Because the Baron of Chanterelle wants to preserve his family line, he forces his timid nephew Lancelot to choose one of the village maidens to wed. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1910s
The Merry Jail (1917) Das fidele Gefängnis
Based on Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, the actions of ‘The Merry Jail’ occur over the course of a single eventful day and night. Read More »
The Woman God Forgot (1917) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth
Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. Read More »
Eerie Tales (1919) Richard Oswald, Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel
After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil Read More »
Broken Blossoms (1919) D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London’s seedy Limehouse District Read More »
The Infamous House / Det berygtede Hus (1912) Urban Gad, Augusta Blad, Richard Christensen, Frederik Jacobsen
The young woman, Nina, works as a singer at a Copenhagen variety, but when her contract expires Read More »
Meyer from Berlin (1919) Ernst Lubitsch
A bumbling, self-indulgent husband goes on a vacation away from his wife. Read More »
The Student of Prague (1913) Paul Wegener
A poor student rescues a beautiful countess and soon becomes obsessed with her. Read More »
The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913)
On the day of the dog feast at the Indian encampment, the waifs arrived at Elderbush Gulch. Read More »
Secret of the Pavillions / Pavilionens hemmelighed (1916) Karl Mantzius, Vita Blichfeldt, Svend Aggerholm
Based on the novel “Guldkuglen” by Viggo Cavlings. Read More »