List of Warner Bros. lost films
by alex_bogachev | created - 14 May 2015 | updated - 08 May 2022 | PublicThis is a list of a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a silent/sound print is known to have survived, produced and distributed by Warner Bros. for the years 1918-1931 and its subsidiary First National for the years 1928-1931 and 1933. WARNING: For films for which no footage (such as trailers) is known to have survived.
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1. Kaiser's Finish (1918)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, War
During World War I, an illegitimate son of the German Kaiser, who had been raised in the US--and is a double for the the Kaiser's son, the Crown Prince--is sent to Germany as a spy in order to kill both the Kaiser and his son.
Directors: Jack Harvey, Cliff Saum | Stars: Earl Schenck, Claire Whitney, Percy Standing, Louis Dean
Votes: 22
World War I drama film, directed by Jack Harvey (John Joseph Harvey).
2. The Tiger Band (1920)
300 min | Action, Thriller
Director: Gilbert P. Hamilton | Stars: Helen Holmes, Jack Mower, T.D. Crittenden, Omar Whitehead
Votes: 18
This is the first "lost" serial of Warner Brothers.
3. Parted Curtains (1920)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on ... See full summary »
Directors: Bertram Bracken, James C. Bradford | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, William Clifford, Edward Cecil
Warner re-release in 1921.
4. Why Girls Leave Home (1921)
80 min | Drama
Because her father has strict ideas about what clothing she should wear and with whom she should associate, Anna Hedder leaves home and takes up residence with two girl friends. She meets ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, Maurine Powers, Julia Swayne Gordon, Corinne Barker
1926's Why Girls Go Back Home is a sequel to the film that was also produced by Warner Bros (is not early sound films). The poster for the film was featured in the 1962 film Gypsy.
5. Ashamed of Parents (1921)
50 min | Drama
A poor shoemaker struggles to send his son to college, where he becomes a football star.
Director: Horace G. Plympton | Stars: Charles Eldridge, Jack Lionel Bohn, Edith Stockton, Walter McEvan
A poor shoemaker struggles to send his son to college, where he becomes a football star.
6. Your Best Friend (1922)
70 min | Drama
A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Vera Gordon, Harry Benham, Stanley Price, Belle Bennett
A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.
7. Rags to Riches (1922)
70 min | Drama
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by enduring all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Wesley Barry, Niles Welch, Ruth Renick, Russell Simpson
8. A Dangerous Adventure (1922)
310 min
The thrilling adventures of the daughters of Professor Stanton, scientist and explorer, in their search for hidden treasure in the Central African jungles.
Directors: Jack L. Warner, Sam Warner | Stars: Grace Darmond, Philo McCullough, Jack Richardson, Robert Agnew
Votes: 16
9. The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
70 min | Drama
Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Marie Prevost, Kenneth Harlan, Harry Myers, Tully Marshall
Votes: 44
Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Beautiful and Damned, starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost. The film's survival status is currently unknown, and it is now presumed lost.
10. The Tie That Binds (1923)
70 min | Drama
A beautiful secretary has her pick of the men in the office, but instead of marrying the boss, she takes one of his junior staff. Later, when she is suspected of committing a murder, her ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Walter Miller, Barbara Bedford, Raymond Hatton, William P. Carleton
11. Main Street (1923)
90 min | Drama
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Harry Myers, Robert Gordon
Votes: 19
A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921. This film is lost, as no print exists. The first known distributed by Warner Bros. (and his first logo as "Classics of the screen"), founded in April 4, 1923.
12. Little Johnny Jones (1923)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart to make him throw the race. Will he succeed?
Directors: Johnny Hines, Arthur Rosson | Stars: Johnny Hines, Wyndham Standing, Margaret Seddon, Herbert Prior
Adapted from a Broadway musical starring George M. Cohan. "Little Johnny Jones" opened at the Liberty Theatre in New York on Nov. 7, 1904 and ran for 52 performances. Later remade as an early sound film, Little Johnny Jones (1929) by First National.
13. The Printer's Devil (1923)
60 min | Drama
Brick Hubbard, a "printer's devil", convinces his friend Sid Fletcher to invest in "The Gazette", a local newspaper. Sid pens an editorial that infuriates Ira Gates, a local banker and a ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Wesley Barry, Harry Myers, Kathryn McGuire, Louis King
14. The Gold Diggers (1923)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, Louise Fazenda, Gertrude Short
Votes: 37
The story of The Gold Diggers was filmed again as a talkie in 1929 as Gold Diggers of Broadway, which is now lost, and also in 1933 as Gold Diggers of 1933, with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley. Three other sequels followed: Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), and Gold Diggers in Paris (1938), based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920.
According to the NitrateVille website, in May 2021, a collector found an incomplete nitrate 35mm Belgian print in England, which has been uploaded to YouTube. However, only 2, 3, 7 and 8 reels are still missing.
15. George Washington, Jr. (1924)
60 min | Comedy
A senator is trying to get his niece to marry a foreign count. The senator's teenage son finds out that the count is not only a phony, but an international criminal. The boy sets out to ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Wesley Barry, Gertrude Olmstead, Léon Bary, Heinie Conklin
16. How to Educate a Wife (1924)
70 min | Comedy
A businessman looking to improve sales takes the advice of a friend and uses the services of the friend's wife to help build the business. Unfortunately, it isn't long before jealousy rears... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Claude Gillingwater, Vera Lewis
17. Broadway After Dark (1924)
70 min | Comedy
A brash young man-about-town is attracted to a Broadway actress, but her flirtatious ways turn him off and make him want to change his life. He takes a room in a quite boarding-house that ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Norma Shearer, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edmund Burns
18. Babbitt (1924)
80 min | Drama
George F. Babbitt--middle-aged, respectable, a prosperous real estate man--tired of the routine of family life, finds he has let life slip by. In an attempt to renew his youth he begins an affair with an alluring young woman.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Willard Louis, Mary Alden, Carmel Myers, Raymond McKee
Based on novel by Sinclair Lewis. The first adaptation was a silent film released in 1924 and starring Willard Louis as George F. Babbitt. Better known is the 1934 talkie starring Guy Kibbee. That version, while remaining somewhat true to Lewis's novel, takes liberties with the plot, exaggerating Babbitt's affair and a sour real estate deal. Both films were Warner Bros. productions.
19. Being Respectable (1924)
80 min | Drama
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Louise Fazenda, Irene Rich
20. Cornered (1924)
70 min | Crime, Drama
A pair of professional thieves discovers that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Marie Prevost, Rockliffe Fellowes, Raymond Hatton, John Roche
21. Lovers' Lane (1924)
53 min | Comedy, Drama
A doctor in a small town is being pursued by a wealthy young woman who just won't give up, even after he repeatedly rejects her advances. His main concern is taking care of the health of ... See full summary »
Directors: William Beaudine, Phil Rosen | Stars: Robert Ellis, Gertrude Olmstead, Crauford Kent, Kate Toncray
22. The Age of Innocence (1924)
70 min | Drama
Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announce, Newland finds himself attracted to May's older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Edith Roberts, Elliott Dexter, Willard Louis, Fred Huntley
Votes: 46
It is the first film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence.
23. The Dark Swan (1924)
70 min | Drama
Clever vamp Eve Quinn has generally had her way with men, while her quiet, deep-thinking sister Cornelia cannot bring herself to deliberately pursue them. So Eve wins Lewis Dike, whom ... See full summary »
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Helene Chadwick, John Patrick
24. A Lost Lady (1924)
70 min | Drama
A spoiled young girl manages to snag a wealthy older man as her husband, but soon becomes bored. She finally leaves him, but doesn't really know what she wants. A young man who is a friend-... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Irene Rich, Matt Moore, June Marlowe, John Roche
25. The Narrow Street (1925)
70 min | Comedy
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner, and is basically afraid of everyone and ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Matt Moore, Dorothy Devore, David Butler, George C. Pearce
26. On Thin Ice (1925)
70 min | Crime, Drama
A crook and his gang plan to con a young woman out of a cache of stolen loot they, and the police, believe she's hiding. The situation changes, however, when he falls in love with her and ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Tom Moore, Edith Roberts, William Russell, Theodore von Eltz
27. A Broadway Butterfly (1925)
70 min | Comedy
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Dorothy Devore, Louise Fazenda, Willard Louis, John Roche
28. Recompense (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance, War
France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn (Marie Prevost), a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham (Monte Blue) a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, George Siegmann
29. My Wife and I (1925)
70 min | Drama, Romance
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon, John Harron, John Roche
30. Eve's Lover (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
Austin Starfield (Louis) has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside (Rich). He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar (Lytell) to marry Eve so he can then gain ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Irene Rich, Bert Lytell, Clara Bow, Willard Louis
31. Kiss Me Again (1925)
80 min | Comedy
Gaston Fleury's (Monte Blue) wife, Loulou (Marie Prevost), takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice (John Roche). Although Gaston has no intention ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, Clara Bow
Votes: 91
The film was based on the French play Divorçons! (1880), by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac, and the adapted version of the play Cyprienne. In 1931 remake musical operetta film filmed entirely in Technicolor.
32. Baree, Son of Kazan (1925)
70 min | Adventure, Drama
Following the murder of his father, Jim Carvel is outraged when the killer escapes punishment and shoots the man himself, leaving him for dead. Jim travels to the Pacific Northwest, where ... See full summary »
Director: David Smith | Stars: Anita Stewart, Donald Keith, Jack Curtis, Joe Rickson
Votes: 14
33. Compromise (1925)
70 min | Drama
A woman of high morals, Joan Trevore expects to find in her marriage to Alan Thayer the happiness that has long eluded her. She and Alan are still on their honeymoon, however, when Nathalie... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Irene Rich, Clive Brook, Louise Fazenda, Pauline Garon
34. How Baxter Butted In (1925)
70 min | Comedy
Poor Henry Baxter, a lowly clerk in a newspaper office, is in love with Beulah, the beautiful office stenographer, but Beulah barely knows he exists. As if Henry's unrequited love isn't bad... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Dorothy Devore, Matt Moore, Ward Crane, Wilfred Lucas
35. The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925)
70 min | Drama
The son of the district attorney, Bob Mannering, is a passenger in a car that is involved in a fatal accident, and he assumes the blame for it in order to protect Diane Graham. John ... See full summary »
Director: James Flood | Stars: Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon, John Harron, Gayne Whitman
36. The Woman Hater (1925)
70 min | Drama
A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire, but is blocked by a renowned woman-hater who actually wants her for himself.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Helene Chadwick, Clive Brook, John Harron, Helen Dunbar
37. Rose of the World (1925)
80 min | Drama
When rich Jack Talbot falls in love with not-rich Rose Kirby, he doesn't marry her, fearing his mother's disapproval. Rose later marries Clyde Bainbridge, a rotter who knows that under the ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Allan Forrest, Pauline Garon, Rockliffe Fellowes
38. The Fighting Edge (1926)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Juan de Dios O'Rourke (Kenneth Harlan), an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Patsy Ruth Miller, David Kirby, Heinie Conklin
Votes: 22
39. His Jazz Bride (1926)
71 min | Drama
Young lawyer Dick Gregory is hard-pressed to pay his wife Gloria's bills, and equally hard-pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life. Edward Martindel, an attorney who represents... See full summary »
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Marie Prevost, Matt Moore, Gayne Whitman, John Patrick
Votes: 48
40. The Man Upstairs (1926)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Geoffrey West, a traveler and adventurer, sees a girl in a London hotel and uses the personals column of a newspaper to get in touch with her. The girl, Marion Larnard, then sets a test for... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Monte Blue, Dorothy Devore, Helen Dunbar, John Roche
41. The Caveman (1926)
70 min | Comedy
A bored society girl cuts a $100 bill in half, writes a message on one half for whoever finds it to call her at her apartment, writes the address on the bill and throws it out the window of... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Matt Moore, Marie Prevost, John Patrick, Myrna Loy
Votes: 41
Incomplete with only one reel missing
42. The Love Toy (1926)
60 min | Comedy
Left standing at the altar by his fiancée, Peter Remsen goes to seek consolation in the small Kingdom of Luzania, where he becomes valet to the king in order to be near the Princess ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Jane Winton, Willard Louis, Gayne Whitman
Votes: 20
43. Bride of the Storm (1926)
70 min | Drama
An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother are washed ashore on a rocky island that supports only a lighthouse. Faith's ... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Dolores Costello, John Harron, Otto Matieson, Sheldon Lewis
44. Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Trusting country girl Marie Downey (Patsy Ruth Miller) falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley (Clive Brook) and becomes a chorus girl as he becomes a matinée idol on old Broadway.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Clive Brook, Jane Winton, Myrna Loy
Votes: 18
The film is a sequel to Warner Bros.'s "Why Girls Leave Home (1921)", which was a box office hit.
45. The Little Irish Girl (1926)
67 min | Crime, Drama
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Dolores Costello, John Harron, Matthew Betz, Lee Moran
Votes: 35
46. The Gilded Highway (1926)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
The Welby's inherit a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years. The money turns all the family into social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring ... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Dorothy Devore, John Harron, Macklyn Arbuckle, Myrna Loy
Votes: 16
47. Other Women's Husbands (1926)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
When his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirted on a previous dinner engagement; ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Huntley Gordon, Phyllis Haver
48. The Sap (1926)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Barry Weston is raised by his widowed mother and is, at best, a "mama's boy," and, at worst, a bit of a coward. He is drafted into the A.E.F. when World War I breaks out, and accidentally ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Heinie Conklin, Mary McAllister, David Butler
49. Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1926)
70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Sid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her. Rufe lies to Andy, Jude's brother, and a family-feud is started when Andy goes gunning ... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, John Harron, Gayne Whitman, Gardner James
50. Silken Shackles (1926)
60 min | Comedy
The wife of an American diplomat falls in love with a young Hungarian violinist.
Director: Walter Morosco | Stars: Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon, Bertram Marburgh, Victor Varconi
The son of theater owner Oliver Morosco and was based on an off Broadway play by Charles Harris.
51. The Passionate Quest (1926)
70 min | Drama
Rosina Vonet, Philip Garth, and Matthew Garner, chafing against the narrow prejudices of Benjamin Stone, their guardian, determine to fulfill their ambitions in London: Rosina, a stage ... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: May McAvoy, Willard Louis, Louise Fazenda, Gardner James
According to the Library of Congress Database. Archive: Library of Congress (Washington) [Usw], Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) [Nla] Registration number: Lp22935 Holdings: U.S. Archive Completeness: fragment Note: 35 mm Nitrate Positive: Usw Record No.: 29783
52. The Honeymoon Express (1926)
70 min | Drama
A philandering husband comes to his senses after his wife leaves him and takes up a glamorous lifestyle.
Directors: James Flood, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Willard Louis, Irene Rich, Holmes Herbert, Helene Costello
Votes: 26
The third with synchronized Vitaphone musical soundtrack.
53. Millionaires (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
Meyer Rubens and his wife Esther own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move up to the upper West Side, and her rich sister Reba persuades Meyer to invest in the... See full summary »
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: George Sidney, Louise Fazenda, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr
54. Across the Pacific (1926)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Romance, War
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Phillipines. To do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Monte Blue, Jane Winton, Myrna Loy, Charles Stevens
Votes: 40
It was based on a turn of the century play by Charles Blaney and J. J. McCloskey. The play had been filmed before in 1914 with Dorothy Dalton.
55. The Better 'Ole (1926)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, War, Drama
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 289 | Gross: $1.25M
Incomplete with only one reel missing. On DVD. The second Vitaphone feature, with music and sound effects, after Don Juan (1926).
56. My Official Wife (1926)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Romance, War
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women, and spectacular settings.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Irene Rich, Conway Tearle, Jane Winton, Gustav von Seyffertitz
57. Private Izzy Murphy (1926)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Jessel, Patsy Ruth Miller, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr
The film was followed up by "Sailor Izzy Murphy (1927)".
58. While London Sleeps (1926)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Rinty is a police-dog (and faithful companion) assigned to a young Scotland Yard police officer who covers the Limehouse district of London. The East India dock in Limehouse is the home of ... See full summary »
Directors: Howard Bretherton, Walter Morosco | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Helene Costello, Walter Merrill, John Patrick
Votes: 34
59. Finger Prints (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Crime
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Louise Fazenda, John T. Murray, Helene Costello, Myrna Loy
Votes: 24
60. Wolf's Clothing (1927)
80 min | Comedy, Family
Barry Baline, a guard at a subway station, has worked at his job for six years without a day off. One New Year's Eve he's told that he won't be needed until the next morning, so he decides ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, John Miljan, Douglas Gerrard
61. The Fortune Hunter (1927)
80 min | Comedy
Cafe bouncer Nat Duncan is astonished to see his old panhandling pal Handsome Harry visiting the cabaret in the company of a bejeweled matron. Harry persuades Nat that he too can marry ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Helene Costello, Clara Horton, Duke Martin
62. The Gay Old Bird (1927)
70 min | Comedy
A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Louise Fazenda, John T. Murray, Jane Winton, William Demarest
Votes: 13
63. White Flannels (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz (Louise Dresser), stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz (Jason Robards) to local girl Anne (Virginia Brown Faire), ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Louise Dresser, Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Warner Richmond
64. What Every Girl Should Know (1927)
70 min | Romance, Drama
A young girl and her two brothers are sent to a children's home after their older brother, the only one supporting them, winds up in jail.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Ian Keith, Carroll Nye, Mickey McBan
65. Matinee Ladies (1927)
70 min | Comedy
Short on money, law student Bob Ward takes a job as a "dancing companion" at a roadhouse, where most of his clients are women looking for a little excitement outside their marriages. He ... See full summary »
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: May McAvoy, Malcolm McGregor, Hedda Hopper, Margaret Seddon
Haskin's first directorial effort after having been a cinematographer.
66. Don't Tell the Wife (1927)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, Otis Harlan
67. Bitter Apples (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
John Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thorden, to sell the business and all of his father's other interests. One of the now bankrupt... See full summary »
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Monte Blue, Myrna Loy, Paul Ellis, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 32
68. The Brute (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Martin Sondes (Monte Blue) is an easy-going cowhand going up against a shady, saloon owner called "Square Deal" Fenton (Paul Nicholson", whose chief means of making money is befuddling ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Monte Blue, Leila Hyams, Clyde Cook, Carroll Nye
69. The Climbers (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
The Duchess of Aragon (Irene Rich) is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya (Myrna Loy), who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into ... See full summary »
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Forrest Stanley, Florence Fair
Votes: 10
It was based on a 1901 Clyde Fitch play The Climbers, but bore scant resemblance to it.
70. Irish Hearts (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is ... See full summary »
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: May McAvoy, Jason Robards Sr., Warner Richmond, Kathleen Key
Votes: 32
71. Simple Sis (1927)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Myrna Loy, William Demarest
Votes: 10
72. The Black Diamond Express (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Dan Foster (Monte Blue), the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon (Edna Murphy), whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon (Myrtle ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Edna Murphy, Myrtle Stedman, Claire McDowell
It is not to be confused with several early short actuality styled films under the title Black Diamond Express for example the famous and still exiting 1896 film of a train arriving in a station.
73. Dearie (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Finding herself in dire circumstances, the widowed Sylvia Darling determines that her son, Stephen, will complete his college education and develop his supposed literary talents; thus, she ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Irene Rich, William Collier Jr., Edna Murphy, Anders Randolf
It is from a story by Victorian author Carolyn Wells about a woman who self sacrifices for her ungrateful son.
74. What Happened to Father (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
The title is descriptive and is not a question in which William Bradberry (Warner Oland), an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one who, unknown to ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Warner Oland, Florence Fair, William Demarest, Vera Lewis
75. The Bush Leaguer (1927)
70 min | Comedy
"Specs" White owns a garage in town and is the local baseball team's #1 pitcher--but he's more interested in working on his latest invention, a new and improved gas pump, than pitching on ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Clyde Cook, Leila Hyams, William Demarest
76. The Desired Woman (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Diana Maxwell, a British army officer's-wife cause havoc, desire and jealousy among the men stationed in an isolated outpost in the Sahara desert and other locations.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Irene Rich, William Russell, William Collier Jr., Douglas Gerrard
Votes: 32
77. Slightly Used (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) in order to get around the insistence of her father (Rudolph Anders) that her two younger sisters Helen (Audrey Ferris) and Grace (Sally Elers) can not marry ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Robert Agnew, Audrey Ferris
78. One-Round Hogan (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
"One-Round' Hogan is a heavyweight prizefighter with a knockout punch contending for a championship bout who, because of the death of a friend, almost wrecks his own career by holding back.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Leila Hyams, James J. Jeffries, Frank Hagney
Turn of the century boxing champ James J. Jeffries has a featured role in this movie. Monte Blue had previously appeared in a 1925 boxing film called prequel "Hogan's Alley" (print extant) which was written by Darryl F. Zanuck.
79. Sailor Izzy Murphy (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
Izzy Murphy (George Jessel) is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: George Jessel, Audrey Ferris, Warner Oland, John Miljan
The film was a follow up to a previous film starring George titled Private Izzy Murphy. The release in October 8, 1927, at Warner Bros., after 2 days before of "The Jazz Singer" - the first talking film (partial).
80. The College Widow (1927)
67 min | Comedy, Romance
The College Widow (1927) is an American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Archie Mayo. The film is based on the 1904 Broadway play by George Ade ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Dolores Costello, William Collier Jr., Douglas Gerrard, Anders Randolf
Votes: 16
The film is based on the 1904 Broadway play by George Ade and was previously adapted to film in 1915 with Ethel Clayton. The 1927 silent film version is a starring vehicle for Dolores Costello. The story was also filmed in 1930 as an early talkie, Maybe It's Love, starring Joan Bennett and in 1936 as Freshman Love with Patricia Ellis.
81. A Reno Divorce (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
An attractive heiress, Carla (May McAvoy), and David (Ralph Graves), a successful artist, fall in love following an automobile accident. and are married. Their idyll is interrupted by a ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Graves | Stars: May McAvoy, Ralph Graves, Hedda Hopper, Robert Ober
82. A Dog of the Regiment (1927)
Passed | 50 min | Drama, Family, War
During World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Dorothy Gulliver, Tom Gallery, John S. Peters
83. The Heart of Maryland (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance
"The Heart of Maryland" (1927) is a silent costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dolores Costello, Jason Robards Sr., Warner Richmond, Helene Costello
Votes: 26
84. The Silver Slave (1927)
70 min | Drama
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan
85. The Girl from Chicago (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A southern belle from Dixie, Mary Carlton (Myrna Loy), aided by her police detective lover "Handsome" Joe (Conrad Nagel), outwits and brings to justice the Chicago gangster, "Big Steve" ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, Carroll Nye
Votes: 15
The film is one of the earliest starring roles for Loy who at this time, 1927, didn't usually star but was a supporting player. Warners took a chance casting her in a principal part
86. Ginsberg the Great (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Johnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but not before apprehending a gang of jewel... See full summary »
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: George Jessel, Audrey Ferris, Gertrude Astor, Douglas Gerrard
87. Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
60 min | Comedy, War
Fifi, (Mryna Loy), a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham, (Tom Wilson), and Eggs, (Heinie Conklin), in France during World War One.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Tom Wilson, Heinie Conklin, Myrna Loy, William Irving
Votes: 45
88. Husbands for Rent (1927)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
After six months of marriage--a whole half-year!--a couple decides that they have made a mistake and plans to divorce. Her father, though, has other ideas and hatches a plot to to make them... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Owen Moore, Helene Costello, Katherine Perry, John Miljan
89. Beware of Married Men (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Womanizer Leonard Gilbert (Richard Tucker) lures a variety of ladies to his apartment, complete with cocktail shakers, plush pillows and a Japanese manservant as symbols of sophistication. ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy
Votes: 21
Survives fragment of only 1 reel, UCLA Film and Television Archive (Los Angeles)
90. The Little Snob (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working class girl who gets ideals above her station in life when her father, Colonel Banks (Alec B. Francis), a Coney Island employee, save enough money to send... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: May McAvoy, Robert Frazer, Alec B. Francis, Virginia Lee Corbin
Next McAvoy film - The Terror (the second all-talking picture for Warner; the first all-talking "horror" film).
91. Across the Atlantic (1928)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Romance
Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Edna Murphy, Burr McIntosh, Robert Ober
Only 3 reel survives at Cinémathèque française in France.
92. Powder My Back (1928)
70 min | Comedy
Powder My Back is a lost 1928 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Irene Rich. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. who released it with a Vitaphone music and sound effects track.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, George Beranger, Anders Randolf
Votes: 11
93. Tenderloin (1928)
Passed | 85 min | Drama
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's" in New York City's "Tenderloin" district, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, Mitchell Lewis, Dan Wolheim
Votes: 80
It second part-talkie film, but was mostly silent with music and effects.
94. Domestic Troubles (1928)
Passed | 58 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Twin brothers James and Horace Bullard have opposite personalities. James, a fun dandy, marries a club-woman. Horace, introvert and prudish, marries a butterfly.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Clyde Cook, Louise Fazenda, Betty Blythe, Jean Lefferty
95. Rinty of the Desert (1928)
Passed | 54 min | Family
Rinty (Rin-Tin-Tin), a dog of the desert, wanders into a big city and finds many reasons to turn his back on humanity. He is given a home by sweet June Marlow (Audrey Ferris) but he soon ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Audrey Ferris, Carroll Nye, Paul Panzer
Votes: 17
96. Pay as You Enter (1928)
Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Romance
Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones (William Demarest) are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith (Louise Fazenda)
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, William Demarest, Myrna Loy
Votes: 21
97. Women They Talk About (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story of two closely-knit relationships, one of which involves John Harrison (Anders Randolph), the mayor of a city and his renewed friendship with a widow and former sweetheart Irene ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, William Collier Jr., Anders Randolf
Votes: 18
98. State Street Sadie (1928)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Framed for the murder of a policeman, gangster Joe Blake commits suicide. "The Bat," a gang leader, is the real murderer. Joe's twin brother, Ralph, joins the gang to get revenge and clear ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, George E. Stone
Votes: 19
99. The Terror (1928)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 69 | Gross: $1.22M
The first horror all-talking feature, it's Warner Bros. second all-talking picture.
100. The Butter and Egg Man (1928)
70 min | Comedy
Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Sam Hardy, William Demarest
Votes: 12
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