Douglas Fairbanks - Movie Mafia

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God Chose Paris

An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspect...

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Wilson

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post ...

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Mr. Robinson Crusoe

Steve Drexel voluntarily strands himself on a deserted island on a bet. He intends to re-create civi...

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Reaching for the Moon

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian B...

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Hollywood

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...

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The Thief of Bagdad

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess....

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The Mark of Zorro

Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Z...

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Yesterday and Today

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the m...

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The Private Life of Don Juan

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His...

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The Black Pirate

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrat...

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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and ...

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Robin Hood

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince Joh...

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The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...

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When the Clouds Roll By

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in th...

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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and h...

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The Image Book

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, tele...

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His Majesty, the American

A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-...

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The Iron Mask

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when th...

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Our Mutual Girl

Our Mutual Girl was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel and not strictly an advertiseme...

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Mr. Fix-It

A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gath...

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The Mollycoddle

An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time...

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The Gaucho

A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed wit...

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In Again, Out Again

A young man drowns his sorrows in strong drink when jilted by his girl. His drunkenness gets him thr...

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Flirting with Fate

In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon pa...

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Don Q Son of Zorro

Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affectio...

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A Modern Musketeer

A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Mu...

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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), f...

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Wild and Woolly

A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. U...

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The Matrimaniac

A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops brie...

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His Picture in the Papers

Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established ...

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The Nut

Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to h...

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Manhattan Madness

Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to ...

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American Aristocracy

A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daught...

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Reggie Mixes In

Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher...

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I, Douglas Fairbanks

The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swashbuckled in Zorro, dueled exu...

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A Kiss from Mary Pickford

Goga is a Russian man who has no luck with women. He has a chance meeting with Mary Pickford, and af...

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Reaching for the Moon

A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famou...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the live...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...

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Double Trouble

Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabann...

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The Good Bad-Man

An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some childre...

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The Half-Breed

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starre...

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He Comes Up Smiling

Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the g...

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The Lamb

Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strap...

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The Taming of the Shrew

Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Kath...

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Our Film Stars

First episode of a series of reports on movie stars. Those seen include Douglas Fairbanks, Montague ...

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Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on...

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The Man from Painted Post

In order to find out who's behind a cattle rustling operation that's hurting ranchers, a detective f...

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The Americano

Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's min...

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Arizona

A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not lov...

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The Golden Twenties

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles...

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The Habit of Happiness

Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This ...

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Down to Earth

A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order t...

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Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor

Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting i...

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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and inter...

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Anthony Quinn: An Original

Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident....

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Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1

Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; ...

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Days of Thrills and Laughter

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

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Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse

Mary Pickford's name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star s...

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Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm

The world-famous stars and married couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are warmly welcomed to...

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All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

Short film with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & W.S. Hart promoting war bonds....

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

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One of Many

A Soviet film-obsessed girl has met Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford during their visit to Moscow...

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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, sil...

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Character Studies

Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applyin...

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Headin' South

A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger k...

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Say! Young Fellow

A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for ...

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Bound in Morocco

A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that th...

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The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fi...

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Show People

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s...

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What Do Those Old Films Mean?

Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC televisio...

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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of...

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Glorious Technicolor

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work....

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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...

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The Tramp and the Dictator

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creat...

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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...

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The House That Shadows Built

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict...

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The Big Parade of Comedy

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....

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Propaganda: Engineering Consent

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...

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Birth of the Tramp

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall succ...

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Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn...

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Cupid Angling

Cupid Angling is a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison, with walk-on appearanc...

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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

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30 Years of Fun

Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-w...

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Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler

Douglas Fairbanks, the screen's great swashbuckler, charmed millions with his energetic athleticism,...

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The Worlds of Mei Lanfang

The true story of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star; a husband and father whose world-wide fa...

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Ali Baba Goes to Town

While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an A...

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Martyrs of the Alamo

The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexica...

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The Great Chase

A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences...

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The Many Faces of Zorro

An enjoyable trip that includes all Zorro's movies, from Douglas Fairbanks to Antonio Banderas with ...

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