List of lost silent films (1925–1929) explained

This is a list of lost silent films that were released from 1925 to 1929.

Year Film Director Cast Notes Ref
1925 Ace of Spades A 15-part Western serial. [1]
The Adventurous Sex Six reels, 58–60 minutes. [2]
Corazón Aymara Pedro Sambarino First Bolivian fiction feature film. [3]
The Dark Angel Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1925. [4]
The Fighting Heart [5]
The Fighting Ranger A Western serial with 18 episodes. [6]
The Great Circus Mystery A 15-chapter serial. [7]
Heartbound Glen Lambert Ranger Bill Miller, Bess True An early 3D film (see List of 3D films pre-2005). [8]
His Supreme Moment Some sequences had 2 strip Technicolor. [9]
Idaho A ten-part serial. [10]
Kiss Me Again Warner Bros. popular film. [11]
The Lawful Cheater [12]
A Man of Iron Whitman Bennett [13]
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (One Does Not Play with Love) [14]
New Brooms [15]
Perils of the Wild Joe Bonomo, Margaret Quimby A serial consisting of 15 episodes. [16]
Play Ball A ten-part serial. [17]
The Prophecy of the Lake Second completed Bolivian fiction feature film; banned and never released.
The Scarlet Streak A serial of ten episodes. [18]
That Royle Girl Griffith used 24 airplane propellers to create a tornado sequence. [19] [20]
Thank You [21]
A Thief in Paradise [22]
The Tower of Lies [23]
We Moderns A sequel to Moore's Flaming Youth of 1923. [24]
Wild Justice
Wild West A ten-chapter serial. [25]
1926 Arirang Na Woon-gyu A copy of this Korean film was rumored to have been in the possession of a Japanese collector who died in February 2005. [26]
The Bar-C Mystery A ten-part Western serial. [27]
The Boy Friend [28]
The Cat's Pajamas [29]
The Dice Woman Edward Dillon, Edmund F. Bernoudy [30]
The Fighting Marine Gene Tunney, Marjorie Day A ten-episode serial. [31]
Fighting with Buffalo Bill [32]
The Great Gatsby Only a minute-long trailer has survived. Despite extensive searches for the film and rumours of surviving copies existing in obscure archives, no other trace of the film has been found. [33]
Gwiaździsta eskadra Barbara Orwid A story of Americans in the Polish 7th Air Escadrille fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War in 1918–1920. All copies were stolen or destroyed by the Soviet Army after 1945. [34] [35]
Hearts and Fists [36]
London It is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of missing British feature films. [37]
Meet the Prince [38]
The Radio Detective William James Craft, William A. Crinley Jack Dougherty, Margaret Quimby A serial of ten episodes. [39]
The Road to Glory Hawks's first official film as a director. [40]
Snowed In A ten-episode serial. [41]
A Social Celebrity In 1957, one print deteriorated, and later another was lost in a fire. [42]
Stop, Look and Listen [43]
Strings of Steel [44]
Sweeney Todd G.A. Baughan The first of several film adaptations of the Sweeney Todd character. [45]
Swell Hogan Ralph Graves The first film produced by Howard Hughes, who hated the film and may have ordered it destroyed.[46]
A Trip to Chinatown [47]
The Winking Idol A Western serial in ten parts. [48]
A Woman of the Sea Produced by Charlie Chaplin, he destroyed it in 1933 as a tax write-off. Production stills survive. [49] [50]
1927 data-sort-value="American, The" The American Made in the experimental widescreen process Natural Vision. Never released theatrically. [51]
Babe Comes Home Babe Ruth stars as himself in this feature-length comedy. [52]
Blake of Scotland Yard A 12-episode serial. [53]
Broadway Nights Joseph C. Boyle A silent romantic drama film. [54]
The Broncho Twister [55] [56]
The Callahans and the Murphys This film caused some controversy because of its stereotypical depiction of Irish people. MGM withdrew the picture from distribution. [57]
The Chinese Parrot [58]
The City Gone Wild Early gangster film, with titles by Herman J. Mankiewicz. [59]
The Conjure Woman [60]
The Devil Dancer [61]
Evening Clothes [62]
The Fire Fighters A ten-chapter serial. [63]
For the Love of Mike Colbert's film debut. [64]
The Gateway of the Moon [65]
Gua ming de fu qi (A Couple in Name Only)
data-sort-value="Harp in Hock" A Harp in Hock Renaud Hoffman [66]
Hats Off [67]
The Heart of the Yukon [68]
Heebee Jeebees Our Gang

(Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Jackie Condon, Harry Spear, Jean Darling, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Pete the Pup)

[69]
Heroes of the Wild A ten-episode serial. [70]
The House Behind the Cedars Shingzie Howard, Lawrence Chenault, C. D. Griffith A race film, it was banned in Virginia. [71]
London After Midnight Chaney played both the villain, and the detective hunting him. Reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script. Last known print destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. [72]
The Magic Flame [73] [74]
The Masked Menace Arch Heath Filmed in Berlin, New Hampshire. [75]
Melting Millions A ten-episode serial. [76]
The Mountain Eagle The film was poorly received and criticised for its lack of realism, and Hitchcock himself was relieved that the film was lost. [77] [78] [79]
Mumsie [80]
On Guard Arch Heath Cullen Landis, Muriel Kingston A ten-part serial. [81]
The Potters [82]
Rolled Stockings The film features the Paramount Junior stars, and was filmed in Berkeley, California. [83]
The Story of the Flag Anson Dyer The first full-length British animated film, it is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. [84]
Sword of Penitence Saburō Azuma Ozu's first film as director.
Taxi! Taxi! [85]
Tip Toes On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. [86]
The Gay Defender
The Trail of the Tiger Jack Dougherty, Frances Teague A serial in ten parts. [87]
Two Flaming Youths [88]
Yale vs. HarvardRobert F. McGowanOur Gang

(Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Jackie Condon, Harry Spear, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jean Darling, Pete the Pup)

Earliest Our Gang film to be entirely lost.[89]
1928 Anybody Here Seen Kelly? [90]
The Awakening [91]
What Price Beauty? Film was shot in May 1925, but not released until January 1928 due to distribution issues. Notable for being Myrna Loy's debut.
The Actress Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. [92]
Baiyun Ta (The White Cloud Pagoda)
The Big City Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. A trailer survives, but it does not include any footage from the film. [93]
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple Considered to be one of the longest films ever made, released in 19 parts from 1928 to 1931 with a total running time of 27 hours. Notable for being the first martial arts film.
The Czarina's Secret Technicolor short subject, part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. [94]
The Drag Net [95]
Dry Martini [96]
Edison, Marconi & Co. Our Gang

(Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jay R. Smith, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Harry Spear, Jackie Condon, Pete the Pup)

[97]
The Fleet's In With talking sequences and sound effects. [98]
4 Devils Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1928. [99] [100]
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The first version of the Anita Loos story. [101]
Growing Pains Our Gang[102]
The Hawk's Nest [103]
Ladies of the Mob [104]
The Last Moment Experimental silent film told without subtitles. [105]
The Legion of the Condemned [106]
Mark of the Frog Arch Heath A ten-episode serial. [107]
Napoleon's Barber Otto Matieson, Natalie Golitzen [108]
Pirates of the Pines J. C. Cook George O'Hara, Rita Roma A serial with ten episodes. [109]
A Princess of Destiny Anders Randolf, Doris Lloyd, Dorothy Gould, Lloyd Ingraham, Fairfax Burger Technicolor short subject, part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. [110]
Street of Sin [111]
Tarzan the Mighty The seventh Tarzan movie produced. [112]
Thérèse Raquin [113]
The Vanishing Rider A serial of 12 parts. [114]
The Vanishing West A ten-episode serial. [115]
Vultures of the Sea A serial with ten chapters. [116]
The Yellow Cameo [117]
1929 Barro Humano [118]
The Case of Lena Smith Silent film withdrawn from circulation when talkies began to dominate. Only a 4-minute clip is known to exist.
The Crooked Billet On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. [119]
The Diamond Master A ten-part serial. [120]
The Fatal Warning Twelve-part mystery serial released by Mascot Pictures. [121]
The Fire Detective Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey Gladys McConnell, Hugh Allan A serial with ten episodes. [122]
Frontier Romance The last of twelve short films produced in Technicolor as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series. .[123]
The Holy Terror Our Gang[124]
The Last Post John Longden, Frank Vosper, Cynthia Murtagh On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. [125]
The Pirate of Panama A serial in 12 parts. [126]
The Wages of Sin William A. Clayton, Jr., Bessie Givens A race movie with an all-black cast. [127]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ace of Spades . silentera.com . February 23, 2013.
  2. Web site: The Adventurous Sex . silentera.com . February 24, 2013. The book ["Reinassance films"]
  3. Book: Himpele, Jeff D. . Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes . 2008 . U of Minnesota Press . 978-0-8166-3918-2 . 100 . March 25, 2013.
  4. Web site: The Dark Angel. silentera.com . February 20, 2010.
  5. Web site: The Fighting Heart . silentera.com . June 21, 2008.
  6. Web site: The Fighting Ranger . silentera.com . March 1, 2013.
  7. Web site: The Great Circus Mystery . silentera.com . March 2, 2013.
  8. Web site: Heartbound . silentera.com . March 3, 2013.
  9. Web site: His Supreme Moment . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  10. Web site: Idaho . silentera.com . March 4, 2013.
  11. Web site: Kiss Me Again . silentera.com . March 4, 2013.
  12. Web site: Lawful Cheaters . silentera.com . March 4, 2013.
  13. Web site: The Iron Man . silentera.com . March 4, 2013.
  14. Web site: Man Spielt Nicht mit der Liebe . silentera.com . March 5, 2013.
  15. Web site: American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: New Brooms. The Library of Congress.
  16. Web site: Perils of the Wild . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  17. Web site: Play Ball . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  18. Web site: The Scarlet Streak . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  19. Book: Thompson, Frank . Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared . 1996 . Citadel Press . 0-8065-1604-6 .
  20. Web site: That Royle Girl . silentera.com . March 2, 2013.
  21. Web site: Thank You . silentera.com . March 8, 2013.
  22. Web site: A Thief in Paradise . silentera.com . March 8, 2013.
  23. Web site: The Tower of Lifes. silentera.com . March 8, 2013.
  24. Web site: We Moderns . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  25. Web site: Wild West . silentera.com . March 11, 2013.
  26. News: Collector's Death May Free Long-Lost Korean Classic Film . . June 27, 2008.
  27. Web site: The Bar-C Mystery . silentera.com . February 25, 2013.
  28. Web site: The Boy Friend . silentera.com . February 25, 2013.
  29. Web site: The Cat's Pajamas . silentera.com . June 27, 2008.
  30. Web site: The Cat's Pajamas . silentera.com . August 4, 2016.
  31. Web site: The Fighting Marine . silentera.com . March 1, 2013.
  32. Web site: Fighting with Buffalo Bill . silentera.com . March 1, 2013.
  33. Dixon . Wheeler Winston . Wheeler Winston Dixon . 2003 . The Three Film Versions of The Great Gatsby: A Vision Deferred . Literature Film Quarterly . March 9, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130605175223/http://www.questia.com/library/1P3-522127521/the-three-film-versions-of-the-great-gatsby-a-vision . June 5, 2013.
  34. Web site: Gwiaździsta eskadra . . March 25, 2013.
  35. Web site: Gwiaździsta Eskadra. pl . Filmweb.pl . August 8, 2012.
  36. Web site: Hearts and Fists (1926). .
  37. Web site: London / BFI Most Wanted . British Film Institute . 11 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120803092653/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/london.html . 3 August 2012 . dead .
  38. Web site: The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Meet the Prince. The Library of Congress.
  39. Web site: The Radio Detective . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  40. McCarthy, Todd. Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood. Grove Press. 1997. p. 68.
  41. Web site: Snowed In . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  42. Web site: A Social Celebrity . silentera.com . February 23, 2013.
  43. Web site: Stop, Look and Listen . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  44. Web site: Strings of Steel . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  45. Web site: Feature Film Showcase – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936) . https://archive.today/20160712004219/http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2009/10/movies-for-free-sweeney-todd-demon.html . dead . 2016-07-12 . flickeringmyth.com . November 13, 2015 . 2009-10-17 .
  46. Lost Hughes pix surface . McCarthy . Todd . November 28, 2004 . Variety.
  47. Web site: A Trip to Chinatown . silentera.com . March 8, 2013.
  48. Web site: The Winking Idol . silentera.com . March 11, 2013.
  49. Web site: Chaplin Revue: DVD Movie Central . June 27, 2008.
  50. Web site: The Sea Gull . silentera.com . February 23, 2013.
  51. Book: Dewey, Donald . April 15, 2016 . Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-4422-4259-3. 218.
  52. Web site: Babe Comes Home . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  53. Web site: Blake of Scotland Yard . silentera.com . February 25, 2013.
  54. Web site: Broadway Nights . silentera.com . July 9, 2019.
  55. Web site: Lost Film Files-Fox . May 19, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208062002/http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefox.html . December 8, 2015 .
  56. Web site: The Broncho Twister. May 19, 2015.
  57. Web site: The Callahans and the Murphys . silentera.com . February 26, 2013.
  58. Web site: The Chinese Parrot . silentera.com . February 26, 2013.
  59. Web site: The City Gone Wild . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  60. Web site: The Conjure Woman . silentera.com . February 26, 2013.
  61. Web site: The Devil Dancer . silentera.com . February 27, 2013.
  62. Web site: Evening Clothes . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  63. Web site: The Fire Fighters . silentera.com . March 1, 2013.
  64. Web site: For the Love of Mike . silentera.com.
  65. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30, The American Film Institute, c. 1971
  66. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: A Harp in Hock. Silent Era.
  67. Web site: Hats Off . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  68. Web site: The Heart of the Yukon (1927). .
  69. Web site: Heebee Jeebees . silentera.com.
  70. Web site: Heroes of the Wild . silentera.com . March 3, 2013.
  71. Web site: The House Behind the Cedars . silentera.com . March 3, 2013.
  72. Web site: London After Midnight . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  73. Web site: The Magic Flame . silentera.com . March 5, 2013.
  74. Book: Schildgen, Rachel A. . More Than a Dream: Rediscovering the Life and Films of Vilma Banky . 2010 . 1921 PVG Publishing . 978-0-9827709-2-4 . 167 . ... in the past, scholars have said the first five reels were housed at the George Eastman House in New York. Further inquiries have turned up little, and it is safe to assume the film is actually gone for good. . March 5, 2013.
  75. Web site: The Masked Menace . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  76. Web site: Melting Millions . silentera.com . March 5, 2013.
  77. Web site: The Mountain Eagle . . May 24, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906234749/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/mountain-eagle.html . September 6, 2015 . dead .
  78. Web site: Missing Believed Lost – The Great British Film Search . June 27, 2008.
  79. Web site: Lost Films: The Mountain Eagle . . January 14, 2017.
  80. Web site: Pauline Fredericks: Mumsie (1927) . Greta de Groat (Electronic Media Cataloger at Stanford University Libraries) . stanford.edu . March 14, 2013.
  81. Web site: On Guard . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  82. Web site: The Potters . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  83. Web site: Rolled Stockings . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  84. Web site: The Story of the Flag . . May 24, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120803093341/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/story-of-the-flag.html . August 3, 2012 . dead .
  85. Web site: Taxi! Taxi! . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  86. Web site: Tip Toes / BFI Most Wanted . British Film Institute . May 25, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120803092755/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/tip-toes.html . August 3, 2012 . dead .
  87. Web site: Trail of the Tiger . silentera.com . March 8, 2013.
  88. Web site: Two Flaming Youths . silentera.com . March 8, 2013.
  89. Web site: Yale vs. Harvard. silentera.com.
  90. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: Anybody Here Seen Kelly?. Silent Era.
  91. Web site: The Awakening . silentera.com . February 24, 2013.
  92. Web site: The Actress. silentera.com. July 23, 2018.
  93. Web site: The Big City. silentera.com. July 24, 2018.
  94. Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 332
  95. Web site: The Drag Net . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  96. Web site: Dry Martini . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  97. Web site: Edison, Marconi & Co. . silentera.com . January 10, 2012.
  98. Web site: The Fleet's In . silentera.com . March 1, 2013.
  99. Web site: 4 Devils . Lost Films (Deutsche Kinemathek) . March 1, 2013.
  100. Web site: 4 Devils. silentera.com . February 20, 2010.
  101. Web site: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  102. Web site: Growing Pains . Silentera.com . January 10, 2012.
  103. Web site: The Hawk's Nest . silentera.com . March 3, 2013.
  104. Web site: Ladies of the Mob . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  105. Web site: The Last Moment . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  106. Web site: The Legion of the Condemned . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  107. Web site: The March of the Frog . silentera.com . March 5, 2013.
  108. Web site: Napoleon's Barber . silentera.com . March 5, 2013.
  109. Web site: Pirates of the Pines . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  110. Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 345
  111. Web site: The Street of Sin . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  112. Web site: Tarzan the Mighty . silentera.com . August 8, 2012.
  113. Web site: Thérèse Raquin . . March 25, 2013.
  114. Web site: The Vanishing Rider . silentera.com . March 11, 2013.
  115. Web site: The Vanishing West . silentera.com . March 11, 2013.
  116. Web site: Vultures of the Sea . silentera.com . March 11, 2013.
  117. Web site: The Yellow Cameo . silentera.com . March 11, 2013.
  118. Web site: Barro Humano . Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural . January 10, 2019.
  119. Web site: The Crooked Billet / BFI Most Wanted . British Film Institute . May 25, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120803093104/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/crooked-billet.html . August 3, 2012 . dead .
  120. Web site: The Diamond Master . silentera.com . February 27, 2013.
  121. Web site: The Fatal Warning . February 21, 2013.
  122. Web site: The Fire Detective . silentera.com . March 1, 2013.
  123. Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 347
  124. Web site: The Holy Terror . silentera.com . January 10, 2012.
  125. Web site: The Last Post . . May 24, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120803093048/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/last-post.html . August 3, 2012 . dead .
  126. Web site: Pirate of Panama . silentera.com . March 6, 2013.
  127. Web site: The Wages of Sin . silentera.com . March 11, 2013.

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