Director: Abel Gance, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jean Renoir and Germaine Dulac. Cast: An all-star stellar cast. Description: Groundbreaking short film compilation collecting the early avante garde stylings from France. For those who think outide the cinematic box, for those who look for a little bit of the stranger. Contains the following shorts, La Folie du Docteur Tube (1915), Anemic Cinema (1926), L’Etoile de Mer (1928), Emak - Bakia (1926), Charleston (1927), The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922). Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 70 mins. Item #5253 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton. Cast: Buster Keaton, Phyllis Haver, Babe London. Description: A hilarious battle of the sexes is in store as a young man and a young woman battle it out to see who has the bestter survival skills. Watch as the two of them repeatedly humilate themselves and each other. Also included is the Buster Keaton classic short One Week from 1920. A nutty nuptial tale about newlyweds building a portable house. When the pieces of the house go missing, hilarity ensues. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 48 mins. Item #5314 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: George Cowl, Travers Vale. Cast: Alice Brady, John Bowers, Lillian Cook, Victor Kennard, Eugenie Woodward, Kate Lester, Frank Mayo. Description: A biography on legendary flagmaker Betsy Ross, produced by The World Film Corporation. Starring Hollywood Newcomer Alice Brady in the title role. A patriotic depiction with all the love and romance written for the silver screen. With former friends both in love in the same woman, destined to meet on the battle in a grand duel that will end up breaking poor Betsy's heart. See how and why we salute the old stars and stripes. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 60 mins. Item #5378 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Victor Adamson (Denver Dixon), Malon Andrus Cast: Art Mix (George Kesterson), Virginia Warwick, Clifford Davidson, Harvey Stafford, Dorothy Chase, Charles Colby, H. Paul Walsh. Description: U.S. Marshal rides into danger when he investigates a diamond-smuggling crook who has kidnapped a girl and her father who have discovered his activities. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 55 mins. Item #4528 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: J.P. McGowan Cast: Al Hoxie, Minna Redman, Andrew Walden, Peggy Montgomery, Jules Cowles. Description: Creepy masked killer leaves the "Ace of Clubs" as his murderous calling card, and Hoxie is out to catch him to avenge the deaths of his father and brother. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 50 mins. Item #3747 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Wallace Worsley Cast: Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Hardee Kirkland, Raymond Hatton, Edwin Wallock, Roy Laidlaw. Description: A secret society, "brothers" at odds and an unrequited love. Ace of Hearts is an ahead of it's time cinematic tale of tragedy and revenge. Lon Chaney gives a heartfelt performance as the stoic Mr. Farallone. A man who's very existence may or may not threaten Mr. Morgridge (Hardee Kirkland) - the leader of a mysterious secret society. Mr. Farrallone's reserved nature of his wantings for Lilith (Leatrice Joy) may ultimately become his undoing as the fate of him and his "brother" Mr. Forrest (John Bowers) are on the line. Is the cause of this secret society more important than the love of a woman or does fate behold something far more just and sinister? Find out in the 1921 classic Ace of Hearts with new score by musical virtuoso Keith Taylor. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 74 mins. Item #3397 Format: & vbcrlf VHS for $14.99 DVD for $19.99 also on DVD Unit
Director: Burton King. Cast: Lila Lee, Cornelius Keefe, Burr McIntosh, Reginald Sheffield, Gladden James, Harry Allen, Alice Knowland. Description: Rich girl poses as a worker in daddy's factory to prove that she can help the family business. She begins dating a shipping clerk, and takes him to a party in her father's mansion, where her no-account brother steals money from the safe and blames the crime on the clerk. Written by Arthur Hoerl. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 76 mins. Item #3124 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Robert F. Hill Cast: Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine, Lillian Worth, Frank Whitson, Percy Pembroke, Frank Merrill, Kathleen Kirkham, Charles Guy. Description: Feature version of 1921 serial which no longer exists in complete form. After resisting the advances of the Queen of Opar, Tarzan finds himself fighting for his life against treasure hunters led by his cousin, who has taken on the title of Lord Greystoke. Based on the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 46 mins. Item #2323 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Yakov Protazanov Cast: Yuliya Solntseva, Aleksandra Peregonets, Nikolai Batalov, Konstantin Eggert, Vera Orlova, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli. Description: Communist scientist Los believes his social worker wife is cheating on him, and dreams of life on Mars with his Queen, Aelita. After designing a rocket and flying to Mars, Los finds that he cannot escape the struggle of the proletariat. Based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy. English titles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 111 mins. Item #2929 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Marshall Neilan Cast: Mary Pickford, William Scott, Kate Price, Ida Waterman, Norman Kerry, Fred Goodwins, Margaret Landis. Description: Born into a large family and living in a working class neighborhood Amarilly is happy with the life she is given. She's deeply in love with her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a local cafe. But one day this all changes and something new and wonderful is introduced to her when she meets Gordon an artist sculptor from an upper class family. Amarilly is soon drawn into a new and exciting new world. But is she ready to leave all those she loves behind? Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 66 mins. Item #5269 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Lloyd Ingraham Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, Albert Parker, Charles De Lima, Artie Ortego. Description: Entemologist (Douglas Fairbanks) falls for a wealthy industrialist's daughter, who is engaged to a snooty malted milk magnate illegally shipping gunpowder to Mexico. Fairbanks gathers evidence against the man before they tie the knot. Written by Anita Loos. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 52 mins. Item #2331 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Edwin S. Porter Cast: Gilbert M. “Bronco Billy” Anderson, H. B. Walthall, D. W. Griffith, Arthur White, Jack Brawn. Description: This compilation of short silent films features: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903): The first feature motion picture with a complete story features many cinematic firsts. The film stars Gilbert M. “Bronco Billy” Anderson, considered the first true movie star and father of the movie cowboy. Some scenes are colorized, a process where early filmmakers colored parts of each frame of a print. The technique proved amazingly painstaking, and if copies were attempted, every print would be different. The studio released only one color version of the film. LIFE OF AN AMERICAN COWBOY (1903): Indians harass a stagecoach. Stars Bronco Billy. DREAM OF A RAREBIT FIEND (1906): A man gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams. Adapted from Winsor McCay's films and comics of the period. Stars Jack Brawn. LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FIREMAN (1903): Depicts a fireman’s thrilling and dangerous calling and emphasizes the perils he encounters when human life is at stake. Stars Arthur White. RESCUED FROM THE EAGLES NEST (1908): A mother discovers that a large eagle has flown off with her baby. This film provides a rare view of famed director D. W. Griffith as an actor working on-camera instead of behind it. Color/B&W: Color/B&W. Running Time: 40 mins. Item #5086 $14.99Format: VHS Format: VHS Unit
Director: John Emerson Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Reubens, Spottiswoode Aitken, Carl Stockdale, Tote Du Crow, Charlie Stevens, Lillian Langdon, Mildred Harris, Alan Hale. Description: In a South American country, Fairbanks is arrested by a tyranical politician, and finds he must lead a jailbreak to free the country's president and his beautiful daughter from the dungeons and restore political stability. Written by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 58 mins. Item #3361 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: John Griffith Wray Cast: Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion, Eugenie Besserer, Ralph Yearsley, Chester Conklin, Fred Kohler, George Siegmann, Victor Potel. Description: A sailor seeks to protect his daughter from seafaring men and sends her to relatives in Minnesota who treat her badly. She goes to Chicago where she leads the very kind of life that her father sought to protect her from. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 96 mins. Item #4181 $14.99Format: VHS Format: VHS Unit
Director: Nat Ross Cast: Alexander Carr, Duane Thompson, Mary Alden, Raymond Keane, Baby Peggy, Eddie Phillips, Snitz Edwards, Nat Carr. Description: Life is good for former pants presser Jacob Goodman; he has just made a fortune in the umbrella business and his daughter is about to be married to the nephew of a wealthy man. It all comes crashing down however, when the nephew is accused of stealing from his uncle, and it's up to Jacob to prove his innocence. Based on the play by Alexander Carr. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 63 mins. Item #3193 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Alexander Dovzhenko Cast: Semyon Svashenko, Luciano Albertini, Pyotr Masokha, Amvrosi Buchma, Nikolai Nademsky. Description: The anguish and social upheaval of World War I-era Russia is depicted through the eyes of an unassuming Ukrainian soldier as he fights against White Russian troops during the 1918 worker's uprising in Kiev. English titles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 70 mins. Item #1824 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: August Blom Cast: Olaf Fonss, Frederik Jacobsen, Carl Lauritzen, Ida Orloff, Ebba Thomsen, Charles Unthan. Description: Despondent over his institutionalized wife, a doctor endeavors to cope by traveling through Europe and eventually to New York, surviving an ocean liner sinking on the way. The film was hailed as an impressive achievement for the cinema of 1913, especially for the sinking liner sequence that was influenced by the Titanic disaster. English title cards. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 113 mins. Item #3367 $14.99Format: VHS Format: VHS Unit
Director: D.W. Griffith Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet, George Siegmann, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Donald Crisp, Josephine Crowell, Walter Long, Wallace Reid. Description: Overprotective uncle refuses to allow his nephew to marry, on the grounds that his intended is of questionable morals. An avid Edgar Allen Poe reader, the nephew comes to believe that murdering his uncle and sealing the body in a brick fireplace is the only way out. Written & Produced by D.W. Griffith, based on several tales of Edgar Allen Poe. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 70 mins. Item #3164 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: William Christy Cabanne Cast: Pauline Garon, Harrison Ford, David Powell, Burr McIntosh, Russell Griffin, Coit Albertson, De Sacia Mooers. Description: A reporter writing the story about "The Average Woman" discovers he is falling for the plain Jane on whom he is basing his story. Complicating matters is a sleazy roadhouse owner posing as a society man who also has designs on the girl. Written by Raymond S. Harris. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 52 mins. Item #2318 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Charles and Sidney Franklin. Cast: Francis Carpenter, Virginia Lee Corbin, Carmen De Rue, Violet MacMillan, Fred Woodward, Violet Radcliffe. Description: To test his wife's fidelity, a wealthy man disappears after making his two children the chief beneficiaries of his will. He soon finds that his wife and brother are conspiring to kill the children for the money. Produced by George Cochrane. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 44 mins. Item #1839 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
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