DeWitt Jennings

Running away to join the circus was a popular romantic sentiment in the 1920s for those wishing to escape life's drudgery. For wannabe actress Violet (Beatrice Lillie), it was joining a third-rate traveling actors troupe specializing in over-the-top melodramas of love and loss. Too plain to play the vampy vixen, she was relegated to the menial but necessary tasks to keep the show afloat. Known for her rubbery features and comic timing, Lillie taps her higher Chaplinesque qualities and deep humanist emotions in beguiling balance to the laughter. Violet's real-life drama rises far above the on-stage fiction, as with her tutoring and support of a handsome young recruit (Jack Pickford) who becomes the male lead, a man whom she falls in love with but withholds her heart. This silent classic is a riveting time capsule into a pre-Depression world that will fascinate, draw tears and ultimately...cheers.

From the 1950s when they pumped Technicolor blood into old monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, to today's chillers like 'Let The Right One In" and "The Lady In Black", Hammer Films combined ghastly horror with erotic tension. Narrated by Peter Cushing, in his last film appearance, and Christopher Lee.

In 19th-century Belgium, destitute young artist Nello Daas (Frankie Thomas) rescues a dog from an abusive peddler and trains him to haul the milk cart owned by his frail grandfather, Jehen (O.P. Heggie). Nello is in love with beautiful Maria Cogez (Helen Parrish) but is forbidden to see her by her aristocratic father (De Witt Jennings). When Nello sells one of his drawings of Maria to wealthy Pieter Vanderkloot (Richard Quine), his rival enters it as his own in a prestigious scholarship contest.

A master criminal tries to stay one step ahead of a determined detective while terrorizing the occupants of an isolated country mansion.

With her boozy boyfriend, the owner of a shabby dockside hotel scrimps and saves to give a child abandoned by her birth mother a life she never had.

The quiet mountain hideaway a writer chooses to finish his novel winds up playing host to treasure hunters seeking the $200k hidden somewhere inside.