The Show

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.

Cast

John Gilbert

as Cock Robin

Renée Adorée

as Salome

Lionel Barrymore

as The Greek

Gertrude Short

as Lena Driskai

Edward Connelly

as The Blind Soldier

Andy MacLennan

as The Ferret

Agostino Borgato

as Lizard Oil Salesman (uncredited)

Betty Boyd

as Neptuna the Mermaid Queen (uncredited)

Jules Cowles

as Robin's Dressing Aide (uncredited)

Jacqueline Gadsden

as Blonde Barmaid (uncredited)

Reviews

Similar Movies

The Wiser Sex

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.

⭐ 6.0🤍

The Old Maid's Valentine

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.

⭐ 3.8🤍

The Kiss in the Tunnel

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the Tunnel is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. It is in fact, two films in one, hence the 2 min length. Firstly, the G.A. Smith film here for the central cheeky scene in the carriage. The train view footage however is Cecil Hepworth's work, entitled 'View From An Engine Front - Shilla Mill Tunnel', edited into two halves in order to provide a visual narrative of the train entering the tunnel before the kiss and then leaving afterwards. More information about the filming of the phantom train ride can be found searching for the Hepworth film separately.

⭐ 5.8🤍

Beau Brummel

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.

⭐ 6.8🤍

That Certain Thing

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.

⭐ 6.5🤍

Phroso

An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the islanders, supported by an adventurer who desires Phroso, rise against the new master. The English are saved by the British governor, also under the spell of gorgeous Phroso. The latter, for her part, is not wholly insensitive to Lord Wheatley's distinction. The imbroglio still worsens with the meddling of a dark horse : the neighboring sultan.

⭐ 0.0🤍

The Match King

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

⭐ 6.6🤍

The Enemy

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.

⭐ 5.5🤍

Square Shoulders

Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.

⭐ 0.0🤍

Dangerous Afternoon

The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.

⭐ 5.7🤍

Manatsu Girl

The Special is loosely inspired by horror classics of the time, such as "Carry" and "Fury." The story is about a little girl who has nightmares and a series of murders in the area, which in a strange way, are related to them.

⭐ 0.0🤍

Alimony Madness

A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.

⭐ 0.0🤍

Hounds of Love

When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

⭐ 6.1🤍

Detroit

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

⭐ 7.3🤍

Spa in Love

Mani is a massage girl has been trying to investigate the circumstances behind the death of her sister, Morakot. One day she meets Mike, who has come for her services and she falls for him. Mike soon realizes that Mani is Morakot's sister. He used to date Morakot and later killed her. Mani finds a picture of Mike and Morakot and manage to puzzle together what have happened. Both Mike and Morakot is now trying to kill each other off. Two police detectives are also investigating this case and starts to pick up their trails.

⭐ 0.0🤍

Macbeth

A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.

⭐ 7.6🤍

Demimonde

The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder.

⭐ 6.9🤍

Rust Creek

When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.

⭐ 6.3🤍