List of lost films

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The following is a list of notable lost films:

Contents

[edit] 1910s

Year Film Director Cast Notes Reference
1908 The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays Francis Boggs, Otis Turner L. Frank Baum First adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and several of its sequels [1]
1911 The Immortal Alamo William F. Haddock Francis Ford [2]
1912 The Honor of the Family Lon Chaney, Sr. Chaney's on-screen debut [3]
1913 The Battle of Gettysburg Thomas H. Ince The film was reported to have been screened in France in 1973 [4]
1913 The Vampire Britain's first feature length horror film [5]
1913 The Werewolf Henry MacRae Clarence Burton, Marie Walcamp The first werewolf film, but destroyed in a fire in 1924 [6]
1914 The Battle of the Sexes D. W. Griffith Lillian Gish [7]
1914 The Escape D. W. Griffith Donald Crisp [8]
1914 Her Friend the Bandit Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand [9]
1914 A Study in Scarlet George Pearson The first feature-length adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story [10]
1914 The Jungle The only film version to date of Upton Sinclair's book of the same name
1915 Anna Karenina J. Gordon Edwards Betty Nansen, Edward José [11]
1915 Life Without Soul Joseph W. Smiley Percy Standing The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein [12]
1915 Two Orphans Theda Bara Later remade by D. W. Griffith as Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish [13]
1916 The Aryan Thomas H. Ince William S. Hart, Bessie Love
1916 A Daughter of the Gods Annette Kellerman A few feet were held in The Cinema Museum of London, but are now lost
1916 Das Phantom der Oper Nils Olaf Chrisander, Aud Egede-Nissen
1916 Romeo and Juliet Theda Bara
1916 The Fall of a Nation Thomas Dixon
1917 Camille Theda Bara
1917 A Country Hero Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton
1917 El Apóstol Argentine production; believed to be the world's first animated feature film
1917 Der Golem und die Tänzerin Paul Wegener First sequel to a horror film
1917 The Gulf Between Grace Darmond, Niles Welch The first Technicolor film, a few frames of which survive
1917 Life's Whirlpool Lionel Barrymore Ethel Barrymore Based on Frank Norris' novel McTeague
1917 Magda Emile Chautard Clara Kimball Young, Valda Valkyrien [14]
1917 The Scarlet Letter Carl Harbaugh Stuart Holmes
1918 Bound in Morocco Douglas Fairbanks
1918 The Great Love D. W. Griffith Lillian Gish
1918 The Greatest Thing in Life D. W. Griffith Lillian Gish
1918 The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin Rupert Julian Early World War I propaganda film
1918 Salomé Theda Bara
1918 Savage Woman Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills
1918 The Romance of Tarzan Scott Sidney Elmo Lincoln The second Tarzan film produced
1919 Anne of Green Gables William Desmond Taylor Mary Miles Minter
1919 The Homesteader Oscar Micheaux Evelyn Preer
1919 The Knickerbocker Buckaroo Douglas Fairbanks
1919 Marked Men John Ford

[edit] 1920s

Year Film Director Cast Notes Reference
1920 The Prince of Avenue A John Ford
1920 Sehnsucht F. W. Murnau Conrad Veidt
1920 The Revenge of Tarzan Harry Revier, George M. Merrick Gene Pollar The third Tarzan film produced
1920 The Devil's Passkey Erich von Stroheim
1921 Drakula halála The first filmed version of the Dracula story. This Hungarian film preceded Nosferatu by over a year
1921 Humor Risk The Marx Brothers
1921 The Lotus Eater John Barrymore, Colleen Moore
1921 The Freeze Out John Ford
1922 Clarence Wallace Reid, Adolphe Menjou
1922 Number 13 Alfred Hitchcock Uncompleted film
1922 One Glorious Day Will Rogers
1923 The Daring Years Mildred Harris, Charles Emmett Mack, Clara Bow
1923 Flaming Youth Colleen Moore, Milton Sills
1923 Hollywood Contained cameos of many silent film stars playing themselves
1923 Hoodman Blind John Ford
1923 The World's Applause William de Mille Bebe Daniels
1924 Wanderer of the Wasteland Billie Dove A Technicolor feature
1924 A Sainted Devil Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi
1924 So Big Colleen Moore
1925 The Fighting Heart John Ford Billie Dove
1925 That Royle Girl D. W. Griffith W. C. Fields
1925 Madame Sans-Gêne Gloria Swanson
1926 Arirang Na Woon-gyu Korean film
1926 A Woman of the Sea Edna Purviance Produced by Charlie Chaplin, destroyed by Chaplin himself in 1933 as a tax write-off
1926 The Street of Sin Emil Jannings, Fay Wray
1926 The Cat's Pajamas William Wellman
1926 Humor Risk The Marx Brothers
1926 The Great Gatsby Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, William Powell
1926 The Mountain Eagle Alfred Hitchcock
1926 A Social Celebrity Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks
1926 Just Another Blonde Louise Brooks
1927 London After Midnight Lon Chaney, Sr., Marceline Day Reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script
1927 The City Gone Wild Louise Brooks
1927 Babe Comes Home Anna Q Nilsson
1927 The Couple in Name Ruan Lingyu
1927 Evening Clothes Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks
1927 For the Love of Mike Claudette Colbert
1927 Hats Off Laurel & Hardy
1927 The Potters W. C. Fields
1927 Rolled Stockings Louise Brooks
1927 Taxi! Taxi! Edward Everett Horton
1927 The Way of All Flesh Emil Jannings The only Academy Award-winning performance to be lost
1928 Thérèse Raquin Jacques Feyder
1928 Ladies of the Mob William Wellman Clara Bow
1928 Legion of the Condemned William Wellman Fay Wray, Gary Cooper
1928 The Dragnet Josef von Sternberg William Powell, Evelyn Brent
1928 Dry Martini Mary Astor
1928 Manhattan Cocktail Dorothy Arzner A one-minute montage sequence from this film, Manhattan Skyline by Slavko Vorkapich, was released in October 2005 in the DVD collection Unseen Cinema
1928 The Air Circus Howard Hawks
1928 4 Devils F. W. Murnau Janet Gaynor
1928 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Alice White, Ruth Taylor The first version of the Anita Loos story
1928 The White Cloud Pagoda Ruan Lingyu
1928 Tarzan the Mighty Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor Frank Merrill The seventh Tarzan movie produced
1929 The Case of Lena Smith Josef von Sternberg A few minutes exist
1929 Strong Boy John Ford
1929 The Cavalier Richard Talmadge A Technicolor film
1929 Is Everybody Happy? Ted Lewis The complete soundtrack survives, plus one reel of the picture
1929 Queen of the Nightclubs Texas Guinan

[edit] 1930s

Year Film Director Cast Notes Reference
1930 Bride of the Regiment Vivienne Segal A Technicolor film
1930 Hit the Deck Jack Oakie, Polly Walker
1930 Hold Everything Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown A Technicolor film
1930 Kismet Loretta Young, Otis Skinner
1930 Leathernecking Irene Dunne
1930 Lummox Ben Lyon
1930 The Man from Blankleys John Barrymore, Loretta Young
1930 Reminisces of Peking Ruan Lingyu
1930 Song of the Flame Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Noah Beery
1930 Song of the West John Boles, Vivienne Segal, Joe E. Brown A Technicolor film
1930 What a Widow! Gloria Swanson
1930 Wild Flowers Ruan Lingyu
1931 Age for Love Billie Dove
1931 Charlie Chan Carries On Hamilton MacFadden
1931 Fanny Foley Herself Edna May Oliver
1931 Father's Son Leon Janney, Lewis Stone
1931 Honor of the Family Warren Williams, Bebe Daniels
1931 Peludópolis Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc system
1932 Alam Ara First Indian sound film
1932 Paprika Franciska Gaal
1933 Convention City Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee A pre-Code First National comedy
1933 Hello Pop! The Three Stooges A Technicolor film
1933 The Monkey's Paw Ernest B. Schoedsack Adaptation of the W. W. Jacobs horror story
1934 Murder at Monte Carlo Errol Flynn
1935 The Magic Shoes Peter Finch Completed but never released
1937 Bezhin Meadow Sergei Eisenstein Unreleased Soviet film
1938 King Kong Appears in Edo A Japanese kaiju (giant monster) film preceded Godzilla by sixteen years. It was likely lost during World War II. [15]

[edit] Later

Year Film Director Cast Notes Reference
1944 Escape Episode Kenneth Anger
1948 The Betrayal Oscar Micheaux
1973 Sunseed Frederick Cohn
1970 Him An X-rated film made for gay audiences, about a young man's erotic fixation with the life of Jesus
1970s Heartbeat in the Brain Joey Mellen Amanda Feilding Infamous trepanation film with Feilding drilling a hole in her own head.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Wizard of Oz FAQ. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
  2. ^ Silent Era: The Immortal Alamo. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
  3. ^ Silent Era: The Honor of the Family. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  4. ^ Silent Era: The Battle of Gettysburg. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  5. ^ Classic Horror Movies. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  6. ^ Werewolf-Movies.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  7. ^ Silent Era: The Battle of the Sexes. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  8. ^ Silent Era: The Escape. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  9. ^ BFI: Her Friend the Bandit. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  10. ^ The Bioscope: A Study in Scarlet. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  11. ^ Silent Era: Anna Karenina. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  12. ^ BFI: Life Without Soul. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  13. ^ Silent Era: Two Orphans. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  14. ^ Silent Era: Magda. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  15. ^ Hall, Phil (2007-03-01). Top 10 Lost Films. Film Threat (Gore Group Publications). Retrieved on 2008-02-17.

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