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Arcada Silent Film Night: Robin Hood accompanied live by Jay Warren

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, is the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere, held at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922. It was one of the most expensive films of the 1920s, with a budget estimated at approximately one million dollars. The film was a smash hit! Accompanying the...

Arcada Silent Film Night: Manslaughter accompanied live by Jay Warren

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

Manslaughter is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, and Lois Wilson. It was written by Jeanie MacPherson and is based upon the novel of the same name by Alice Duer Miller. Society-girl thrill seeker Lydia causes the death of a motorcycle policeman and is...

Arcada Silent Film Night: “The White Sister” accompanied live by Jay Warren

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

The White Sister is a 1923 American drama film starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman, directed by Henry King, and released by Metro Pictures. It’s based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Francis Marion Crawford. Angela Chiaromonte (Lillian Gish) and Captain Giovanni Severini (Ronald Colman) are deeply in love, but Angela’s wealthy father, Prince Chiaromonte, does not know this and arranges her...

Arcada Silent Film Night: The Bells accompanied live by Jay Warren

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

BUY NOW The Bells is a 1926 American crime thriller film directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and featuring Boris Karloff. Mathias, an innkeeper with several other businesses, seeks to be burgomaster of a small Austrian hamlet. One evening a Polish Jew enters Mathias’ inn. The man displays a money belt filled with gold, which Mathias, having had...

Arcada Silent Film Night: Hula accompanied live by Jay Warren

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

BUY NOW Hula (1927), based on the novel Hula, a Romance of Hawaii by Armine von Tempski, is an American silent romantic comedy film directed by Victor Fleming. The film stars Clara Bow as Hula Calhoun, who is the daughter of a Hawaiian planter, Bill Calhoun (Albert Gran). She follows the advice of her uncle...

Arcada Silent Film Night: The Phantom of the Opera accompanied live by Jay Warren

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

BUY NOW 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (Phantom of the Opera), directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman...

Laurel and Hardy Film Festival

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

BUY NOW There will be $10 tickets for the film festival only, or $25 tickets that include the film festival as well as a fantastic Italian lunch: Italian Antipasto Salad, Homemade Cheese Ravioli or Penne Pasta with “Sunday” meat Gravy (meatless also available), Ron’s Meatballs, Sausage and Peppers, Garlic Bread and a Cannoli to finish!...

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$10 Silent Comedy Film – The First Auto (1927)

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. His son (Bob), however dreams only of the future of the horseless carriage and not of the horse. This causes problems between Hank and Bob. As the people in the town convert from horses to...

$10 Silent Romantic Comedy Film: Get Your Man (1927)

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!

CANCELLED: $10 Silent Action Comedy Film: The Cameraman (1928)

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INCLIMATE WEATHER Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!

$10 Silent Action Comedy Film: The Battle Of The Sexes (1928)

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly, middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson’s apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and...

$10 Silent Action Comedy Film: Conductor 1492 (1924)

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss’ beautiful daughter. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!

$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: THE BUSHER (1919)

Arcada Theatre 105 E Main St, St. Charles, IL, United States

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? Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!