Alan Crosland

Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been Cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested in jazz and ragtime music... (imdb)

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter... (imdb)

In this silent film, an Asian villain menaces a family of aristocratic Spanish settlers. (tcm.com)

Francious Villion is a poet, lover, fighter, and fool. After offending Louis XI, he is banished from Paris, but upon returning he is sentenced to death. By claiming his life is tied to him and the king would die within 24 hours of his own death, he is spared. At the same time, the Duke of Burgundy plans to take over Paris by marrying Louis' daughter.

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door... (imdb)

A privileged boarding school girl dreams of the "flapper" life of a young woman but her vampy aspirations find her mixed up in a jewel heist.

An elderly recluse shelters a gambler on the run from bogus murder charges. (TCM.com)

In this silent film, a French adventurer fights to save a young innocent forced into a life of prostitution. (TCM.com)

A German spy meets Everard Dominey, an alcohlic British nobleman in the African jungle. One of them is killed and the other returns to England.

Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby. (imdb)

In this costume drama, John Barrymore plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who pays him. He is currently working for the Austrian Emperor. His mission is to abscond with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. (allrovi.com)

This sentimental Romberg-Hammerstein operetta was made late in the first cycle of movie musicals, and the glut of product at the time crowded it out at the box office. Which is too bad, because it's excellent of its kind -- well-crafted, well-cast, and in handsome two-tone Technicolor. (imdb)

The plot and setting is actually a bit like Keaton's The Three Ages will be in 1923. But less sophisticated. (imdb)

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men. (imdb)

Under the Red Robe is a 1923 silent historical drama directed by Alan Crosland based upon the Stanley Weyman novel Under the Red Robe. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas. (Wikipedia)

The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner Bros., who starred their leading purveyors of cinematic passion, Conrad Nagel and Dolores Costello, both fresh from Tenderloin (1927). Like that crook melodrama, Glorious Betsy was hauled back into the shop to be refurbished with a couple of talking sequences, a necessity after the apparently unanticipated success of the studio's groundbreaking The Jazz Singer (1927). (allmovie.com)

Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling broadway, and the four get together. Jimmy and Peggy get together in many romantic ways and Peggy soon finds that her expected baby needs a father. Since Jimmy is the father (to-be) she informs him, but Jimmy thinks she is lying. (imdb)

A New York City cab driver in need of $200 picks up a movie star in his cab, and schemes to get the money from her. (imdb)

One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population, Massacre is more admirable for its intentions than its execution. The film was inspired by the activities of John Collier, commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term. (allmovie.com)

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino. (imdb)

Sue Tally waits for a brother she hasn't seen in twenty years to meet her in a French hotel. By proving her identity, she'll share in a $2,000,000 inheritance. But others are anxious to get a share of the money too, and won't stop at committing a murder or two. (imdb)

Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. (allmovie.com)

Before the downfall of the Czar, Anuita sings to incite the people to revolt, eluding Prince Voloyda. Her fellow conspirator, Konstantin, watches her covetously, though he is pledged to Natasha. They overthrow the Czar, but Anuita, disgusted with Konstantin's brutality, goes to her village where she meets the prince and they fall in love. Konstantin arrests the prince, but Anuita buys his liberty. She is imprisoned, and the prince is captured; but Konstantin is killed and they escape. (AFI)

Success corrupts a young prizefighter and leads him to neglect his wife. (imdb)

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?

A reformed crook gets tangled up in the affairs of a Grand Duchess who has escaped from Soviet Russia with some of the Romanoff jewels. (AllMovie)

A women in prison tale. Ones rich ones poor. Can they prosper after prison?

A Russian prince has to flee his country after fighting a duel. He falls in love with a duchess, but becomes jealous when he finds out she has a lover.

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats. (imdb)

During the Russian Civil War, Lya seeks refuge from Cossack soldiers at the palace of Prince Nicholas. She becomes his majordomo and they fall in love, but Nicholas expels her after learning she is a revolutionary and the former mistress of the Bolshevik leader Zaneriff. After returning to her home village, Lya becomes a terrorist. She reencounters Nicholas in disguise as a servant after the Red Army captures his palace. After he is discovered and sentenced to death, she rescues him.