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The Pony Express is a 1925 American silent Western film, The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife, Betty Compson, along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.

The Unchastened Woman is a 1925 American silent drama film starring vamp Theda Bara, directed by James Young, the former husband of Clara Kimball Young, and released by start-up studio Chadwick Pictures. The film is based on a 1915 Broadway play, The Unchastened Woman, which starred Emily Stevens.

This was Bara's "comeback" film and as it turned out her final feature appearance and is one of her few surviving films. The play was also filmed in 1918 with Grace Valentine.

After celebrating too much the night before his wedding and turning up late and dishevelled, Tom Hayden is abandoned by his fiancée and disowned by his family. In order to redeem himself he travels west to take place in a major auto race in California.

Cast
Reginald Denny as Tom Hayden
Gertrude Olmstead as Betty Browne
Tom Wilson as Sambo
Charles K. Gerrard as Creighton Deane
Lucille Ward as Mrs. Browne
John Steppling as Jeffrey Browne
Fred Esmelton as Mr. Hayden
Frances Raymond as Mrs. Hayden
Leo Nomis as James

The story is about a clerk who is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.

A European Countess visits relatives in the United States where her continental freedoms clash with the morals of a small American town. She smokes a cigarette in public and wears flashy makeup. A crusading District Attorney stops at nothing to have her leave town and expose her for her loose ways only to fall in love with her himself.

Randy Farman, who demonstrates camping outfits in a department store, wins a racing car in a raffle and sets out for the West. He runs out of gas, loses all his money, and falls in love with a girl called Doris, who, accompanied by her aunt, is on her way to Nampa City to claim an inheritance.

In London during World War One, a simple-minded slavey awaits her Fairy Godmother and her Prince Charming.

Cast
Betty Bronson - Cinderella (Jane)
Esther Ralston - Fairy Godmother
Dorothy Cumming - Queen
Tom Moore - Policeman
Flora Finch - Customer
Ivan Simpson (as Ivan F. Simpson) - Mr. Cutaway
Edna Hagen - Gretchen
Dorothy Walters - Mrs. Maloney

Pampered Youth is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and starring Cullen Landis, Alice Calhoun, and Allan Forrest. It is an adaption of the 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.

The film is about the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It depicts Irish, Italian, and Chinese immigrants, as well as African Americans, as the men who did the backbreaking work that made this feat possible. The primary villain is an unscrupulous businessman who masquerades as a renegade Cheyenne. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869.

The Lady is a 1925 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and directed by Frank Borzage.

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