The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments 1923

6.57

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

1923

Our Hospitality

Our Hospitality 1923

7.50

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

1923

Safety Last!

Safety Last! 1923

7.70

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

1923

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923

6.50

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

1923

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923

6.73

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

1923

The Balloonatic

The Balloonatic 1923

6.29

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

1923

Three Ages

Three Ages 1923

6.80

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.

1923

The Love Nest

The Love Nest 1923

6.68

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by pirates.

1923

The Pilgrim

The Pilgrim 1923

6.86

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

1923

Fool Proof

Fool Proof 1923

1

A 1924 Neal Burns comedy. To show his son that there’s more to life than work, a rich man pretends he is getting married to a chorus girl.

1923

Return to Reason

Return to Reason 1923

6.40

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

1923

La Roue

La Roue 1923

7.20

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.

1923

Warning Shadows

Warning Shadows 1923

6.50

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?

1923

Cœur fidèle

Cœur fidèle 1923

7.20

The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.

1923

Alice's Wonderland

Alice's Wonderland 1923

6.00

Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room.

1923

The Toll of the Sea

The Toll of the Sea 1923

6.20

A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, but he resolutely returns to his life, and wife, in America.

1923

White Tiger

White Tiger 1923

5.50

Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.

1923

The Fighting Blade

The Fighting Blade 1923

1

In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.

1923

Why Worry?

Why Worry? 1923

6.60

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

1923