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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A Tale of Two Cities 1917 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Willard Louis, Harry De Vere, Josef Swickard, Herschel Mayall, Charles Clary, Rosita Marstini, Ralph Lewis, William Clifford
In this early film version of Charles Dickens' story of love and death during the era around the French Revolution, William Farnum takes on the roles of aristocrat Charles Darnay and his savior Sydney Carton. Sydney has fallen in love with Lucie Manette (Jewel Carmen), but she marries Charles. Later, after Charles is captured and sentenced to the guillotine, Sydney selflessly plots to take Charles' place and allow him to return to Lucie.
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| 1. The Bat (1926)
2. A Tale of Two Cities (1917)
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