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Silent Action/Adventure
see all genres ›Once the movies learned to move the camera around, it became clear that one of its strengths was in capturing the kind of highly physical, often outdoor action impossible on the stage: the leaping, horseback riding, globe-trotting, magic-carpet riding stuff hitherto relegated to heroic literature.
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The Beloved Rogue
A swashbuckling John Barrymore, as 15th century poet Francois Villon, takes on King Louis XI to save his paramour in this silent classic. Full of action, adventure and lavish production values, THE BELOVED ROGUE showcases one of Barrymore's best performances. The great German actor Conrad Veidt...Start your free trial to watch
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The Black Pirate
In the first grand-scale epic shot entirely in Technicolor, the sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as the mysterious Black Pirate and infiltrates the nest of bandits. Michel (Fairbanks) mounts an elaborate ploy to recover the brigands' treasure, reclaim the ship and rescue the divine...Start your free trial to watch
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The Coffin Ship
A love story filmed in Long Island Sound with a stowaway and a shipwreck. Because of 1911 production convention, a sprawling adventure is truncated to one-reel length. Good location work, a strength of Thanhouser pictures, creates a visually strong seagoing story. Long Island Sound locations were near the studio. A review of...Start your free trial to watch
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Down to the Sea In Ships
Newly mastered from an archival 35mm print, DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS is an adventure film that conveys the dangers and excitement aboard the whaling ships of New England. Produced on location by the short-lived Whaling Film Corp., DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS is not only an engaging romance and rousing...Start your free trial to watch
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The Lost World
Though not as well remembered as the films that followed, you can thank this "stupendous story of adventure and romance" (as it was originally billed) for KING KONG (not to mention JURASSIC PARK). Drawn from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, it's a marvelous fantasy in which an English crew of explorers sail off to prove that...Start your free trial to watch
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The Man from Beyond
Two scientists on an Arctic expedition uncover a frozen man who’s been preserved in ice for a century. The "man from beyond" is none other than Harry Houdini, who punches up a gothic melodrama with escape acts and a dashing rescue above Niagara Falls. His character encounters the same woman he left behind...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mark of Zorro
In his first full-blown effort at the costume thriller, Fairbanks portrays Don Diego Vega, a comically effete young nobleman with a taste for tasseled sombreros and juvenile silk-hanky magic tricks. But when danger calls, Diego swathes himself in black, straps on a well-honed sword and storms the...Start your free trial to watch
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A Modern Musketeer
A flamboyant action comedy based on E.P. Lyle Jr.'s story "D'Artagnan of Kansas," A MODERN MUSKETEER winningly combines elements of comedy and melodrama. Moreover, as the title suggests, it was the harbinger of the great things to come, for in it, Douglas Fairbanks dons the cloak and sword of the legendary...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mollycoddle
In THE MOLLYCODDLE, his third United Artists release, Douglas Fairbanks latched onto the catchword to evoke his trademark "lamb into a lion" character transformation, used from his very first film. Fairbanks plays the Arizona-born Richard Marshall V, the "mollycoddle" of the film's title, a hopeless anglophile sporting such...Start your free trial to watch
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Orphans of the Storm
Lillian and Dorothy Gish star as the resourceful Henriette and the blind Louise, who leave their countryside home for Paris in the hopes of having Louise's sight restored. Spied by the lecherous Marquis de Praille (Morgan Wallace), Henriette is abducted and the women are tragically separated in a city on...Start your free trial to watch
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The Outlaw and His Wife
A masterpiece of Swedish silent cinema, Victor Sjöström's THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE is a film of remarkable psychological complexity which bore a profound influence on the work of Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer. When a mysterious stranger (played by Sjöström) is hired on at a farm by its widowed...Start your free trial to watch
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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
RESCUED FROM AN EAGLE'S NEST features D. W. Griffith in his first major screen role, that of a father who battles an eagle while attempting to rescue his child from the bird's nest. The story for this family-centered drama was taken from a famous incident that had been enshrined in waxworks. The film...Start your free trial to watch
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She
This sensational popular story was one of three Haggard novels filmed by Thanhouser. It has many of the elements found in the not-yet-invented adventure/fantasy serial genre. Thanhouser’s expertise in location work, costume fantasy, and elaborate storytelling pay off in in SHE, the studio’s first single-release two-reel...Start your free trial to watch
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Spies
Rudolf Kleine-Rogge stars as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the undercover agent assigned to topple the diabolical king from his throne. Filled with the sexual intrigue and high-tech gadgetry that continue to define the genre, SPIES remains remarkably contemporary, even 75 years after...Start your free trial to watch
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Terror Island
Petrie's Island is a remote island off the Irish coast which has no phones, one police officer, a boat that only delivers supplies once a week and a wonky generator supplying all the electricity. When farmer Ian Bellows turns up missing after disappearing into a cave to investigate a strange, electronic echoing sound, his...Start your free trial to watch
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The Thief of Bagdad
A spectacular accomplishment in production design and special effects, Raoul Walsh's THE THIEF OF BAGDAD is a bold Arabian adventure starring Douglas Fairbanks as a carefree pickpocket who turns his appealing brand of mischievous thievery toward the attainment of happiness and an exotic princess (Julanne...Start your free trial to watch
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The Yankee Clipper
THE YANKEE CLIPPER, produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian, is a feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade. The gorgeous production (restored to the most complete version available since the film’s release) was filmed at sea...Start your free trial to watch