List of Warner Bros. films (1918–1929) explained
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1918–1929. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". This list does not include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
1910s
1918
1919
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| May 24, 1919 | Open Your Eyes | extant |
| June 1, 1919 | Beware! | extant |
| November 30, 1919 | Speed | Warner's short film; lost film | |
1920s
1920
1921
1922
1923
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| March 4, 1923 | Brass | extant |
| March 15, 1923 | The Tie That Binds | considered lost |
| March 29, 1923 | Little Church Around the Corner | extant |
| April 25, 1923 | Main Street | considered lost. First film to be released after the formal setup of the studio on April 4, 1923 |
| June 18, 1923 | Penrod and Sam | extant |
| July 1, 1923 | Where the North Begins | extant |
| August 19, 1923 | Little Johnny Jones | considered lost |
| August 21, 1923 | The Printer's Devil | considered lost |
| September 22, 1923 | The Gold Diggers | Incomplete; Reels 2, 3 & the first few minutes of reel 6 remain missing. |
| November 4, 1923 | The Country Kid | extant |
| December 8, 1923 | Lucretia Lombard | incomplete; reel 2 damaged |
| December 9, 1923 | Tiger Rose | abridged/incomplete. Warners' most expensive film to date with a cost of $436,000 |
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1924
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| January 12, 1924 | Conductor 1492 | extant |
| February 2, 1924 | George Washington Jr. | considered lost |
| February 9, 1924 | Daddies | extant |
| February 10, 1924 | The Marriage Circle | extant |
| March 30, 1924 | Beau Brummel | extant |
| May 1, 1924 | How to Educate a Wife | considered lost |
| May 31, 1924 | Broadway After Dark | distributed only; considered lost |
| June 15, 1924 | Babbitt | considered lost |
| July 1, 1924 | Being Respectable | considered lost |
| July 24, 1924 | Her Marriage Vow | survives, Filmarchiv Austria |
| August 1, 1924 | Cornered | considered lost |
| August 10, 1924 | Lover's Lane | considered lost |
| August 25, 1924 | The Tenth Woman | considered lost |
| September 1, 1924 | Find Your Man | extant |
| October 19, 1924 | Three Women | extant |
| October 1924 | This Woman | extant |
| November 1, 1924 | The Age of Innocence | considered lost |
| November 16, 1924 | The Lover of Camille | survives, Film Archive Austria, Wien |
| November 26, 1924 | The Dark Swan | considered lost |
| December 1, 1924 | The Lighthouse by the Sea | survives, many archival holdings |
| December 18, 1924 | A Lost Lady | considered lost |
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1925
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| January 1, 1925 | The Bridge of Sighs | survives, Archives Du Film Du CNC, Bois d'Arcy |
| January 11, 1925 | The Narrow Street | incomplete |
| March 15, 1925 | On Thin Ice | lost film |
| March 29, 1925 | A Broadway Butterfly | lost film |
| April 26, 1925 | Recompense | lost film |
| May 16, 1925 | My Wife and I | lost film |
| June 7, 1925 | The Man Without a Conscience | survives, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen |
| July 6, 1925 | Eve's Lover | lost film |
| July 13, 1925 | Tracked in the Snow Country | survives, Cinemateket-Svenska Film institutet, Stockholm |
| July 25, 1925 | How Baxter Butted In | lost film |
| August 1, 1925 | Kiss Me Again | lost film |
| August 6, 1925 | The Woman Hater | lost film |
| September 5, 1925 | The Limited Mail | survives, several archive holdings |
| September 12, 1925 | The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted | lost film |
| September 19, 1925 | His Majesty, Bunker Bean | survives, incomplete/abridged version UCLA Film and TV Archive |
| September 26, 1925 | Below the Line | survives, incomplete/abridged version |
| October 11, 1925 | The Man on the Box | survives, George Eastman and UCLA Film and Television Archive |
| October 24, 1925 | Compromise | lost film |
| October 25, 1925 | Bobbed Hair | survives, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona |
| October 31, 1925 | Red Hot Tires | survives, Library of Congress |
| November 7, 1925 | Seven Sinners | survives |
| November 14, 1925 | Satan in Sables | survives, Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
| November 21, 1925 | Rose of the World | lost film |
| November 28, 1925 | The Clash of the Wolves | survives, several archive holdings |
| December 5, 1925 | Three Weeks in Paris | lost film |
| December 12, 1925 | Hogan's Alley | survives, incomplete/abridged print |
| December 19, 1925 | Pleasure Buyers | survives, Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
| December 26, 1925 | Lady Windermere's Fan | survives, many archive holdings |
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1926
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| January 8, 1926 | The Fighting Edge | lost film |
| January 15, 1926 | His Jazz Bride | lost film |
| The Sea Beast | survives, many archive holdings. Warners' most expensive film to date with a cost of $503,000 but also the highest grossing film to date surpassing School Days with worldwide rentals of $938,000 |
| January 22, 1926 | The Man Upstairs | lost film |
| January 30, 1926 | The Golden Cocoon | lost film |
| February 6, 1926 | The Caveman | survives, incomplete with only one reel missing |
| February 13, 1926 | The Love Toy | lost film |
| February 20, 1926 | Bride of the Storm | lost film |
| February 27, 1926 | The Night Cry | survives, many archive holdings[2] |
| March 1, 1926 | Why Girls Go Back Home | lost film |
| March 6, 1926 | The Little Irish Girl | lost film |
| March 7, 1926 | Oh! What a Nurse! | survives, many archive holdings[3] |
| March 13, 1926 | The Gilded Highway | lost film |
| March 17, 1926 | Other Women's Husbands | lost film |
| March 20, 1926 | The Sap | lost film |
| May 1, 1926 | Hell-Bent for Heaven | lost film |
| May 14, 1926 | Silken Shackles | lost film |
| May 15, 1926 | The Social Highwayman | survives, Cineteca Italiana, Milan, Italy |
| June 19, 1926 | Footloose Widows | survives, Library of Congress |
| July 10, 1926 | The Passionate Quest | survives, Library of Congress and Filmmuseum Nederland (EYE Institut) |
| July 24, 1926 | A Hero of the Big Snows | survives, many archival copies |
| July 31, 1926 | So This Is Paris | extant |
| August 6, 1926 | Don Juan | Synchronized score; survives, many archival copies. Warners' most expensive film to date with a cost of $546,000 but also the highest grossing film to date surpassing The Sea Beast with worldwide rentals of $1,693,000 |
| August 14, 1926 | Broken Hearts of Hollywood | Synchronized score; survives, Library of Congress, Academy Film Archive (Beverly Hills) |
| September 2, 1926 | The Honeymoon Express | lost film |
| October 1, 1926 | Millionaires | lost film |
| October 2, 1926 | Across the Pacific | lost film |
| October 16, 1926 | My Official Wife | lost film |
| October 23, 1926 | The Better 'Ole | synchronized score; survives, several archival copies |
| October 30, 1926 | Private Izzy Murphy | lost film |
| November 27, 1926 | While London Sleeps | lost film |
| December 1, 1926 | The Third Degree | survives, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Center For Film and Theater Research |
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1927
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| January 8, 1927 | Finger Prints | lost film |
| January 15, 1927 | Wolf's Clothing | lost film |
| January 18, 1927 | The Fortune Hunter | lost film |
| January 22, 1927 | Don't Tell the Wife | lost film |
| February 19, 1927 | Hills of Kentucky | incomplete/abridged; Kodascope |
| February 26, 1927 | The Gay Old Bird | lost film |
| March 19, 1927 | White Flannels | lost film |
| March 20, 1927 | What Every Girl Should Know | lost film |
| April 9, 1927 | Matinee Ladies | lost film |
| April 23, 1927 | Bitter Apples | synchronized score; lost film |
| April 30, 1927 | The Brute | lost film |
| May 7, 1927 | Tracked by the Police | survives, Library of Congress and the George Eastman House |
| May 14, 1927 | The Climbers | lost film |
| May 21, 1927 | Irish Hearts | lost film |
| May 22, 1927 | The Missing Link | survives, several archive copies |
| May 28, 1927 | A Million Bid | survives, Library of Congress |
| June 1, 1927 | Simple Sis | lost film |
| June 4, 1927 | The Black Diamond Express | lost film |
| June 18, 1927 | Dearie | lost film |
| June 25, 1927 | What Happened to Father? | lost film |
| July 23, 1927 | The Heart of Maryland | Incomplete |
| August 20, 1927 | The Bush Leaguer | lost film |
| August 21, 1927 | When a Man Loves | synchronized score; survives, George Eastman House, Filmoteca Española (Madrid) |
| August 27, 1927 | The Desired Woman | lost film |
| September 3, 1927 | Slightly Used | lost film |
| September 4, 1927 | Old San Francisco | synchronized score; survives, George Eastman House, Library of Congress |
| September 10, 1927 | Jaws of Steel | survives, Filmmuseum Nederlands (EYE Institut) |
| September 17, 1927 | One-Round Hogan | lost film |
| September 18, 1927 | The First Auto | synchronized score; survives, Library of Congress |
| September 24, 1927 | A Sailor's Sweetheart | survives, BFI National Film and Television |
| October 6, 1927 | The Jazz Singer | First part-talking feature. Warners' highest grossing film to date surpassing Don Juan with worldwide rentals of $2,625,000 |
| October 8, 1927 | Sailor Izzy Murphy | lost film |
| October 15, 1927 | The College Widow | lost film |
| October 22, 1927 | A Reno Divorce | lost film |
| October 29, 1927 | A Dog of the Regiment | lost film |
| November 5, 1927 | Good Time Charley | extant |
| November 12, 1927 | The Silver Slave | lost film |
| November 19, 1927 | The Girl from Chicago | lost film |
| November 26, 1927 | Ginsberg the Great | synchronized score; lost film |
| December 3, 1927 | Brass Knuckles | survives, Cineteca Nazionale, Rome |
| December 17, 1927 | If I Were Single | survives, BFI National Film and Television Archive |
| December 24, 1927 | Ham and Eggs at the Front | extant |
| December 31, 1927 | Husbands for Rent | lost film |
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1928
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| January 14, 1928 | Beware of Married Men | survives, incomplete fragment of only 1 reel, UCLA Film and Television Archive (Los Angeles) |
| January 28, 1928 | A Race for Life | extant |
| February 11, 1928 | The Little Snob | part-talking; lost film |
| February 25, 1928 | Across the Atlantic | part-talking; considered lost |
| March 10, 1928 | Powder My Back | considered lost |
| March 14, 1928 | Tenderloin | part-talking; lost film |
| March 28, 1928 | Domestic Troubles | considered lost |
| April 7, 1928 | The Crimson City | extant |
| April 21, 1928 | Rinty of the Desert | considered lost |
| April 26, 1928 | Glorious Betsy | part-talking |
| May 12, 1928 | Pay as You Enter | considered lost |
| May 21, 1928 | The Lion and the Mouse | part-talking |
| May 26, 1928 | Five and Ten Cent Annie | part-talking; survives BFI National Film and Television, London |
| July 18, 1928 | Lights of New York | First all-talking feature |
| August 11, 1928 | Women They Talk About | part-talking; lost film |
| August 25, 1928 | Caught in the Fog | part-talking; survives, BFI National Film and Television Archive, London |
| August 25, 1928 | State Street Sadie | part-talking; lost film |
| September 1, 1928 | The Midnight Taxi | part-talking; survives, BfI National Film and Television Archive, London |
| September 6, 1928 | The Terror | all-talking; lost film |
| September 9, 1928 | Night Watch | extant |
| September 16, 1928 | Waterfront | extant |
| September 19, 1928 | The Singing Fool | part-talking. Warners' highest grossing film to date surpassing The Jazz Singer with worldwide rentals of $5,916,000 |
| September 23, 1928 | Show Girl | extant |
| October 14, 1928 | Do Your Duty | lost film |
| October 18, 1928 | Land of the Silver Fox | part-talking; extant, George Eastman |
| October 18, 1928 | Lilac Time | extant |
| October 27, 1928 | Beware of Bachelors | part-talking; film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C |
| November 1, 1928 | Noah's Ark | part-talking. Warners' first film to cost over $1 million. |
| November 3, 1928 | The Home Towners | all-talking; lost film |
| November 4, 1928 | The Haunted House | Unclear |
| November 11, 1928 | Outcast | extant |
| December 1, 1928 | On Trial | all-talking; lost film |
| December 2, 1928 | Adoration | extant |
| December 8, 1928 | The Little Wildcat | part-talking; lost film |
| December 9, 1928 | The Barker | survives, Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
| December 15, 1928 | My Man | part-talking; lost film |
| December 22, 1928 | Conquest | all-talking; lost film |
| December 26, 1928 | The Ware Case | extant |
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1929
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|
| January 6, 1929 | Synthetic Sin | synchronized score |
| January 12, 1929 | Cheyenne | synchronized score; lost film |
| January 12, 1929 | Scarlet Seas | extant |
| January 26, 1929 | Fancy Baggage | part-talking; lost film |
| January 27, 1929 | Seven Footprints to Satan | synchronized score |
| February 2, 1929 | Stark Mad | released in both an all-talking version and a silent version; lost film |
| February 3, 1929 | His Captive Woman | part-talking |
| February 9, 1929 | The Greyhound Limited | part-talking |
| The Million Dollar Collar | part-talking; lost film |
| February 10, 1929 | Weary River | part-talking |
| February 16, 1929 | The Redeeming Sin | part-talking; lost film |
| February 17, 1929 | The Lawless Legion | synchronized score; lost film |
| The Royal Rider | synchronized score; lost film |
| February 23, 1929 | Stolen Kisses | part-talking; lost film |
| February 28, 1929 | Why Be Good? | synchronized score |
| March 3, 1929 | Children of the Ritz | considered lost |
| March 10, 1929 | Saturday's Children | part-talking; lost film |
| March 16, 1929 | One Stolen Night | part-talking; lost film |
| March 23, 1929 | Kid Gloves | part-talking; extant at GEH |
| March 24, 1929 | Queen of the Night Clubs | all-talking; lost film |
| March 24, 1929 | Love and the Devil | extant |
| March 30, 1929 | Hardboiled Rose | part-talking; lost film |
| March 31, 1929 | The Divine Lady | synchronized score |
| April 6, 1929 | No Defense | part-talking; lost film |
| April 8, 1929 | The Desert Song | all-talking; part Technicolor; Warner's first color film |
| April 18, 1929 | Sonny Boy | all-talking; lost film |
| April 20, 1929 | Frozen River | part-talking; lost film |
| April 27, 1929 | From Headquarters | part-talking; lost film |
| April 28, 1929 | House of Horror | part-talking; considered lost |
| May 4, 1929 | Glad Rag Doll | part-talking; lost film |
| May 5, 1929 | Hot Stuff | part-talking; considered lost |
| May 9, 1929 | The Squall | all-talking |
| May 12, 1929 | Two Weeks Off | part-talking; lost film |
| May 19, 1929 | Prisoners | part-talking; lost film |
| May 23, 1929 | The Flying Scotsman | part-talking; produced by British International Pictures and WB British |
| June 2, 1929 | Careers | all-talking; lost film |
| June 22, 1929 | Madonna of Avenue A | all-talking; lost film |
| June 23, 1929 | The Girl in the Glass Cage | part-talking; lost film |
| June 29, 1929 | The Gamblers | all-talking; lost film |
| June 30, 1929 | Broadway Babies | all-talking |
| July 7, 1929 | The Man and the Moment | part-talking; lost film |
| July 8, 1929 | The Time, the Place and the Girl | all-talking; lost film |
| July 13, 1929 | On with the Show! | all-talking; all Technicolour; Warner's first all-colour film |
| July 14, 1929 | Twin Beds | all-talking; lost film |
| July 21, 1929 | Drag | all-talking |
| July 28, 1929 | Smiling Irish Eyes | all-talking; Technicolour segments; lost film |
| August 4, 1929 | Hard to Get | all-talking; lost film |
| August 10, 1929 | The Hottentot | all-talking; lost film |
| August 11, 1929 | Dark Streets | all-talking; lost film |
| August 17, 1929 | The Argyle Case | all-talking; lost film |
| August 24, 1929 | Say It with Songs | all-talking; Incomplete |
| August 25, 1929 | Her Private Life | all-talking; lost film |
| August 30, 1929 | Gold Diggers of Broadway | all-talking; all Technicolor; lost film |
| August 31, 1929 | Honky Tonk | all-talking; lost film |
| In the Headlines | all-talking; lost film |
| September 1, 1929 | Fast Life | all-talking; lost film |
| September 7, 1929 | Skin Deep | all-talking; lost film |
| September 14, 1929 | Hearts in Exile | all-talking; lost film |
| September 15, 1929 | The Careless Age | all-talking; lost film |
| The Great Divide | all-talking |
| September 22, 1929 | A Most Immoral Lady | all-talking; lost film |
| October 16, 1929 | The Isle of Lost Ships | all-talking |
| October 17, 1929 | So Long Letty | all-talking |
| October 19, 1929 | Is Everybody Happy? | all-talking; lost film |
| October 20, 1929 | Young Nowheres | all-talking; lost film |
| October 27, 1929 | The Girl from Woolworth's | all-talking; lost film |
| November 1, 1929 | Disraeli | All-talking; Academy Award nominee for Best Picture; Incomplete |
| November 7, 1929 | Paris | all-talking; part Technicolor; lost film |
| November 8, 1929 | Footlights and Fools | all-talking; lost film |
| November 9, 1929 | The Sap | part-talking; lost film |
| November 10, 1929 | The Forward Pass | all-talking; lost film |
| November 17, 1929 | Little Johnny Jones | all-talking; lost film |
| November 24, 1929 | The Sacred Flame | all-talking; lost film |
| December 1, 1929 | The Painted Angel | all-talking; lost film |
| December 5, 1929 | Evidence | all-talking; lost film |
| December 8, 1929 | The Love Racket | all-talking; lost film |
| December 14, 1929 | The Aviator | all-talking; lost film |
| December 21, 1929 | Tiger Rose | all-talking |
| December 29, 1929 | The Show of Shows | all-talking; part Technicolour |
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See also
Notes and References
- H Mark . Glancy . Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . 15 . 1995. 55–73 . 10.1080/01439689500260031 .
- Web site: Night Cry. 19 September 2018. lcweb2.loc.gov.
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7935/default.html Oh, What A Nurse; Library of Congress Database
