Crooked Straight

A Jerome Storm film directed by , released in 1919.

A Jerome Storm film directed by , released in 1919.

Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father’s debt to Bruce Cartwright.

Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that…

Idealistic young American falls under the influence of Communist agitators.

This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on…
Brother Bill is a 1919 silent Western

A Frank Keenan film directed by , released in 1919.

A Ernest Traxler film directed by , released in 1919.

Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides…

Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won’t work.