All Films

The Unkissed Man

1929 • 20 min

Riding for Fame

1929 • 60 min

A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his boss. He has to clear his name and find the real thieves.

Hoofbeats of Vengeance

1929 • 47 min • United States of America

Rex the wonder horse's owner is murdered by Joe Regan, the leader of a band of smugglers. RCMP Sgt. Jack Gordon has been sent to capture the villain. Rex vows vengeance on Regan and helps Gordon capture him.

Cold Turkey

1929 • 3 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Melody of the World

1929 • 49 min • Germany

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.

Not Quite Decent

1929 • 58 min • United States of America

On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a nightclub singer; Linda later drops by to hear Mame sing, accompanied by their angel, Paul Nicholson, a wealthy roué. Mame gradually comes to realize that Linda is her own daughter, from whom she was separated years before by pious relatives. Using all her wiles, Mame attempts to keep Linda from falling prey to Nicholson, and when all else fails, she sends for Jerry Connor, Linda's small town sweetheart.

Sky Boy

1929 • 20 min

Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.

Pleasure Crazed

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Pleasure Crazed is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Donald Gallaher.

Sweat

1929 • 50 min • Japan

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.

The Flying Scotsman

1929 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job after years of distinguished service. On his second to last day he reports Crow, a disgruntled fireman for drinking at work, leading to his dismissal. The sacked man decides to get his revenge, vowing to kill Bob on his final run. Meanwhile, Crow's young replacement has fallen in love with a beautiful girl, whose father, unbeknown to him, happens to be Bob (and who has also boarded the train in an attempt to stop the villain).

The Girl from Woolworth's

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each tells the other that they have a different job than they actually do. Bill later finds her handbag on the subway, returns it to her and invites her to dinner. They dine at the swanky Mayfield Club, where owner Lawrence Mayfield is also attracted to Daisy and offers her a job there as a singer. Bill is not happy, although Daisy is.

Hold 'Em Ozzie

1929 • 6 min • United States of America

Oswald and Pete play a football game.

Courtin' Wildcats

1929 • 58 min • United States of America

College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he finds Calamity Jane running roughshod over everyone. So the dude decides to tame her.

Mickey's Mix-Up

1929 • 18 min • United States of America

An early sound short, where Mickey and the gang put on another show.

Wages of Sin

1929 • 50 min • United States of America

Film producer Winston L. Jaune gives his brother J. Lee a job in his company. J. Lee promptly steals company funds, spends lavishly in cabarets, at wild parties, and on women putting the company in financial difficulties.

Stairs of Sand

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.

Gossip

1929 • 21 min • United States of America

A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes to visit but he isn't aware that they are now married. Soon this friend is gossiping to each of them about the other and sure enough problems start.

Sympathy

1929 • 10 min • United States of America

Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.

A Close Call

1929 • 7 min • United States of America

The short starts with a mouse playing some bell-like tulips like musical bells....

A Single Man

1929 • 60 min

Robin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her, then falls for her. He undergoes a profound change in temperament, but in the end he marries his secretary, Mary Hazeltine (Aileen Pringle), who had gone away plain and come back strikingly beautiful and wearing the latest new fashions.

The Cross Country Run

1929 • 24 min

Episode 37 of "The Collegians" Series of the 46 short films

Dark Streets

1929 • 60 min

Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny turns to a life of crime. They now find themselves on the opposite sides of the law, and both are in love with a pretty Irish girl from their neighborhood, Kate Dean. Before long one has to prove that blood is thicker than water.

Sioux Blood

1929 • 60 min

One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.

The Suicide Sheik

1929 • 5 min • United States of America

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit attempts to commit suicide after suffering a heartbreak.