The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert 1931

5.10

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?

1931

Safety Last!

Safety Last! 1923

7.72

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

Celebrity

Celebrity 1928

1

Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.

1928

Never Weaken

Never Weaken 1921

6.70

Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.

1921

Why Worry?

Why Worry? 1923

6.49

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

1923

Annapolis

Annapolis 1928

3.00

Bill is a young man who arrives at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is an incorrigible know-all, and emerges a sober man. Meanwhile, Bill is accused of a crime committed by his friend, and because he doesn't squeal, he wins the heart and hand of the blond Betty. She is his friend's girl.

1928

Holiday

Holiday 1930

6.20

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

1930

Lonely Wives

Lonely Wives 1931

4.60

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.

1931

Big News

Big News 1929

4.60

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

1929

The Racketeer

The Racketeer 1929

4.90

A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.

1929

Paris Bound

Paris Bound 1929

5.00

Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.

1929

The House Without a Key

The House Without a Key 1926

1

A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'

1926

Strange Cargo

Strange Cargo 1929

6.00

On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)

1929

Bromo and Juliet

Bromo and Juliet 1926

5.60

A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.

1926

Along Came Auntie

Along Came Auntie 1926

6.20

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

1926

Spanking Breezes

Spanking Breezes 1926

1

"Spanking Breezes" is a short Mack Sennett comedy.

1926

The Office Scandal

The Office Scandal 1929

1

Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.

1929

The Timber Queen

The Timber Queen 1922

1

The Timber Queen follows Ruth Rowland as the inheritor of a wealthy timber business who tries to stay independent of a cruel man who wants to marry her and steal her wealth. The UCLA Film and Television Archive has preserved episodes one, four, eight and nine, and distributor Harpodeon has preserved episode twelve.

1922

The Sagebrusher

The Sagebrusher 1920

1

A friend of a Montana sagebrusher advertises for a potential wife for him.

1920

The Soilers

The Soilers 1923

5.47

During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.

1923