The Bat 1926  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Roland West
Cast: Tullio Carminati, Charles Herzinger, Louise Fazenda, Emily Fitzroy, Arthur Housman, Robert McKim, Jack Pickford, Eddie Gribbon, George Beranger, Jewel Carmen, Sojin, Lee Shumway
Based on a popular Broadway play by Mary Roberts Rinehart, the story takes place in an old mansion. A killer, who dresses as a giant bat and flashes a bat-shadow on the wall when he strikes, goes after an assorted group of guests at the mansion. Remade by the director in 1930 as a talkie ("The Bat Whispers").
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Little Lord Fauntleroy 1921  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford
Cast: 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.
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Through the Back Door 1921  N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford
Cast: 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.
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| 1. The Bat (1926)
2. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
3. Through the Back Door (1921)
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