The Cheat (1915), The Cameraman (1928), Shoeshine (1946), Saludos Amigos (1942), Grand Hotel (1932), The War of the Worlds (1953), Feet First (1930), The Gang's All Here (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Historical Significance movies.
Storyline: After a wealthy man (Sessue Hayakawa) brands a woman (Fannie Ward) for revoking their loan agreement, she shoots him, and her husband (Jack Dean) takes the blame in court.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, crime, race, morality, betrayal, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.—tvman@earthlink.net
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, black and white, classic film, american film, 1920s, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of them, the orphan Pasquale and his younger friend Giuseppe, are riding. The pair have been saving to buy their own horse. They meet Attilio, Giuse's much-older brother, and his shady friend at a boat on the Tiber. In return for a commission, the boys agree to deliver black-market goods to a fortuneteller. Once the woman has paid, Attilio's gang suddenly arrives, pretending to be cops, to shake the woman down. With a payoff from Attilio, the boys are able to make the final payment and stable their horse in Trastevere over the river. The fortuneteller identifies Pasqua and Giuse. Held at an overcrowded boys' prison, they are separated. Giuse falls under the influence of an older lad in his cell, Arcangeli. During interrogation, Pasqua is tricked into betraying Giuse's brother to the police. With their trial still in the future, the two friends are driven further apart.—David Carless
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, post-war, poverty, children, friendship, tragedy, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a live action sequence in which Walt Disney himself gives a tour of his animation studios in California, the action shifts to South America where a collection of both stock and new characters appear in a series of shorts. In one segment, Donald Duck (Clarence Nash) attempts to navigate Lake Titicaca with an uncooperative llama, and in another, a brave little airplane crosses the dangerous Andes. Meanwhile, Goofy (Pinto Colvig) tries to act like a local in the Pampas.
Plot Keywords: animation, disney, music, comedy, anthology, documentary style, travel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end...
Plot Keywords: drama, classic, black and white, hollywood, all-star cast, 1930s, mgm ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: H.G. Wells' classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town in California are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Their joy is tempered somewhat when they discover that it has passengers who are not very friendly.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, alien invasion, disaster, cold war, nuclear fear, classic, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.—Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, slapstick, classic, adventure, thrilling, hilarious, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy's eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie's show troupe, at which she's sure to learn his true identity...and meet Vivian, his 'family-arrangement' fiancée. Mostly song and dance.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, broadway style, golden age hollywood, song and dance, star-studded ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested in jazz and ragtime music. One day, they have such a bitter argument that Jakie leaves home for good. After a few years on his own, now calling himself Jack Robin, he gets an important opportunity through the help of well-known stage performer Mary Dale. But Jakie finds that in order to balance his career, his relationship with Mary, and his memories of his family, he will be forced to make some difficult choices.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, black and white, silent film, jewish culture, family conflict, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Astronauts (John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers) land their rocket on the moon but must lessen the load a lot in order to get back.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, space, moon, adventure, cold war, technology, future ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charlie talks wealthy farmer's daughter Tillie into eloping with him (and taking her father's money). In the city Tillie gets drunk and lands in jail while Charlie runs off with her money and his old girlfriend Mabel. Later Charlie reads that Tillie (now working as a waitress) has inherited the estate of her multi-millionaire uncle. Charlie dumps Mabel and talks Tillie into moving into her uncle's villa, and Mabel arranges to become a housemaid there. The uncle (never really dead) returns and summons the police to have them all thrown out.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, slapstick, black and white, early cinema, romance, chase scene ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine, unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realizing she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader, though.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, classic, 1930s, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, short film, black and white, musical, humor, parody ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A love triangle develops in a traveling minstrel troupe.
Plot Keywords: black and white film, musical, comedy, drama, classic hollywood, nostalgic film, song and dance film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Plot Keywords: musical, song and dance film, black and white film, broadway, 1920s, warner bros, light comedy ...
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