Tartuffe

Jan 25, 1926

1h 2m

★ 7.2

Overview

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

UFA

Tartuffe Trailers

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Cast

Tartüff

Emil Jannings

Herr Orgon

Werner Krauss

Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife

Lil Dagover

Der Greis

Hermann Picha

Seine Haushälterin / Housekeeper

Rosa Valetti

Sein Enkel / Grandson

André Mattoni

Dorine

Lucie Höflich

(uncredited)

Camilla Horn

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6.5

The Saga of Gösta Berling

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Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.

6.5

Day Dreams

Nov 27, 1922

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.

5.7

Good Night, Nurse!

Jun 30, 1918

Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.

6.8

Hard Luck

Mar 14, 1921

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

5.6

His Wedding Night

Aug 20, 1917

Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.

6.2

My Wife's Relations

May 15, 1922

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

5.8

Great Guns

Oct 16, 1927

Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.

0.0

The Marriage Clause

Sep 12, 1926

A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into her contract by her producer.

6.3

Back Stage

Sep 7, 1919

Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.

6.2

The Average Woman

Mar 1, 1924

Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and eventually falls in love with her. Her father, Judge Whipple, doesn't like it; he has Jimmy arrested and allows him to see Sally only once a week. Meanwhile, disreputable businessman Van Alten is after Sally, and tries to pressure her into marrying him by threatening to release letters he says will embarrass her father.

7.2

Flesh and the Devil

Dec 25, 1926

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

5.9

Coney Island

Oct 29, 1917

Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.

7.2

Monsieur Hire

May 24, 1989

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.

6.7

Convict 13

Oct 27, 1920

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

5.3

Charley My Boy!

Jan 24, 1926

A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.

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0.0

Long Pants

Jan 31, 1926

Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who accidentally runs him down. But his father feels she is beyond his abilities and competes for her attention.

0.0

Fascinating Youth

Mar 17, 1926

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6.6

The Blacksmith

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Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.