Movies: Josef Swickard

To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsuspecting, look-alike cousin, Jack Burton, to impersonate him for a month....

Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at ...

Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it all by jumping into the Seine. Instead, he lands in a passing boat owned by the Countess Elvire. Falling in love with his savior, Alfred returns the compli...

Charles Murray out romancing in the park....

In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the situation....

The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his innocence as he is accused of killing a major with whom he had a feud over money....

Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store....

Keystone silent comedy....

Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American....

Cinematographer Ray Rennahan utilized the two-strip Technicolor process for this film, but either surviving prints have faded or the color palette was limited in the first place, for generally we see only muddy reds, dim greens, and occasional splash...

Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets out to find who's behind it....

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1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some pieces are no longer extant (half of chapters 3&6, all of 7, 8, and 9, and the beginning of the 10t...

Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman....