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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...
Experience the magic of Silent Cinema at the Arcada Theatre this Saturday during the St. Charles Art Show. Live accompaniment by Jay Warren on the historic Arcada Pipe Organ.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
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!
An inept Secret Service agent goes undercover as a mailman to catch a notorious criminal and impress his father, his boss. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
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!
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...
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!
A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
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!
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney’s butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.
Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
A southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.
Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn’t know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren! Buy Now SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR ROB KOZLOWSKI WILL BE IN THEATRE LOBBY SELLING HIS BOOKS!!! ...