The Haunted House (1928)Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
カバーなしThe Ape (1928)A supposedly tame ape suddenly goes on a rampage in a small town. Based on a true story.
Sweeney Todd (1928)A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for pies.
The Queen of Spades (1927)The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj and starring Jenny Jugo, Rudolf Forster and Henri De Vries. It is one of many film adaptations of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin's 1834 short story The Queen of Spades.
The Bells (1926)A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...
The Bat (1926)A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
The Monster (1925)A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
The Wolf Man (1924)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) uses this to his advantage.
The Hands of Orlac (1924)A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
Hansel and Gretel (1923)This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
ノートルダムのせむし男 (1923)ヴィクトル・ユーゴー作の『ノートルダム・ド・パリ』を改作映画化したもので、パラマウントの「姿なき男」などを監督したウォーレス・ウォースリーが製作したものである。ユーゴーの描き出した、耳が聞こえず隻眼でしかもこの世のものとは思われぬ怪奇醜悪な容貌を持っているノートルダム寺院の鐘楼守カジモドと呼ばれる傴僂男には、そうした特異の役柄を最も得意とするロン・チャニーが扮し、この他「我が恋せし乙女」出演のパッシー・ルス・ミラー、「メアリー・ゴー・ラウンド」出演のケリー、「焼け爛れし翼」「男子怒れば」等出演のアーネスト・トーレンス、その他レイモンド・ハットン、タリー・マーシャル、グラディス・ブロックウェルなど、粒揃いの俳優を集めている。ユーゴーの原作とはだいぶ異なっているがアメリカ製作映画としては免れ得ざるところというべく兎に角セットといい、規模といい、また内容といい、期待するに足るべき大作品である。
The Ghost Breaker (1922)A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spanish castle of ghosts.
