Blind Husbands 1919  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Cast: Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Fay Holderness, Ruby Kendrick, Valerie Germonprez, Jack Perrin, Richard Cummings, William DeVaull
An Austrian lieutenant (Erich von Stroheim) and an American couple meet at a resort in the Alps. The lieutenant sets his sights on the American wife, and a flirtation begins. But, when the husband finds out about the lieutenant's behavior, there is a price to pay. Erich von Stroheim's first directorial effort.
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Heart o' the Hills 1919  N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph De Grasse, Sidney Franklin
Cast: Mary Pickford, Harold Goodwin, Allan Sears, Fred Huntley, Claire McDowell, Sam De Grasse, W.H. Bainbridge, John Gilbert, Betty Bouton, Fred Warren
As young country girl (Mary Pickford) sets out to avenge the murder of her father, love and maturity also lie ahead. A different kind of role for Pickford who normally played more youthful girls.
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 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916  N/R, 163 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Intolerance
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Howard Gaye, Elmo Lincoln, Walter Long, Bessie Love, Tully Marshall, Erich von Stroheim, Monte Blue, Donald Crisp, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis, Eleanor Washington
This great film presents four stories, each in a different era from ancient Babylon to the present. All of the stories involve man's intolerance to man. The stories include a mountain girl in Babylonia and religious rivalry at the time, Pharisees' condemnation of Jesus Christ, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris and how it coincides with two Huguenots preparing for marriage, and social reformers in modern America destroying the lives of a young couple.
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 The Man Who Laughs 1928 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Leni
Cast: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, George Siegmann, Brandon Hurst, Cesare Gravina, Stuart Holmes, Sam De Grasse, Charles Puffy, Julius Molnar Jr.
Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt) is doomed to life as a circus freak after his nobleman father offended the King–resulting in the father's death and Gwynplaine's mutilation by having a grin permanently carved on his face. He and a blind girl (Mary Philbin) had been taken in by an itinerant performer and grew up to love each other. But life takes a turn when the King dies and the Queen brings him back to the fold on advice of the King's evil jester. Based on Victor Hugo's book. One of the last great silent dramas.
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Martyrs of the Alamo 1915 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Walter Long, Alfred Paget, Tom Wilson, John T. Dillon, Allan Sears, Augustus Carney, Juanita Hansen, Ora Carew, Douglas Fairbanks, Fred Burns, Sam De Grasse
D.W. Griffith supervised the direction of this action-filled recreation of the siege of the Alamo when 185 gallant men fought Santa Anna's Mexican army of 5,000.
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 Robin Hood 1922 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Family / Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, Alan Hale, Sam De Grasse, Paul Dickey, William Lowery, Billie Bennett, Roy Coulson, Wilson Benge, Willard Louis, Bud Geary, Lloyd Talman, Ann Doran, Frank Austin
Douglas Fairbanks is at his swashbuckling best in this high-budget, silent epic. The Earl of Nottingham (Fairbanks) follows King Richard the Lion Hearted (Wallace Beery) to the Crusades. But, the King's brother, Prince John (Sam De Grasse), who was left behind in charge, ursurps the throne and becomes an oppressive ruler. The Earl takes on the pseudonym of "Robin Hood" and returns to save the day.
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Wild and Woolly 1917  N/R, 47 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western / Romance
Director: John Emerson
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell, Joseph Singleton, Calvert Carter, Forrest Seabury, J.W. Jones, Charles Stevens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson, Ruth Allen, Edward(2) Burns
Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) lives with his wealthy family in New York but is obsessed with the Wild West of the 1880s. His father (Walter Bytell) sends him on a business trip to Bitter Creek, Arizona, which Jeff believes is still "Wild and Woolly." The residents of Bitter Creek want to please Jeff and transform their peaceful village into a lawless community to fulfill Jeff's fantasy.
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| 1. The Black Pirate (1926)
2. Blind Husbands (1919)
3. Heart o' the Hills (1919)
4. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
aka: Intolerance
5. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
6. Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
7. Robin Hood (1922)
8. Wild and Woolly (1917)
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