#lost films

[charnel-grounds]

Louise Glaum in The Wolf Woman | 1916 | dir. Raymond B. West | Fragments from a lost film

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Theda Bara as Cleopatra (1917)

[noxgothique]

Haus ohne Tür und ohne Fenster - 1922 - Friedrich Feher

[bygone-hollywood]

Theda Bara in the lost film SALOME (1918), dir. J. Gordon Edwards

[toughtalkers]

🎥 1931: The Age For Love starring Billie Dove, Charles Starrett and Lois Wilson. (drama/ romance)

• The story centers on a woman's hesitation regarding motherhood, which causes a rift in her marriage, resulting in the husband seeking a different partner to start a family.

••American pre-Code film, (now lost) it was directed by Frank Lloyd based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Ernest Pascal. The film was a vehicle for Howard Hughes' mistress Billie Dove and was a commercial failure, but this did not stop Hughes funding another film for Billie Dove.

The film's music includes "I'm Chuck Full of Kisses" (music by Alfred Newman, lyrics by screenwriter David Silverstein) and "Just Another Night" (again by Alfred Newman, Con Conrad and David Silverstein). (United Artists)

[nitrateglow]

Okay so this is REALLY EXCITING.

The Cat Creeps is one of those early talkies that has been about 99% lost for decades now. Finding even just a few minutes of footage is really cool, especially considering the film is nearly 100 years old.

For those not in the know, The Cat Creeps is significant as a pivotal piece of horror movie history. It was one of the first horror films with sound and is technically a pre-Dracula Universal Horror movie. I never thought more of it would resurface but here we are. I hope the footage becomes available for viewing at some point.

[chernobog13]

Lon Chaney Sr. as the Man in the Beaver Hat from the silent film London After Midnight (1927), written and directed by Tod Browning (Dracula 1931).

Unfortunately, this is a lost film, as the last known full copy was destroyed in a fire. Luckily for us, numerous excellent stills exist of Chaney in his horrific make-up. The make-up was also painful, as Chaney used wire hoops to give his eyes the bizarre, wide-open appearance.

Browning decided to remake the movie as a "talkie" in 1935 as Mark of the Vampire, starring Bela Lugosi.

[oldfilmsflicker]

Favorite Posters From Lost Silent Films, Part Three

Silent Sundays: It's All Forgotten Now