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Explore silent cinema and its distinctive storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,359 films · Page 46.

Don't Call Me Little Girl (1921)

silent film

thumb|Advertisement from "Motion Picture News" As described in various film magazine reviews, Jerry Doubleday is an eighteen-year-old girl, who arrives with her mother to stay with her aunt Joan ahead of her wedding. Aunt Joan's engagement…

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Ned McCobb's Daughter (1928)

drama film, silent film

Carrie Callahan runs a bustling restaurant serving "Carried Shore Dinners" in part of the large seaside home of her father, Ned McCobb, a retired sea captain who now pilots the local ferry. Her husband, George Callahan, works alongside the…

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Rose of the World (1925)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine review, a young man who breaks his engagement to one woman to marry another learns after marriage that he is sadly mismated. The woman to whom he was first engaged also marries and is unhappy. The frivolous …

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According to Hoyle (1922)

adventure film, 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,…

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Barbara Frietchie (1915)

silent film

thumb|upright=1.23|Blanche Whiffen and Mary Miles Minter in Barbara Frietchie The film is set in Frederick, Maryland, during the American Civil War. As described in film magazines, young Barbara Frietchie, just turned eighteen, lives with …

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Barriers of Society (1916)

silent film

thumb|left|Martha Gorham trapped on a rock Westie Phillips is the son of a poor commercial trawler and his wife. One day while paddling his canoe around the ocean, he finds a pretty girl marooned on a rock. Since the tide is rising, he res…

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Night Life in Hollywood (1922)

comedy film, silent film

Joe Powell runs away from his small town in Arkansas to visit Hollywood, anticipating debauchery. After his sister Carrie Powell heads there too, their father, mother, and younger sister follow them out there. Once the family is reunited i…

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The Crystal Cup (1927)

drama film, silent film

Gita Carteret, a wealthy young heiress, develops an intense dislike for men. The reason for her aversion to the opposite sex is due to her father's cruel treatment of her mother when Gita was a child, described in the intertitles as a "bea…

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The Flaming Crisis (1924)

Western film, crime film, silent film

A young black newspaperman is convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to prison. He escapes and makes his way to the southwestern cattle country, where he falls in love with Tex Miller, a beautiful cowgirl. Having rid …

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Three Hours (1927)

drama film, silent film

The plot concerns a woman, Madeline Durkin (Griffith), who has lost all her wealth as well as her young daughter. Taking advantage of a stranger's kindness, she is apprehended for theft but asks for three hours leave to see her dying child.

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The Master Mind (1920)

crime film, drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, in revenge for the successful prosecution of his younger brother Richard, accused of murder but innocent, by district attorney Wainwright, Henry Allen, whose two passions are the study of psychology and his…

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Graustark (1925)

silent film

As described in a film magazine reviews, Princess Yetive meets Lorry while she is traveling in America under an assumed name. She leaves him in New York City when a friend, Prince Gabriel, tells her that her father is dying. Having receive…

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A Yoke of Gold (1916)

melodrama, silent film

Universal Studios set this melodrama between the years of 1834 and 1850. During this time in California's history, a vast economic gap existed. The elite kept accumulating more wealth, and those with little money declined further in positi…

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Come Out of the Kitchen (1919)

silent film

thumb|upright=1.2|Eugene O'Brien and Marguerite Clark in Come Out of the Kitchen As described in a film magazine, Claudia Daingerfield is the resourceful daughter of an old and invalid Southern aristocrat Mr. Daingerfield. All that remains…

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