Martha Sleeper Movies

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love....

The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring...

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They...

1928 American comedy film directed by Lynn Shores.

Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.

Rolly Sigsby, a society clubman bitterly weary of life, wanders into the middle of a gunfight between the organized gangs on the lower East side in...

Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant...

A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a...

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a...

A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a...

Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled...

Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He...

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.

Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own...

A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.