Lazybones (1925), The Freshman (1925), Monkey Business (1931), The Penalty (1920), My Best Girl (1927), You Only Live Once (1937), It's a Gift (1934), The Godless Girl (1929) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Early Hollywood movies.
Storyline: A former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, classic, black and white, musical film, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings." One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the throne of a small European kingdom. However, there are forces at work who don't want him to survive to take the throne.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white film, short film, comedy, american film, early cinema, slapstick ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. It seems that she too went to their school, but was forced to leave by their bigotry, and is exacting revenge. Will she be stopped in time to save Laura's son, Bobby?—Robert Tonsing <rob_tonsing@msn.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, drama, film noir, psychological thriller, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Raymond Floriot, following in his father Louis Floriot's professional footsteps, he now France's attorney general, has just passed the bar exam. Raymond's first case, appointed to him by the courts, is a murder case. His pitiful and poor Jane Doe client, who refers to herself only as Madame X, admits to killing the scoundrel of a man named Laroque, but won't disclose why or in turn defend herself in court. Raymond knows nothing of her past, which includes once being a woman of class, married to man of prestige. But that marriage ended because he treated her without love, which resulted in her leaving him for another man, who in turn passed away shortly thereafter. Her first marriage produced a son, who her husband refused to let her see. Her son never knew she was alive, he being told by his father that she died. The consequence of his action left Madame X on a downward path where she never found love. Now, in turn, she hopes her silence will protect the one that she really loves, he who doesn't even know about her selfless sacrifice.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, silent film, classic, tragedy, female lead, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Randall is an Army cadet at West Point. His younger brother Paul is a midshipman at the Naval Academy. John contrives to help Paul's timid romantic interest in Nancy Wayne by pretending to be interested in her himself. Paul, however, takes offense, and determines to beat his brother in the Army-Navy football game on purely personal grounds. Meanwhile, Paul and fellow midshipman Albert Price are hazed and tormented by upperclassmen.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, romance, military, war, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, black and white, 1930s, gunfight, desert, adventure, outlaw ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, 1930s, gunfight, american west, bounty hunter, black and white, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: western, classic film, 1930s, black and white, action, adventure, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eric Fane is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, romance, 1920s, black and white, classic film, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While Benny is in jail his old henchman Monk takes over the gang and Benny's girl Frieda. Once out Benny wants nothing to do with either. He has reformed and is beloved of his god-fearing mother's good friend Bertha. But Frieda pursues him and, at a party, announces her engagement to Monk in order to make Benny really jealous. A rival gang attacks during the party and Benny takes over, running off with Bertha in his arms. In a chase across the rooftops, Monk falls to his death. Benny is accused and later cleared of Monk's "murder".—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, crime, prison, romance, escape, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The drama follows the fate of a convent girl (Gloria Swanson) seduced by a prince (Walter Byron) ; restored in 1985.
Plot Keywords: silent film, historical setting, love story, 1920s, controversial film, social class, power struggle ...
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