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Director: Robert Wiene    More Info
Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Rudolf Lettinger, Hans Lanser-Rudolf, Ludwig Rex, Elsa Wagner

 This German Expressionist film tells the gruesome story of murder and terror set among black shadows painted across geometrically irregular streets and rooftops running zigzag among leaning chimneys. Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) is a hypnotist who travels with a carnival and displays a sleepwalker named Cesare (Conrad Veidt) as his attraction. While performing in a small, German town, murders take place, and when Francis' (Friedrich Feher) best friend Alan (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) is killed, Francis connects the murder to Caligari. He accuses Caligari of committing the murders, but the police ignore him. When Francis performs his own investigation, he finds clues indicating that Caligari has ordered Cesare to commit the murders, and after a brutal confrontation with Caligari, Francis ensures that Caligari will be locked away in an asylum.

Director: John S. Robertson    More Info
Starring: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles(1) Lane, Nita Naldi, Louis Wolheim, Cecil Clovelly, J. Malcolm Dunn, George Stevens

 A London physician, Dr. Jekyll (John Barrymore), discovers a potion that changes him into the evil Mr. Hyde. Eventually, Mr. Hyde takes over and commits a murder. Dr. Jekyll manages to kill Mr. Hyde–and in the process himself–and brings an end to the horrid deeds of Mr. Hyde. A good rendition of the story that has been made many times.

Director: Alan Crosland    More Info
Starring: Olive Thomas, William Collier Jr., Joseph J. Dowling, Aileen Manning, Martha Mattox, Hal Wilson, Bob Hick, Matt Moore

 This is Olive Thomas' last film before her mysterious death by poisoning at the age of 26. It is the story of Mary (Thomas) and John (William Collier Jr.) who were raised on a farm after being rescued in a train wreck when they were young. Separated when the farm changed hands, they run away together and end up at the farm of General Bingham (Joseph J. Dowling) who turns out to be John's grandfather

Director: Maurice Tourneur    More Info
Starring: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall, Henry Woodward, Theodore Lorch, Boris Karloff, James Gordon, George Hackathorne, Nelson McDowell

 This early version of "The Last of the Mohicans" was the last major work of director Maurice Tourneur. It is the story of the French and Indian War of the 1700s and the role, as allies, that Indian tribes played for both sides. This film is close to the original James Fenimore Cooper book as it relates the efforts of Hawkeye (Harry Lorraine) and the last of the Mohicans–Uncas (Alan Roscoe) and Chingachgook (Theodore Lorch)–to rescue Alice and Cora Munro (Lillian Hall and Barbara Bedford) from the evil Magua (Wallace Berry). Can you find Boris Karloff as an Indian?

Director: Frank Lloyd    More Info
Starring: Pauline Frederick, William Courtleigh, Casson Ferguson, Hardee Kirkland, Lionel Belmore, Alan Roscoe, Maude Louis, John Hohenvest, Correan Kirkham, Sidney Ainsworth

 This is one of the best of all versions of "Madame X," the sad story in which the heroine (Pauline Frederick) becomes pregnant and is forced to give up her son. Years later, she returns and kills a man who is intending to blackmail her husband (William Courtleigh). In the subsequent trial, her attorney is her own son (Casson Ferguson)–neither knows of their relationship.

Director: David Hartford    More Info
Starring: Lon Chaney, Lewis Stone, Melbourne MacDowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, Betty Blythe, Francis McDonald, Gordon Mullen, Charles Smiley

 While in the North Country, Raoul (Lon Chaney) falls in love with Nanette (Betty Blythe). After the bad Buck (Francis MacDonald) tells Nanette that Raoul is dead, Buck wins her heart, and they agree to wed. But when Raoul returns and Buck is found out, Raoul and Nanette flee after Raoul kills one of Buck's henchmen. Now both the Mounties and Buck are after the couple.

Director: D.W. Griffith    More Info
Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Creighton Hale, Kate Bruce, Mary Hay, Emily Fitzroy, Porter Strong, George Neville

 Poor country girl Anna Moore (Lillian Gish) leaves her home in Maine and visits Boston where she is tricked into a sham marriage to Lenox Sanderson (Lowell Sherman). After Anna becomes pregnant, Lenox leaves her, she gives birth, and the baby dies. Anna finds shelter at Squire Bartlett's (Burr McIntosh) estate and falls in love with his son David (Richard Barthelmess). When the Squire, who is a religious zealot, learns about Anna's background, he is furious and orders her out of the house and into a fierce snowstorm. David searches for Anna, finds her being swept down the river on an ice floe, saves her life, and asks her to marry him.

Director: Wallace Worsley    More Info
Starring: Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Hardee Kirkland, Raymond Hatton, Edwin Wallock, Roy Laidlaw

 Anarchists draw cards to see who will be the assassin, but plans go awry when the chosen anarchist (Lon Chaney) marries another in the group, and she chooses love over hate.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts, Theodore Kosloff, Polly Moran, Raymond Hatton, William Boyd

 Loose lifestyles following World War I are the subject of this film about a bored husband Anatol DeWitt Spencer (Wallace Reid) who has numerous affairs while his wife, Vivian (Gloria Swanson), finds a lover of her own.

Director: Rex Ingram    More Info
Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Alan Hale, Alice Terry, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Beery, Nigel De Brulier, Josef Swickard, Mabel Van Buren, Stuart Holmes, John St. Polis

 This anti-war epic is about an Argentinean (Rudolph Valentino) who fights for France during World War I and learns that his cousin is fighting on Germany's side.

Director: Charles Chaplin    More Info
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Tom Wilson, Granville Redmond, Frank Campeau, Jack Coogan Sr., Lita Grey, Jules Hanft

 This very successful first Charlie Chaplin feature film also was written and directed by him. It features Chaplin as "The Tramp" who rescues an abandoned baby from a garbage can and takes him home. Five years later, "The Tramp" is raising the "Kid" (Jackie Coogan) who breaks windows so that "The Tramp" will get jobs replacing them. Now, the "Kid's" Mother (Edna Purviance) has become an opera star who does charity work in the slums. Their paths cross, and the "Kid" is handed back and forth between "The Tramp" and the Mother. The story continues and involves whether "The Tramp," Edith, and the "Kid" will become a family or end up going their separate ways.

Director: Alfred E. Green    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph J. Dowling, James A. Marcus, Kate Price, Fred Malatesta, Rose Dione, Arthur Thalasso, Colin Kenny, Madame DeBodamere

 Mary Pickford plays both a boy, Cedric, and his mother in this tale of the rich Earl (Claude Gillingwater) who, finding out that he has not long to live, sends for his heir–Cedric–despite not liking the mother. But, another boy shows up claiming to be the heir.

Director: Frances Marion    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, Evelyn Dumo, Raymond Bloomer, Fred Thomson, Eddie Phillips, Albert Prisco, George Regas, Jean De Briac

 Angela (Mary Pickford) runs a lighthouse (that she names "The Love Light") off the coast of Italy while she awaits her friend and two brothers who are off in the war. An American seaman is washed ashore, Angela takes him in, and they fall in love. The sailor turns out to be a German spy, and now Angela must deal with the consequences in this heavy drama. The story was written and directed by Pickford's friend (Frances Marion), who got the story from a woman's account of her experiences in World War I.

Director: William C. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson, Mabel Van Buren, Mae Giraci, Clarence Burton, Ethel Wales, Taylor Graves, Charles Ogle

 Beauty contest winner Lois Wilson takes on the role of plain Lulu Bett in this film directed by Cecil B. DeMille's brother. Lulu lives in the home of her sister (Helen Ferguson) and her sister's husband (Theodore Roberts). Lulu becomes tired of being treated poorly in the household and begins a transformation into a self-assured woman who finds her own life. Based on a novel by Zona Gale.

Director: D.W. Griffith    More Info
Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee, Katherine Emmet, Morgan Wallace, Lucille La Verne, Sheldon Lewis, Frank Puglia, Creighton Hale

 Set during the French Revolution, this is another of D.W. Griffith's great spectacles. It is the story of two orphans, Henriette and Louise (Lillian and Dorothy Gish), who were raised as sisters. After Dorothy goes blind, the two leave for Paris in an attempt to find someone to cure Dorothy. But they get separated as the war unfolds around them.

Director: Alfred E. Green    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, Gertrude Astor, Wilfred Lucas, Helen Raymond, C. Norman Hammond, Elinor Fair, Adolphe Menjou, John Harron, Peaches Jackson, Doreen Turner

 Neglected, rich, young Jeanne (Mary Pickford) doesn't fit into her remarried mother's (Gertrude Astor) plans, so Jeanne is raised by her nurse. When World War I breaks out, Jeanne is sent home, but does not tell her mother who she is. All ends well after a series of adventures.

Director: Fred Niblo    More Info
Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, George Field, Walter Long, Leo White, Rosa Rosanova, Rosita Marstini, Charles Belcher, Fred Becker

 Popular Spanish bullfighter Juan Gallarde (Rudolph Valentino) marries the love of his life Carmen (Lila Lee) but then has a love affair with sexy Dona Sol (Nita Naldi). His performances in the bullring lack daring during his affair with Dona Sol, and he is gored by a bull. Carmen nurses him back to health, and Juan returns to the bullring. But, when he spots Dona Sol in the stands, his attention is diverted, the bull charges, and Juan is killed.

Director: Fritz Lang    More Info
Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter

 Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) is a psychiatrist who uses his professional knowledge to hypnotize wealthy patients, get them to cheat at their businesses, and then con them out of their money. His goal: corner the stock market. Unfortunately for Mabuse, he did not take into consideration the plodding Chief Inspector von Wenck (Bernhard Goetzke) who is on his trail.

Director: Erich von Stroheim    More Info
Starring: Erich von Stroheim, Miss DuPont, Maude George, Mae Busch, Rudolph Christians, Dale Fuller, Al Edmundsen, Cesare Gravina, Malvina Polo, Louis K. Webb

 A con man (Erich von Stroheim) makes a good living by extorting money from rich women. In his latest scheme, he poses as a Russian count and rents a Monte Carlo villa with his two associates (Maude George and Mae Busch). When a wealthy American diplomat (Rudolph Christians) arrives in Monaco, the blackmail con begins via the diplomat's naive wife (Miss DuPont).

Director: Abel Gance    More Info
Starring: Severin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Terof, Max Maxudian, Gil Clary

 Both Sesif (Severin-Mars) and his son, Elie (Gabriel de Gravone), are in love with Norma (Ivy Close) who was adopted years ago by Sesif after he rescued her from a train accident. Their love leads to a tragic fight on a mountaintop, which results in even the victor becoming the loser.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Jack Mower, Dorothy Cumming, Raymond Hatton

 Society deb Lydia (Leatrice Joy) is involved in a reckless driving incident in which a policeman is killed. She is prosecuted –the D.A. is her fiance (Thomas Meighan)–sent to prison, learns her lesson, and reforms.

Director: Rupert Julian    More Info
Starring: Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Albert Conti, Cesare Gravina, Edith Yorke, George Hackathorne, Dale Fuller, Lillian Sylvester, Maude George, Charles King

 Director Erich von Stroheim was fired from Universal Studios before the conclusion of this film, but it still reflects his touches even though it was finished by Rupert Julian. Count Franz Maxmillian von Hohenegg (Norman Kerry) is scheduled to be wed to a countess but falls in love with an organ grinder, Agnes (Mary Philbin). He goes through with the wedding anyway, heads off to war, is chastised by a dying Sylvester (Cesare Gravina)–Agnes' father–returns from the war a widower, and determines to make amends to Agnes.

Director: Frank Lloyd    More Info
Starring: Jackie Coogan, Gladys Brockwell, Lon Chaney, Lionel Belmore, Esther Ralston, George Siegmann, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Nelson McDowell, Lewis Sargent

 This is a good rendition of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Performed as a silent movie, it stars Jackie Coogan in the title role of the young pickpocket Oliver Twist and Lon Chaney as his tutor, the devious Fagin.

Director: Dimitri Buchowetzki    More Info
Starring: Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Friedrich Kuhne, Lya DePutti, Magnus Stifter, Ferdinand von Alten, Lea von Lenkeffy

 This German-made, silent version of the Shakespeare play, though taking some liberties with the Bard's story, is an elaborate production and interesting to watch.

Director: Tom Forman    More Info
Starring: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison(2) Ford, John St. Polis, Walter Long, Buddy Messinger, Priscilla Bonner, Frances Raymond

 Lon Chaney's excellent performance is the highlight of this tale of a Chinese laundryman, Yen Sin (Chaney), who is washed ashore at an East Coast fishing village during a storm. But, the God-fearing inhabitants of the village demonstrate prejudice against Yen, who runs a laundry from a houseboat. Eventually he befriends and is befriended by young minister John (Harrison Ford) who marries a widow, Sympathy (Marguerite De La Motte). But, blackmail ruins John, and Yen comes to the rescue by uncovering the truth, after which Yen returns to the sea in his boat.