1910s – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

LIFE OF THE JEWS OF PALESTINE (1913)

Jon W. — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:35:49 +0000

On the eve of World War I, Jews in European ghettos and market towns were transfixed by a new sensation: motion picture images from Palestine. Many had never seen a movie before and some cried as they escaped the cold Russian landscape for a moment, on a celluloid pilgrimage to the land of milk and honey.

Director: Noah Sokolovsky.
Cinematographers: Miron Osipovich Grosmann, Miron Osip Grossman.

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MP4 | 1.25 GB | 932×720 | 23.976 FPS | 2500 kb/s | AAC 137 kb/s
Language: Silent | Intertitles: English, French & Hebrew

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MKV | 1.86 GB | 1920×1080 | 23.976 FPS | 3800 kb/s | AAC 137 kb/s
Language: Silent | Intertitles: English, French & Hebrew

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OPIUM (1919)

Jon W. — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:40:55 +0000

Doctor Gesellius travels to China to research the effects of opium. There, he frees a young woman named Sin from a mafia led by Nun Chiang, who swears vengeance. On the way back to his home, Gesellius discovers that Sin is the illegitimate daughter of one of his colleagues, whose son is having an affair with the doctor’s wife. After the revealing discovery, his colleague’s son turns up poisoned, making Gesellius the prime suspect.

Director: Robert Reinert
Writers: Robert Reinert.
Stars: Eduard von Winterstein, Sybill Morel, Werner Krauss, Friedrich Kühne, Hanna Ralph, Conrad Veidt.

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DER TUNNEL (1915)

Jon W. — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:29:00 +0000

Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.

Director: William Wauer. AKA The Tunnel.
Writer: Bernhard Kellermann (novel).
Stars: Friedrich Kayßler, Hermann Vallentin, Felix Basch, Hans Halden, Fritzi Massary, Rose Veldtkirch.

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I LIFVETS VÅR (1912)

Jon W. — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:36:31 +0000

A sick unmarried mother writes on her death bed a letter to the father of her daughter. The father lets young widow Sara Andersson take care of his daughter, and he has no idea that she will be forced to begging.

Director: Paul Garbagni. AKA The Springtime of Life
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Mauritz Stiller, Georg af Klercker, Selma Wiklund af Klercker, Anna Norrie, Astrid Engelbrecht, Victor Arfvidson.

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THE A.B.C OF LOVE (1919)

Jon W. — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:18:16 +0000

Playwright Harry Bryant while driving in a rural area, happens upon orphaned Kate astride a white horse, he is so charmed that he arranges for her to work at a nearby inn. Unable to tolerate the cruelty of the innkeepers, Kate runs away and seeks out Harry at his house in Story Brook farm. Charmed by her youthful exuberance, Harry falls in love with the uneducated girl and they marry. Harry soon becomes disenchanted with his illiterate wife, however, and seeks solace in his former sweetheart Diana Nelson. When he discovers that Diana is using him to further her social ambitions, Harry returns to Kate, who provokes his jealousy by paying daily visits to a mysterious apartment house.

Director: Léonce Perret.
Stars: Mae Murray, Holmes Herbert, Dorothy Green, Arthur Donaldson.

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Note: This very good print comes from the EYE Institute in The Netherlands hence it comes with Dutch intertitles, I added English subtitles which I translated with help from Jorge based on Spanish subtitles found on Youtube.

HELL’S HINGES (1916)

Jon W. — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:37:35 +0000

When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell’s Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.

Directors: Charles Swickard, William S. Hart (uncredited) & Clifford Smith (uncredited).
Stars: William S. Hart, Clara Williams, Jack Standing, Alfred Hollingsworth, Robert McKim, J. Frank Burke, Louise Glaum.

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BROADWAY LOVE (1918)

Jon W. — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:28:04 +0000

A small-town girl goes to New York hoping to become a star on Broadway, but the best she can do are roles as chorus girls. She falls in with a “fast” crowd, notably a “party girl” named Cherry Blow, and finds herself involved with wild parties, horny millionaires and her boyfriend from back home who has come to New York to marry her.

Director: Ida May Park.
Stars: Dorothy Phillips, Juanita Hansen, William Stowell, Harry von Meter, Lon Chaney, Gladys Tennyson, Eve Southern.

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MATER DOLOROSA (1917)

Jon W. — Mon, 13 May 2019 09:35:10 +0000

Dr. Gilles Berliac has no time for his wife Marthe. She seeks solace in the arms of his brother, Claude Rolland. Overcome with guilt for the affair, Claude tries to leave Marthe, at which Marthe attempts suicide and, in a struggle with her lover, acidentally shoots him.

Director: Abel Gance.
Stars: Emmy Lynn, Firmin-Gémier, Armand Tallier, Anthony Gildès, Paul Vermoyal, Gaston Modot, Antonin Carène. AKA The Torture of Silence