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Rex the wonder horse's owner is murdered by Joe Regan, the leader of a band of smugglers. RCMP Sgt. Jack Gordon has been sent to capture the villain. Rex vows vengeance on Regan and helps Gordon capture him.
A young composer and inventor meets a poverty stricken singer.
This one covers the 19th century ballad in a very respectful manner: although the written reprise is gagged up, the song is introduced very respectfully by an unshown Irish tenor and then offered for the audience's singing without any voice-over to lead them.
An Aesop’s Film Fables short.
In Harlem, Bud Peagler's "Barbecue Lunch and Poolroom" (the home of Brunswick Stew), also serves as the meeting place and hangout for many citizens and organizations such as 'The Sons and Daughters of The I Will Arise Society," and also Mosby's Blues Blowers. It is also where Roscoe Driggers hangs out. Roscoe claims to be the world's champion cornet player, although he can't play a note, even a sour one. But when the chance to earn $500 for playing his cornet at the big concert held by the "Over the River Burying Society" arises, Roscoe signs up. Roscoe needs $500 in order to buy a beauty shop for his manicurist-fiancée, Zenia Sprowl. Roscoe makes plans for his buddy Sam Ginn, who can play a cornet, to hide under the stage and play while Roscoe fakes it on the stage. But Sam gets taken out by some dudes who have a bone to pick with Roscoe. No sweat, though, as another of Roscoe's musician friends, Willie Trout, sees this and takes Sam's place under the stage....with his saxophone.
Based on the novel by Yakub Kolas "In the Vastness of Life". The film is considered lost.
A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected. A lost film.
A Educational short where Robert Graves plays Thelma Todd's jealous husband.
A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring. The tenants are a cross section of melting-pot culture: Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian dialetcs create a rich aural mix on the sound track. As small talk is exchanged among the residents of different floors, an off-camera hurdy-gurdy supplies an often ironic counter-point to the action
In a village in the Peloponnese, on the slopes of Mt. Chelmos, lives rich sheep owner Mitros with his wife Asimina, his son Thymios and adopted daughter Astero. The children love each other, but Mitros betroths Astero to Stamos, another rich sheep owner. When Stamos is killed and Astero loses her mind, Mitros, watching his son wither away, tells him that his entire fortune is Astero's and urges him to marry her.
A silent short film showcasing the tensions and disparities between different social classes within an Armenian rural community.
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.
Snub Pollard and Marvin Loback find comic situations as bums, night cops and seance attendees in this silent short.
Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.
The famous story of the Portuguese Robin Hood retold in epic proportions by the filmmaker Rino Lupo.
An insight into the production of an animated film.
Inventor Al Simpkins develops a new airplane fuel, "Economo," which he claims gets a thousand miles to the pint.
Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.
Two rival gangs of bandits in the Andalucian outback: one gang distributes their stolen money among the poor and respects women, and the other gang is just common criminals.
The movie begins with a mysterious murder and Umon Kondo, a Doshin, so called drag-ass Umon, who dallies away lying sprawled all day long, launches an investigation.
'Adventure: Lapland. Boy killed skiing, his brother killed by pet reindeer, and father killed too.' (British Film Catalogue)
Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th century
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.
Directed by Abdul Rashid Kardar.
Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him.
An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.
An itinerant sailor meets a beautiful girl on the road and takes a job with her father, the Skipper of an Arctic sealer. He must prove himself stronger than his rival among the glaciers and ice floes.
"Pour vos beaux yeux" (For Your Beautiful Eyes) is an eight-minute surrealist short by Henri Storck, conceived from an idea by Félix Labisse. In just 75 shots, it follows a young man who discovers a glass eye in a park, becomes consumed by its strange allure, and tries in vain to rid himself of it by mailing it away. Featuring Henry Van Vyve in the lead role, with cameo appearances by Labisse and his sister Ninette, the film stands as a playful yet unsettling exploration of obsession and absurdity—released only a year after "Un Chien Andalou."
Early sound film. Quirky Fridolf, with the benevolent help of an "amateur singer", prefers a couple of accordion couplets.
Ville Andeson is a young and naughty kid.
The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts, Louise and Jakob Fleck draw their audience into a carefree, urban romantic comedy. With a single scene, however, it turns into a melodrama about sexual violence, shame and perpetrator-victim reversal.
Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
Early Vitaphone short.
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
After divorcing her husband Hans, who had started a relationship with another woman because of her infertility, Maria Immermann leaves their shared apartment and moves to Berlin.
Indian film released in 1929.
The Ridin' Demon is a 1929 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor.
A gentleman thief is accused of a murder he did not commit.
1929 film serial directed by Jack Nelson.
The film was reedited in the United States in 1938 by Kalyna Film Company of Mykola Novak, using very unique special effects.
British documentary.
Comedian Pat West performs his vaudeville act.
The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.