The Life of the Party

The Hope

September 1920 •English

An upper class melodrama.

The Girl in the Arm-Chair

December 1912 •English

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune, which puts her very much in Mr. Waston’s favor. He would like his son, Frank, to marry Peggy, but Peggy “is not his style” and “her money is no inducement”.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

March 1928 •English

The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.

Anthony of Padua, The Saint of Miracles

April 1931 •Italian

Born Fernando de Bulhões, he was a precocious Portuguese youth, concerned with the suffering of the poor. Grown into a contemplative young man he renounces the world to join first the Augustinian Order and then the Franciscans order (where he takes the name Anthony) in his dedicated service to the faith.

The Clock-Maker's Secret

October 1907 •French

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that day the Lord Mayor will receive bids for the building of a town clock.

Muerte al amanecer

January 1962 •Spanish

At night, a young thief boldly breaks into an empty office, but his petty theft goes unexpectedly wrong.

Merton of the Movies

November 1924 •

A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lost.

Thaïs

February 1911 •French

Robinet’s White Suit

August 1911 •Italian

In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (MoMA)

Tweedledum in Love with a Singer

December 1911 •Italian

Robinet brings down the house when he unleashes himself on Mimi Kratzfuss , an attractive opera singer, during a music hall performance.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

August 1921 •English

After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.

Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike

February 1910 •French

When Dr. Quackell Did Hide

July 1920 •English

A comedic parody of Jekyll and Hyde.

Bébé nègre

January 1911 •French

Baby Fisherman

December 1910 •French

Fighting Blood

December 1923 •English

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is from the second series, 11th round, "Beauty and the Feast".

Music-Mania

January 1911 •French

A bizarre musical couple falls asleep after an insane performance, and dreams about musical instruments.

Brains Repaired

May 1911 •French

Depicts a doctor looking into his patient's brain and seeing a collection of hideous and grotesque figures.

Future Revealed by the Lines of the Feet

January 1914 •French

A female fortuneteller examines the sole of a man's foot to see his future.

Araki Mataemon: Master Swordsman

May 1935 •Japanese

Araki Mataemon was a very strong warrior, and his feud against the samurai Kawai Matagorō is one of the most famous in Japan. Matagoro killed Gendayu, the little brother of Mataemon's brother in law, Watanabe Kazuma. Becoming a murderer out of jealousy for a childhood friend, Matagoro fled in another domain, using friends of his father and his lineage linked to Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was somehow a complicated matter, as it seems at that time, a law from Toyotomi Hideyoshi allowed a little brother taking revenge for his elder brother, but not the reverse. After some years, the lord of Kazuma and Mataemon found a way, and they were allowed to take revenge for the murder. They fought and killed Matagoro and just one other samurai who was helping the culprit. It seems at that time, Kazuma was Mataemon's only assistant.