List of Warner Bros. lost films
This is a list of a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a silent/sound print is known to have survived, produced and distributed by Warner Bros. for the years 1918-1931 and its subsidiary First National for the years 1928-1931 and 1933. WARNING: For films for which no footage (such as trailers) is known to have survived.
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- DirectorJack HarveyCliff SaumStarsEarl SchenckClaire WhitneyPercy StandingDuring World War I, an illegitimate son of the German Kaiser, who had been raised in the US--and is a double for the the Kaiser's son, the Crown Prince--is sent to Germany as a spy in order to kill both the Kaiser and his son.World War I drama film, directed by Jack Harvey (John Joseph Harvey).
- DirectorGilbert P. HamiltonStarsHelen HolmesJack MowerT.D. CrittendenThis is the first "lost" serial of Warner Brothers.
- DirectorBertram BrackenJames C. BradfordStarsHenry B. WalthallMary AldenWilliam CliffordA young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on him and decides to help him get his life back together.Warner re-release in 1921.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsAnna Q. NilssonMaurine PowersJulia Swayne GordonBecause her father has strict ideas about what clothing she should wear and with whom she should associate, Anna Hedder leaves home and takes up residence with two girl friends. She meets Madeline Wallace, whose father is extremely lenient, but he soon discovers that she is becoming too indiscriminate in her associates; Madeline rebels, and she is enticed to Anna's apartment by Reynolds, an old roué, while the girls are out. Anna and her friends return in time to save Madeline's reputation. Madeline, having learned her lesson, returns to her father; and Anna's father, having softened his attitude, persuades her to return home too.1926's Why Girls Go Back Home is a sequel to the film that was also produced by Warner Bros (is not early sound films). The poster for the film was featured in the 1962 film Gypsy.
- DirectorHorace G. PlymptonStarsCharles EldridgeJack Lionel BohnEdith StocktonA poor shoemaker struggles to send his son to college, where he becomes a football star.A poor shoemaker struggles to send his son to college, where he becomes a football star.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsVera GordonHarry BenhamStanley PriceA Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.
- DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsWesley BarryNiles WelchRuth RenickA rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by enduring all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him.
- DirectorJack L. WarnerSam WarnerStarsGrace DarmondPhilo McCulloughJack RichardsonThe thrilling adventures of the daughters of Professor Stanton, scientist and explorer, in their search for hidden treasure in the Central African jungles.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsMarie PrevostKenneth HarlanHarry MyersGloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Beautiful and Damned, starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost. The film's survival status is currently unknown, and it is now presumed lost.
- DirectorJoseph LeveringStarsWalter MillerBarbara BedfordRaymond HattonA beautiful secretary has her pick of the men in the office, but instead of marrying the boss, she takes one of his junior staff. Later, when she is suspected of committing a murder, her husband confesses to it--although he didn't do it--in order to protect her. Complications ensue.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsFlorence VidorMonte BlueHarry MyersThe arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921. This film is lost, as no print exists. The first known distributed by Warner Bros. (and his first logo as "Classics of the screen"), founded in April 4, 1923.
- DirectorJohnny HinesArthur RossonStarsJohnny HinesWyndham StandingMargaret SeddonJockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart to make him throw the race. Will he succeed?Adapted from a Broadway musical starring George M. Cohan. "Little Johnny Jones" opened at the Liberty Theatre in New York on Nov. 7, 1904 and ran for 52 performances. Later remade as an early sound film, Little Johnny Jones (1929) by First National.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsWesley BarryHarry MyersKathryn McGuireBrick Hubbard, a "printer's devil", convinces his friend Sid Fletcher to invest in "The Gazette", a local newspaper. Sid pens an editorial that infuriates Ira Gates, a local banker and a power in the town--and who also happens to be the father of Vivian Gates, whom Sidney is in love with. To complicate matters, the bank is robbed and Sidney is suspected of the crime.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsHope HamptonWyndham StandingLouise FazendaStephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....The story of The Gold Diggers was filmed again as a talkie in 1929 as Gold Diggers of Broadway, which is now lost, and also in 1933 as Gold Diggers of 1933, with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley. Three other sequels followed: Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), and Gold Diggers in Paris (1938), based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920.
According to the NitrateVille website, in May 2021, a collector found an incomplete nitrate 35mm Belgian print in England, which has been uploaded to YouTube. However, only 2, 3, 7 and 8 reels are still missing. - DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsWesley BarryGertrude OlmsteadLéon BaryA senator is trying to get his niece to marry a foreign count. The senator's teenage son finds out that the count is not only a phony, but an international criminal. The boy sets out to break up the impending marriage and save his father from ruin and his cousin from marrying a man she doesn't love.
- DirectorMonta BellStarsMarie PrevostMonte BlueClaude GillingwaterA businessman looking to improve sales takes the advice of a friend and uses the services of the friend's wife to help build the business. Unfortunately, it isn't long before jealousy rears its ugly head, and the wife finds herself accused of "stepping out" with prospective clients.
- DirectorMonta BellStarsAdolphe MenjouNorma ShearerAnna Q. NilssonA brash young man-about-town is attracted to a Broadway actress, but her flirtatious ways turn him off and make him want to change his life. He takes a room in a quite boarding-house that caters to theatrical people. He soon meets Rose, a working girl who has just been fired because of a previous jail sentence, and decides to help her.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsWillard LouisMary AldenCarmel MyersGeorge F. Babbitt--middle-aged, respectable, a prosperous real estate man--tired of the routine of family life, finds he has let life slip by. In an attempt to renew his youth he begins an affair with an alluring young woman.Based on novel by Sinclair Lewis. The first adaptation was a silent film released in 1924 and starring Willard Louis as George F. Babbitt. Better known is the 1934 talkie starring Guy Kibbee. That version, while remaining somewhat true to Lewis's novel, takes liberties with the plot, exaggerating Babbitt's affair and a sour real estate deal. Both films were Warner Bros. productions.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsMarie PrevostMonte BlueLouise FazendaWealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsMarie PrevostRockliffe FellowesRaymond HattonA pair of professional thieves discovers that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then place Mary there to make their heist easier. Unfortunately, Margaret returns before they've finished the job and gets shot. When the police get there, both women claim to be Margaret Waring and accuse the other of being the thief--and they look so much alike that no one can tell the difference.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudinePhil RosenStarsRobert EllisGertrude OlmsteadCrauford KentA doctor in a small town is being pursued by a wealthy young woman who just won't give up, even after he repeatedly rejects her advances. His main concern is taking care of the health of the people in his town; hers is just to have a good time. Complications ensue.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsEdith RobertsElliott DexterWillard LouisNewland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announce, Newland finds himself attracted to May's older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.It is the first film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsMarie PrevostMonte BlueHelene ChadwickClever vamp Eve Quinn has generally had her way with men, while her quiet, deep-thinking sister Cornelia cannot bring herself to deliberately pursue them. So Eve wins Lewis Dike, whom Cornelia loves. Immediately after her wedding Eve beings a series of dangerous adventures with Wilfred Meadows. Lewis learns of them and endeavors to reason with his wife, but she will not listen. As Cornelia is sailing for Europe, Lewis meets her at the dock, tells her that he made a mistake in marrying Eve and that they will be divorced--and that he loves Cornelia. They part with mutual assurances of a future meeting. - Moving Picture World, 1924.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsIrene RichMatt MooreJune MarloweA spoiled young girl manages to snag a wealthy older man as her husband, but soon becomes bored. She finally leaves him, but doesn't really know what she wants. A young man who is a friend--and, unbeknownst to her, an admirer--takes her in.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsMatt MooreDorothy DevoreDavid ButlerSimon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner, and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsTom MooreEdith RobertsWilliam RussellA crook and his gang plan to con a young woman out of a cache of stolen loot they, and the police, believe she's hiding. The situation changes, however, when he falls in love with her and he sets out to save her from being imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsDorothy DevoreLouise FazendaWillard LouisIrene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene himself--and he doesn't much care how he goes about it as long as he wins.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsMarie PrevostMonte BlueJohn RocheFrance, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn (Marie Prevost), a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham (Monte Blue) a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsIrene RichHuntley GordonJohn HarronIn a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsIrene RichBert LytellClara BowAustin Starfield (Louis) has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside (Rich). He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar (Lytell) to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune. Leon marries her, but falls genuinely in love with her. He breaks off ties to Starfield. Meanwhile, Leon's old girlfriend (Bow) arives on the scene and, out of jealousy, tells Eve that Leon married her only for her money. Starfield influences the workers at Eve's mill into labor desputes and gets his henchmen to start a riot. Leon exposes the conspiracy and Starfield is aprehended by the authorities. Leon and Eve are reconciled.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMarie PrevostMonte BlueJohn RocheGaston Fleury's (Monte Blue) wife, Loulou (Marie Prevost), takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice (John Roche). Although Gaston has no intention of releasing his wife into the hands of Maurice, he feigns willingness to give Loulou a divorce. Loulou then becomes bored with Maurice, and clever maneuvering on the part of Gaston brings her to want desperately a reconciliation with him. He happily fulfills her wish.The film was based on the French play Divorçons! (1880), by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac, and the adapted version of the play Cyprienne. In 1931 remake musical operetta film filmed entirely in Technicolor.
- DirectorDavid SmithStarsAnita StewartDonald KeithJack CurtisFollowing the murder of his father, Jim Carvel is outraged when the killer escapes punishment and shoots the man himself, leaving him for dead. Jim travels to the Pacific Northwest, where he discovers a small puppy in the wilderness. He suffers a broken leg and is rescued by Pierre Eustach and his Native American daughter, Nepeese. Although Jim falls in love with Napeese, he continues his travels with the dog, called Baree, after his leg heals. A man named Bush McTaggart takes an interest in Nepeese and asks for her hand in marriage. When she refuses him, Bush kills Pierre in an attempt to take her by force. Nepeese escapes by jumping from a cliff into a raging stream. Jim learns from a Northwest Mounted Policeman that the man he shot has recovered and confessed to the murder of the elder Carvel. Jim returns to search for Nepeese, and, with the help of Baree, he finds her in the care of a Native American who saved her from the rapids. Baree kills Bush, removing the last obstacle to the future happiness of Jim and Nepeese.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsIrene RichClive BrookLouise FazendaA woman of high morals, Joan Trevore expects to find in her marriage to Alan Thayer the happiness that has long eluded her. She and Alan are still on their honeymoon, however, when Nathalie Trevore, Joan's spoiled and selfish younger sister, sets her cap for Alan and successfully vamps him. Alan later boards a yacht for a business appointment and is "shanghaied" by Nathalie and her friends, who take him ashore so that Nathalie may triumph over Joan at the honeymoon cottage. Joan horsewhips Nathalie. A cyclone wrecks the cottage, and Alan saves Joan's life, leading to a reconciliation between them.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsDorothy DevoreMatt MooreWard CranePoor Henry Baxter, a lowly clerk in a newspaper office, is in love with Beulah, the beautiful office stenographer, but Beulah barely knows he exists. As if Henry's unrequited love isn't bad enough, he has to put up with office manager Higgins, a devious bully who is Henry's constant nemesis. Unable to win the lovely Beulah on his own, Henry resorts to flights of fantasy where he gets to play the hero, win Beulah and vanquish the evil Higgins.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsIrene RichHuntley GordonJohn HarronThe son of the district attorney, Bob Mannering, is a passenger in a car that is involved in a fatal accident, and he assumes the blame for it in order to protect Diane Graham. John Mannering, Bob's father, refuses to intervene on his son's behalf, and Bob's mother, frantic with worry as she sees her son led off to prison, arranges with Jerome Wallace, a candidate for her husband's position, to create a scandal that will prevent her husband's reelection. Mannering finds his wife with Wallace, and they separate. At a country hotel, Diane admits her responsibility for the accident to Mrs. Mannering, and, after narrowly escaping death in a forest fire and a flood, the women return to the city. Diane confesses to the police, Bob is freed, and the Mannerings are reconciled.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsHelene ChadwickClive BrookJohn HarronA famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire, but is blocked by a renowned woman-hater who actually wants her for himself.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsPatsy Ruth MillerAllan ForrestPauline GaronWhen rich Jack Talbot falls in love with not-rich Rose Kirby, he doesn't marry her, fearing his mother's disapproval. Rose later marries Clyde Bainbridge, a rotter who knows that under the terms of a secret contract, Rose will inherit the Talbot iron-works. Rose finds the contract but, mistrusting her husband, does not make use of it. Talbot marries a vamp, who later dies in childbirth. Clyde is accidentally killed by Rose's demented grandfather. Rose and Talbot then return to each other, finding together a long-delayed happiness.
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsKenneth HarlanPatsy Ruth MillerDavid KirbyJuan de Dios O'Rourke (Kenneth Harlan), an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce (Patsy Ruth Miller)
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerStarsMarie PrevostMatt MooreGayne WhitmanYoung lawyer Dick Gregory is hard-pressed to pay his wife Gloria's bills, and equally hard-pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life. Edward Martindel, an attorney who represents a corporation against which Dick is litigating, attempts to bribe Dick with a substantial sum of money; Dick refuses, and Gloria develops a complaint against him on this account. After a particularly bitter argument, Gloria leaves Dick and joins some friends for a moonlight cruise. The Gregorys' friend Alec Seymour tells Dick that the boat on which Gloria is sailing has not met safety standards, and Dick goes after her, saving her life when the boat sinks. Gloria repents of her wild and wicked ways, and she and Dick settle into calm domesticity.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMonte BlueDorothy DevoreHelen DunbarGeoffrey West, a traveler and adventurer, sees a girl in a London hotel and uses the personals column of a newspaper to get in touch with her. The girl, Marion Larnard, then sets a test for Geoffrey: he is to write her a letter each day for 5 days and, if he proves himself to be an interesting fellow, she will have dinner with him. As a joke, Geoffrey convinces Marion that he has done away with a certain Captain Fraser-Freer; Marion is, at first, quite concerned, but when she realizes that Geoffrey is jesting, she decides to teach him a lesson. She arranges with Fraser-Freer to disappear and has Geoffrey arrested for his murder. Letting Geoffrey fret for a while, Marion eventually arranges for his release and assures him that he has indeed proved himself to be an interesting fellow.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsMatt MooreMarie PrevostJohn PatrickA bored society girl cuts a $100 bill in half, writes a message on one half for whoever finds it to call her at her apartment, writes the address on the bill and throws it out the window of her apartment. The person who finds it turns out to be the driver of a coal truck. She decides to give him a complete makeover in order to make him presentable to her society friends. Complications ensue.Incomplete with only one reel missing
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsLowell ShermanJane WintonWillard LouisLeft standing at the altar by his fiancée, Peter Remsen goes to seek consolation in the small Kingdom of Luzania, where he becomes valet to the king in order to be near the Princess Patricia. The queen of neighboring Belgradia visits Luzania and falls in love with Peter, who repulses her advances and thereby precipitates a war. As the king is busy with a dancer, Peter takes charge of the army. The queen's men kidnap Patricia, but Peter rescues her in a tank and makes her his bride.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsDolores CostelloJohn HarronOtto MatiesonAn American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother are washed ashore on a rocky island that supports only a lighthouse. Faith's mother lives only long enough to inform the three Dutch lighthouse keepers that her daughter is the heiress to a large fortune. Years pass, and Faith grows to womanhood. Jacob Kroon and his son, Piet, then conspire to marry Faith to Piet's idiot son, Hans, in order to bring her fortune into the family. Dick Wayne, a sailor on an American cruiser that is repairing a damaged cable in the waters off the lighthouse, learns of Faith's captivity and comes to her rescue. Piet kills Jacob in a fit of jealousy, and Dick then kills Piet in a fight. Hans sets the lighthouse on fire and incinerates himself. Dick and Faith make it back to the cruiser.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsPatsy Ruth MillerClive BrookJane WintonTrusting country girl Marie Downey (Patsy Ruth Miller) falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley (Clive Brook) and becomes a chorus girl as he becomes a matinée idol on old Broadway.The film is a sequel to Warner Bros.'s "Why Girls Leave Home (1921)", which was a box office hit.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDolores CostelloJohn HarronMatthew BetzBeautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept, but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsDorothy DevoreJohn HarronMacklyn ArbuckleThe Welby's inherit a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years. The money turns all the family into social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements. The poor house looms large in their future.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsMonte BlueMarie PrevostHuntley GordonWhen his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirted on a previous dinner engagement; there he finds solace in the charms of Roxana, and he soon is making excuses to his wife for his frequent absences from home. Kay finally accepts an invitation from a handsome attorney--none other than Jack. Learning that Dick is attending a masked ball with Roxana, Kay attends in an identical costume; there Dick makes love to her, thinking she is his paramour. While Kay determines to obtain a divorce, Dick, weary of Roxana's vulgarity, longs for Kay. In the divorce court, Kay declares her love for Dick and cannot carry out the separation; Dick fights it out with Jack; the attorney decides to drop the case; and husband and wife are reunited.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsKenneth HarlanHeinie ConklinMary McAllisterBarry Weston is raised by his widowed mother and is, at best, a "mama's boy," and, at worst, a bit of a coward. He is drafted into the A.E.F. when World War I breaks out, and accidentally captures a nest of German snipers, and is decorated for bravery. He returns home as a hero but Vance, the town bully, challenges him to a fight but Barry refuses and the townsmen mock him and consider him a coward. His girlfriend Janet is none too impressed, either. He heads for the tall timber with suicide as his intent.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsPatsy Ruth MillerJohn HarronGayne WhitmanSid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her. Rufe lies to Andy, Jude's brother, and a family-feud is started when Andy goes gunning after Sid. But Sid quiets the drunken Andy, and is taking him home when a shot is fired from ambush and Sid's horse comes home riderless. But he shows up unhurt, and the jealous-maddened Rufe sends him on a ruse to the big dam. Rufe sets off a dynamite explosion to catch Sid in the swirling waters but Jude is the one who is caught.
- DirectorWalter MoroscoStarsIrene RichHuntley GordonBertram MarburghThe wife of an American diplomat falls in love with a young Hungarian violinist.The son of theater owner Oliver Morosco and was based on an off Broadway play by Charles Harris.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsMay McAvoyWillard LouisLouise FazendaRosina Vonet, Philip Garth, and Matthew Garner, chafing against the narrow prejudices of Benjamin Stone, their guardian, determine to fulfill their ambitions in London: Rosina, a stage career; Philip, a career as a poet; and Matthew, a financial wizard. Philip, who loves Rosina, becomes despondent and alcoholic over his failure. Rosina obtains a role in a musical comedy; though also unsuccessful, she is charmed by Erwen, an author, who excites Philip's jealousy. Meanwhile, Matthew marries a wealthy widow and vindictively ruins his guardian's business while posing as a philanthropist. Intent on circumventing Rosina, Matthew persuades her to accept a job as a model with Madame Mathilde and schemes to seduce her. Erwen, Philip, and Matthew's irate wife denounce him, and his fortune is lost on the market. Philip wins a contract with a London editor and is happily reconciled with Rosina.According to the Library of Congress Database.
Archive: Library of Congress (Washington) [Usw], Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) [Nla]
Registration number: Lp22935
Holdings: U.S. Archive
Completeness: fragment
Note: 35 mm Nitrate Positive: Usw
Record No.: 29783 - DirectorJames FloodErnst LubitschStarsWillard LouisIrene RichHolmes HerbertA philandering husband comes to his senses after his wife leaves him and takes up a glamorous lifestyle.The third with synchronized Vitaphone musical soundtrack.
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerStarsGeorge SidneyLouise FazendaVera GordonMeyer Rubens and his wife Esther own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move up to the upper West Side, and her rich sister Reba persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks that Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in compromising situations with other women so her sister can file for divorce.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMonte BlueJane WintonMyrna LoyFollowing the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Phillipines. To do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please his commanding officer's daughter, whom he has been romancing.It was based on a turn of the century play by Charles Blaney and J. J. McCloskey. The play had been filmed before in 1914 with Dorothy Dalton.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsSyd ChaplinHarold GoodwinJack AckroydThe adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.Incomplete with only one reel missing. On DVD. The second Vitaphone feature, with music and sound effects, after Don Juan (1926).
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsIrene RichConway TearleJane WintonA glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women, and spectacular settings.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsGeorge JesselPatsy Ruth MillerVera GordonIsadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he write Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.The film was followed up by "Sailor Izzy Murphy (1927)".
- DirectorHoward BrethertonWalter MoroscoStarsRin Tin TinHelene CostelloWalter MerrillRinty is a police-dog (and faithful companion) assigned to a young Scotland Yard police officer who covers the Limehouse district of London. The East India dock in Limehouse is the home of the scum of the world, especially a group known as the Mediterranean Brotherhood. Scotland Yard is looking for a mysterious "ape-man" (The Monk) whose deeds of violence on behalf of the gang-leader of the Brotherhood has put all of London on guard.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsLouise FazendaJohn T. MurrayHelene CostelloA gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMonte BluePatsy Ruth MillerJohn MiljanBarry Baline, a guard at a subway station, has worked at his job for six years without a day off. One New Year's Eve he's told that he won't be needed until the next morning, so he decides to go out for a night on the town. As it turns out, however, his "celebrating" is short-lived--he is knocked down by a large, luxurious car driven by a man wearing expensive evening clothes. Complications ensue.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsSyd ChaplinHelene CostelloClara HortonCafe bouncer Nat Duncan is astonished to see his old panhandling pal Handsome Harry visiting the cabaret in the company of a bejeweled matron. Harry persuades Nat that he too can marry money and agrees to support him in the venture for a share of the profit; he supplies him with clothes and a ticket for Radville, a hick town. There Nat leads a model existence as a churchman and man of means, literally having to fight off the women, including Josie Lockwood, the town banker's daughter. He meets Betty Graham, whose father has neglected his drugstore in his efforts to make gasoline out of crude oil. Nat comes to the rescue and revives the business. Later, Harry arrives, having depleted his wife's fortune, and tries to force Nat to marry Josie. But Nat, with the aid of a wax model, creates the impression of being fickle, thus breaking the engagement so he can marry Betty.
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerStarsLouise FazendaJohn T. MurrayJane WintonA maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsLouise DresserJason Robards Sr.Virginia Brown FaireA smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz (Louise Dresser), stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz (Jason Robards) to local girl Anne (Virginia Brown Faire), because she , as the wife of Jacob Politz (George Nichols), an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsPatsy Ruth MillerIan KeithCarroll NyeA young girl and her two brothers are sent to a children's home after their older brother, the only one supporting them, winds up in jail.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsMay McAvoyMalcolm McGregorHedda HopperShort on money, law student Bob Ward takes a job as a "dancing companion" at a roadhouse, where most of his clients are women looking for a little excitement outside their marriages. He falls in love with Sallie Smith, a cigarette girl at the roadhouse, but wealthy young wastrel Tom Mannion also has his eye on her. Tom persuades Sallie to attend a party on his yacht, and since she has had a fight with Bob over his job, she accepts. Complications ensue.Haskin's first directorial effort after having been a cinematographer.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsIrene RichHuntley GordonLilyan Tashman
- DirectorHarry O. HoytStarsMonte BlueMyrna LoyPaul EllisJohn Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thorden, to sell the business and all of his father's other interests. One of the now bankrupt company's investors, facing financial ruin, kills himself, leaving a son and a daughter, both of whom blame the Wyncote family for their loss and vow to take their revenge on them.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsMonte BlueLeila HyamsClyde CookMartin Sondes (Monte Blue) is an easy-going cowhand going up against a shady, saloon owner called "Square Deal" Fenton (Paul Nicholson", whose chief means of making money is befuddling cowpuncher's brains with liquor and then cheating and robbing them of their money.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsIrene RichClyde CookForrest StanleyThe Duchess of Aragon (Irene Rich) is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya (Myrna Loy), who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy , and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.It was based on a 1901 Clyde Fitch play The Climbers, but bore scant resemblance to it.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsMay McAvoyJason Robards Sr.Warner RichmondSheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is forced to get a job in a cheap restaurant. There she meets Rory, a poor American boy who works in a shipyard. Rory falls in love with her but she still loves Emmett. Then she finds out that Emmett has been taking up with a brassy "flapper" named Clarice.
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerStarsLouise FazendaClyde CookMyrna Loy
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsMonte BlueEdna MurphyMyrtle StedmanDan Foster (Monte Blue), the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon (Edna Murphy), whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon (Myrtle Stedman), does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.It is not to be confused with several early short actuality styled films under the title Black Diamond Express for example the famous and still exiting 1896 film of a train arriving in a station.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsIrene RichWilliam Collier Jr.Edna MurphyFinding herself in dire circumstances, the widowed Sylvia Darling determines that her son, Stephen, will complete his college education and develop his supposed literary talents; thus, she accepts a contract as singer in a Broadway nightclub, billed as "Dearie," and becomes an immediate sensation. Samuel Manley, a wealthy publisher who is attracted to Sylvia, allows her to entertain in his home, escorted by Luigi, the club proprietor. At college, Stephen and his self-styled roommates, Paul and Max, are expelled; and he romances Edna, the publisher's niece, who promises to promote his book with her uncle. Unimpressed by the egotistical youth, Manley rejects his work, and enraged, Stephen accidentally wounds his mother; furthermore, when he learns that she is a cabaret entertainer, the ungrateful boy grows to despising his mother, doing everything he can to humiliate her. But only when tragedy looms over the horizon does Stephen comes to his senses, and he begs his mother for forgiveness and is forgiven. Sylvia eventually marries Luigi.It is from a story by Victorian author Carolyn Wells about a woman who self sacrifices for her ungrateful son.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsWarner OlandFlorence FairWilliam DemarestThe title is descriptive and is not a question in which William Bradberry (Warner Oland), an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one who, unknown to his daughter Betty (Florence Fair as Florbelle Fairbanks) and wife (Vera Lewis), writes theatre musical comedy on the side. And saves his daughter from the unsavory millionaire, Victor Smith (John Miljan) she almost marries before she marries the decent man Tommy Dawson (Hugh Allan).
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsMonte BlueClyde CookLeila Hyams"Specs" White owns a garage in town and is the local baseball team's #1 pitcher--but he's more interested in working on his latest invention, a new and improved gas pump, than pitching on the team. A scout for the Los Angeles Angels professional baseball team offers Specs a contract. He accepts, but only so he can use the money he gets to work on his invention. However, Specs has a secret he dare not tell anyone--he's scared to death of large crowds. Alice Hobbs, the young, pretty owner of the Angels, tries to help him with that problem, but a misunderstanding causes another problem. this time between Specs and Alice.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsIrene RichWilliam RussellWilliam Collier Jr.Diana Maxwell, a British army officer's-wife cause havoc, desire and jealousy among the men stationed in an isolated outpost in the Sahara desert and other locations.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsMay McAvoyConrad NagelRobert AgnewCynthia Martin (May McAvoy) in order to get around the insistence of her father (Rudolph Anders) that her two younger sisters Helen (Audrey Ferris) and Grace (Sally Elers) can not marry until she does invents a husband for herself called Major Smith, The fictitious husband Major John Smith (Conrad Nagel) materializes bringing with him chaos and confusion.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsMonte BlueLeila HyamsJames J. Jeffries"One-Round' Hogan is a heavyweight prizefighter with a knockout punch contending for a championship bout who, because of the death of a friend, almost wrecks his own career by holding back.Turn of the century boxing champ James J. Jeffries has a featured role in this movie.
Monte Blue had previously appeared in a 1925 boxing film called prequel "Hogan's Alley" (print extant) which was written by Darryl F. Zanuck. - DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsGeorge JesselAudrey FerrisWarner OlandIzzy Murphy (George Jessel) is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume) to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume. A real bizarre Green New deal loony. But Izzy saves the day by overpowering the lunatic, and is rewarded the love of the grateful manufacturer's no-name daughter.The film was a follow up to a previous film starring George titled Private Izzy Murphy. The release in October 8, 1927, at Warner Bros., after 2 days before of "The Jazz Singer" - the first talking film (partial).
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsDolores CostelloWilliam Collier Jr.Douglas GerrardThe College Widow (1927) is an American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Archie Mayo. The film is based on the 1904 Broadway play by George Ade and was previously adapted to film in 1915 with Ethel Clayton. The 1927 silent film version is a starring vehicle for Dolores Costello.The film is based on the 1904 Broadway play by George Ade and was previously adapted to film in 1915 with Ethel Clayton. The 1927 silent film version is a starring vehicle for Dolores Costello.
The story was also filmed in 1930 as an early talkie, Maybe It's Love, starring Joan Bennett and in 1936 as Freshman Love with Patricia Ellis. - DirectorRalph GravesStarsMay McAvoyRalph GravesHedda HopperAn attractive heiress, Carla (May McAvoy), and David (Ralph Graves), a successful artist, fall in love following an automobile accident. and are married. Their idyll is interrupted by a misunderstanding and she get a Reno-quickie divorce. Years later a chance meeting brings them together and they are reconciled.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRin Tin TinDorothy GulliverTom GalleryDuring World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he can have the girl they're competing for all to himself.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsDolores CostelloJason Robards Sr.Warner Richmond"The Heart of Maryland" (1927) is a silent costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsIrene RichAudrey FerrisHolmes HerbertBernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a life-long friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsConrad NagelMyrna LoyWilliam RussellA southern belle from Dixie, Mary Carlton (Myrna Loy), aided by her police detective lover "Handsome" Joe (Conrad Nagel), outwits and brings to justice the Chicago gangster, "Big Steve" Drummond, who murdered her brother Bob Carlton (Carroll Nye.)The film is one of the earliest starring roles for Loy who at this time, 1927, didn't usually star but was a supporting player. Warners took a chance casting her in a principal part
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsGeorge JesselAudrey FerrisGertrude AstorJohnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but not before apprehending a gang of jewel thieves and gaining the love of Mary (Audrey Ferris), the girl he adores.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsTom WilsonHeinie ConklinMyrna LoyFifi, (Mryna Loy), a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham, (Tom Wilson), and Eggs, (Heinie Conklin), in France during World War One.
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsOwen MooreHelene CostelloKatherine PerryAfter six months of marriage--a whole half-year!--a couple decides that they have made a mistake and plans to divorce. Her father, though, has other ideas and hatches a plot to to make them realize that they really do love each other and they should stay married.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsIrene RichClyde CookAudrey FerrisWomanizer Leonard Gilbert (Richard Tucker) lures a variety of ladies to his apartment, complete with cocktail shakers, plush pillows and a Japanese manservant as symbols of sophistication. Some come to be seduced and others , such as Myra Martin (Irene Rich) , to prevent her younger sister, Helene Martin (Audrey Ferris), from being seduced.Survives fragment of only 1 reel, UCLA Film and Television Archive (Los Angeles)
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsMay McAvoyRobert FrazerAlec B. FrancisMay Banks (May McAvoy) is a working class girl who gets ideals above her station in life when her father, Colonel Banks (Alec B. Francis), a Coney Island employee, save enough money to send her to an expensive, snobby all-girl finishing school.Next McAvoy film - The Terror (the second all-talking picture for Warner; the first all-talking "horror" film).
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsMonte BlueEdna MurphyBurr McIntoshBrothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.Only 3 reel survives at Cinémathèque française in France.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsIrene RichAudrey FerrisGeorge BerangerPowder My Back is a lost 1928 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Irene Rich. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. who released it with a Vitaphone music and sound effects track.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloConrad NagelMitchell LewisRose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's" in New York City's "Tenderloin" district, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another plaything. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime about which she knows nothing. The police pick her up, and the gang sends Chuck to take care of her in the event that she might know or disclose something that will implicate the gang.It second part-talkie film, but was mostly silent with music and effects.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsClyde CookLouise FazendaBetty BlytheTwin brothers James and Horace Bullard have opposite personalities. James, a fun dandy, marries a club-woman. Horace, introvert and prudish, marries a butterfly.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRin Tin TinAudrey FerrisCarroll NyeRinty (Rin-Tin-Tin), a dog of the desert, wanders into a big city and finds many reasons to turn his back on humanity. He is given a home by sweet June Marlow (Audrey Ferris) but he soon finds himself being treated badly by animal trainer Mike Doyle (Paul Panzer). But he saves his mistress from the unwelcome attentions of oily Doyle and then comes to the rescue of June's grandfather ,Pop Marlow (Otto Hoffman), who is being held prisoner by a gang of hooligans.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsLouise FazendaClyde CookWilliam DemarestTrolley car conductor Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones (William Demarest) are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith (Louise Fazenda)
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsIrene RichAudrey FerrisWilliam Collier Jr.A story of two closely-knit relationships, one of which involves John Harrison (Anders Randolph), the mayor of a city and his renewed friendship with a widow and former sweetheart Irene Mervin Hughes (Irene Rich) and the other with the mayor's son, Steve Harrison (William Collier Jr.) and his romance with Irene's pretty daughter Audrey Hughes (Audrey Ferris.)
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsConrad NagelMyrna LoyWilliam RussellFramed for the murder of a policeman, gangster Joe Blake commits suicide. "The Bat," a gang leader, is the real murderer. Joe's twin brother, Ralph, joins the gang to get revenge and clear Joe's name. There he meets the daughter of the murdered policeman, Isobel, posing as "State Street Sadie" to get her own revenge. The two become involved in a net of intrigue culminating in the capture of the gang by police. The Bat, trapped on a roof, leaps to his death while Ralph and Isobel contemplate marriage.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMay McAvoyLouise FazendaEdward Everett HortonGuests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'The first horror all-talking feature, it's Warner Bros. second all-talking picture.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsJack MulhallGreta NissenSam HardyPeter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out, and revamps the play into a huge hit. Jones then sells back to them at a huge profit after learning of claims that the play was stolen, and returns home to get his hotel.