Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
Género : Comedia, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 20M
Director : Clarence G. Badger
Sinopsis
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.
The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.
This film is presumed lost.
A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happen in his room, and before long he has created a disturbance that has everyone running to his room to find out what is going on.
Un aerobús rematado en cabeza gallinácea conduce a los expedicionarios liderados por el profesor Maboul (Georges Méliés) rumbo al Polo Norte, donde se toparán con un gigante de hielo, para, al rato, escupirlo a requerimiento de sus compañeros. Los viajeros regresarán triunfalmente a su destino tras un paseo por los hielos perpetuos.
The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor, with little or no comment from the director, Cavalcanti.
Cortometraje de Yasujirō Ozu.
"El Tigre" Hayes es un trampero que vive en China con su hija. Ella conoce a Bobby, el hijo de un viejo amigo. En uno de sus viajes Bobby conoce a una enigmática mujer de la que se enamora perdidamente sin saber que es la madre de Toyo.
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control. Note that this cartoon contains strobe flashing.
Winsor McCay recreates the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in this propaganda piece designed to stir up anti-German sentiment during World War I.
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commends the captain, and returns to earth in the commander's body to promote His message of peace.
Millie vive con su abuelo en una remota isla de Florida, a la que su abuelo se vio obligado a ir por motivos políticos. Pero no están solos. Un prisionero fugado de la cárcel, llamado Nicholas, los está acosando debido a su interés por Millie. Por otro lado, un marinero llamado John Woolfolk, quien ha perdido a su esposa recientemente, navega con su yate para desquitarse de sus penas, y es así como llega a la isla para interceder involuntariamente en esa situación.
A comedic deja vu story of runaway young love.
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
Eugene Cullen contrata a Tom Gordon para que acabe con los robos en su ferrocarril. Con la ayuda del vagabundo Harry Deluxe, Tom intentará introducirse en la banda haciéndose pasar por salteador de caminos.
Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo) está casada con el senador Karenin (Brandon Hurst), de quien tiene un hijo de cinco años. Pero cuando conoce al capitán del ejército zarista Alexei Vronsky (John Gilbert), ambos quedan prendados el uno del otro y así comenzará la historia de un gran amor prohibido que, ni la sociedad ni el ejército, aprueban en absoluto.