When Bearcat Went Dry is a 1919 American drama film directed by Oliver L. Sellers from the novel by Charles Neville Buck, and starring Lon Chaney as Kindard Powers. The title refers to a character nicknamed "Bearcat" (Bernard J. Durning) who promises his girlfriend that he will quit drinking liquor. The survival status of the film is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.
^ Progressive Silent Film List: When Bearcat Went Dry at silentera.com
, 1h14 Réalisé parIrving Cummings OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Policier ActeursLon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Noah Beery Sr., DeWitt Jennings, Ralph Lewis, Jack Mulhall Note61% In the film, the main character (Lon Chaney) escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years to see his daughter (Edith Roberts). But she is engaged to the son of the crook who framed him, complicating his plan of revenge. The movie features an interesting setting in San Francisco's Chinatown.
As described in a film magazine review, Madge Garvey (Phillips) and her father are employed in a shoe factory. Madge's brother-in-law is discharged by the new foreman, John Blake (Stowell), and in a fight with Blake is killed. Blake falls in love with Madge and she consents to marry him. The day before the wedding she goes to New York City, lured by a girl friend and a desire to get away from Sackville and its squalor. There she finds life very different. She poses for an artist, and is invited to his apartment late one night where he tries to force his attentions on her. In the meantime, Blake assists Madge's sister through her illness, and the family moves into the house Blake had furnished for his bride. Seeing a picture of a scantily clad Madge in the newspaper, Blake goes to the city where he finds Madge fainted and lying in the arms of the artist. He rescues her and they return home and are married.
, 1h36 Réalisé parLambert Hillyer OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame ThèmesFilm catastrophe, Catastrophe sismologique ActeursLon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh, Henry Arthur Barrows, Christine Mayo Note63% Wilse Dilling est un criminel estropié, sévissant dans le quartier de Chinatown à San Francisco. Le gang dont il fait partie est dirigé par une femme, surnommée "Queen Ann". Celle-ci l'envoie à la campagne, dans la petite ville de Fallbrook, où il rencontre bientôt Gertrude Hadley, dont il va tomber amoureux. Dilling veut se ranger, oublier son passé criminel. Mais la jeune fille est fiancée, et de plus, Dilling ignore que le père de Gertrude, banquier à Fallbrook, est sous l'emprise de "Queen Ann" à cause d'une ancienne histoire de corruption.