The Ape Man
Like most of Bela Lugosi's Monogram pictures, you're never quite sure if the filmmakers were trying to do a parody or not. But as always, Bela gives it everything he's...
William Beaudine
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The Ape Man
Bela Lugosi really throws himself into an atypical role as a mad scientist whose over-successful experiments have somehow resulted in him sporting the most impressive mutton-chop sideburns this side of the Wolfman and spending most of his time in a cage with an actual gorilla (or, rather, a man...Watch Movie
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Sparrows
Hidden deep in the Southern swamps, the Grimes family operates a "baby farm" where unwanted or "lost" children are cruelly underfed and overworked. Mama Mollie, the oldest of the kids, protects the others as best she can and keeps up their courage by telling them that God watches over them just...Watch Movie
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A Home Spun Hero
An Al Christie production starring Bobby Vernon and featuring Helen Darling, George Ford and Vera Steadman. Bobby Vernon was a talented comic actor during the silent era, who became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era...Watch Movie
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Won by a Fowl
This Keystone-Triangle three-reeler, produced by silent comedy maestro Mack Sennett's company and the shorter-lived major studio that briefly flourished in the late-1910s, features a cast of lesser-remembered players. It's a sunny day, which some choose to spend at the park kissing babies or...Watch Movie
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Sparrows
Yes,this is one of Mary Pickford best films Mary is a good introduction to silent films but I digress the plot of the baby farm or child labor camp is...
Sparrows
Mother/child Mary Pickford (part frightened innocent, part fearless daredevil) leads a peculiarly talented pack of child actors through peril -- some grim predicaments played for laughs, some for terror, in...
Sparrows
A sadistic, cruel hillbilly concentration camp for children! One of the creepiest films of the silent era!