1923 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1923, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Scaramouche
Directed by: Rex Ingram
Starring: Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone
Country: United States of America
Outline: When a nobleman murders his best friend, a lawyer becomes a revolutionary with his heart set on vengeance.
Adam's Rib
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Milton Sills, Elliott Dexter, Theodore Kosloff, Anna Q. Nilsson
Country: United States of America
Outline: Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
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Little Old New York
Directed by: Sidney Olcott
Starring: Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan, Harrison Ford
Country: United States of America
Outline: An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Zaza
Directed by: Allan Dwan
Starring: Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Lucille La Verne
Country: United States of America
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Our Hospitality
Directed by: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts
Country: United States of America
Outline: A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
The Extra Girl
Directed by: F. Richard Jones
Starring: Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, George Nichols, Anna Dodge
Country: United States of America
Outline: Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives ...
La roue
Directed by: Abel Gance
Starring: Séverin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier
Country: United States of America
Outline: Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (who Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter), with tragic results. Originally ...
Souls for Sale
Directed by: Rupert Hughes
Starring: Eleanor Boardman, Frank Mayo, Richard Dix, Mae Busch
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Where the North Begins
Directed by: Chester M. Franklin
Starring: Rin Tin Tin, Claire Adams, Fred Huntley, Walter McGrail
Country: United States of America
Outline: A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the ...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Directed by: Wallace Worsley
Starring: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester
Country: United States of America
Outline: In fifteenth century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen.
La maison du mystère
Directed by: Alexandre Volkoff
Starring: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Charles Vanel, Hélène Darly, Francine Mussey
Outline: Film composed of 10 episodes: 1.- L'Ami felon. 2.- Le secret de L'etang. 3.- L'Ambition au service de la haine. 4.- L'Implacable verdict. 5.- Le Pont vivant. 6.- La Voix du sang. 7.- Les ...
Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske
Directed by: Max Glass
Starring: Albert Bassermann, Bruno Decarli, Vladimir Gajdarov, Helga Molander
Country: United States of America
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Three Ages
Directed by: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe Roberts
Country: United States of America
Outline: The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott
Country: United States of America
Outline: A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.
The White Sister
Directed by: Henry King
Starring: Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane, J. Barney Sherry
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, but things get complicated when he returns alive.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Directed by: Augusto Genina
Starring: Pierre Magnier, Linda Moglia, Angelo Ferrari, Maurice Schutz
Country: United States of America
Outline: Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him ...
Soul of the Beast
Directed by: John Griffith Wray
Starring: Madge Bellamy, Cullen Landis, Noah Beery, Vola Vale
Outline: Ruth, a young girl, runs away from an abusive stepfather, who owns a circus, and takes the circus' trained elephant--her only friend--with her. She winds up in a logging camp in the ...
The Covered Wagon
Directed by: James Cruze
Starring: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale, Ernest Torrence
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and ...
Merry-Go-Round
Directed by: Rupert Julian, Erich von Stroheim
Starring: Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Cesare Gravina, Edith Yorke
Country: United States of America
Outline: A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
Bed Time
Directed by: Kyle Kleege
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The Shock
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer
Starring: Lon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh
Country: United States of America
Outline: A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
Slow as Lightning
Directed by: Grover Jones
Starring: Kenneth MacDonald, Billy 'Red' Jones, Edna Pennington, Gordon Sackville
Outline: This silent western drama from Sunset Productions stars Kenneth MacDonald (The Coast Patrol, Dynamite Dan), Billy "Red" Jones (Sparrows, The Phantom Flyer), and Gordon Sackville (The Best ...
False Alarm
Directed by: Nick Lyell
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Go West
Directed by: Edward Buzzell
Outline: A short film with an all animal cast about a young chimp who is kicked out of his home by his parents and heads west to make his fortune.
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