All Films

The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle: Tale 1 - The Trip to Africa

1928 • 11 min • Germany

In a house on the coast, Doktor Dolittle lives with a monkey, a little dog, a pig, a crocodile, a duck and a parrot. He knows the language of animals. A swallow flies to him and tells of a terrible disease among monkeys in distant Africa. Dolittle and his animals board a ship and begin a hilarious journey.

Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney

1928 • 13 min

Lon and Hazel Chaney with Mabel and Bill Dunphy play with a dog [perhaps Sandy] and perform some vaudeville routines. Later men and women, including Lon and Hazel and Lon's son, Creighton and his friends, and perhaps Eddie Parker, sit inside smoking, drinking, and talking.

3-Ring Marriage

1928 • 60 min

Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her sweetheart, Cal Coney, a circus cowboy, when her father disapproves the match. There she achieves fame as "Anna Montana," but she remains unhappy because Cal refuses to admit that he loves her. Meanwhile, Rawl Souvane, manager of the circus, plans to woo and marry Anna when he preceives that she is wealthy.

Beware of Married Men

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty laugh should take this opportunity of getting it” by seeing a newly released comedy by Warner Bros., suggestively entitled Beware of Married Men. Since director Archie Mayo (The Petrified Forest) helmed this feature during the dying days of the silent era, the studio sought to enhance its commercial viability by embellishing the shot-silent picture with a synchronized music and effects soundtrack using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. Ultimately, these efforts went for naught, as the picture failed at the box office and quickly disappeared from theaters.

The Virgin Queen

1928 • 20 min

The Virgin Queen is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

Road House

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becomes involved with an underworld gang and falls in love with Spanish Marla, one of their vamps. Larry leaves home after an argument with his father, throws in with the gang (who are using him for their own purposes), and is blamed for a murder. Tried and convicted, Larry is given a light sentence when the judge places most of the blame on his overindulgent parents.

Don Diego and Pelagia

1928 • 58 min • Soviet Union

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.

Under the Black Eagle

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.

Fleetwing

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Capturing a beautiful horse and slave girl, Thurya young Arab Jaafor’s happiness is short lived when the girl is sold to a cruel sheik. Sneaking into the encampment he attempts escape with her on horseback but is captured. The attack of an enemy tribe saves him, the sheik is slain, and the young Jaafor’s tribe celebrates his nuptials with Thurya.

The Phantom Flyer

1928 • 52 min

A modern range war -- modern for 1928 -- complete with oil derricks in the backyard, horsemen being pursued by motorcyclists, and there's stunt flyer Al Wilson to save the day.

Sliding Home

1928 • 20 min • United States of America

Sliding Home is the tenth episode of the second series of Universal Pictures serial "The Collegians."

Daydreams

1928 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.

Buster's Big Chance

1928 • 20 min

Buster Brown comedy with Arthur Trimble, Doreen Turner and Pete the pup

The Ballyhoo Buster

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Bob Warner sells some cattle to two men who later drug him and rob him of the sale money. He takes a job with a medicine show as a barker, offering a reward to any spectator to last three rounds in fighting him. While in the ring, he notices in the audience the two men who stole his money. He knocks out his contestant, pursues the crooks, and recovers the money.

A Simple Sap

1928 • 20 min

A bumbling grocery-store employee must deal with such job-related problems as a conniving boss, unruly customers, a baby alligator and an escaped lunatic, all of which culminates in a wild melee involving hurled cakes, pies, buckets of jam and bags of flour.

The Desert Bride

1928 • 57 min • United States of America

Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.

The Law of the Range

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".

Pay as You Enter

1928 • 55 min • United States of America

Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.

Horseman of the Plains

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Tom Mix plays a cowboy coming to the aid of a rancher who's on the verge of foreclosure. Falling in love with Sally Blane, the rancher's pretty daughter, our hero vows to win an important cross-country race.

Why Sailors Go Wrong

1928 • 60 min

Why Sailors Go Wrong is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Henry Lehrman and written by Randall Faye and Delos Sutherland.

Fisticuffs

1928 • 16 min • United States of America

Lupino Lane, an apprentice blacksmith, must fight an imported boxing champion, lest the vile squire call in the mortgage and repossess the village smithy.

Good Morning, Judge

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a hardened criminal, he is allowed to stay at the mission.

The Devil's Skipper

1928 • 58 min • United States of America

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.

Gypsy of the North

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Alice Culhane is a brassy Klondike dance-hall girl with a heart of gold is pursued by such ardent flirting swains as Steve Farrell and Chappie Evans. Alice plays her cards well.