The Little Avenger

Early silent movie adaptation of Shakespeare's play, focused on key moments: the arrest of the Duke of Buckingham, Henry's infatuation with Anne Boleyn at a banquet, the Trial of Queen Katharine, Cardinal Wolsey's downfall, and Anne's coronation.

Runtime

40m

Director

William Barker

Cast

Arthur Bourchier, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Violet Vanbrugh

Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Romani Russian, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayar...

Runtime

1h 10m

Director

Sam Wood

Cast

Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, Milton Sills

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farm...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Charles Brabin

Cast

Colleen Moore, Joseph De Grasse, John Bowers

Buddy Roosevelt, a notorious bandit known as the "Phantom," and his doppelgänger, drifter Jeff McCloud. Bull manages to throw suspicion on Jeff but is himself killed by Jim Breed (John Junior).

Runtime

50m

Director

William Bertram

Cast

Buddy Roosevelt, Slim Whitaker, Boris Karloff

Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.

Runtime

1h

Cast

Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, William Collier Jr.