All Films

Boys Will Be Joys

1925 • 20 min • United States of America

Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey's got big plans for expansion when surveyors show up to begin work on a factory. The gang travels by donkey cart to the office of Henry Mills, President of Pan American Export Company, to protest. Henry, in his 60s, is still a boy at heart: he has his chauffeur stop the car so he can join a sandlot game. He bails on a meeting with his board of directors, going with the kids to the factory site where he stops the workers and helps our gang add more rides. The directors follow him, and they get put to work. Will they ever have their meeting?

Felix Dopes It Out

1925 • 9 min • United States of America

Felix's friend has a big red nose, and it causes him no end of problems, the least of which being with women...

That Devil Quemado

1925 • 50 min • United States of America

A former Yale student returns to the land where his Spanish forefathers once reigned supreme and lives in the Mexican hills, occasionally riding into border towns, where he takes the law into his own hands and protects the weak from crooked elements. Known as Quemado, he prevents the marriage of a girl to a notorious desperado and meets Joanna Thatcher, an eastern girl to whom he makes the promise that she will someday come to love him. Joan becomes engaged to Gretorix, unwilling to admit to herself that she has become infatuated with the daring horseman. On Joan's wedding day, Quemado kidnaps her, forces her to admit that she loves him, and arranges to be wed by a parson on horseback as they ride furiously into the hills to avoid the pursuit of the angry Gretorix.

Fighting Fluid

1925 • 10 min • United States of America

Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his work when a co-worker sneaks off with the boss's daughter who just happens to be the crush for Charley. After accidentally getting loaded on bootleg whiskey, Charley gets some courage and goes out to get his woman.

The Texas Bearcat

1925 • 50 min • United States of America

Dave Sethman has been brought up to believe that he is the half-breed son of Sethman, a tough rancher who opposes the plans of John Crawford, an eastern industrialist, to buy up a group of ranches. Crawford comes west with his daughter, Jean, and attempts to break the elder Sethman's opposition. Dave saves Jean from a runaway horse and later protects her when Murdock, Crawford's unprincipled assistant, makes unwanted advances. Sethman plans to rustle Crawford's cattle and is mortally wounded by him, telling Dave, as he lies dying, that Crawford is Dave's real father from whom he was stolen as an infant. Dave and Crawford are reconciled, and Crawford, whom Dave has shot in the hand, tells the boy that Jean is his adopted daughter, leaving the way free for a romance between the young people.

Too Many Kisses

1925 • 60 min • United States of America

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.

The Best Bad Man

1925 • 50 min • United States of America

Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing Peggy Swain (Clara Bow) and her dad (Frank Beal) off their neighboring ranch. When decent-minded Nichols demands that the agent cease harassing the farmers, the nasty villain blows up the nearby dam, flooding the valley.

Plain Clothes

1925 • 16 min

Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000.

Your Own Back Yard

1925 • 20 min • United States of America

Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. Farina is having a very bad day, especially by his friends-very cruel playing nasty tricks, etc. Heeding his mother's advice to stay "in your own back yard," he does just that, feeding jumping beans to his chickens.

The Apache

1925 • 50 min • United Kingdom

In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.

Alice Gets Stung

1925 • 8 min • United States of America

Julius goes rabbit hunting while Alice goes bear hunting. Alice and her cat learn at their own expense that one shouldn't bother animals, whether those be rabbits or bears.

The Pottery Maker

1925 • 8 min • United States of America

A little girl watches the craftsman at work while inter-titles explain the particulars of pottery-making.

Fiddlin' Around

1925 • 20 min • United States of America

FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).

The Hurricane Kid

1925 • 60 min • United States of America

The Hurricane Kid runs afoul of Colonel Langdon's ranch foreman, Lafe Baxter when Joan Langdon shows an obvious preference for The Kid, and The Kid responds by protecting Joan from Baxter.

Rivals

1925 • 27 min • United States of America

A 1925 silent comedy.

Fallen Samurai

1925 • 46 min • Japan

A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The Lawful Cheater

1925 • 50 min • United States of America

Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow path.

Hollywouldn't

1925 • 27 min • United States of America

A free-wheeling satire on the Hollywood industry at the height of the silent era. The film was noted for its stunts, which were claimed to be done by the stars of the film, Johnny Sinclair and Billy Jones. They did slug it out without any safeguards, on the roof of the thirteen-story Taft Building in Hollywood, where a crowd (allegedly of 20,000) watched them.

The Joke's on You

1925 • 20 min • United States of America

Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.

Free to Love

1925 • 60 min

An ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young minister. Trouble ensues when a criminal gang catch up with her.

Alice Wins the Derby

1925 • 7 min • United States of America

Alice, Julius, and one other character are in a combined auto/horse race. Julius gets off to a bad start when his car takes off, without him, in the wrong direction; it takes him a while to get it straightened out. Alice and the bad guy battle a bit for the lead, which Alice takes; they pass a detour, which the bad guy changes the sign for. Julius, taking the bad road, eventually drives up a cliff and, after a mighty struggle at the top, makes it, in third place, to the changeover. Alice and the bad guy ride off on horses; Julius has a wind-up wooden horse. Julius' horse keeps breaking down, eventually losing the back legs (Julius uses an empty thought balloon to hold up the rear). Alice's horse jumps a fence, and won't continue. The bad guy looks like he'll win, but Alice makes a mighty leap and knocks him off to win the race

Hard Boiled

1925 • 20 min • United States of America

Charley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other wacky adventures.

Hearts and Spurs

1925 • 50 min • United States of America

Oscar has been sent to the plains to make a man of himself, is soon visited by his sister Sybil Estabrook, who travels west along with her maid in tow. Oscar, who has been losing at cards to Victor Dufresne, is forced by him to rob a stagecoach in order to pay off his gambling debts.

His Wooden Wedding

1925 • 20 min • United States of America

A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend gives him an anonymous note stating that the bride has a wooden leg.