All Films

Vaihdokas

1927 • 60 min • Finland

When the general manager of the factory, Lumiala returns from his travels, he learns that his wife Anna has hired a young man named Oras as an office assistant. Anna, who feels Oras is the fruit of his youthful sin, is ready to defend the boy despite his family's petitions and Ora's crimes. Ora's girlfriend Pansy also tries to keep him on the right track.

Babe Comes Home

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.

What Women Did for Me

1927 • 20 min

A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at a ladies’ seminary.

Alice's Channel Swim

1927 • 7 min • United States of America

Julius and Pete have a contest to swim across the English Channel, with Alice as the referee.

Good as Gold

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

Buck Brady is the son of a prospector whose valuable claim was stolen when Buck was a child. Brady grows up with revenge on his mind and retaliates by holding up the mine's payroll messengers. Until, that is, he falls in love with Janet, the new owner.

Horse Shoes

1927 • 54 min • United States of America

A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine

Grandpa's Boy

1927 • 14 min

Big Boy's grandfather is ordered by the authorities to provide a home for Big Boy, so he sends his butler to get him.

Felix the Cat Dines and Pines

1927 • 10 min • United States of America

A hungry Felix fails at trying to catch a mouse, a chicken and a jumping bean, so decides to eat a shoe, which gives him weird and scary hallucinations.

Loco Luck

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

Bud Harris, who is in love with Molly Vernon, leaves the Vernon ranch when there is an oil boom in the territory, then returns to find the property encumbered with debt. Bush, who holds the mortgage on the ranch, attempts to foreclose when he learns that there is oil on the land, and Bud enters a horserace to pay the debt.

Ladies Must Dress

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.

Bigger and Better Blondes

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

Following a jewelry store robbery, Charley becomes the prime suspect due to his flashy antics and accidental collaborations with the true perpetrators.

Beware of Widows

1927 • 60 min

The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.

The Draw-Back

1927 • 26 min • United States of America

A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.

Twenty-Four Dollar Island

1927 • 13 min • United States of America

A visual celebration of Manhattan and its waterways on the 300th anniversary of purchase from the local Native Americans.

Special Delivery

1927 • 60 min

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor was a fine physical comic, he didn't truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by "William Goodrich," who in reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that destroyed his career.

The Two Fister

1927 • 21 min

Cobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Field falls for the girl, but her father's dying wish is that she should marry Rasker, who will stop at nothing to get the gal.

Code of the Cow Country

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted, falls into the companionship of Bill Jackson, a notorious gambler and saloon keeper, who persuades Ted to sign I. O. U.'s while under the influence of alcohol. Jim, in company with Red Irwin, a tough deputy sheriff, confronts the gambler and forces a confession. Jackson plans a raid on the Calhoun cattle, forcing Ted to be his ally. Dolores, a dancehall girl, overhears the plot and tells Jim, causing Helen to misunderstand his motives.

La P’tite Lili

1927 • 15 min • France

Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie, with music for the audio version of 1930 by Darius Milhaud. Only one original copy of this tragic story and impressionistic. The film tells the story of Lili ( Frau Catherine Hessling ), a 16 year old orphan who has lost her whole family but has retained her purity and innocence. Alas, a terrible doom awaits this optimistic child: in the slums of Paris she will meet a man who will lead her into prostitution.

Jack From All Trades

1927 • 7 min • United States of America

Felix's wife demands he stop his lazing and get a job. Off runs Felix to help a barber, a farmer, and a homeless saxophonist (for a price, of course).

Im Filmatelier

1927 • 5 min • Germany

Aspirin ad by Pinschewer.

The Show Girl

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

A press agent helps a honky tonk spot draw a new elite patronage but a troublemaker arrives on the scene as well and disrupts the romance between the male and female stars.

The Opening Night

1927 • 55 min • United States of America

When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?

Life in Hollywood No. 3

1927 • 9 min • United States of America

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

The Warning

1927 • 56 min

This story of the British Silent Service operating on the coast of China finds Tom Fellows, captain of an opium-smuggling ship, going into a notorious Chinese joint called "The House of a Thousand Delights," where he finds a beautiful girl, Mary Blake, bound and captive. He starts a brawl, rescues Mary in the mêlée that follows, and then loses her when she flees to a hotel. He follows her and finds she is mixed up in some mysterious activity. However, he knows more about her than she does him (because he isn't what he is supposed to be - and she isn't, either), he stays close by, even to the point of using a machine-gun to dispel a mob at a Chinese temple.