The Best Movies Of 1924

A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.

The only known copy of this film was destroyed in the MGM vault fire.

Two men interacting before a distorted spherical mirror.

While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband return...

A wealthy New Yorker falls in love with a burglar's sister.

Silent movie drama Directed by John S. Robertson.

Plot unknown.

It recounts the mystery surrounding the treasure of the last Inca emperor.

The film is based on a play by Lajos Bir.

A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. ...

Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she...

London's cosmopolitan inhabitants are celebrated in this episode, featuring scenes of Italian, French and Greek shops in Soho and the Whitechapel Road.

Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are uhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining a divorce. Mizzi sets her sights on seducing Dr. F...

When a ball is accidentally knocked through the window of a neighbourhood haunted house, Alice is the only one brave enough to go inside to retrieve it. While she's in there she falls and bumps her he...

The Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. The main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy because there is no money left to service the debt. A crucial letter of hers about t...

Alice and Julius go on a safari in Africa to hunt wild game, but they get very different results.

Stan is a jockey who needs to win a big race.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, ...

Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated ...

John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John, consequently, fa...

A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.

Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) u...

A man falls in love with a woman he thinks is a rich lady when in fact she is her maid.

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanl...

Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe. Dan takes off to visit his girlfriend when they're a...

A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.

Avery DuPoise is a wealthy business man, organising a race. He meets one the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoises daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in ...

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a ...

A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.

Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her ...

Married carnival performers are subjected to the abuses of their employer in this silent film gem that has not received as much attention as it deserves. When the boss' unwanted advances on the wife a...

A Jewish slave girl falls in love with the Pharaoh's son during the Exodus.

Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, ...

The gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with toughie.

The first presidential film with sound recording.

The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.

A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.

The majority of the film takes place in a prison. In one case, Stan is sitting in an electric chair while being tested, and in another, a fellow con is swinging a pickax against a wall.

An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.

Stan Laurel starred in Wide Open Spaces.

The cloud phenomena of Maloja are so well-known that some of them have names, such as the Maloja snake, a cloud bank that winds its way through the Alpine pass like a river. Clouds pass overhead, Fanc...

Episodic look at married life and in-law problems. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; a wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow; and a sequence in which Hubby a...

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. ...

Alice's trip to the sea inspires her to dream of a visit to an animated underwater world.