’20s Movies
Hurricane Hutch and Perils of Pauline (1921)
The story concerns the search for a lost formula for making paper from seaweed that will save a mortgaged paper mill. The star is given opportunity to introduce many daredevil features. Starring Charles Hutchison, Warner Oland, Pearl White and Lucy Fox. Plenty of...
Metropolis (1927)
Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children quickly disappear. Trying...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. The first screen adaption of the Robert Louis Stevenson book. Starring John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, and Brandon Hurst. Drew...
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the...
The Iron Mask (1929)
A Three Musketeers movie! King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son—an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in...
Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)
Houdini stars in this exciting silent movie! Heath Haldane (Houdini) tracks down a vicious gang of counterfeiters, narrowly missing death several times. He must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage. Starring Harry Houdini, Gladys Leslie, and...
Terror Island (1920)
Houdini stars in this exciting silent movie! An inventor travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl. The girl's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. Starring Harry...
The Man From Beyond (1922)
The body of a man, Howard Hillary, frozen for a hundred years, is found in the Arctic ice. Thawed out and awakened, Hillary insists that a young woman, Felice, is his fiancée from a century before. Hillary is interned in a mental institution but escapes and realizes...
Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Taken from the Edgar Rice Burroughs book, this is the origin of Tarzan. Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes of England, becomes one of the apes. Then, Dr. Porter organizes a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter, Jane, catches the...
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday", a cocaine-shooting detective who is a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Ennyday is given to injecting himself from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest, and liberally helps...
The Lost World (1925)
Based on the famous Arthur Conan Doyle book, starring Wallace Beery with Bessie Love and Lloyd Hughes starts with Professor Challenger facing a skeptical press corps when he asserts that giant dinosaurs are alive and flourishing in the farthest depths of the Amazon....
The Lost Zeppelin (1929)
The Lost Zeppelin is a 1929 talking adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and produced and distributed by Tiffany-Stahl. It stars Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli and Ricardo Cortez. Tearle plays a navy officer modeled on U. S. Navy Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd who...