1919 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1919, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Male and Female
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Robert Cain
Country: United States of America
Outline: Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
Spring Fever
Directed by: Edward Sedgwick
Outline: Baseball legend Honus Wagner teaches future Three Stooges leader Moe Howard how to hit a baseball.
True Heart Susie
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Wilbur Higby, Loyola O'Connor
Country: United States of America
Outline: Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his ...
The Mother and the Law
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Vera Lewis
Country: United States of America
Outline: A re-edited version of the 'modern' story from Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916).
The Red Lantern
Directed by: Albert Capellani
Starring: Alla Nazimova, Noah Beery, Charles Bryant, Edward Connelly
Outline: Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts ...
The Lost Battalion
Directed by: Burton L. King
Starring: Robert Alexander, George G. McMurtry, Charles W. Whittlesey, William J. Cullen
Country: United States of America
Outline: A battalion of the U.S. Army's 77th Division penetrates deep into the Argonne Forest of France during the First World War. The battalion becomes surrounded and holds out for six long days, ...
When the Clouds Roll by
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Albert MacQuarrie, Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau
Country: United States of America
Outline: Psychiatrist Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.
Bumping Into Broadway
Directed by: Hal Roach
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Helen Gilmore
Outline: Young playwright spends his last cent to pay the rent of struggling actress in a theatrical boarding house. Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.
From Hand to Mouth
Directed by: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, 'Snub' Pollard, Peggy Cartwright
Outline: A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.
Nerves
Directed by: Robert Reinert
Starring: Eduard von Winterstein, Lia Borré, Erna Morena, Paul Bender
Country: United States of America
Outline: Doubt and uncertainty ensue when the figurehead of a rebellion goes to court for an alleged rape.
Different from the Others
Directed by: Richard Oswald
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
Blind Husbands
Directed by: Erich von Stroheim
Starring: Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Country: United States of America
Outline: An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
The Adventures of Felix
Directed by: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
Outline: Add a Plot
Wagon Tracks
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer
Starring: William S. Hart, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Lloyd Bacon
Outline: Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Directed by: Hugh Ford
Starring: Marguerite Clark, Mary Carr, Vivia Ogden, Gladys Valerie
Outline: Mrs. Wiggs, a loving mother whose husband has abandoned her, supports her many children and lives in hope of her husband's return.
Victory
Directed by: Maurice Tourneur
Starring: Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Wallace Beery, Ben Deeley
Country: United States of America
Outline: Axel Heyst, an uncommitted wanderer, has settled on an island in the South Seas. He takes pity on a troubled young woman, Lena, and gives her refuge on her island. But the piratical Mr. ...
Scarlet Days
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Eugenie Besserer, Carol Dempster, Clarine Seymour
Outline: A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Directed by: James Cruze
Starring: Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, Harrison Ford, Tully Marshall
Outline: Add a Plot
Captain Kidd's Kids
Directed by: Hal Roach
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Fred C. Newmeyer
Outline: After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Directed by: F. Richard Jones
Starring: Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling, Malcolm St. Clair, Bert Roach
Outline: Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
The Busher
Directed by: Jerome Storm
Starring: Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Jay Morley
Outline: A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge?
The Dragon Painter
Directed by: William Worthington
Starring: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Country: United States of America
Outline: A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
The Sentimental Bloke
Directed by: Raymond Longford
Starring: Arthur Tauchert, Lottie Lyell, Gilbert Emery, Stanley Robinson
Country: United States of America
Outline: A down-at-heal ex-convict undergoes an epiphany as he experiences the love of a good woman for the first time.
Hearts and Flowers
Directed by: Edward F. Cline
Starring: Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Phyllis Haver, Billy Armstrong
Outline: When a hotel orchestra leader starts to flirt with a girl in the audience, her fiancé is very displeased. Then the orchestra leader finds out that the hotel flower girl is really a rich ...
Charlie Butts In
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Outline: The story evolves as the tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night and finds it hard to make it to his room and when he finally does, he could not make it to the bed.
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