Jesse L. Lasky
2) Thunderbolt
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Condemned gangster Thunderbolt Jim Lang plots revenge on the young man who stole his girlfriend and landed next to him on death row.
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These four short films show essential news and propaganda functions of the movies during the Great War of 1914-1918. In those days before television and radio, fiction films in movie theaters were the most widely shared public experience while news films presented the most detailed and potent images of military life and front line action. Some news films were faked but some was authentic, obtained at great risk by daredevil combat cameramen. The fourth...
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Women fainted in the aisles when The Sheik was released in 1921. The titled Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres) is carried into the desert by an Arab chieftain, Ahmed Ben Hassan (Valentino), who takes one look at her and wants her, right then and there. Filmed on the heels of women's suffrage, Lady Diana was presented as a strong-willed and intelligent character, but as for Ahmed -- nobody had seen anything like Valentino's natural sex appeal on the screen...
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"Mary Eaton stars in this rollickign feature about the reise of a showgirl. This early talkie incluses cameos by many of the top names of the day, including Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin, and Ring Lardner, and culminates with a Ziegfeld Follies dance number! Also, listen for such period hits as Bye bye blackbird, Baby face and Blue skies. This movie is like a time machine, and it will take you back!"--Container
7) Wings
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Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
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He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, and world traveler. It turns out the man who created adventures for Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and a Connecticut Yankee led a mighty adventurous life himself. Traced here is Twain's remarkable life.
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Duck soup: To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs. Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president.
Horse feathers: Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College.
Monkey business: While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters.
Animal crackers: Captain...