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The Kid & The General (1921)
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Charlie Chaplin's first starring role in a feature film was also written and directed by the star himself and took a whole year to make. The Tramp (Chaplin) discovers an abandoned baby and eventually adopts it as his own. Years later, the mother has
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
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Buster Keaton is on the mighty Mississippi, traveling in the old sidewheeler days. Buster plays a spoiled young man from Boston who is forced by his crusty father to learn the ropes of riverboating.
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The General (1927)
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Buster Keaton is rejected by the Confederate army and is taken as a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, but young Johnny Gray sets out to redeem himself. When Union soldiers steal his beloved locomotive he sets out to stop the hijackers!
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The Inspector General & The Paleface & That Gang of Mine (1949)
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Danny Kaye stars in this musical comedy about a case of mistaken identity and the poor fool caught in the middle of it. Georgi (Kaye) is an illiterate member of a traveling medicine show who is mistaken by a small Russian village as the Inspector General
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Abraham Lincoln & Yellowneck (1930)
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Double Feature - Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more
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Three Ages (1923)
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Buster Keaton in three different ages of man! Keaton plays a hilarious caveman, a chariot racer and an American Jazz musician. This fantastic silent comic adventure features one of Keaton's favorite performances.
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As You Like It & Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1936)
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The classic comedy by William Shakespeare comes to the screen with Sir Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. Also, a silent Buster Keayon gem will leave you in stitches!
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College (1927)
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Buster Keaton goes back to school and fights for the heart of his dashing co-ed at Clayton College. In pursuit of love and a little higher knowledge, Keaton stretches the limits of physical silent comedy.
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Reaching for the Moon & Mr. Imperium (1930)
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A Wall Street tycoon is a financial wizard but, when it comes to the ways of romance, is a bumbling novice. After meeting a beautiful young woman, he is desperate to win her over and he turns to his valet for advice of a romantic nature. Our would-be
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Reaching for the Moon (1931)
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The crash of the stock market and an irate fiancee are just two of the romantic hurdles that handsome, hard-drinking business mogul Larry Day (Douglas Fairbanks) must overcome in his stop-at-nothing wooing of aviatrix Vivian Benton (Bebe Daniels).
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