Lost Treasures - Movies We Miss

by quietgiant2 • Created 7 years ago • Modified 4 months ago

If you can provide data or to know anything about lost films , could access this site: http://www.lost-films.eu/

Other sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lost_films_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lost_American_films

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Film_perduti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_films

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incomplete_or_partially_lost_films

http://www.silentera.com/lost/index.html from A -Z

http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/indexes/index.html

http://filmthreat.com/?s=lost+films

There, a documentary about this theme: Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1885256/

Please, look also this Brittish list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_75_Most_Wanted

REDISCOVERED
P.S.Any movies were found after this list starting__
Too Much Johnson (Orson Welles,1938)
Hello Pop (Jack Cummings,1933)
One Hour with You (Lubitsch,1932)
Paris Bound (Edmund H.Griffith,1929)
The Constant Nymph (Brunel,1928)
Le Tournoi (Renoir, 1928)
The Crimson City (Archie Mayo,1928)
Purity (Rae Berger, 1916)
Salaviinanpolttajat (Puro,1907)
Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes (George Melies, 1896)
Miguel Strogoff (Tourjansky, 1926) can be seen on YouTube
Padlocked (Dwan, 1926) was restored to exhibition in San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2023 https://silentfilm.org/event/padlocked/

And now we brings you with other Good News: http://www.silentsaregolden.com/silentvideolist.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rediscovered_films
And more of them following the list:
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=formerly-lost-film&ref_=tt_stry_kw
Don't forget to visit this, please: https://www.fpa-blackhawk.com/

Note: Please, sign the petition to the George Eastman House at
http://silent-hall-of-fame.org/
Did you know? The Valley of the Giants (Cruze,1919) was considered to be lost until 2010

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1. Murder at Monte Carlo
19351h 10m
7.4 (52)
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
DirectorRalph InceStarsErrol FlynnEve GrayPaul Graetz
2. The Monkey's Paw
193358mPassed
6.6 (127)
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son--a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
DirectorsWesley RugglesErnest B. SchoedsackStarsIvan F. SimpsonLouise CarterC. Aubrey Smith
3. The Light of the World
19312h 4m
6.9 (147)
A period fantasy that told of the ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two rival queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar unsuccessfully tries to seduce the army chief Adil (Vithal) and vengefully destroys his family, leaving his daughter Alam Ara (Zubeida) to be raised by nomads. Eventually, Alam Ara's nomad friends invade the palace, expose Dilbahar's schemes, release Adil from the dungeon and she marries the prince of the realm.
DirectorArdeshir IraniStarsMaster VithalZubeidaJillo
4. Queen of the Night Clubs
19291hPassed
7.4 (26)
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner, her rivals try to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
DirectorBryan FoyStarsTexas GuinanJohn DavidsonLila Lee
5. The Honeymoon
1929
6.9 (81)
"The Wedding March" ended with the marriage between Nikki and the crippled Cecilia takes place. Eberle swears to kills the prince unless Mitzi will agree to marry him. She relents, but at their service, Mitzi faints, which causes Eberle to take off for Nikki's honeymoon lodge to finish him off for good. Mitzi arrives in time to warn Nikki, yet it is Cecilia who jumps in front of the bullet. Eberle is once again taken into custody, and Cecilia, who survives, is told that she must remain absolutely still is she wishes to recover. However, the gentle soul is aware of her husband's love for Mitzi, and she drags herself over to the giant crucifix, where she expires. Nikki then returns to Vienna, but when he finds the wine garden closed he spends a great deal of time at the brothel. When war is declared, he joins the army and is attached to a patrol that is put in charge of destroying a gang of renegades who are terrorizing civilians on the Serbian border. Mitzi has entered the convent of the Sisters of the Bleeding Heart, and when they are attacked by the bandits (one of whom is Eberle), Nikki arrives in time to save his sweetheart from Eberle's lust. They are married at the altar of the convent, and, as Nikki rides off at the head of his troops, he yells, "Nobody can say - we didn't have a lot of music - such as it was."
DirectorErich von StroheimStarsMatthew BetzDale FullerCesare Gravina
pre-form of _ The Wedding March ” - quietgiant2
6. Strange Cargo
19291h 15mPassed
6.8 (56)
Who killed Sir Richard? Where is the body? Was it the surgeon, a criminal, a woman spiritualist, or a brother of the girl he wronged? Find out in this strange story of a strange craft and its stranger cargo on the tropic high seas.
DirectorsBenjamin GlazerArthur GregorStarsLee PatrickJune NashGeorge Barraud
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
19291h 30mPassed
6.6 (69)
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge BancroftOlga BaclanovaNancy Carroll
8. The Case of Lena Smith
19291h 20m
6.3 (59)
In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work in his house as a servant, hiding the truth from his unsympathetic father, while the son returns to his profligate ways. Robbed of her child first when he is a baby, and later when they are separated by the war, she suffers imprisonment, contempt, and shame in order to protect the child.
DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEsther RalstonJames HallGustav von Seyffertitz
9. Barro Humano
1929
DirectorAdhemar GonzagaStarsGracia MorenaLelita RosaEva Schnoor
Human Clay
aka Los Venenos Sexuales
Distribution by Paramount Pictures
10. The Storming of La Sarraz
19291h 30m
6.0 (64)
A farcical war between the forces of Commercial Cinema and Independent Cinema.
DirectorsSergei EisensteinIvor MontaguHans RichterStarsJean-Georges AuriolBéla BalázsJanine Bouissounouse
11. The Five O'Clock Girl
1928
7.8 (64)
"The Five O'Clock Girl" was a successful Broadway play starring Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. Marion Davies' Cosmopolitan Productions bought the rights for the play and filmed it as a feature talkie. The plot revolves around Pat, a shop girl in a cleaners, and a local plumber named Gerry who she falls in love with. Publicity stills from the film show Marion trying on clothes people have brought in for cleaning and doing impersonations of the clothes' owners.
DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMarion DaviesCharles KingGeorge K. Arthur
12. Nix on Dames
19291h 7m
6.3 (41)
Professional acrobats Bert and Johnny are the best of friends. Thay are also confirmed women-hating bachelors. When an injury suddenly sidelines the act, they move to a boarding house that caters to theater folk until they are ready to return to work. There they meet one of the residents, Jackie, a girl who wants to also become an acrobat. Both Bert and Johnny fall for her, and become rivals for her, eventually splitting up their act.
DirectorDonald GallaherStarsMae ClarkeRobert AmesWilliam Harrigan
13. Ladies of the Mob
19281h 6mPassed
6.4 (52)
A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.
DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsClara BowRichard ArlenHelen Lynch
14. The Air Circus
19281h 58m
7.5 (109)
Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
DirectorsHoward HawksLewis SeilerStarsArthur LakeDavid RollinsSue Carol
Hal Erickson states the silent version "was rescued from oblivion in the early 1970s.
15. The Fleet's In
19281h 15mPassed
6.3 (34)
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.
DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsClara BowJames HallJack Oakie
16. The Big City
19281h 10m
6.9 (97)
Rivalry between two gangs of thieves. The sympathetic group reforms; the others are brought to justice.
DirectorTod BrowningStarsLon ChaneyMarceline DayJames Murray
17. Manhattan Cocktail
19281h 12m
6.5 (39)
Babs and Bob leave their small-town life after graduating from college and go to New York in an effort to make the Broadway big time. Mrs. Renov, the wife of a theatrical producer, develops a fondness towards Bob and gets him a part in one of her husband's shows; Renov discovers his wife's infidelity and quickly fires Bob. Renov meets Babs and gives her a part in his show. Fred, Babs' college sweetheart, comes to New York to look for her, and Mrs. Renov turns her attentions to him, feigning interest in one of his plays. Renov hires Fred as his assistant and, suspecting him of philandering, frames him on a forgery charge. Babs goes to Renov to plead for Fred's release, and he attacks her. Bob clubs Renov with an iron bar and, attempting to escape, falls to his death. Unnerved by city life, Babs returns to the small college town where Fred is a professor.
DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsNancy CarrollRichard ArlenDanny O'Shea
18. The Terror
19281h 25m
6.7 (78)
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'
DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMay McAvoyLouise FazendaEdward Everett Horton
19. The Masks of the Devil
19281h 20m
7.1 (85)
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend Manfred. To seduce Virginia, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months.
DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsJohn GilbertAlma RubensTheodore Roberts
20. Sins of the Fathers
19281h 13m
6.5 (35)
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
DirectorLudwig BergerStarsEmil JanningsRuth ChattertonBarry Norton
21. Street of Sin
19281h 10mPassed
6.4 (35)
The story is set in the seamy Soho section of London, where burglar Basher Bill shares bed and board with his sluttish girlfriend Annie. As wicked as they come, Bill softens when he meets virtuous Salvation Army lass Elizabeth.
DirectorsMauritz StillerLudwig BergerLothar MendesStarsEmil JanningsFay WrayOlga Baclanova
22. 4 Devils
19281h 40mPassed
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.
DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsJanet GaynorMary DuncanCharles Morton
23. The Divine Woman
19281h 20m
7.0 (500)
Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations?
DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsGreta GarboLars HansonLowell Sherman
Incomplete
24. The Patriot
19281h 53m
Paul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.
DirectorErnst LubitschStarsEmil JanningsLewis StoneFlorence Vidor
Was it Found?
25. Burning of the Red Lotus Temple
192827h
7.3 (63)
This movie was adapted from a newspaper serial (Strange Tales of the Adventurer in the Wild Country) and released in 18 feature-length parts over a period of 3 years (1928-31). In its entirety it would be 27 hours long.
DirectorShichuan ZhangStarsXiaoqiu ZhengPeizhen XiaLihen Gao