All Films

While the Devil Laughs

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Mary Franklin has a drunken father, an invalid mother, and a kid brother and sister to support. To make ends meet she is works as a hostess in a sleazy cafe, where she steals jewelry from her dancing partners.

The Way of a Maid

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

A silent film comedy.

Society Secrets

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Amos Kerran and his wife live a traditional, old-fashioned life on a Connecticut farm, while their son and daughter, Arthur and Maybelle, are successes in New York society. The children want to invite their parents to the city at Christmastime but are ashamed of their unrefined appearance.

My Lady's Latchkey

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

Young Annesley Grayle, weary of a gloomy, uneventful existence with her aunt, accepts the proposal of a young American that she pose as his wife. Later, they are actually married. When, at a ball, she hears her husband accused of stealing a valuable diamond and realizes that he is indeed a thief, she hides the jewel to save him.

Home Stuff

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Stranded in the small town of Buckeye Junction young actress Madge Joy crawls upon a load of hay and falls asleep. Knocked unconscious when young farmer Robert Deep hitches up the wagon not realizing she’s inside she awakes in the Deep living room. "Ma" Deep takes to her at once, but old “Pa” Deep looks at her sternly. Claiming to be a runaway orphan rather than an actress she becomes a member of the family. Falling for Madge Robert confesses he dreams of being a playwright, that night his sister Susan, who has run away to be an actress, reappears. Pa Deep is furious when he finds out his daughter has been on the stage, but Madge reveals that she is herself an actress threatening to go away with Robert unless he makes up with his daughter. Eventually Madge finds fame in New York with Robert following with a play he knows is right.

The Devil Within

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama

The Outside Woman

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

The Outside Woman is a lost 1921 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Douglas Bronston.

Whirl o' the West

1921 • 6 min • United States of America

A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.

O'Malley of the Mounted

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

Sergeant O'Malley of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gets himself into a gang of outlaws in order to detect and capture a wanted murderer. He finds the killer, but falls in love with the man's sister. In the meantime, one of the outlaws uncovers O'Malley's true identity.

Live Your Life Smiling

1921 • 25 min • Sweden

Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.

The Road to London

1921 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An American millionaire visiting London falls in love with a young aristocrat and elopes with her, pursued by a rival suitor.

The Show Down

1921 • 19 min • United States of America

Cowboy Snappy Walton (Art Acord) trying to same a damsel in distress, hunting down the bad men that's troubling her in this 2-reel western.

Lichtspiel: Opus I

1921 • 12 min • Germany

Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes move into or across the screen in harmony with the musical score.

The Scarecrow

1921 • 17 min • France

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his agents on Earth.

The Bonnie Brier Bush

1921 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.

Habit

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

Irene Fletcher, the pampered daughter of a Long Island millionaire on the brink of bankruptcy, has two suitors - struggling architect John Marshall, and wealthy clothing designer Charles Munson. Scorning her father's plea for her to curb her passion for beautiful clothes and live more modestly, she trips and is knocked unconscious. In a dream, Irene's father goes to Munson for financial assistance and Munson agrees, in exchange for her father agreeing to try to influence Irene to marry him. When it is announced at Irene's birthday party that she and Marshall have secretly married, Munson refuses to lend the money to Irene's father, who then kills himself with a pistol. After a series of tragic events, Irene awakens, and decides to marry Marshall.

The Duke of Chimney Butte

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Lambert, a young man out to make his fortune, is out west trying to sell a gadget that can peel potatoes, open cans, pull out nails and perform other handy tasks. He comes to a cattle ranch and runs into a group of cowboys eating supper. He impresses the cowboys so much that they make him their leader, and it's not long before he's hired by pretty young ranch manager Vesta Philbrook as her aide and bodyguard. "The Duke", as he's now called, falls in love with her and sets out to help her get rid of a gang of vicious cattle rustlers that are constantly raiding her ranch.

A Ridin' Romeo

1921 • 50 min

Jim Rose is a young ranch hand in love with the boss' daughter, Mabel. The rancher, King Brentwood, who is being sued for breach of promise by a local widow, opposes the match. Learning that the annoying woman is coming to pay him a visit, Brentwood has his men fake a holdup of her stagecoach.

Venus and the Cat

1921 • 4 min • United States of America

Silent cartoon.

Two Minutes to Go

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

A star of the college football team is forced to work as a milkman when his father's business begins to fail.

The Fable of the Cat and the Mice

1921 • 6 min • United States of America

A hungry cat tries to eat parrot, but is foiled by a cop. He then goes after some mice, who conspire with other mice

Big Town Round-Up

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Tom Mix played Larry McBride, a cowboy who, "goes to city, dresses up to date and gets into thrilling and humorous adventures."

The Idol of the North

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New Yorker Lucky Folsom, who later marries Gloria Waldron, an ambitious woman actually in love with engineer Martin Bates. When Bates drifts into the mining town, the miners, while drunk, force him to marry Colette. She nurses him back to health and they gradually fall in love. The arrival of Folsom and Gloria threatens to break up their marriage, and Colette prevents a fight between the two men by wounding Folsom, causing the latter to come to his senses and teaching his wife a lesson.

Cinderella of the Hills

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Hoping to reconcile her divorced parents, Norris Gradley remains with her father, Giles, after he marries another woman. The new Mrs. Gradley snubs and mistreats Norris, who earns money by disguising herself as a boy and playing the violin at dances. Claude Wolcott, employed by Giles to drill oil wells, falls in love with Norris.