Two Stars in the Milky Way

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello...

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young...

A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's...

The opening shows a colored nursemaid in the park with baby carriage, and seated on a bench receives the attention of several smart colored men who...

The Drakenhjelm family has lived in the Rautakylä manor for over 150 years. The current master of the house, elderly baron Magnus, has been...

Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is...

An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the...

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come...

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor...

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various...