1926 Movies

A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

Robert J. Flaherty’s South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by “pride of beauty… pride of strength.”

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur…

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak…

Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.

A veteran World War I fighter pilot returns home a war hero and immediately regains his former job as a railroad company detective. His first case: recover a stolen satchel…

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only…

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father’s gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until…

A story about a family torn apart by a worker’s strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son…

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher’s daughter.

In the present (1926), Mr. La Rocque (now as Jeremiah “Jerry” Cleggett VIII) turns twenty-five and knows he has to marry a woman on the deck of the old “Jasper…

This generally historic drama depicts the railroad issue of the day circa 1910-1915, when railroad signals were changing from the moving arm semaphore to simple color lights (red and green)…

A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates…

Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.

An actress becomes the king’s mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman’s home.

This is a funny film but also it has a bit of depth and pathos to the character. Pathos can ruin a comedy when used poorly…here, however, it works very…

A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and…

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end…

A spiral design spins dizzily. It’s replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labeled and…

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection–which gets loose.

In 1876, an old man finds gold in the Sioux lands, provoking a gold and land rush from immigrants to Dakota. On the way to Custer, the lonely cowboy Dan…

A California family receives a notice that they must make a payment immediately, or else be forced out of their home. The payment must be made at an office in…

The tale of two sisters with the older one pledged to look after the younger one that transpires between a department store, NYC’s Central Park and a boarding house. THe…

Geoffrey, a young and impoverished writer, is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of…

Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. He forces them to work in his garden and treats them like…

This silent movie is based on Melville’s classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister’s daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding…

Cowboys Mutt and Jeff match wits with a very uncooperative bull.

“Sixth Part of the World” was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines….

Private eyes Mutt and Jeff are on the trail of the ghostly shape-shifting criminal, the Phantom.

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things – life, disillusionment and death. In…

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. To this end he infiltrates the pirate band. Acting in character he is instrumental in…

After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After…

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books…

Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station. Awed by her beauty, they meet again…

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

A divorced woman is set to receive $100,000 and quarts of diamonds from her divorce-disapproving aunt. Having taken in her first husband as a lodger, due to financial difficulties, and…

Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn But Mathias’ conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man’s spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad….

Johnnie loves his train (“The General”) and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he’s more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it’s…