Movies 1927 Page 26

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

A Swedish attempt at two-color technicolor.

Japanese silent film from 1927.

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she...

Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.

A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.

For the production of this film, Oskar Fischinger tinted various layers of hot wax. After cooling, the resulting lump of wax resembled a marble cake....

An avant-garde montage of a boxing match, based on a poem by Paul Werrie.

A group of children goes to the toy museum and then toy workshop. The master makes Bolvashka - a wooden Pinocchio-like boy on hinges. Upon returning,...

A couple of drifters seeking shelter from a blizzard. In a mountain cabin, they find the body of an old friend and a note that blames his death on...

Buddy Roosevelt, a notorious bandit known as the "Phantom," and his doppelgänger, drifter Jeff McCloud. Bull manages to throw suspicion on Jeff but...

Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.

James Clemens gets the top-billing in this Vitaphone short where he plays a drunk who can hardly stand. That's pretty much the entire plot as Clemens...

Lloyd Hamilton chasing a butterfly in the slapstick comedy "Papa's Boy".

During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film...

A detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to...

Charley impersonates his stunt double, a man named Bud Gordon, unaware that he's a wanted criminal.

Temptations of a Shop Girl is a lost 1927 silent crime drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Betty Compson and Pauline Garon

When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When...

Felix's wife demands he stop his lazing and get a job. Off runs Felix to help a barber, a farmer, and a homeless saxophonist (for a price, of course).

Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.

To escape an arranged marriage, a young Italian girl marries an older man, a military officer who is also a family friend, and when he is assigned to...

Series #2, Episode #8 of The Collegians, where in this case centers around various water sports, and Benson even finds himself in jail at one point.

Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor...

Silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine..

Harried Max Davidson squares off against his grumpy neighbor James Finlayson resulting in a barrage of property destruction, chases, and silent-era...

1927 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe.

Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned...

An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, where he manages to get a job as a bouncer. There...

Vic Harding, a crooked Eastern land speculator, learns of a proposed railroad spur that will increase the value of the Lawton ranch and conspires...

Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner's granddaughter Lucille. But when he arrives at...

Alice is dancing aboard her ship with a veritable zoo of a crew. Meanwhile, in the galley, the chef (a cat) is preparing food while his assistant, a...

While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to...

Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.

The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White Fury.