Silents on TCM

March 8, 2010
12:15 AM     Show People (1928)
In this silent film, a small-town girl tries to make it in Hollywood. Cast: Marion Davies, William Haines, Polly Moran. Dir: King Vidor. BW-79 mins, TV-G

March 22, 2010
12:15 AM     Our Hospitality (1923)
In this silent film, a man returns home to the old South and gets caught between feuding families. Cast: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts. Dir: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton. BW-73 mins, TV-G

March 28, 2010
12:00 AM     Sherlock Jr. (1924)
In this silent film, a movie projectionist dreams himself into a mystery movie. Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane. Dir: Buster Keaton. BW-44 mins, TV-G

April 5, 2010
1:45 AM Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)
In this silent film, Joan of Arc braves the threat of torture to stand fast for her beliefs. Cast: Renee Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Antonin Artaud. Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer. BW-82 mins, TV-PG

April 12, 2010
12:00 AM When a Man Loves (1927)
In this silent film, a French adventurer fights to save a young innocent forced into a life of prostitution. Cast: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland. Dir: Alan Crosland. BW-113 mins, TV-PG

April 19, 2010
12:00 AM Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
In this silent film, a student tries to win a rival captain’s daughter after taking over his father’s riverboat. Cast: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron. Dir: Charles Reisner. BW-69 mins, TV-G

1:30 AM Love (1919)
A farm boy fights to save the farmer’s daughter he loves from marriage to a rich man’s son. Cast: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Winifred Westover. Dir: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. BW-24 mins

April 20, 2010
All of the following are films of Harold Lloyd and some may not be silents.

6:00 AM Kid Brother, The (1927)
In this silent film, the weakling in a family of he-men tries to prove his mettle. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James. Dir: Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe. BW-82 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM Speedy (1928)
In this silent film, a young man helps his girlfriend save the family trolley business. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Babe Ruth. Dir: Ted Wilde. BW-86 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM Welcome Danger (1929)
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young Dir: Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair. BW-115 mins, TV-G

11:00 AM Feet First (1930)
A shoe salesman’s involvement with a band of crooks leaves him dangling from the side of a tall building. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Robert McWade, Barbara Kent. Dir: Clyde Bruckman. BW-91 mins, TV-G

12:45 PM Movie Crazy (1932)
A stagestruck young actor accidentally receives somebody else’s invitation to test in Hollywood. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson. Dir: Clyde Bruckman. BW-96 mins, TV-G

2:30 PM Cat’s Paw, The (1934)
A missionary’s son gets mixed up in a Chinese clan war. Cast: Harold Lloyd, George Barbier, Una Merkel. Dir: Sam Taylor. BW-102 mins, TV-G

4:15 PM Milky Way, The (1936)
A mild-mannered milkman stumbles onto a career in the boxing ring. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-88 mins, TV-G

April 26, 2010
12:00 AM Souls for Sale (1923)
In this silent film, a young woman turns Hollywood upside down in her search for stardom. Cast: Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr. Dir: Rupert Hughes. BW-90 mins, TV-G

May 3, 2010
12:30 AM Captain Salvation (1927)
In this silent film, a divinity student risks his future to help a prostitute. Cast: Lars Hanson, Pauline Starke, Ernest Torrence. Dir: John S. Robertson. BW-87 mins, TV-G

2:00 AM Anna Christie (German) (1930)
German-language adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s classic about a romantic streetwalker in love with a shipwrecked sailor. Cast: Greta Garbo, Salka Viertel. Dir: Jacques Feyder. BW-85 mins, TV-PG

3:30 AM Garbo (2005)
Documentary that explores the life and career of screen legend Greta Garbo. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 AM Single Standard, The (1929)
In this silent film, a free-spirited debutante tries to prove that women can love as carelessly as men. Cast: Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, John Mack Brown. Dir: John S. Robertson. BW-71 mins, TV-PG

6:15 AM Beau Brummel (1924)
In this silent film, the legendary dandy takes on British society to court a lady above his station. Cast: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis. Dir: Harry Beaumont. BW-128 mins, TV-G

May 10, 2010
12:30 AM Patsy, The (1928)
In this silent film, a romantic young woman falls for her sister’s fiance, then discovers her sister is cheating on him. Cast: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler. Dir: King Vidor. BW-77 mins, TV-G

May 17, 2010
12:00 AM Better ‘Ole, The (1926)
In this silent film, friends face misadventures during World War I Cast: Sydney Chaplin, Doris Hill, Harold Goodwin. Dir: Charles Reisner. BW-95 mins, TV-PG

May 24, 2010
12:00 AM Big Parade, The (1925)
In this silent film, a young innocent enlists for World War I service but soon learns the horrors of war. Cast: John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Karl Dane. Dir: King Vidor. BW-126 mins, TV-G

May 25, 2010
8:00 PM Squaw Man (1914)
In this silent film, a wrongly accused man escapes to the West and takes an Indian bride. Cast: Dick La Strange, Foster Knox, Joe E. Singleton. Dir: Cecile B. DeMille. BW-74 mins, TV-PG

May 26, 2010
3:15 AM Ramona (1910)
In this silent short, a rancher’s daughter runs off with a Native. Cast: Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Francis J. Grandon. Dir: D.W. Griffith. C-17 mins,

3:45 AM Last of the Mohicans (1920)
In this silent film, an Indian guide tries to help two sisters caught up in the French and Indian War. Cast: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe. Dir: Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown. BW-73 mins, TV-G