Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore silent cinema and its distinctive storytelling.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,359 films · Page 37.
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Tom, a daring cowboy, is hired to track down a priceless diamond stolen from a wealthy collector by a gang of ruthless criminals. Set against the backdrop of 1920s Arizona, the film opens with the theft of a valuable diamond, a gemstone of…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
silent film
As described in a film magazine, bookkeeper Arthur McArney attempts to live the life of a man about town on $21 a week. He meets Elsa Owenson, a pretty stenographer, and falls desperately in love. His rival for her is Sankey, a wealthy bro…
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adventure film, silent film
The film was advertised as a story of an adventurous youth who led an exploration party into Central Africa, risking life and honor for the women he loved.
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, American Olga Morova dances in the Russian ballet where she is known as 'The Midnight Sun'. She has attracted the attentions of banker Ivan Kusmin, the Grand Duke Sergius, and young officer Alexei Orloff. S…
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comedy film, silent film
An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
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Komödie, Western film, silent film
Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, heads to the city to make a fortune with her voice, and finds out she can only get jobs cabaret singing. Two men fall for her, one of which plants stolen diamonds on her. Threatened with arrest, she throw…
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comedy film, silent film
Cynthia Botts, a prim, lonely spinster and headmistress of an exclusive girls’ school, is stunned to learn she has inherited the estate of the recently deceased Mr. Doolittle, the school's wealthy patron. Finally believing love may be with…
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silent film
In the lonely hills of the American West lies Gold City, a ghost town with a haunted reputation. Once a bustling mining camp, it's now a desolate ruin—except for two remaining inhabitants, the mysterious old-timers Benedict and Simon. But …
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Western film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Hugh Nichols is a wealthy tenderfoot idler who has never taken life seriously until a westerner demands that he complete a dam on his property that was promised by his father and is necessary fo…
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Romantic Comedy
American millionaire Samuel C. Adams brings his daughter Dorothy to England to see a specialist about her heart trouble. So that she will not be hounded by the press and fortune hunters, Dorothy makes herself up to look extremely plain.
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romance film, silent film
right|thumb|L—R: Bebe Daniels, James Rennie, and Ricardo Cortez As described in a review in a film magazine, during a two-year absence in the United States, the guardians of Consuelo Garcia arrange her marriage to Juan Martin, who lives in…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, when Ellen Linden returns home, she finds her father ill and without funds. She immediately goes to work for James Rand and Egbert Phillips. She grows friendly with James, which makes Egbert jealous,…
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silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Bob Wharton, spendthrift son of a millionaire, weds beauty contest winner Lory Knight. She repents her marriage to a man who has never worked, abandons Bob, and goes home to Palmdale, South Carolina,…
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silent film
Scientist Benjamin Darrell (Anders Randolf) has invented a silent aircraft motor of tremendous potential benefit to aeronautical and military concerns. A plot is underway to steal the invention. Lloyd Darrell (Malcolm McGregor), a secret s…
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Komödie
thumb|The film The Boy meets and marries The Girl. A year later, the two walk down the street with a baby carriage carrying a bottle instead of a baby when they run into The Girl's brother, who asks the couple to do him a favor and babysit…
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silent film
At the train station, Mr. Givney is doing some paper work when a rat pops out of a hole. After the rat eats his sock and belt, Mr.
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crime film, silent film
silent film
comedy film, silent film
thumb|Mary Pickford and Douglas MacLean in the film As described in a film magazine, the grandfather of Willie Carleton put his will in a book about pirates and buried treasure, and the book is purchased by a second-hand store run by Angus…
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Melodrama
Helen (Taylor) marries a young man who has poisoned her mind against her other suitor Abel Mason (Carew) by convincing her that there is hereditary madness in the Mason family. Within two years Helen's husband is dead and she is dying. She…
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Western film, silent film
Hired ranch-hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle duri…
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action film, adventure film, serial film, silent film