1922 Movies

Comic hijinks on a pirate ship with British comedian Lupino Lane.

Dissolute Abel Beer, with the help of his debt collector friends - usurers, swindles a Prague Doctor Jakub Hlohovský out of a quiet house in Malá Strana. Jakub, familiar with the secrets and effects of various medicines, uses them to make himself look dead.

Grace Darmond, who had made quite a splash in the 1921 (and still extant) serial The Hope Diamond Mystery, returned to the Saturday matinees as Marjorie Stanton, the treasure-hunting damsel-in-distress of A Dangerous Adventure, produced in 15 chapters and dire...

A decline in family fortunes forces Bill to become a racing car driver. His wife, Pam, has been carrying on a bold flirtation with a wily philanderer, who, tiring of her, turns his attention to a younger girl.

The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the elegant guests is deprived of her jewelry.

This film tells two independent stories from the Mahabharata. The first part features the princess Savitri, who stands by her husband, the woodcutter Satyavan, when he is marked by Yama, the god of Death. When Yama fulfills his prophecy and takes away Satyavan...

An Aesop’s Fables animated short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

Released in 1922.

Tillie Getz, the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz, a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighte...

Despite some damage to the original nitrate film stock, this film of the fighting in Dublin between the forces of the Free State and rebels holed up in the Four Courts building is as remarkable as the Topical Budget newsreel's claims for it. Never before had a...

A 1922 documentary.

A Don Quixote-esque knight drinks too much, then tries to fool his wife with tales of his heroic adventures. The graceful animation of the cutout figures plays nicely against the silliness of the story

Silent cartoon.