Godless Men is a 1920 American silent adventure drama film directed by Reginald Barker and produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. It stars Russell Simpson and James “Jim” Mason as a father and son. It is based on a Saturday Evening Post short story Black Pawl by Ben Ames Williams. Reginald Barker [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Info.
The Musketeers of Pig Alley is a 1912 American short drama and a gangster film. It is directed by D. W. Griffith and written by Griffith and Anita Loos. It is also credited for its early use of follow focus, a fundamental tool in cinematography. The film was released on October 31, 1912 and re-released on November 5, 1915 in… Read more →
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace. Starring Ramon Novarro as the title character, the film is the first feature-length adaptation of the novel and second overall, following the… Read more →
Haldane of the Secret Service is a 1923 American adventure silent film directed by Harry Houdini. The film stars Harry Houdini, Gladys Leslie, William J. Humphrey, Richard Carlyle, Edward Boulden, Jane Jennings and Charles Fang. The film was released on September 30, 1923, by Film Booking Offices of America. Plot: “Heath Haldane (Houdini), son of a detective slain by a… Read more →
Scaramouche (1923) is a silent costume adventure based on the novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, directed by Rex Ingram, released by Metro Pictures, and starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham. Scaramouche will become public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019 Plot: André-Louis Moreau (Ramon Novarro) loves Aline de Kercadiou (Alice Terry), the niece… Read more →
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1922 silent adventure film, one of the many adaptations of Anthony Hope’s popular 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda and the subsequent 1896 play by Hope and Edward Rose. Plot: Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll (Lewis Stone) decides to pass the time by attending the coronation of his distant relation, King Rudolf V of Ruritania (also… Read more →
Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film. The film was directed by John Huston, and starred Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida, and featured Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon a novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn, writing under the pseudonym James… Read more →
The White Gorilla is a 1945 American film directed by Harry L. Fraser. The film was made by re-editing the 1927 silent film Perils of the Jungle, and adding new footage as a framing plot. This was done without regard to differences in film quality or speed. Cast: Ray Corrigan as Steve Collins / Konga, the White Gorilla / Narrator… Read more →
Ace Drummond is a Universal Pictures 1936 film serial based on the comic strip “Ace Drummond” written by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and drawn by Clayton Knight. The serial’s cast features John King, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery, Jr. and Jackie Morrow, with Lon Chaney, Jr. in a supporting role. Plotline: A mysterious villain who calls himself The Dragon is attempting to… Read more →
Ace Drummond is a Universal Pictures 1936 film serial based on the comic strip “Ace Drummond” written by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and drawn by Clayton Knight. The serial’s cast features John King, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery, Jr. and Jackie Morrow, with Lon Chaney, Jr. in a supporting role. Plotline: A mysterious villain who calls himself The Dragon is attempting to… Read more →
