Public Domain Movies released in 1925

Sally of the Sawdust is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring W. C. Fields. It was based on the 1923 stage musical Poppy. Fields would later star in a second film version, Poppy (1936).

Prince Danilo meets Sally the dancer and, when he proposes marriage, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco and Queen Milena object because she is a commoner. Sally marries Baron Sadoja, an old wealthy roue who later dies from a stroke. Prince Danilo’s parents now encourage the marriage. A slurring remark is the cause of a duel between the cousins and Danilo is wounded, sacrificing his cousin whom he believes Sally loves. Crown Prince Mirko is assassinated and Danilo becomes heir to the throne. Sally visits Danilo at the hospital and asks him to marry her.

Eric Fane (Barthelmess) leaves New York City to study music composition in Italy, defying his father's wishes that he return home and enter the business world. Encouraged by a sophisticated older woman, Eric travels to Paris, where he falls for a Russian princess. He begins composing popular songs that achieve commercial success, funding a lavish lifestyle. However, Eric grows weary of writing trivial music and dedicates himself to serious composition. The change leaves him in poverty, which the princess will not tolerate, and she abandons him.

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 (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! is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle as William Goodrich and Grover Jones. Although Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe, he could not obtain work in Hollywood under his own name, so he adopted the pseudonym William Goodrich for directing the comedy shorts he made under his contract with Educational Film Exchanges.

Cast
Al St. John as Buttonshoe Bill
Bartine Burkett as Little Nell

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 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 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 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

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