Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr. 1924

8.07

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

1924

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921

6.60

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.

1921

The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow 1920

7.40

Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer's daughter.

1920

Scaramouche

Scaramouche 1923

7.20

A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.

1923

Neighbors

Neighbors 1920

7.10

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

1920

Convict 13

Convict 13 1920

6.70

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

1920

Blue Jeans

Blue Jeans 1917

5.50

June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past has come to town to make trouble. Teaming up with the local political bully, the schemers set out to make Perry's life miserable, but June sticks by her husband to the end.

1917

Peg o' My Heart

Peg o' My Heart 1922

7.00

PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.

1922

The Toll of the Sea

The Toll of the Sea 1923

6.20

A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, but he resolutely returns to his life, and wife, in America.

1923

The Unmarried Look

The Unmarried Look 1917

1

In spite of all the troubles (and successes) which the "unmarried look" causes Henry, he finally rises to the "very crown" of the hat business.

1917

Puppets of Fate

Puppets of Fate 1921

1

Gabriel Palombra, a Venetian Punchinello Street show operator decides to move to America leaving his wife, Sorrentina, behind, with a promise to send for her. In the United States, disillusioned, he takes a job as porter in a barbershop, but when he is rewarded for returning a lost pocketbook, manicurist "Babe" Reynolds persuades him to bet on a winning horse. Under her influence he rises to wealth. Meanwhile, Sorrentina arrives in New York and takes work as a flower girl.

1921

Threads of Fate

Threads of Fate 1917

1

Abandoned as an infant on a stranger’s doorstep by her faithless mother, Marcella, Dorothea is taken in by Tom & Sarah Wentworth who in time inherit a vast coal mine in Pennsylvania. Now a young woman “Dot” falls in love with veterinarian Dr. Grant Hunter but her social climbing mother frowns on the match. Sara has set her sights on the Marquis del Carnavacchi for her daughter unaware that he is both a mobster and the lover of her errant natural mother. By chance Dot’s real father, Jim Gregory, also resides in the town and as tensions rise, he and Marcella join to save Dot from both harm and marriage to the wrong man.

1917

Flower of the Dusk

Flower of the Dusk 1918

1

Blind Ambrose North is tormented by the suspicion that his wife Constance committed suicide when their crippled daughter Barbara was only two, because she did not love him. Before her death, Constance wrote Barbara a letter to be opened on the girl's twenty-first birthday, but when Barbara opens it and learns that her mother killed herself to escape a doomed love affair with Lawrence Austin, she invents a different story for Ambrose, knowing that the truth would hurt him too deeply.

1918

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth 1918

1

Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.

1918

Sherlock Brown

Sherlock Brown 1922

1

The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S. government. William Brown, a clerk who aspires to be a detective, has just received his badge from some anonymous Midwestern agency, and manages to get himself embroiled in the intrigue.

1922

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda 1922

6.20

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

1922

The Lucky Dog

The Lucky Dog 1921

5.83

In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.

1921

The Saphead

The Saphead 1920

5.80

Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter, and also nearly ruins the family business by selling off some stock at too low a price.

1920

Safety First

Safety First 1917

1

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew short, reported as extant, archived at the George Eastman Museum.

1917

Twelve Good Hens and True

Twelve Good Hens and True 1917

1

Mrs. Ryder, desirous of experimenting with chickens, persuades her husband to bring her home a dozen hens. The end of the first day finds her in tears because of the non-appearance of an expected dozen eggs.

1917