1924
United
Artists
Film --
starring
Douglas
Fairbanks
&
Anna May
Wong
The
thief
will
steal
the gold
from
your
purse;
the food
from
your
house;
or the
magic
rope.
Whatever
he
wants,
he takes
and he
has
decided
to steal
from the
Caliph -
until he
sees the
Princess.
The
thief
falls in
love
with the
Caliph
of
Bagdad's
daughter,
losing
his
heart to
her.,
and
disguises
himself
as
Prince
Ahmed -
one of
four
royal
suitors
for her
hand.
When she
picks
him, he
is
overcome
and
confesses
to his
true
nature
which
gets him
flogged
and
thrown
out of
the
palace.
But he
can yet
win the
Princess
as all
the
suitors
travel
to find
the
rarest
of
treasures.
The
Caliph
will
give her
hand to
the
suitor
that
brings
back the
rarest
treasure
after
seven
moons.
The
thief
sets off
on a
magical
journey
while,
unbeknownst
to him,
another
suitor,
the
Prince
of the
Mongols,
is not
playing
by the
rules...
His trip
is
fraught
with
danger
as he
competes
against
the
magic
carpet
brought
by the
Prince
of
Persia,
the
magic
crystal
stolen
by the
Prince
of India
and the
magic
apple
taken by
the
Mongol
Prince -
who
desires
the
Princess
and the
city of
Bagdad.
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Ball,
Eustace
Hall
--
Gaucho,
The
1927
United
Artists
Film
-- starring
Douglas
Fairbanks
&
Lupe
Velez
Romance,
whimsicality
and
dramatic
power
combine
with an
exquisite
spirituality
to make
this
story
the
supreme
sensation
of Mr.
Fairbanks'
great
career.
The
daring
exploits
of a
roistering
outlaw
of the
Argentine.
The
struggle
between
the
loves of
the
senses
and the
soul,
and the
regeneration
of the
gay
Guerilla
of the
Pampas.
These
are only
a few of
the
colorful
elements
of this
absorbing
narrative.
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Bercovici,
Konrad
-- Volga
Boatman,
The
1926
Demille
Films
-- starring
William
Boyd
&
Elinore
Faire
To
readers
of
modern
fiction
the
great
country
of
Russia
with all
its
passionate
and
colorful
romance,
its
dramatic
history
and its
rich
folk
lore as
been a
closed
book.
Now
comes
simultaneously
with
Cecil
DeMille's
epic
moving
picture
depicting
the
Russian
Revolution,
the
story
from
which it
was
produced,
written
by one
who
understands
the
passionate
heart
that
bears
beneath
a
Russian
tunic
whether
the
wearer
be lord
or
peasant,
gypsy or
boatman
on the
Volga.
The hero
is one
of these
boatmen
lifted
by the
Revolution
into a
place of
power
and
opportunity.
The
heroine
is a
daughter,
of the
nobility
who
casts
her lot
with
that of
the
common
people.
Within
the
brief
space
between
the
covers
of this
book is
spread
the
whole
comic,
tragic
and
romantic
panorama
of the
most
exciting
days of
Russia's
history.
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DeHass,
Arlene
&
Zanuck,
Darryl
-- Noah's
Ark
1928
Warner
Bros
Film
-- starring
George
O'Brien,
Delores
Costello,
Myrna
Loy
An
enthralling
romance
of today
that
finds
its
parallel
in the
times
when the
Great
Flood
engulfed
the
world.
Cosmopolitan
Europe
where
all
nations
meet and
mingle;
a lovely
young
musician
from
Vienna,
a
German,
a
Russian,
a
Frenchman
and an
American
-- who
could
tell
what
amazing
patterns
Destiny
was to
weave
around
them?
Comrades
careless
and
carefree
one
moment;
bitter
enemies,
vibrant
with
deadly
hates
and
burning
passions
the
next.
Then
Paris,
caught
in the
mad
whirlpool
of war.
And the
musician
finds
herself
a thread
in the
entangling
shuttle
of fate
that
leads
her to
days of
old when
men
worshipped
strange
gods. A
breathless
love
story
that
winds
its way
to a
radiant
climax.
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Doyle,
Arthur
Conan
-- Lost
World,
The
1925
First
National
Film
-- starring
Wallace
Beery,
Bessie
Love
&
Lewis
Stone
Explorer
Professor
Challenger
is
taking
quite a
beating
in the
London
press
thanks
to his
claim
that
living
dinosaurs
exist in
the far
reaches
of the
Amazon.
Newspaper
reporter
Edward
Malone
learns
that
this
claim
originates
from a
diary
given to
him by
fellow
explorer
Maple
White's
daughter,
Paula.
Malone's
paper
funds an
expedition
to
rescue
Maple
White,
who has
been
marooned
at the
top of a
high
plateau.
Joined
by
renowned
hunter
John
Roxton,
and
others,
the
group
goes to
South
America,
where
they do
indeed
find a
plateau
inhabited
by
pre-historic
creatures,
one of
which
they
even
manage
to bring
back to
London
with
them.
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Farnol,
Jeffrey
-- Amateur
Gentleman,
The
1926
First
National
Film
-- starring
Rich
Barthelmess
&
Dorothy
Dunbar
Barnabas
Barty, a
country-bred
youth,
son of
the
retired
champion
pugilist
of
England,
is left
a
fortune;
he sets
forth
for
London
to
"become
a
gentleman,"
has many
adventures,
meets
people
of many
different
types,
and
falls in
love
with a
fascinating
heroine.
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Forman,
Henry
&
Woods,
Walter
-- Pony
Express,
The
1925
Paramount
Film
-- starring
Ricardo
Cortez
&
Betty
Compson
During
those
threatening
days of
1860 and
1861 the
daring
matchless
riders
of the
Pony
Express
between
Missouri
and
California
did much
to save
the
United
States
from
disintegration.
California
was
about to
secede
and set
up a
separate
republic.
Jack
Weston,
the hero
of this
thrilling
romance,
a lover
of
California,
took it
upon
himself,
at the
risk of
his
life, to
keep the
state in
the
Union.
His work
was
complicated
by
conspiracy
and made
more
difficult
and
dangerous
by his
love for
the
pioneer
girl,
Molly
Jones.
Yet, at
all
hazards,
in spite
of all
the
dangers
of
Indians,
of road
agents
and
conspirators,
his
fearlessness
and
patriotism
triumphed
and he
won
through
to
victory.
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Gates,
MacBurney
--
Black
Pirate,
The
1926
Fairbanks
Film
-- starring
Douglas
Fairbanks
&
Billie
Dove
The
Black
Pirate
begins
in the
famed
city of
Porto
Bello;
it is
the time
when the
tall
galleons
carried
wondrous
treasure
across
the sea
to Old
Spain.
And,
also, it
was the
time the
sea
rovers
flourished
in the
Spanish
Main;
when
their
low,
black
ships,
flew the
"Jolly
Roger;"
when
their
armed
crews of
ruffians
were
bent on
booty of
minted
money
and bars
of
gold.
It is
the
story of
a
gallant
youth
who
stepped,
unafraid,
into the
heart of
danger,
and
whose
hardihood
wins him
a way
where
death
alone
seems
his
portion.
And, in
the end,
when all
seems
lost, it
tells
how he
gains a
splendid
victory,
together
with the
girl he
loves.
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Gray,
George
Arthur
[James
Fenimore
Cooper]
-- Leatherstocking
Tales
1924
Pathe
Film
-- starring
Edna
Murphy
&
Walter
Miller
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Hill,
Edwin
-- Iron
Horse,
The
1924
Fox Film
-- starring
Madge
Bellamy
&
George
O'Brien
This
novel
portrays
in an
absorbing
way one
of the
very
greatest
events
in
American
history,
the
building
of the
first
transcontinental
railway.
It is an
epic of
titanic
labor,
Man
pitted
against
Nature
in the
shock of
combat.
Across
the
great
trail
falls
the
majestic
shadow
of
Lincoln,
the
Builder,
Lincoln
who
foresaw
that an
empire
would
spring
to life
with the
first
magnetic
touch of
the
steel-shod
hoof of
the Iron
Horse.
Against
the
background
of the
thrilling
life of
the Old
West is
thrown a
vivid
picture
of the
terrific
building
race
between
the two
roads
which
were to
unite
and make
one: Of
the
battle
with the
hostile
Sioux
and
Cheyennes,
of the
bad, mad
towns
which
mushroomed
and
decayed
as the
rails
thrust
forward
like
shining
rapiers:
of the
heroic
exploits
of
unconquerable
men: the
whole
mellowed
with a
love
story of
the most
appealing
charm.
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James
-- Knight
Without
Armor
1937
London
Films
-- starring
Marlene
Dietrich
&
Robert
Donat
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Hope,
Anthony
-- The
Prisoner
of Zenda
From
the
moment
Rudolph
Rassendyll
of
England
met the
King of
Ruritania
in the
Forest
of Zenda,
life
became a
series
of
tremendous
complications
and a
maze of
such
rousing
adventures
as his
imagination
had
never
conceived.
This is,
indeed a
story to
stir the
imagination,
alive as
it is
with
thrilling
events,
spiced
with
swordplay
and the
daring
of men
in
danger,
and
romantic
with the
love of
a fine
man for
a lovely
woman in
the days
of
chivalry.
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MacPherson,
Jeanie
-- King
of Kings
1927
Demille
(Pathe)
Films
-- starring
H.B.
Warner
&
Carmel
Myers
Laid
in the
might
mise-en-scene
of
ancient
Galilee
and
Samaria,
this
novel
tells
the
wondrous
story of
the Man
of
Nazareth
as
picturized
in Cecil
B.
DeMille's
great
motion
picture.
The
action
starts
with two
travelers
coming
away
from the
sumptuous
banquet
hall of
Mary of
Magdala,
and
thereafter
includes
many of
the
beloved
scenes
and
characters
of the
New
Testament.
Among
the
participants
of the
action
surrounding
the
central
Figure
are the
impulsive,
giant-souled
Peter,
the
worldly
Judas,
the
repentant
Magdalene,
the
proud
High
Priest
of
Jerusalem,
the
majestic
Pontius
Pilate,
the
lovely
Proculla,
the
robber
Barabbas,
the
peasant
Simon
and the
boy
Saint
Mark.
The
action
moves
rapidly,
crowded
as it is
with so
much
incident
and with
such
enthralling
characters.
Few
persons
who dip
into the
book
will
willingly
lay it
down
before
the
close.
Persons
of any
creed or
those of
no creed
can
enjoy it
equally
because
it is
written
with a
view not
to
religious
differences,
but in
the
reverent
thought
of
picturing
impartially
and
dramatically
this
unique
theme.
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MacPherson,
Jeanie
-- Ten
Commandments,
The
1924
Paramount
Film
-- starring
Richard
Dix
&
Rod La
Roque
From
the
glories
of the
Pharoahs,
the
Miracle
of the
Red Sea,
and the
destruction
from
Sinai of
the
worshippers
of the
Golden
Calf, to
the mad
competition
and
struggle
for
love,
wealth
and
pleasure
today.
Such is
the wide
range of
"The
Ten
Commandments,"
Jeanie
Macpherson's
brilliant
story
which
forms
the
groundwork
of Cecil
B.
DeMille's
stupendous
motion
picture
and
which
Henry
MacMahon
has
novelized
in these
pages of
enthralling,
picturesque
narrative.
In the
first
half
towers
the
grand
figure
of the
Lawgiver
opposed
by
primitive
lusts
and
greeds.
Passion's
slave is
represented
by the
beautiful
priestess
of the
Calf of
Gold.
The
story
shifts
midway
of the
book to
typical
commandment
breakers
of the
present.
Dan, the
youth
who
defies
the Code
to
"get"
whatever
he
wants;
Mary the
pretty
and
ignorant
rebel,
and
Sally,
reincarnation
of the
eternal
Magdalene,
are of
the very
essence
of this
fevered
age.
What
happens
to them,
and to
John and
Martha,
exponents
of the
Victorian
Age of
Belief,
is
worked
out with
an
unsparing
logic
and
masterful
handling
of
thrills,
suspense,
laughter
and
tears.
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McCulley,
Johnston
-- Mark
of
Zorro,
The
1920
Fairbanks
Film
-- starring
Douglas
Fairbanks
Don
Diego
Vega
gets the
name of
being a
good-for-nothing,
because
of an
apparently
disinterested
attitude
toward
the
world.
The
natives
are
maltreated
and
cruelly
ruled by
the
Governor
and
priests
are
persecuted.
Don
Diego
masquerades
in black
covering
his face
with a
mask,
and
rides
the
hills
avenging
the
oppressed.
No one
is able
to
capture
him
because
of his
wonderful
skill
with the
sword.
When in
a fight
he
always
leaves
his mark
on his
opponent,
a
"Z"
cut into
his
face.
Soon he
gets the
caballeros
on his
side,
and with
them
rescues
from
prison
Don
Carlos
Pulido,
his wife
and
Lolita,
their
daughter,
the girl
he
loves.
She
loves
him as
Zorro,
but
cannot
stand
him as
Don
Diego,
not
realizing
that he
is
playing
two
parts.
In the
end he
and
Ramon
fight a
duel in
which
the
captain
gets the
"Z"
on his
forehead.
Thus it
is
revealed
who Don
Diego is
and her
father
is proud
of him
-- not
mentioning
the
admiration
the girl
has for
him.
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Pritchard,
K &
H
-- Don
Q's Love
Story
[Son of
Zorro]
1925
United
Artists
Film
-- starring
Douglas
Fairbanks
&
Mary
Astor
A
young
California-born
Spanish
don is
sent to
Spain to
complete
his
education.
His whip
gets him
into
trouble
with the
Captain
of the
Queen's
guards
-- which
results
in a
duel. In
the
midst of
the
fight, a
bull,
attracted
by the
red cape
of his
adversary,
charges
the
captain.
The
Queen
sees the
daring
rescue
of the
officer
by Don
Cesar,
and is
urged by
her
cousin
to send
for the
young
Californian,
and he
is
presented
at
court.
He meets
Dolores,
the lady
of his
heart,
when he
leaps a
garden
wall to
escape
the
plaudits
of the
crowd.
All goes
well
until he
is
accused
of
murdering
the
archduke.
To
escape
disgrace
Don
Cesar
feigns
suicide,
becomes
the
mysterious
Don Q
and sets
out to
clear
his
name.
How,
aided by
his
father,
they
capture
the real
murderer
after
many
thrilling
adventures,
and Don
Cesar is
reunited
with the
lovely
Dolores,
forms
the
climax
of this
fascinating
romantic
melodrama.
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Sabatini,
Rafael
-- Captain
Blood
1924
Vitagraph
Film
-- starring
J.
Warren
Kerrigan
&
Jean
Paige
The
story of
the
redoubtable
Peter
Blood --
the
much-loved
story of
a
physician
and
gentleman
turned
pirate
&
buccaneer
par
excellance,
Captain
of the
great
ship
Arabella,
terror
of the
Spaniard,
and
undisputed
master
of the
waters
of the
Spanish
Main.
Captain
Blood is
the
much-loved
story of
a
physician
and
gentleman
turned
pirate.
Peter
Blood,
wrongfully
accused
of high
treason
and
sentenced
to death
-- he is
instead
condemned
to
slavery
in
Barbados.
He
narrowly
escapes
his fate
on a
captured
Spanish
ship and
finds
himself
in the
company
of
buccaneers
-- then
follows
his sea
fights
and
desperate
adventures
as a
freebooter.
Embarking
on his
new life
with
remarkable
skill
and
bravery,
Blood
becomes
the
'Robin
Hood' of
the
Spanish
seas.
The
story
has
glamour
and
beauty,
and it
is told
with an
easy
confidence.
As for
Blood
himself,
he is a
superman,
compounded
of a
sardonic
humor,
cold
nerves,
and hot
temper.
Both the
story
and the
man are
masterpieces.
A great
figure,
a great
epoch, a
great
story.
This is
swashbuckling
adventure
at its
best.
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Sabatini,
Rafael
-- Scaramouche
1923
Metro
Film
-- starring
Ramon
Novarro
&
Alice
Terry
The
scene of
"Scaramouche"
is laid
in
France
of the
Revolution.
Forced
to flee
for his
revolutionary
activities,
the hero
joins a
band of
strolling
players,
and
takes
the part
of
Scaramouche,
one of
the
stock
characters
of the
French
drama,
whose
rogueries,
witticisms
and
adventures
fit his
own
nature
to
perfection.
There
follows
a
romance,
tense,
colorful
and
profoundly
absorbing
that
carries
one
spellbound
through
crowded
days of
glorious
adventure.
Never
will the
reader
forget
the
sardonic
Scaramouche,
who
fights
equally
well
with
tongue
and
rapier,
who was
"born
with the
gift of
laughter
and a
sense
that the
world
was
mad."
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Sabatini,
Rafael
-- Sea
Hawk,
The
1924
First
National
Film
-- starring
Milton
Sills
&
Enid
Bennett
Sir
Oliver
Tressilian,
Cornish
gentleman,
became a
follower
of
Mahmud,
and a
Barbary
corsair,
winning
for
himself
the
title of
Sakr-el-Bahr
-- Hawk
of the
Sea.
He
adopts
the
picturesque
Barbary
costume
and
becomes
a
favorite
of the
Basha.
Finally
on a
captured
Spanish
ship he
invades
the
coast of
England
and
carries
away the
girl
whose
love for
him has
been
poisoned
by
falsehood
and
whose
unforgiving
hate had
kept him
from
returning
to his
home.
To save
her from
the
harem of
the
Basha,
he
defies
his
commander,
and
determines
on
escape.
Undoubtedly,
this is
one of
the most
dramatic
moments
in any
of Mr.
Sabatini's
books,
and the
story of
their
subsequent
adventures
makes a
superb
and
thrilling
epic of
romance.
"The
Sea
Hawk"
is a
book of
fierce
bright
color
and
amazing
adventure
through
which
stalks
one of
the
truly
great
and
masterful
figures
of
romance.
$15.00
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Scott,
Sir
Walter
-- Talisman,
The
[Richard
the Lion
Hearted]
1923
MGM
Allied
Film
-- Wallace
Beery
&
Margarite
de La
Motte
$20.00
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Verne,
Jules
-- Michael
Strogoff
1926
Universal
Films
-- starring
Ivan
Mosjoukine
&
Nathalie
Kovanko
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Wright,
A.E.R.
-- Old
Ironsides
1926
Paramount
Film
-- Wallace
Beery
&
George
Bancroft
