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La Grande Passion

1928

This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.

6.2

The Dream Lady

1918

Upon receiving an inheritance from her late uncle, a woman starts a fortune-telling business designed to make her dreams come true.

7.4

The Chaplin Revue

1959

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

6.0

Fiddlesticks

1927

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.

5.3

Something New

1920

A young woman visiting in Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits, who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the country well. But when Bill cannot find a horse, his only available form of transportation is his roadster. Nevertheless, he is determined to come to her rescue, even though it means trying to drive the car across miles of rocky, broken terrain.

7.0

Should Men Walk Home?

1927

Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale. Mabel seems a little livelier in this film than in some of her other late works. In the very first scene we find her hitch-hiking, and she's forced to make a mad dash for cover when Hale's car nearly hits her. Soon they team up and crash a swanky party in a mansion to steal a jewel from the host's safe.

5.8

Redskin

1929

Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".

6.2

Whimsical Illusions

1909

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.

5.8

Sky Scrappers

1928

'Sky Scrappers' finds three characters -- Oswald, a Big Pete-style bully and a Minnie-ish female character -- all engaged in knockabout humour on a building site.

4.8

Troublesome Secretaries

1911

A frustrated, protective father tries to stop his secretaries from falling in love with his charming daughter, Betty. He hires two secretaries— only for them to be in on the practical jokes Betty plays on her father.

5.0

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

1910

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

4.3

A Peace of Coal

1910

A British trick film with stop-motion animation by an unknown film maker.

6.5

The Jester's Joke

1912

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a dog, she lets clowns appear; one female, and two male. The male clowns fight each other over the girl who gets changed over and over again by the jester.

4.8

The Family Doctor

1910

An ailing woman is visited by her family doctor. This film was seized by Austrian authorities in 1911, and the fact was announced in the Wiener Zeitung, the Official Journal of Vienna.

6.8

Slippery Jim

1910

Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is presented. The commissioner orders the prisoner to be clapped in irons, but this proves to be easier said than done because our anti-hero - presumably the Slippery Jim of the title - proves to be an expert escapologist.

4.5

The Happy Microbes

1909

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under the microscope. The "microbes" coalesce and form different shapes, creating caricatures of various people, such as mothers-in-law and drunks. These animated characters goof around in traditional cartoon fashion.

5.7

Spanish Clair de Lune

1909

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of his room, but instead of falling to his death, the anchor of a passing balloon intercepts his flight and he is taken high into the clouds. Laughing at his plight, the moon arouses the anger of the desperate lover and a battle between the two ensues.

5.1

Cretinetti Che Bello!

1909

The set-up here is that Cretinetti has been invited to a friend's wedding and dressed up in a fine new outfit, which so impresses every woman he sees that they wind up pursuing him en masse -- along with a couple of men.

5.9

The Massacre

1912

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

6.7

Tweedledum as Aviator

1911

Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bone-breaking, so much so that it makes Keystone slapstick look like drawing-room comedy by contrast.

Genre	Western, Comedy
Production Companies	Universal Pictures
Production Ccountries	United States of America

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La Grande Passion

The Dream Lady

The Chaplin Revue

Fiddlesticks

Something New

Should Men Walk Home?

Redskin

Whimsical Illusions

Sky Scrappers

Troublesome Secretaries

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

A Peace of Coal

The Jester's Joke

The Family Doctor

Slippery Jim

The Happy Microbes

Spanish Clair de Lune

Cretinetti Che Bello!

The Massacre

Tweedledum as Aviator