All Films

The Adventures of Jón and Gvendur

1923 • 3 min • Iceland

The Adventure of Jón and Gvendur is a silent comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin. It is regarded as the first Icelandic feature film as it was directed, written and produced by Loftur Gudmundsson.

The Burial of Judenburg Victims

1923 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A Slovenian short documentary film.

The Catechist of Kil-Arni

1923 • 42 min • India

The plot tells of a reprobate called Ram who is converted to Catholicism by the exemplary conduct of the local priest during an epidemic. The film depicts the beautiful landscapes and farming practices in the district.

The Story of Petroleum

1923 • 25 min • United States of America

Reel 1, an oil field is located, drilled, brought in, and pumped. Shows the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Reel 2 shows how pipe is laid and cleaned. One section crosses the Red River. Includes views of an oil camp and of a casinghead gasoline extraction plant. Reel 3, oil is distilled at a refinery. Reel 4, wax is removed from oil, processed, and prepared for distribution. Oil products are carried in tank cars, trucks, barges, and ships.

Salty Saunders

1923 • 55 min • United States of America

Sam Baxter, chief of the Texas Rangers, learns that Scarface Wheeler has been released from prison and is employed as foreman on the Flying X Ranch. Because Jud Howell, who gave evidence against Scarface, fears revenge from the ex-convict, Baxter sends Salty Saunders to shadow Scarface. Salty gets a job on the Flying X but is fired after saving Betty Hampton from certain death during a roundup. Later, Salty secretly enters the house and overhears Hampton, Betty's supposed uncle, conspire with Scarface to raid Jud Howell's cattle. Salty informs Baxter, who sends deputies after the rustlers, and has several more adventures. The posse returns with Scarface, who turns state's evidence and reveals Hampton as the murderer of Betty's father and of Salty's father. Salty and Betty are united. —AFI

The Kibbo Kift

1923 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British youth organisation founded in 1920 as an alternative to the Scout movement. This edition of the Topical Budget newsreel captures a meeting at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

Boston Blackie

1923 • 50 min • United States of America

Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by Mary Carter, Blackie's girlfriend, who manages to alert the governor. Considered a lost film.

Kino-Pravda No. 17

1923 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Hunger and harvest / Alliance between city and country / Agricultural and home industries exhibition: To the exhibition, construction work and preparations, exhibits, map of the exhibition, visitors

'All the Winners' - And the Losers!

1923 • 4 min • United Kingdom

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

The Murderer

1923 • 1 min • Mexico

An old millionaire is murdered.

Winter

1923 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A sign of approaching winter - the frost catches the leaves which begin to fall.

Kachaks in Topcider

1923 • 45 min • Yugoslavia

The activities of Albanian rebels in Kosovo (known as Kachaks) in the 1920s.

The Fiery Hand

1923 • 36 min • United Kingdom

In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of a fright than they expected. Caught by the evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith faces a plague of ravenous Cantonese rats - a torture known as 'The Six Gates of Joyful Wisdom'. Will Petrie end his agony, with the razor-sharp ‘Friend’s Sword’?

No Noise

1923 • 20 min • United States of America

Entertaining Our Gang comedy has poor Mickey in the hospital being fed castor oil when his friends stop by to pay him a visit. As you'd expect, the kids start making all sorts of noise so the doctors decide to teach them a lesson by scaring them.

$1,000 Reward

1923 • 50 min • United States of America

A cowboy who is falsely accused of a murder ... escapes and in another town becomes a deputy sheriff. In line of duty he captures a thief who turns out to be the man who accused him. The hero forces a confession from the captured thief, who admits he is the guilty man. A lost film.

The Run Away Bride

1923 • 30 min

In a small café in Copenhagen, Fy and Bi meet a very sad young man, Per, who is in love with a young girl, Ellen, but her father has taken her on a trip to make her forget Per, and he doesn't know , where she has gone. Fy and Bi, who live in a moving van, become very good friends with Per and promise to help him. At night, while the two sleep, their "house" is put on a train and now rolls off quickly to something quite unknown. When Fy and Bi finally manage to get out of the wagon, they have reached Norway, where the snow is high all over the country, and there are no houses nearby. On their hike, they suddenly find a young girl who has fallen on her skis and passed out. They have her brought to a cabin and she soon comes to herself again. Fy and Bi are overjoyed when the young girl turns out to be Ellen.(stumfilm.dk)

East Side - West Side

1923 • 60 min • United States of America

Poor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich family. She falls in love with the son (Harlan) but the couple is separated by his cruel, class-conscious mother. Lory stays true to her spirit and does not compromise her integrity when the mother attempts to pay her off. Later, a tragedy might open the door the broken hearted young woman to find happiness.

Kino-Pravda No. 14

1923 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Profintern.

The Shrine of the Seven Lamps

1923 • 24 min • United Kingdom

In this thrilling final episode, evil Fu-Manchu's pet marmoset leads sleuth Petrie to a secret Si-Fan ceremony. Is the Devil Doctor's game now up?

The Town Scandal

1923 • 50 min • United States of America

Broadway chorus girl Jean Crosby visits her sister in Murphysburg and finds that not only has her brother-in-law, Lysander Sprowl, squandered all the money she has sent, but the leading male citizens--all members of the Purity League--who were so friendly to her in New York will not now give her a second glance. With the help of newspaperman Toby Caswell, however, she anonymously publishes her life story in the town newspaper, thus frightening the men into offering Jean "hush money."

A Perfect 36

1923 • 17 min • United States of America

In order to escape from the police after a small car accident, Bobby dresses as a girl and a sailor in a boat ride.

The Fable of the Alley Cat

1923 • 5 min • United States of America

When Al Falfa's house is overrun by mice, he gets a cat to keep them down. All too soon he finds that his mouser may deal with the mice, but now he has other cats coming to serenade her while he is trying to sleep.

Tänze des Grauens, des Lasters und der Ekstase

1923 • 32 min

Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste performed their macabre dances of vice, horror and ecstasy. Saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality.

The Gunfighter

1923 • 54 min • United States of America

Billy Buell (William Farnum), a stranger involving himself with a long-standing mountain feud. The Benchleys and the Camps have been feuding ever since Lew Camp (J. Morris Foster) learned that his daughter Nellie (Doris May) was stolen by Jacob Benchley (Arthur Morrison) to replace a dead Benchley baby. Buell, who has fallen in love with Nellie, returns her to her mother (Virginia True Boardman). That doesn't sit well with the Benchley clan, who arrive for a final shootout.