His First Command 1929  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory LaCava
Cast: William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian, Gavin Gordon, Helen Parrish, Howard C. Hickman, Alphonse Ethier, Paul Hurst, Charles R. Moore, Jules Cowles, Mabel Van Buren
Unable to get the attention of a colonel's daughter (Dorothy Sebastian), a playboy (William Boyd) enlists in the army to gain her affections.
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The Lost World 1925   N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Cast: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, Arthur Hoyt, Bull Montana, Charles Wellesley, Margaret McWade, Frank Finch Smiles, Jules Cowles, George Bunny
Based on a novel by A. Conan Doyle, this is the first of several versions of the book. Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery) insists that dinosaurs still live in the headwaters of the Amazon. An expedition is funded, and, indeed, the good professor is correct. Good special effects for the time, and this silent film holds up well today.
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The Scarlet Letter 1934 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Cast: Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. Walthall, William Farnum, Alan Hale, Virginia Howell, Cora Sue Collins, William Kent, Betty Blythe, Al O. Henderson, Jules Cowles, Mickey Rentschler
Colleen Moore takes on the role of Hester Prynne in this classic Nathaniel Hawthorne story of the woman who must wear a scarlet "A" for life after giving birth to an out-of-wedlock child.
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Seven Chances 1925  N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton
Cast: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Frances Raymond, Jean Arthur, Erwin Connelly, Jules Cowles, Rosalind Byrne, Doris Deane
After shy bachelor Jimmy Shannon (Buster Keaton) learns that he must be married in order to claim his inheritance, he is pursued by a horde of would-be brides. Remade in 1999 as "The Bachelor."
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| 1. His First Command (1929)
2. The Lost World (1925)
3. The Scarlet Letter (1934)
4. Seven Chances (1925)
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