Silent Films

<p>Prejudice keeps a free spirit from the man she loves, triggering a series of tragedies.</p>

<p>Celebrating the virtuosity of the man of a thousand faces! Includes: THE ACE OF HEARTS, LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH, THE UNKNOWN, and a photo-reconstruction of LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT</p>

<p>It's deja vu all over again in this scandalous comedy about marital infidelity directed by two-time Academy Award winner* Frank Borzage and based on the hit stage play by W. Somerset Maugham. Bored with her marriage to stuffy aristocrat Arnold Cheney (Creighton Hale), Elizabeth...

<p>From director Tod Browning comes this delirious tale of jealousy and murder starring John Gilbert, Renee Adoree and Lionel Barrymore. Welcome to the Palace of Illusions, a carnival show whose main attraction is a lurid performance of the Dance of the Seven Veils featuring...

<p>Marion Davies has stars in her eyes in this "delightful look at silent Hollywood" (Time Out Film Guide), directed by King Vidor and costarring William Haines. All Peggy Pepper (Davies) wants in life is to be a great dramatic actress. But when rowdy slapstick...

<p>Lon Chaney hunts the most dangerous game in director Tod Browning's seamy tale of lust and revenge, costarring Lupe Velez and Estelle Taylor. When Tiger Haynes (Chaney) learns his beloved daughter Toyo (Lupe Velez) intends to marry Bobby Bailey (Lloyd Hughes), the son of...

<p>As it was for the ancients, so it shall ever be for China's Mr. Mandarin Wu: do not dishonor the family name. Not even Wu's beloved daughter shall be spared her father's wrath after she shares a forbidden romance with an Englishman. Nor will...

<p>Slap him once, slap him 100 times -- the Big Top crowd roars. The clown known to delighted throngs as HE has made a comedic art of getting batted around. Life has battered him even more. Behind the mask, HE hides the torment of...

<p>Lon Chaney -- the Man of a Thousand Faces -- used his makeup skills, astonishing physicality and profound empathy to create Quasimodo, the Phantom of the Opera and more of the Silent Era's greatest horror roles. In this hypnotic mix of creepiness and crime,...

<p>Once you're in the lair of vile Dr. Ziska, is there any way out? That's what Johnny Goodlittle -- fresh from receiving his correspondence school detective's diploma and a starter kit containing a badge, handcuffs and a handgun -- must figure out as he...

<p>While scavenging for food among dead bodies during the Russian Revolution, a slow-witted peasant named Sergei (Lon Chaney) is hired by a desperate woman to guide her out of the carnage. In exchange for promises of friendship and a secure future, he endures torture...

<p>In Our Dancing Daughters, Joan Crawford stripped to her teddy and tore into a Charleston powered by a zillion watts of sexual energy -- and shocked the corsets and cravats off parents who'd heard disturbing rumblings of what their children were up to. But...

<p>Of all tales of gallantry and romance, few are as durable as Andrew Hope's beloved swashbuckler. There are at least seven screen versions, including this 1922 adaptation featuring some of the era's most luminous players. Lewis Stone, no stranger to leading-man roles in the...

<p>With kohl-rimmed eyes and rouged lips, flapper fatale Billie Brown demands to live life on her terms, not society's. So she brazenly vamps a handsome diplomat in hopes of furthering her fiance's career. It's a perfect plan -- until Billie loses her heart to...

<p>Before movies talked, they clacked with swords, gonged with wedding bells and pulsed with perfectly matched orchestral accompaniment. The process that made it happen was Vitaphone, a sound-on-disk system that made its feature-film debut in this lavish 1926 classic. Starring in this swashbuckling tale...

<p>The story of gold and greed and the men and women who became caught up in it, often tragically, during the great Alaskan gold rush. (silent)</p>

<p>Arrogant aristocrat Tommy Van Buren (William Haines) calls himself "America's gift to polo," while his female fans think he's the most gorgeous creature on four legs. All except for plucky Polly (Alice Day), who responds to his amorous advances by running him off the...

<p>In 1935, Greta Garbo starred in one of her finest and best-loved talkies, Anna Karenina. In 1927, she starred in this loosely adapted silent version of Leo Tolstoy's novel, a film that today provides an intriguing opportunity for a before-and-after comparison of the actress...

<p>The souls in question are silver-screen hopefuls in this witty, insightful glimpse at the early movie business. Feared lost for decades, it includes unique working cameos of director Erich von Stroheim and a non-Tramp Charlie Chaplin, and features starlet Eleanor Boardman, the "Cinderella of...

<p>Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling in love with heiress Allie Monte (a young Joan Crawford), Jack bluffs his way into Allie's country club, posing as a champion golfer. By the time...

For a number of generations, men have done as they please -- and women have done as men pleased. Not so for San Francisco socialite Arden Stuart (Greta Garbo). To be fulfilled, she wants the freedom men have to take -- or leave --...

<p>Irene Guarry gives an infatuated young man an innocent kiss, a gesture that leads to jealousy, death and an explosive murder trial. A bit much for a single kiss, you may think -- unless the lips belong to screen goddess Greta Garbo. In her...

<p>Robleda and Elena meet at a Parisian costume ball. The masks soon come off and hours later the smitten couple watches the sun rise over the City of Light. Later that day, Robledo visits a friend and business colleague, the Marquis de Torre Bianca,...

<p>"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Thus opens Rafael Sabatini's historical novel on which this fanciful film is based, following the sensational exploits of a young lawyer thrown into the tumult of the French...

<p>A crusading crime reporter (Stuart Erwin) is approached by the daughter (Madge Evans) of a shop owner (J. Farrell McDonald) to investigate the mobsters who have threatened her father. With the help of a suave society lawyer (Franchot Tone) who injects some delightful and...

<p>"Long before the word charisma became a cliche, Garbo was its quintessence" (James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers, The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era). To generations of fans and critics, Greta Garbo is the screen's greatest actress, greatest beauty and greatest mystery....

<p>For the film fan making the case that silents were truly golden, The Red Lily is a color that serves them well. Hue plays an important part in this "black-and-white" classic, using sepia, red and orange to convey a complexity of mood and emotion....

<p>Silent movies relied upon facial exaggeration, and few faces could top those of multitalented Marion Davies, showcased from slapstick to heartbreak to horror in The Red Mill, deftly directed by William Goodrich, alias Fatty Arbuckle. Like Cinderella, barmaid Tina (Davies) toils under her villainous...

This forgotten British old dark house thriller would have been a perfect fit for one of the Forgotten Horrors books. The setting is a creepy mansion filled with secret passageways, trap doors, snake pits, sliding floors, and secret rooms. Pusey's uncle is the mansion's...

<p>A beautiful Chinese maiden (who could easily pass for white) enters into a more or less "arranged" marriage with an older, wealthy Dutch businessman. The marriage was set up by a sinister Chinese racketeer, who is to receive half the inheritance after the murder...

The Church with an Overshot Wheel is one of two surviving O. Henry stories (out of 94) produced by Vitagraph Studios from 1917 until 1924. Originally released in 1920 and restored in 2022, this black and white silent film is accompanied by an original...

Call For Peace gives voice to young people around the world calling for world cooperation and an end to the war. The film is inspired by the horrific invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. Young people from the Ukraine, Portugal, Germany, Poland, France, China,...

Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Blackhawk Films Collection and Paramount Pictures, presents Children of Divorce. The film begins in a "divorce colony" in Paris after WWI, where parents would leave their children for months at a time. Sourced from the original nitrate negative...

Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, F.W. Murnau's Phantom. Phantom marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed,...

Sexy, jazz-loving, and dressed to kill, Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver) is living a life of drama (if not stardom). She has a doting, handsome husband (Victor Varconi); a rich lover whose pockets are never quite deep enough (Eugene Pallette); and, soon, a full-blown murder...

<p>Academy Award Winner Janet Gaynor appears in her first major role as Anna Burger, a love-struck teenage girl smitten with the dashing, but unavailable Tom O'Day, played by George O'Brien. Tom is an engineer for the Hamilton Lumber Company and engaged to the owner's...

<p>When a boy is captured by a Native American tribe after his family is massacred, he finds solace in befriending a wild colt. Years later, following his escape, he is recaptured by a tribe who force him to battle their vicious devil horse. Yet,...

<p>Hollywood's first Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln, stars in this surprisingly faithful adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous novel. Nearly a century after it was first released, it's still a stirring tale of the orphaned child who grows to become king of the apes! Enid Markey...

<p>Arthur Conan Doyle's epic tale comes to life in this classic from the silent era. Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, and Wallace Beery star as explorers who learn that dinosaurs still exist in South America. Of course, the expedition can't end without them trying to...

<p>Buster Keaton plays the son of a steamboat captain in this classic comedy from the silent era. Regarded by many as one of Keaton's best, he not only turns in a fine acting job as an effete young man trying to show his worth,...

<p>Only during the silent film era would you find this kind of plot: Prior to the outbreak of World War 1, a nobleman, disguised as a necktie salesman falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he's already married to...

<p>One of the definitive classics of the American silent film era, The Garden of Eden is a decadent, sumptuous romance adapted from Avery Hopwood's stage production, featuring a typically magnetic performance from silent film siren Corrine Griffith (The Divine Lady) as beautiful Viennese signer...

<p>It's a whirlwind of laughter, pathos and illusion as Emerald City gets another visit in this silent adventure from 1914! It's all about Ojo, a munchkin boy, and his Unc Nunkie, who venture out to Emerald City in search of food. Along the way...

A mystic fortune teller is framed for the murder of his ex-wife in this old dark house silent thriller, a precursor to the horror movie cycle of the 1930s.

Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Hoot Gibson runs the risk of being caught when he participates in Canada's famous Calgary Stampede rodeo. This classic silent film from 1925 features footage from the actual event.

After receiving an inheritance, a girl escapes from her abusive home only to find herself caught between two manipulative lovers in this feminist silent movie starring the unfairly forgotten actress Lillian Rich.

The legendary 1920 German silent film about a clay statue brought to life to vanquish the enemies of the Jewish people, paired with it's extremely rare sequel made in France, 'The Golem: The Legend of Prague' (1937).

After Rin Tin Tin saved Warner Brothers from bankruptcy, several independent studios found lookalike dogs and built movies around them, hoping audiences wouldn't know the difference. They had names like Thunder, Champion, Leader, Ranger, Dynamite, Lightning, Tarzan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sandow, Strongheart, and Peter the...

Jim Gregory catches the eye of sexy senorita Mercedes Aloyez. The spoiled girl is engaged to the overbearing Captain Montoya, and sees the handsome cowboy as her way out of an unhappy marriage. Jim is more interested in the homespun charm of pretty waitress...

<p>"The Black Hundred" is a secret society that has existed for centuries composed of the most ruthless criminals in the world. Twenty years ago, one of their number - Stanley Hargreave - escaped and went into hiding. The villains have been searching for him...