This is Charlie Chaplin’s 24th movie, filmed and released in 1914. Charlie Chaplin plays the Tramp. A girl sitting with a seaman on a bench moves the bench where the Tramp is sitting. This stirs up a brick fight between the seaman and the tramp, inadvertently hitting and bringing into the fight some nearby policemen. All […]
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Making A Living - 1914
This is Charlie Chaplin’s first screen role, where he plays a woman loving swindler.
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz - 1910
This is (I think?) the oldest and most terrifying version of L. Frank Baum’s classic story of a girl finding herself a long way from her home in Kansas. Why is this movie in the Sci-Fi / Horror section? Because Dorothy’s animal companions freak me out. Their costumes look bizarre and it seems like the animals […]
The Female of the Species - 1912
Four survivors from an abandoned mining town - a married couple, the wife's sister, and a younger woman - are making a desperate trip to safety across the desert. The wife suspects the younger woman of having an affair with her husband, and soon afterwards the husband dies suddenly. The three women must then continue their journey amidst the growing tensions caused by the wife's desire for revenge.
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A Burlesque On Carmen - 1915
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
Shanghaied - 1915
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner’s daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food […]
Phantom - 1922
A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
The Paleface - 1922
Buster Keaton inadvertently becomes part of a Native American tribe in the middle of fighting off some wealthy white oil people who want their land.
The Haunted House - 1921
A bank clerk ends up in a haunted house that isn’t what it seems. This is a classic Buster Keaton flick, can’t go wrong here.
