Topic: Silent Film

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Marcel Perez · Nilde Baracchi

Plot Only the second reel of this 1918 Jester comedy is known to survive. Twede-Dan is a private eye who has decided that Nilda Baracchi is a German spy.

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Andrée Brabant · Jean Dehelly · Gustave Libeau · Dinah Valence

Plot The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris to that of her compatriots.

Direction Marvin Breckinridge

Cast Mary Breckinridge

Plot A documentary which reenacts the lives and events of the midwives and nurses who setup and ran a clinic to help the people living in the Kentucky Appalachian Mountains.

Direction Scott Hammen

Plot Sequences taken from a filmed diary whose title refers to the following meanings of the English words "log" and "abstract" which seem to describe the film. "Log Abstract" is made...

Direction Burton L. King

Cast Harry Houdini · Arthur Maude · Albert Tavernier · Erwin Connelly

Plot The body of a man, Howard Hillary, frozen for a hundred years, is found in the Arctic ice. Thawed out and awakened, Hillary insists that a young woman, Felice, is...

Direction Josef Stein

Cast László Bakó · Dezsõ Bánóczi · Viktor Costa · Ilona Dömötör

Plot The cooper’s daughter, Zsuzsi, is being wooed by Peter. Her father doesn’t want to hear a word of it, as Peter drinks heavily. Before God, Peter vows never to drink...

Direction Tom Mix

Cast Tom Mix · C.W. Bachman · Goldie Colwell

Plot Tom and Dick are good friends, but they are both in love with the same young woman, Vera. Vera herself cannot decide which of the two suitors she prefers. Realizing...

Direction Charles Vanel

Cast Charles Vanel · Sandra Milovanoff

Direction Arthur Berthelet

Cast Mary McAllister · William Clifford · Carolyn Irwin · Granville Bates

Plot Abandoned by her stepfather, the orphaned Mona Fairfax, nicknamed Young Mother Hubbard by her neighbors, is forced to care for herself and her three siblings on the family farm. When...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Buddy Roosevelt · Nita Cavalier · Lafe McKee · Slim Whitaker

Direction Maurits Binger · Hans Nesna

Cast Annie Bos · Adelqui Migliar · Jan van Dommelen · Paula de Waart

Plot Tells the love tragedy of the young and insecure detective Joz, who, on the verge of getting married to Maryam, is assigned the high profile case of a murdered prostitute....