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Comedy
Hapless newspaper writer, editor, amateur pilot, HAM radio operator, and gadget crazy Elmer Lane lives in 1930's rural America. In love with the beautiful Betty, he does everything he can to buy the paper outright; so, he can win her. But, somehow something always comes out of the blue: gangsters, smugglers, murdered mobsters, rival newspaper reporters, con artists, police, new inventions, and small dogs, all get in the way.
Adventure, silent film
As described in a film magazine, 'Boxcar' Simmons is tramping the railroad ties to nowhere when from a car window blows a set of rules telling how to be a success for life. The idea rather appeals to Simmons so he sets out to live by them, changing his hobo garb for better clothes for, as the rules state, "God helps those who help themselves." Simmons is mistaken for a millionaire mining man. Dude Miller and Jim Riggs set out to sell him a rock-studded farm.
Adventure
Two salvage divers are romantic rivals for the love of Annie Fay. They both agree to back off and swear that they will pursue "no more women". However soon afterwards one of their boats is inherited by the attractive Helen Young who takes up quarters aboard.
Adventure, silent film
In the seventeenth century a young Frenchman arrives in Britain and becomes mixed up in intrigue and ends up as a highwaymen.
Adventure
Adventure
As this is a lost film, not even the AFI has any story or plot on it. By the promotional material that survives, it's a typical South Seas story found all over the silent film era just a few years before sound arrived. The cast is made up mostly of silent film veterans.
silent film
The film takes place in Paris, 1793, during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. Paul de Roulade (Pedro de Cordoba) is a hero to the Proletariat, who cry him 'Citizen de Roulade'. One evening he gets into an argument with the Vicomte de Marny over the virtues of a dancing girl; this leads to a fight (provoked by the viscount), forcing Paul to kill the nobleman.
Adventure, silent film
Mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, the daughter of the deposed president of a South American country. McClellan tries to help de Silva regain power but finds himself involved in a series of dangerous adventures that even lead him to a firing squad. Eventually, the revolutionaries are defeated and the president returns to the government while McClellan finally wins the girl he loves.
Adventure
Adventure
In Tatu, we see the life of a mother and her attempt to salvage the idea of her only daughter being given away as a sacrifice for the atonement of sins.
Adventure, Drama
Adventure, Drama
The film follows a young traditional boy who is unbothered by civilisation but has to deal with a life-threatening disease. His situation takes an unexpected turn when strangers enter his life.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction, Time travel
The film centers on a group of Navy SEALs, led by American Dr. Frank Reno ([[Michael Gross , who once worked on the Philadelphia Experiment. The film begins in 2008, when Reno has purportedly perfected time travel technology.
Adventure, Crime
Bob and his brother Stanton are soldiers in a regiment of cavalry stationed at an English fort in the Sudan. When Stanton steals the commissary funds, Bob—believing his parents already view him as the family's black sheep—deserts and takes the blame. Bob finds work as a handyman with a cheap vaudeville troupe at the Algerian café of Abou ibn Adam.
Adventure, serial film, silent film, thriller film, Western
Episodes Fifteen episodes of The Avenging Arrow were released weekly from March 13 to June 19, 1921: “The Vow of Mystery” “The Enemy Strikes” “The Hands” “A Life in Jeopardy” “The Message Stone” “The Midnight Attack” “The Double Game” “The Strange Pact” “The Auction Block” “Outwitted” “Dangerous Waters” “The House of Treachery” “On Perilous Grounds” “Shifting Sands” “The Toll of the Desert”
Adventure
Adventure
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland concession site his company controls. Chet Eaton, Johnny's brother and in charge of the China operation, is drinking too much, and a local Tartar bandit, Ho-Fing, is raiding and sabotaging the operation after being bribed by a rival company. Johnny bribes him, too, but Ho-Fing is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately guy and doesn't stay bribed.
war film, Western
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army buys some horses from the Range Busters' ranch for service in the Philippines. The cowboys tangle with Axis spies in both Texas and in the Philippines.
Adventure
Butte Morgan (villain) plans to take over a circus by marrying Maria Wallace, the daughter of the circus's owner. She, however, is interested only in the trick rider Jack Grant..
Adventure
A playboy named Kent Brewster, who is in debt, gets caught up with jewel thieves. Though he initially refuses their offer to steal a pearl necklace from a socialite, they force him to do it. He manages to steal the pearls at a costume ball but loses them to sailors after being attacked.
Adventure
Insurance agents head to the icy wilderness to collect an ex-con in possession of $250,000 in stolen funds.
The movie follows four college students that venture out into the woods to do research and discover an Indian burial mound. They soon discover that the mound is cursed and that they are trapped in a maze, chased by an unknown and terrifying force.
Adventure, silent film
Adventure
A family of sharecroppers, the Weavers, takes up residence in the home of a rich man named Pittman after they are forced off their land. They sell off Mrs. Pittman's furs and meet Junior Pittman's troupe of dancing girls.