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So This Is Paris (1926)
Paris, Hollywood, not Paris, France, the perfect setting for Ernst Lubitsch’s comedy of pretense.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Hunchback’s story revolves around a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth Miller) and the men in the life. Esmeralda’s possessive guardian is Clopin, King of the Beggars (Ernest Torrence). He is willing to barter her to advance his interests and those of his impoverished followers. She loves and is loved in turn by Phoebus de Chateaupers (Norman Kerry) a cavalier of King Louis XI (Tully Marshall). Esmeralda is also the obsessive object of Jehan (Brandon Hurst) the villainous brother of Dom Claudio (Nigel De Brulier) the cathedral’s saintly Archdeacon. And she is adored by Quasimodo, the grotesque bellringer of Notre Dame for her kindness to him after an unjust flogging. During a tender moment between the dancer and the soldier, the jealous Jehan stabs Phoebus. Esmeralda is accused of the crime, tortured and sentenced to hang. Workmen from the cathedral stop laboring to enjoy her public execution, the following day, while Quasimodo watches in horror.
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Watch Your Step (1922)
Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews…..
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Hogan’s Alley (1925)
Lefty O’Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York’s East Side known as “Hogan’s Alley.” Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
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Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
Marie Downey, a trusting country girl falls in love with a touring stage-actor, Clifford Dudley,and becomes a chorus girl as he becomes a matinée idol on old Broadway.
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Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask (1996)
A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.
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