Public Domain Movies - Feature Films

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting


Daddy's Gone A-Hunting is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Frank Borzage based upon a play by Zoë Akins, with adaptation by Kenneth B. Clarke. The film brought together Vitagraph leading lady Alice Joyce and English actor Percy Marmont after his success with If Winter Comes. This is the only film either of the main stars made for MGM. The film was remade in 1931 as Women Love Once. A print survives in the Národní filmový archiv.

The Swan


The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Production background
The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn.

Curses!


Curses! is a 1925 American comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and Grover Jones.

Al St. John as Buttonshoe Bill
Bartine Burkett as Nell

Parisian Love


Parisian Love is a black and white 1925 American silent romantic crime drama film starring Clara Bow. The film was produced by B.P. Schulberg Productions. A copy of this film still survives.

Her Sister from Paris


Her Sister from Paris is a 1925 American silent comedy film based upon the play, "The Twin Sister" by Ludwig Fulda. It was directed by Sidney Franklin and stars Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman, and George K. Arthur. Unlike many silent films, it is still extant.

The film's sets were designed by the art director William Cameron Menzies while the costumes were by Adrian working on his first production.

The Iron Mule


The Iron Mule is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and Grover Jones.

Plot
It is 1830 in Likskillet. The Iron Mule is a steam engine used to haul converted carriages on a rail. A cow on the tracks delays their start. The driver has to take the tall funnel off for the engine to go through the low tunnel.

They reach a river.. there is no bridge...They attach logs and float over. The journey then becomes river-based for a while. They then drive on the rails all night,

Free to Love


Free to Love is a 1925 silent film starring Clara Bow as Marie Anthony, a young woman just released from the reformatory where she was unjustly sent. Marie starts a new life with the help of a judge (Winter Hall) and an idealistic young minister (Donald Keith), but a gang of criminals have made plans that could destroy the new life that she has built.

Cast
Clara Bow as Marie Anthony
Donald Keith as Rev. James Crawford
Raymond McKee as Tony
Hallam Cooley as Jack Garner
Winter Hall as Judge Orr
Charles Hill Mailes as Kenton Crawford

The Sporting Venus


The Sporting Venus is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Marshall Neilan. The film was the second MGM release of Neilan, and starred his wife, actress Blanche Sweet, who allegedly sported the lowest waistline of 1925. This is the first of two feature films that paired Ronald Colman with Blanche Sweet, the second being His Supreme Moment, which was released in May 1925. This film is listed as being extant (surviving) at silentera database.

The Primrose Path


The Primrose Path is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starring Wallace MacDonald, Clara Bow and Arline Pretty.

Cast
Wallace MacDonald as Bruce Armstrong
Clara Bow as Marilyn Merrill
Arline Pretty as Helen
Stuart Holmes as Tom Canfield
Pat Moore as Jimmy Armstrong
Tom Santschi as Big Joe Snead
Lydia Knott as Mrs. Armstrong
Templar Saxe as Dude Talbot
Mike Donlin as Federal Officer Parker
Henry Hall as Court Officer
George Irving as Prosecutor John Morton

Butter Fingers


Butter Fingers is a 1925 American film directed by Del Lord.

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