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Gilbert Irving and Bertie Erroll have been inseparable companions since boyhood. At a house party Mrs. Allen announces the engagement of her...
The Temptress
A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.
Once a Gentleman
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Think It Over
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Come Live with Me
Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.
Shamus O'Brien
Lilly Meany has grown up amongst charlatans, including her father. She decides to become a faith healer, and her first victim, a rich hypochondriac...
The Cheater
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A modern artist named Raphael dreams that he is the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias, who has been commissioned by the wealthy Georgias to carve a...
The Marble Heart
Mission of the War Chest is a 1918 silent film.
Mission of the War Chest
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...
I Loved a Woman
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera...
A Night at the Opera
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races....
My Brother Talks to Horses
Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness he admires but whose money he really desires....
Life's Twist
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
The Emperor's Candlesticks
From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.
It May Happen to You
In the valley the world's best "eternal triangle" is being worked between a husband, a much younger wife and "one who covets." On the heights, the...
The Wanderer
Through a forged will, a crook assumes control of a valuable estate. He poses as the brother of a dead man, and endeavors to dispose of the deceased...
The Hawk's Trail
Puritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called away to a neighboring fishing village to care for her...
The Forbidden Thing
A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.
Girl of the Rio
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together....
Sweet Memories
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
A Notorious Gentleman
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When...
The Devil-Doll
A love story filled with amusing complications, but the contest is won by Dick because he believes that all is fair in love and manages to circumvent...
The Mirror
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer...
The Big Flash
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Sweepstakes
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
The Big Store
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...
A Night at the Movies
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Stronger Than Desire
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Sworn Enemy
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the...
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...
Mississippi
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz...
That Mothers Might Live
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
The Call of the Savage
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college...
Dancing Co-Ed
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...
Arsène Lupin Returns
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's...
The Red Rider
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a...
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The man is a mystery in the little town. He lives alone in his cabin and will not meet the advanced of his neighbors. One night he talks and tells...
The Silent Stranger
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...
I Take This Woman
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...
Merton of the Movies
Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon...
The Scarlet Letter
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
Dangerous Partners
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
Police Court
Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As...
Ivanhoe
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
The Philadelphia Story
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Gallant Sons
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
Bitter Sweet
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the...
The Bad Sister
George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a...
A Cave Man Wooing
Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in...
Up Against It
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
Graft
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Afraid to Talk
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
Her Cardboard Lover
The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but...
The Wife’s Awakening
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Chinatown Squad
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Jackass Mail
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Stablemates
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...
Honky Tonk
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
Opening Day
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her...
What Price Hollywood?
A lost film. Henry Jenkins, just released from prison visits his old confederate in crime, Basil King, who is living in affluence. King is not...
The Master and the Man
Lieutenant Robbins, a young naval officer, sees Haydee the favored inmate of the sultan's harem and is smitten by her charms. She is also interested...
In the Sultan's Garden
A lost film. The king is good-natured and doesn't suspect that the queen is plainly beginning to think too much of one of the courtiers. The queen's...
For the Queen's Honor
A lost film. Dan Nolan is on strike and in the depths of despair. He resolves to steal to help his plight. He enters the home of Homer Warren and the...
At a Quarter of Two
A lost film. Dr. Crawford and his wife with their little daughter, Elsie, are at home amusing themselves with the Scotch collie puppy, Imp, when...
Science
Americans arrive at their hotel in Cuba in a car, to make a movie. Romantic complications ensue while the cast and crew attempt to finish the movie.
Pictureland
A lost film. Dan Barret, a forger, is sought by Balfour, a detective. Barret finding the States a rather dangerous abiding place, goes to Cuba to...
Tracked
A lost film.
The Secret of the Palm
Two men attempt to commit suicide for vastly different reasons. They try various methods but find it increasingly difficult to finish the job.
While There is hope, There is Life
A lost film. Gertrude Edgar is loved by Tom Moreland and Owen Jackson, and Gertrude, being a woman, is inclined to a mild flirtation with Jackson,...
Second Sight
A lost film. Hugh Norton and Amy Gordon are sweethearts. Hugh receives an offer to enter the office of a business firm in the city. Hugh goes to the...
The Call of the Song
A lost film. Claude Marlow, Eugene Wilson and Fred Strong pose as a trio of mashers whom women cannot resist. However, They soon find have have met...
The Fair Dentist
A lost film. Gerald Kinney is a man with plenty of money and wild excesses. one day he leaves his club and motors out into the country. In a pretty...
The Rose's Story
A lost film. Louis Perry is discharged from the penitentiary, having served his sentence. He immediately resumes relations with his evil companions....
The Better Way
The Girl in the Taxi (1921)
The Girl in the Taxi
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...
The Death Kiss
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...
Boys Town
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills...
The Thrill Chaser
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
Torture Money
A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
The Eagle's Eye
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Romance in the Rain
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...
The Czar of Broadway
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother,...
The Secret Heart
Melodrama about an artist who finds out in time about the personal and social damage that his alcohol addiction causes.
Absinthe
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Fingers at the Window
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...
3 Kids and a Queen
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Rio Rita
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Over the Hills
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life...
Sweepstake Annie
At the Duke's Command
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...
The Ice Follies of 1939
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...
Marie Antoinette
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...
San Francisco
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Mad Holiday
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...
Ziegfeld Girl
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Swing Fever
The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of the film are Florence Lawrence (wife of the...
The Awakening of Bess
A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.
The Call of the Circus
Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.
The Count of Montebello
An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.
Debt
A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is...
The Eternal Triangle
A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.
A Game for Two
A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.
His Second Wife
A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
The Irony of Fate
Jane thinks she has witnessed a murder and the suspect is arrested; she later learns the truth and saves him from hanging.
Jane and the Stranger
When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.
Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens
Five days more! Only five more days says the physician, and the man who has for so long a time been totally blind will be able to take off the...
The Blind Man’s Tact
A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly realize what they mean to each other.
The Maelstrom
A young woman pulls a fast switch on the fiance handpicked by her father.
The Miser’s Daughter
A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location.
The New Shawl
Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This intention is a commendable one, to be sure, and...
Old Heads and Young Hearts
A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.
Once Upon a Time
Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things. When roses are pressed instead of a pair...
Pressed Roses
A couple goes to Reno to be divorced, but change their minds at the last moment.
A Reno Romance
Two girls fall for the same boy.
The Right of Love
A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her.
The Taming of Jane
After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart...
Transfusion
An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.
Two Men
A girl's affections waver between the winner of a boxing match, and a greedy count.
The Winning Punch
A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.
The Doctor's Perfidy
A short romance starring Florence Lawrence.
Love's Stratagem
A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend.
All the World’s a Stage
A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
The Great Universal Mystery
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
The Ghost Comes Home
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Beloved
When New York playwright Richard Warrington returns to his home town, Republican bosses nominate him for mayor. The Democrats, alarmed at Richard's...
Half a Rogue
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Although Dorenzo murders Betty Herron, a jury convicts her brother James, and sentences him to life imprisonment. Then, after James saves the...
The Man from Nowhere
Robert Gordon wants Donald, his son, to marry Sir Ralph Fisher's sister, but Donald loves Alice, a working-class girl, and weds her in secret.
The Suburban