[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive...
宗教偏执狂戴维森神父努力想要拯救风尘女子萨迪·汤普森的灵魂,结果自己却淫欲大发,强奸了她,最终因羞耻而自杀。
Lillie Sterling comes with her husband, John, on a business trip to Java, expecting a second honeymoon. On the ship, she witnesses Javanese Prince De Gace mercilessly whipping a servant and shrinks in horror from the sight. When John is befriended by the Prince, who is very attracted to Lillie, she tries to have little to do with him. During a conversation in their room, John i...
好幻想的科学家Janos Rukh说服另一群科学家和赞助者去非洲进行探险,目的是寻找和研究一颗远古的陨石,该陨石具有非同寻常的价值。Janos暴露在陨石的有毒辐射中,幸得医生Benet发明的解毒剂把救回来,但是他与其他人的接触可令到他们马上死亡。回到伦敦后,医生Be net利用陨石的可控制射线,来恢复盲人的视力。解毒剂的毒性激起了Janos Rukh教授的偏执式暴怒,他对探险队的成员进行报复,并指责他们,为个人荣誉而偷走了他的发现
A peace-loving Cossack chooses to prove himself in battle when his village and childhood sweetheart label him a coward.
金司令(欧娜·满森 Ona Munson 饰)在上海拥有一家非常大的赌场,这座赌场是金司令辛苦了一辈子,受了许多委屈才凑够了钱买下的,金司令将余生的幸福都赌在这座赌场上。卡特里斯(沃尔特·休斯顿 Walter Huston 饰)是一位非常富有的企业家,金司令的赌场就建造在属于他的地皮上,因此,卡特里斯要求金司令在新年来到之前把赌场搬走,这可愁坏了金司令。
一天,金司令在赌场里意外发现了卡特里斯的女儿波比(吉恩·蒂尔尼 Gene Tierney 饰),于是她想了一个主意,怂恿一名道德败坏的医生用赌博和酒精令波比堕落。对于金司令来说这还远远不够,她对卡特里斯的报复才刚刚开始。
A steamship originating from San Francisco has just docked on the South Pacific island of Tutuila at the port of Pago Pago, where some US Marines are stationed. Among the passengers is Sadie Thompson, for who Pago Pago is only a transit stop in that she is on her way to Apia on the nearby island of Upolu, where she is to start work for the steamship company itself. Circumstance...
It still doesn't cease to amaze me how some Silent Movies, dramas or comedies, catch my attention so much, getting me so immersed in the plot, thus making me forget I'm watching a silent, an antique, a piece of history, enjoying the movie as I'd do with any "talking" movie.
In this case, the images are so real (it was filmed on location) and so hauntingly beautiful, that make m...