All Films

Naughty Nanette

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashing through a series of adventures.

Outlaws of Red River

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

As a boy, Tom Morley, was forced to watch the killings of his foster parents and the abduction of his foster sister. When he reaches manhood he joins the Texas Rangers and becomes very good at tracking down outlaws; whereby, he is given the nickname "The Falcon". He finally tracks down his long lost foster sister who has become a spy for the outlaws.

Invitation to a Journey

1927 • 40 min • France

A woman enters a nightclub and slowly begins to open herself up.

The Telephone Girl

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.

Love 'Em and Weep

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.

Alibi Alley

1927 • 26 min

Aubrey plays a man with a mother-in-law problem at home and a boss problem at work.

Shanghai Bound

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.

Call of the Cuckoo

1927 • 18 min • United States of America

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

Cheating Cheaters

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked lawyer, who places her with a gang of crooks. Posing as the Brockton family, they move to a seaside home, where they plan to steal the jewel collection of the Palmers, their neighbours. Nan wins the confidence of the family by flirting with Tom ( Kenneth Harlan ), who becomes infatuated and wants to go away with her, but she refuses him. Tom is caught red-handed in the Brockton mansion attempting to steal their jewels while Nan is making a success of the Palmer robbery.

Sign Them Papers

1927 • 18 min • United States of America

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by terrible people who want her to sign over a gold mine.

The Western Whirlwind

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

Jack Howard, returning from the war, learns that his father, Sheriff Howard, has been killed by an unknown assailant, and he induces the mayor of Gold Strike to swear him in as sheriff.

The Parisian Cobbler

1927 • 40 min • Soviet Union

Komsomol girl Katya Karnakova (Veronica Buzhinskaya), a darling of the small provincial town Old Lopsha, is seriously smitten with a fellow Komsomol Andrei (Valery Solovtsov) and does not even try to hide this from others. After some time as a result of their affair, she becomes pregnant.

Floral Co-operative Societies

1927 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the sexual elements of pollenation in Dandelion, Globe thistle, Daisy, Cornflower, Carline thistle and Everlastings.

Love's Springtime

1927 • 20 min • France, United States of America

Clothilde, taken out of her convent to marry the Marquis, refuses to recognize her new husband.

Hands: The Life and Loves of the Gentler Sex

1927 • 13 min • Germany

The use of human hands as characters in a dance inspired narrative are used to explore female experience and representation. By drawing upon experimental traditions found in international art, film, and photography movements of the 1920s, Simon transforms a simple melodramatic love story into an avant-garde feminist short film. (Jennifer Wild)

Through Thick and Thin

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, where he manages to get a job as a bouncer. There he meets and falls for a pretty young woman, whose father happens to be the man the agent suspects of heading the gang.

Character Studies

1927 • 6 min • United States of America

Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.

The Plants of the Pantry

1927 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary film using innovative filming techniques to show how moulds grow and germinate.

Baby Brother

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.

The Isle of Forbidden Kisses

1927 • 60 min • Germany

The Desert of the Lost

1927 • 58 min • United States of America

Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfes. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the night his guide sneaks off and leaves him without water or his horse.

The Cave of the Silken Web

1927 • 59 min • China

One of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. When seeking for food alone, Tang Xuanzang was kept prisoner by seven spider monsters who took the form of seven beautiful women. The Monkey King and the other two of Xuanzang's disciples managed to rescue him with the help of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva/Guanyin. They renounced the desire for lust and continued the quest for Buddhist Scriptures.

What Happened To Father

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

William Bradberry, an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one who, unknown to his daughter Betty and wife, writes theatre musical comedy on the side. And saves his daughter from the unsavory millionaire, Victor Smith she almost marries before she marries the decent man Tommy Dawson. A lost film.

Rumors for Rent

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

The story of Helen and Warren's marriage from courtship to parenthood.