Jack Pickford – MRQE

Home, Sweet Home

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

The End of the World

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gang War

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss “Blackjack” is also in love with her. “Blackjack” is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.

Tom Sawyer

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).

The Bat

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

Exit Smiling

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company.

Brown of Harvard

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor’s daughter.

The Goose Woman

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.

Waking Up the Town

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope’s granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can’t get any financing from the town banker.

The Hill Billy

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jed is a hillbilly in love with pretty Emmy Lou who is forced into marriage with her dreadful cousin Aaron. Jed interrupts the marriage and Aaron is accidently shot. Jed stands trial for the murder but is acquitted when almost everyone admits to the murder.