyside, Jean Temple, Loretta Blake.Notes: Silent 68 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Vegetarian health food tycoon is
embarassed by his carnivorous son, and states that junior must get his picture
in the paper before he can receive a half interest in the business and marry
his true love. Written by John Emerson and Anita Loos. Dir. L. Frank
Baum.
Intolerance 1916
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh,
Lillian Langdon, Constance Talmadge, Elmo Lincoln, Fred Turner, Lloyd Ingraham,
Eugene Pallette, more stars than we can list here!Notes: Silent 178 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Griffith"'s sweeping epic detailing four
eras (Judean, Midieval French, Babylonian, and Present Day) of predjudice and
inhumanity. Intense, melodramatic, influential film that set the stage for
American cinema to come. Produced, Written, Directed, Edited, and Score
Arranged by D.W. Griffith. Dir. Herbert
Wilcox.
Italian 1915
Starring: George Beban, Clara
Williams, J. Frank Burke.Notes:
Silent 78
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Italian immigrant in the slums of early
1900s New York is beaten and robbed while getting medicine for his unhealthy
baby. He is arrested for defending himself against his attackers, and swears
revenge when his baby dies while he is in prison. Written and Produced by
Thomas H. Ince. Dir. Reginald
Barker.
Judith Of Bethulia
1913
Starring: Blanche Sweet, Henry
Walthall, Mae Marsh, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmo
Lincoln.Notes:
Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Apocryphal Old Testament story of a
beautiful young widow who must betray the man she is falling in love with to
save her people from his
army.
Juve Contre Fantomas
1913
Starring: Rene Navarre.Notes:
Silent 45
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Action serial about a mysterious
black-hooded villain called Fantomas and Juve, the police inspector who
relentlessly pursues him. English
titles.
Lamb, The 1915
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Seena
Owen, Lillian Langdon.Notes:
Silent 60
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Son of a wealthy New York family loses
his fiancee when he's shown to be a coward during a beach bathing incident, but
must prove to be a man when his sweetie is kidnapped by Yaqui Indians.
Fairbanks' film debut. Written by William Christy Cabanne, Supervised by D.W.
Griffith.
Little American 1917
Starring: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt,
Raymond Hatton, Walter Long, James Neil, Wallace Beery, Colleen
Moore.Notes:
Silent 65
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Young woman agrees to help the French
against Germany when she finds out her aunt has died and her lover is fighting
for the Germans. Written by Jeanie MacPherson and Cecil B. DeMille. Dir. Cecil
B. DeMille.
Love of Sunya 1914
Notes: (Silent w/ Music)
79
mins RT:
B&W 1914
In ancient Egypt, an evil priest drove a
pure maiden to suicide. In today's reincarnation, to free himself the priest
must find and help the maiden...now a young American singing student, Sunya
Ashling, who is torn between pursuing a career in European opera, going to
South America with fianc?e Paul, or saving her father from financial ruin by
marrying wealthy Robert Goring. The ancient priest, reincarnated as a gypsy
vagabond, grants her visions of her future life if she should follow each of
the three roads. Does each have a fatal
drawback?
Magic Cloak Of Oz,
The1914
Notes: Silent ## mins
RT:
B&W 1914
Produced Directed by L. Frank
Baum
Male And Female 1919
Starring: Thomas Meighan, Theodore
Roberts, Gloria Swanson, Raymond Hatton, Lila Lee, Bebe Daniels.Notes:
British Silent 110
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Educated butler secretly loves his lord's
daughter, while a scullery maid loves the butler, and shipwreck on a remote
island further confuses the situation. Written by Jeanie
Macpherson.
Man From Painted
Post1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen
Percy, Frank Campeau, Monte Blue.Notes:
Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Detective Doug dons the duds of a dude as
he goes undercover to thwart a gang of cattle rustlers who decide to add
kidnapping to their list of nefarious deeds. Written by Douglas Fairbanks. Dir.
Joseph Henabery.
Man From Texas 1915
Starring: Tom Mix, Bessie
Eylon.Notes:
Silent 40
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Mix is on the trail of his murdering
brother-in-law in this compilation of early Mix shorts. COLOR TINTED. Dir.
Joseph Kane.
Matrimaniac 1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Constance Talmadge, Clyde Hopkins, Fred Warren.Notes: Italian
Silent 48
mins RT:
B&W 1916
Man goes to great lengths to marry a
woman against her father's wishes, but what will they do when the bride, groom,
and reverend are separated by insurmountable circumstances? Written by Anita
Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Mario
Bava.
Mickey 1917
Starring: Mabel Normand, George
Nichols, Wheeler Oakman, Minta Durfee, Lew Cody, Minnie Ha Ha.Notes:
Silent 93
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Young orphan girl is brought up by her
father's gold mining partner and is invited to stay with a rich aunt, but when
the mine is proved to be worthless, the aunt forces the girl to become a
servant. Watch for Edgar Kennedy as a bookie and William Colvin as the butler.
Produced by Mack
Sennett.
Miracle Man
/Oubliette1919
Starring: Lon Chaney.Notes:
Silent 40
mins RT:
B&W 1919
The only remaining footage (5 minutes) of
THE MIRACLE MAN, a film about a gang of misfits, one of which can dislocate his
limbs, who terrorize Chinatown sightseers. *PLUS* The earliest existing Chaney
film, a version of the life of Francois
Villon.
My Four Years In
Germany1918
Starring: Halbert Brown, Willard
Dashiell, Louis Dean, Earl Schenk, Ann Dearing.Notes: Silent 105 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
Propaganda film based on the autobiography
of James W. Gerard, the U.S Ambassador to Germany from 1913-1917. Gerard
assisted Nigh in direction, and reportedly had a clause in his contract which
stated that the film could not be changed without his consent. Edited by
William Nigh, who also has a bit part as a socialist. Dir. Elliot
Nugent.
Narrow Trail 1917
Starring: William S. Hart, Sylvia
Breamer, Milton Ross, Bob Kortman.Notes:
Silent 56
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Tough cowboy with a troubled past hopes a
good woman can save him, but he finds out she is being victimized by her uncle.
Written by William S. Hart. Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Dir. William S. Hart,
Lambert Hillyer
Old Heidelberg 1915
Starring: Dorothy Gish, Wallace
Reid, Erich von Stroheim, Raymond Wells.Notes: British Silent 35 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
Karl Heinrich, Germany's young, bored and
lonely heir apparent, is sent to the University of Heidelberg where he becomes
enamored with an innkeeper's daughter, but is forced to choose between love and
duty. Written by John Emerson. Supervised by D.W. Griffith. Dir. Marcel
Varnel
Passion (Aka
Dubarry)1919
Starring: Emil Jannings, Pola
Negri.Notes:
Silent 105
mins RT:
B&W 1919
French country girl uses love affairs to
climb the social ladder, until she becomes a courtesan to King Louis XV.
English titles.
Patchwork Girl Of Oz,
The1914
Starring: Frank Moore, Pierre
Couderc, Fred Woodward, Violet MacMillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred
Harris.Notes:
Silent 56
mins RT:
B&W 1914
The Liquid of Petrification has been
spilled, and Nunkie, Margolotte, and Dr. Pipt's daughter have been turned to
stone! It's up to The Patchwork Girl and the Munchkins to find the ingredients
for the antidote: a six-leafed clover, three hairs from a Woozy's tail and gill
water from The Dark Well. Written and Produced by L. Frank Baum. Dir. J.
Farrell MacDonald.
Poor Little Rich
Girl1916
Starring: Mary Pickford, Madeline
Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks.Notes: Silent 64 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Title character is neglected by her
fun-loving parents, and left to be raised by a harsh servant. When the servant
wants an evening off, she gives the little girl an overdose of sleeping pills,
making her dangerously
ill.
Power Of Press 1914
Starring: Alan Hale, Lionel
Barrymore.Notes:
Silent 45
mins RT:
B&W 1914
A man falsely imprisoned through the
testimony of the real criminal, and must be exhonerated by "the power of the
press", a reporter who learns of his
innocence.
Pride Of Clan 1916
Starring: Mary Pickford, Matt
Moore, Warren Cook, Joel Day.Notes:
Silent 67
mins RT:
B&W 1916
When her chieftan father dies at sea, a
young woman takes command of the Clan. Dir. Maurice
Tourneur.
Queen Elizabeth 1912
Starring: Sarah Bernhardt, Lou
Tellegen.Notes:
British Silent 45
mins RT:
B&W 1912
Story of love, adultery and vengeance in
the court of the Queen.
Raffles, The Amateur
Cracksman 1917
Starring: John Barrymore, Frederick
Perry, Nigel Bruce, Frank Morgan, Evelyn Brent.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Exploits of a thief and his run-ins with
Scotland Yard, as well as with the wealthy citizens of London. Dir. Otto Brower
and Breezy Eason.
Raven, The 1915
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Warda
Howard, Ernest Maupain, Eleanor Thompson, Frank Hamilton.Notes: Silent 50 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
Psuedo-biographical tale of tortured poet
Edgar Allan Poe, from the death of his Irish immigrant mother, to his descent
into alcoholism and
hallucinations.
Reaching For The
Moon1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Richard Cummings, Eileen Percy, Frank Campeau.Notes: Silent 60 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Lowly clerk in a New York button factory
takes up the philosophy that a person may have anything he wants if he
concentrates on it. This costs him his job, but he soon finds he has been
proclaimed King in the country of Vulgaria. Written by Anita Loos and John
Emerson. Dir. Edmund
Goulding.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook
Farm1917
Notes: Silent 70 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Young girl is adopted by two stern aunts
to relieve her overworked mother, but her girlish ways make the austere aunts
send her packing to boarding school. Dir. John
Emerson.
Regeneration 1915
Notes: Silent 72 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
Early silent.
Reggie Mixes In 1916
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie
Love, Joseph Singleton, Frank Bennett, Lillian Langdon.Notes: Silent 58 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Wealthy man is charmed by dancer, and
takes a job as a bouncer in the bar where she works. Dir. Arthur
Dreifuss.
Roaring Road, The
1919
Starring: Wallace Reid, Ann Little,
Theodore Roberts, Guy Oliver.Notes:
Silent 57
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Car salesman continually fights with his
boss to let him drive in a big race, and marry his daughter. Dir. James
Cruze.
Scarlet Car 1917
Starring: Franklyn Farnum, Al
Filson, Lon Chaney, Edith Johnson.Notes:
Silent 50
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Town idler must find the bank embezzlers
who murdered a small-town bank teller, who happens to be his girlfriend's
father.
Seven Keys To
Baldpate1917
Starring: George M. Cohan, Anna Q.
Nilsson, Elda Furry, Joseph Smiley, Warren Cook.Notes: Italian
Silent 73
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Writer checks into the Baldpate Inn, and
makes a bet with the owner that he can begin a novel at midnight and finish it
before midnight of the next day. Written by Hugh
Ford.
She 1911
Starring: James Cruze.Notes:
Silent 20
mins RT:
B&W 1911
Earliest version of the classic Haggard
fantasy about a lost race and the beautiful, immortal queen, "She Who Must Be
Obeyed". Dir. Roger
Corman.
Shifting Sands 1918
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Joe King,
Harvey Clark, Lillian Langdon.Notes:
Silent 52
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Artist is framed by Clark and sent to jail
when she rejects his advances. Clark becomes a WWI spy for the Germans and
continues to threaten the artist's life, now that she's out of prison and
married to a wealthy
philanthropist.
Sold For Marriage
1916
Starring: Lillian Gish, Frank
Bennett, Walter Long, Pearl Elmore, William E. Lowry.Notes: Silent 43 mins
RT:
B&W 1916
Young Russian girl's aunt and uncle try
to sell her into marriage to a wealthy scoundrel, but she is in love with a
peasant boy. Dir. Harry
Fraser.
Son Of A Gun 1919
Starring: G.M. Bronco Billy
Anderson, Joy Lewis, Fred Church.Notes:
Silent 68
mins RT:
B&W 1919
Unpredictable cowboy with a deadly aim is
banished from country for disturbing the peace. Produced and Written by G.M.
Anderson and Jesse J. Robbins. Dir. Victor
Schertizinger.
Son Of Man 1915
Notes: Silent 68 mins
RT:
B&W 1915
The Story of Jesus, filmed in Judea. A
print of this film was sent to a French convent in 1928, and over 200,000
frames have been hand-COLORED by
nuns.
Spoilers, The 1914
Starring: William Farnum, Tom
SantchiNotes:
Silent ##
mins RT:
B&W 1914
Stella Maris 1918
Starring: Mary Pickford, Conway
Tearle, Marcia Manon, Ida Waterman.Notes:
Silent 72
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Pickford in dual role as Stella, a
beloved, crippled young girl who has been brought up by adoring relatives and
servants, and as Unity, a cruelly treated orphan. Dir. Charles
Riesner.
Tarzan Of The Apes
1918
Starring: Elmo Lincoln, Enid
Markey, Gordon Griffith, Kathleen Kirkham.Notes: Silent 63 mins
RT:
B&W 1918
FIRST filming of the Edgar Rice Burroughs
novel about Lord and Lady Greystoke, who are shipwrecked in a remote jungle,
and their offspring who becomes The Lord of the Apes. Written by Scott
Sidney.
Three Brothers 1918
Starring: Wallace Reid.Notes:
Silent 35
mins RT:
B&W 1918
Orphan girl is adopted by family which has
three brothers each of whom are in love with
her.
Tillie Wakes Up 1917
Starring: Marie Dressler, Johnny
HinesNotes: Silent ## mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Tillie's Punctured
Romance1914
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Marie
Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Bennett, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Charley
Chase, Slim Summerville, Al Fuzzy St. John, Keystone Kops.Notes: Silent 73 mins
RT:
B&W 1914
Slick gigalo Chaplin convinces a naive
rich girl to steal money from her father and join him in the big city. Hailed
as the first American feature-length film, it also marks Chaplin's feature film
debut. Produced by Mack Sennett. Dir. Mack
Sennett
Torture Of Silence,
The1917
Starring: Emmy Linn.Notes:
French Silent 55
mins RT:
B&W 1917
Psychological triangle wherein a doctor's
neglected wife looks for love in the form of her husband's best friend. English
titles. Dir. Abel
Gance.
Traffic In Souls 1913
Starring: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin,
Matt Moore, Irene Wallace.Notes:
Silent 50
mins RT:
B&W 1913
Two sisters are hired by a renowned
philanthropist who is actually the leader of a group of white slavers, and they
must use their wits to free the enslaved women. Written by George Loane Tucker.
Dir. George Loane
Tucker.
True Heart Susie 1919
Notes: Silent 90 mins
RT:
B&W 1919
Country girl secretly pays for her
sweetheart's education, but when he returns, he marries another. Dir. D.W.
Griffith.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1914
Starring: Sam Lucas, Hattie Delero,
Irving Cummings.Notes:
Silent 60
mins RT:
B&W 1914
Two versions of the classic Harriet
Beecher Stowe tale of slavery. Latter version features Sam Lucas, the first
black man to get the lead role in a movie, and also stars Hattie Delero, Irving
Cummings.(1903 & 1914) Dir. Robert
Daly.
Virginian, The 1914
Starring: Dustin Farnum, J.W.
Johnston, Billy Elmer, H.B. Carpenter, Tex Driscoll.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1914
Happy-go-lucky cowboy must go after his
best friend when the latter joins an outlaw gang. Based on the novel and play
by Owen Wister.
When The Clouds Roll
By1919
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks,
Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau, Ralph Lewis, Albert MacQuarrie.Notes:
Silent 77
mins RT:
B&W 1919
New York broker blames his bad luck on an
opal ring which he throws away, only to be picked up by the beautiful daughter
of an oil baron, with whom he falls in love and must protect from a
gold-digging suitor. Written by Douglas Fairbanks and Thomas
Geraghty.
Whip, The 1917
Starring: Alma Hanlon, June
Elvidge, Irving Cummings, Warren Cook.Notes: Silent 55 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Devious bookie has a plan to ruin his
rival for the affections of a judge's daughter. "The Whip" is an uncontrollable
but fleet-footed racehorse around which the story revolves. Dir. Maurice
Tourneur.
Wild And Wooly 1917
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen
Percy, Joseph Singleton, Walter Bytell, Calvin Carter.Notes: Silent 58 mins
RT:
B&W 1917
Railroad tycoon sends his cowboy-obsessed
son Fairbanks to the West to check on a railroad deal and cure him of his
preoccupation, but Doug soon finds himself in the middle of train holdups,
Indian raids and kidnappings; there's even a heroine named Nell!. Written by
Anita Loos and Horace P.
Carpenter.
Wishing Ring, The
1915
Starring: Vivian Martin, Alec B.
Francis, Chester Barnett, John Hines.Notes:
Silent 50
mins RT:
B&W 1915
Carousing son of an Earl is disowned
"until he can earn half a crown". The son takes a job as a gardener and falls
in love with a poor minister's daughter, who makes friends with the Earl in
order to bring the family together. Would make an interesting double-feature
with John Wayne's "His Private Secretary". Written by Maurice Tourneur. Dir.
Maurice Tourneur.