year: 1920

Poster for Crooked Streets
Movie
1920

Crooked Streets

Gail Ellis, a secretary, accompanies Professor Silas Griswold and his wife to China on an expedition to acquire antique vases. Curiosity draws her to the Shanghai slums where, unknown to Gail, her driver is participating in a scheme to abduct her. Gail escapes, but in the process is accosted by drunken sailors. Luckily, Rupert O'Dare, a young Englishman, is nearby and rescues Gail. He escorts her back to the hotel where he discloses his identity as a British secret service agent and proceeds to arrest the Griswolds for smuggling opium in antique vases. Gail then reveals herself as a member of the United States Secret Service and the two agents fall in love.

Poster for Would You Forgive?
Movie
1920
1.0

Would You Forgive?

Mrs. John Cleveland, victim of an overly-jealous husband, adopts a child but, fearing to bring it into her own household, furnishes another home for it, and places the little girl in charge of a nurse. Paul Horton, ex-convict and former sweetheart of Mrs. Cleveland, returns to the city and finds that his former nurse is the same woman who is caring for Mrs. Cleveland's child. Horton accuses her of leading a double life and demands money to keep the matter quiet. Her diamonds are given to him and he pawns them. The husband, finding the rings gone, places detectives on the trail. Finding that Horton has pawned them he shuns his wife. But Horton shows him a letter which proves that the child adopted by Mrs. Cleveland really belongs to her husband. Though the jealous husband had been unwilling to forgive, the loving wife grants forgiveness.

Poster for Even as Eve
Movie
1920

Even as Eve

Eileen O'Hara lives as a member of a cult in a remote retreat in the Adirondacks with her father, an embittered man since his wife's infidelity years earlier. Because his wife was untrue, O'Hara is determined that his daughter, Eileen, shall never marry. Peyster Sproul was the man who had the affair Mrs. O'Hara's infidelity, and when he shows up as president of the Sagamore Club and attempts to buy O'Hara's land, the two men come to blows.

Poster for The Woman Gives
Movie
1920

The Woman Gives

A 1920 film directed by Roy William Neill.

Poster for Up in Mary's Attic
Movie
1920

Up in Mary's Attic

Mary has married Jack Langdon , the physical instructor of the young ladies' seminary where she is being schooled. Because she is underage and risks losing the fortune her uncle has left her, Mary is compelled to keep the marriage a secret, but a baby adds to the complications. At first the young couple leaves it in the care of an Indian woman. Waldo Pennanink , the son of the school's headmaster, becomes suspicious of all the time the couple is spending with the Indian woman and the baby.

Poster for The Cup of Fury
Movie
1920

The Cup of Fury

Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Marie-Louise, who has been an unwitting part of their schemes, is allowed to go to the U.S. if she promises to keep everything a secret.

Poster for Haunted Spooks
Movie
1920
6.3

Haunted Spooks

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.

Poster for The Right to Love
Movie
1920

The Right to Love

An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.

Poster for Kakadu und Kiebitz
Movie
1920

Kakadu und Kiebitz

German silent film directed by Erich Schönfelder.

Poster for An Old Fashioned Boy
Movie
1920
5.8

An Old Fashioned Boy

David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.

Poster for Homer Comes Home
Movie
1920

Homer Comes Home

Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.

Poster for Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)
Movie
1920

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)

An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes. Featuring Oscar Micheaux,Colleen Moore, Ormer Locklear, and more.

Poster for The Evil Eye
Movie
1920

The Evil Eye

This serial, starring boxer Leslie King, is presumed lost.

Poster for The Orphan
Movie
1920

The Orphan

Poster for An Eastern Westerner
Movie
1920
6.9

An Eastern Westerner

A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.

Poster for High and Dizzy
Movie
1920
6.6

High and Dizzy

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

Poster for The Untamed
Movie
1920

The Untamed

A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O. Barrows). His daughter, Kate is immediately attracted to Dan, but Cumberland discourages the union since he thinks the young man is too wild for her.

Poster for Lion's Jaws and Kitten's Paws
Movie
1920

Lion's Jaws and Kitten's Paws

Poster for Stronger Than Death
Movie
1920

Stronger Than Death

Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.

Poster for The Jack-Knife Man
Movie
1920
6.0

The Jack-Knife Man

A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.