All Films

Here Comes a Sailor

1928 • 20 min • United States of America

Sailor Snub and his buddy meet two lovely ladies while on shore leave. They rent a car to impress them and drive the ladies to the park, where one by one they end up in the lake.

Imagine My Embarrassment

1928 • 20 min • United States of America

Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short

The Booster

1928 • 20 min • United States of America

The Booster is a silent comedy short

Oh Kay!

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.

The Telltale Heart

1928 • 24 min • United States of America

An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.

The Cheer Leader

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

The Big Killing

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.

Mickey's Wild West

1928 • 5 min • United States of America

Mickey Rooney and his gang play cowboys and indians out in the wild life.

Honeymoon

1928 • 60 min

Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.

The Cockeyed Family

1928 • 20 min

Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California.

Man in the Rough

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Attempting to warn an old prospector and his daughter of impending danger from a notorious outlaw, diminutive but tough Bruce Sherwood is himself mistaken for a bandit.

Broadway Daddies

1928 • 55 min • United States of America

Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Robert, a poor but ambitious young man. What Eve doesn't know is that Robert is the son of a wealthy businessman and is just pretending to be poor to see if she really loves him. However, an item in the society pages gives away Robert's true identity. Complications ensue.

The Sky Rider

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

The disinherited nephew of an aviation magnate plots to get a share of his uncle’s millions. He causes the near-death of his cousin when a bomb placed in his plane explodes in mid-air. He then hires thugs to abduct the uncle in order to force him to give over part of his fortune, but is foiled by the arrival of a cousin and police.

The Little Buckaroo

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

The plucky boy rider Red discovers the dead body of Jim Crawford in the desert. A message scratched on a canteen begs the finder to protect Jim's daughter Ann from the killer, Luke Matthews.

The Wandering Gambler

1928 • 41 min • Japan

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of living. His frined, Ando Kichinosuke, is alarmed at Mosui's despondency and invites him to his house as his little sister Tsuyu and he try to cheer him up.

Mickey's Big Game Hunt

1928 • 16 min • United States of America

Mickey and the gang go game hunting, and come across a live lion. No, seriously, we see eight year old Rooney share a scene with a real lion.

Lights of New York

1928 • 57 min • United States of America

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Breed of the Sunsets

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Lovely senorita Maria Alvaro is rescued from a gunshot wedding to foppish Senor Valdez practically on the steps to the church by daredevil rider Jim Collins.

The Air Patrol

1928 • 47 min • United States of America

Special agent Al Langdon pursues elusive gem smuggler Michael Revere. Going undercover, Langdon joins Revere's gang, and in this capacity is obliged to rescue their beautiful hostage, Mary Lacy.

Mickey's Rivals

1928 • 20 min • United States of America

A short film in the Mickey McGuire series starring Mickey Rooney.

Farmyard Follies

1928 • 6 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Motorboat Mamas

1928 • 16 min • United States of America

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.

Physical Beauty

1928 • 55 min • Japan

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film.

Aching Youth

1928 • 21 min • United States of America

Aching Youth is a silent comedy short