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Con artists and deep sea divers collide in this Thomas Ince produced adventure yarn. Hobart Bosworth is a diver trying to save his son from the clutches of a scheming city woman who wants to use his diving abilities to make a fortune in ill-gotten gains. Hobart Bosworth is one of those actors that read more

Miss Gish plays an innocent girl thrust into the harsh elements of the American West. The unceasing wind batters the landscape and begins to unravel her sanity. Silent cinema at its finest. For goodness sake, see it! In the interest of full disclosure: before starting this review, I should probably read more

Carmen may be best known as an opera but it made a successful silent debut for opera diva Geraldine Ferrar. An early hit for Cecil B. DeMille, Carmen is a lively, sensual and surprisingly earthy adaptation of a familiar story. Adapting an opera for the silent screen may sound odd but Carmen, arguab read more

Lillian Gish plays Anna, a country girl seduced and abandoned by a rich cad. The resulting baby dies and Anna is alone in the world. She meets the kindly Bartlett family and it seems that her life is taking a turn for the better… that is until her past is exposed. The story of making Way Down read more

Hobart Bosworth stars as a bitter whaling captain who is still angry at his wife for leaving him sixteen years before. Then chance throws the daughter of his unfaithful wife in his path. How far will be go for revenge? I always have a soft spot for Hobart Bosworth. He had a powerful screen presence read more

A variation on the popular twenties gold-digger theme in the key of Capra. The delightful Viola Dana dreams of landing a rich husband. Ralph Graves seems to be the man of her dreams but when he is disinherited, it is Viola’s entrepreneurial spirit that saves the day. Molly (Viola Dana) works read more

Gloria Swanson is a young wife whose husband is, for lack of a better word, a pigpen. Tired of his slovenly ways and uncaring manner, she leaves him for a better groomed, sweet-talking man. But all is not wine and rose and she soon learns that it may not have been a good idea to change her husband read more

Reblogged from Hitchcock and Me: In August of 2011, film fans were thrilled to learn that a portion of the lost 1924 movie “The White Shadow” had been found, making it the earliest known work by Alfred Hitchcock. In the excitement of this discovery, much of the coverage ignored the fact that the read more

Holmes Herbert stars as Count Merlin, a faux-mystic with a painful past. His wife left him for another man and took their daughter with her. Now, decades later, he has caught up with her. When the unfaithful wife turns up dead, Merlin is the prime suspect. He must use his gifts of disguise and dece read more

Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan play an ill-fated interracial couple. When their secret marriage is discovered, Talmadge is executed by the Emperor of China for daring to marry a white man. Her daughter (also Talmadge) grows up and sets out to discover her American roots. The Forbidden City begin read more

Mayme (Norma Talmadge) can’t keep a job. She’s far too pretty, you see, and the bosses won’t leave her alone. Meanwhile, the de Puyster family can’t keep a secretary. They’re far too pretty and get married. You can see where this one is going. Erich von Stroheim supports as a paparazzo. Light-heart read more

A young author (Wilhelm Dieterle) is hired by the owner of a wax museum to write tales about his most popular figures, Haroun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. Entranced by his new boss’s pretty daughter (Olga Belajeff) the author sets to work writing about the wax figures. With ea read more

Gloria Swanson is the offending party in this DeMille marital comedy. She is a lovely young prude who moralizes her husband right into the waiting arms of another woman. Only then does Gloria realize that husbands want to live with a wife, not a nun. Armed with this knowledge- and a wild wardrobe- read more

Mary Pickford is a tenement kid with a cop father and a brother who wants to be a gangster. Mary falls for her brother’s best friend, another would-be gangster, and must clear him of murder. Little Annie Rooney (Mary Pickford) has all the usual problems of a twelve year old girl, as well as read more

Judex, a mysterious caped vigilante, sets out to take revenge against corrupt banker Favraux. His settling of scores is complicated by the sly villainess Diana Monti and her associates. And the fact that Judex is in love with Favraux’s daughter, Jacqueline. A serial in twelve episodes with a prolog read more

Ahmed, the son of the title character of The Sheik, loves a dancer named Yasmin. After coming to believe that she betrayed him to bandits, Ahmed seeks revenge. Valentino-style. Valentino’s final screen appearance is also his best. Valentino made many films after achieving stardom but there wa read more

A historic curio from a strange time when Soviet filmmakers actively sought to create American style films. This serial, which owes as much to Germany as it does to the U.S.A., involves a plot by capitalists to poison all of Russia. The titular heroine must save the day. Sly commentary is hidden am read more

As you may have noticed, I missed two short film Saturday posts so far this year, which is not cool. In an attempt to make up for this, whenever it should happen, I will try to include multiple videos in those I do get up rather than double posting. These selections were submitted to me on Twitter b read more

Based very, very loosely on a poem by Poe, the film tells the tale of lovers torn apart by parental disapproval, a mutiny and a handsome book publisher. As far as story is concerned, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem Annabel Lee is a little lean. Childhood sweethearts are separated by family disapproval and read more

What do you do with a kid who just wants to have fun? Virginia Lee Corbin gives her straight-laced sister fits with her wild, flapper ways. But which one really has the morality problem? Some film genres are so much of their time that any attempt to make them in later periods would be ridiculous. T read more