Silents on TCM

June – 2010

June 7
12:00 AM Sea Hawk, The (1924)
In this silent film, an English noble sold into slavery escapes and turns himself into a pirate king. Cast: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery. Dir: Frank Lloyd. BW-124 mins, TV-G

June 14
12:00 AM Wild Oranges (1924)
In this silent film, an escaped convict terrorizes a young girl and her grandfather on a remote island. Cast: Virginia Valli, Frank Mayo, Ford Sterling. Dir: King Vidor. BW-88 mins, TV-PG

June 20
12:30 AM Battleship Potemkin, The (1925)
In this silent classic, a Russian mutiny triggers revolutionary sentiments around the nation. Cast: Alexander Antonov, Grigori Alexandrov, Vladimir Barsky. Dir: Sergei Eisenstein. BW-69 mins, TV-G

June 27
12:30 AM Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)
In this silent film, a playboy fights to save a young woman from the smugglers who have kidnapped them. Cast: Dorothy Dalton, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Brinley. Dir: George Melford. BW-68 mins, TV-G

July – 2010

July 4
6:00 AM Short Film: Flag, The (1927)
In this silent film, George Washington appeals to Betsy Ross to help create a flag for the new United States. Cast: Francis X. Bushman, Doris Kenyon, Enid Bennett. Dir: Arthur Maude. C-20 mins, TV-G

July 5
12:30 AM General, The (1927)
In this silent film, a Confederate engineer fights to save his train and his girlfriend from the Union army. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender. Dir: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman. BW-75 mins, TV-G

July 11
8:00 PM 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

9:45 PM Coney Island (1917)
In this silent short, a vacationing man tries to evade his wife until another man goes after her. Cast: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton. Dir: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. BW-26 mins, TV-G

July 12
12:00 AM Orphans of the Storm (1921)
In this silent film, two sisters, one of them blind, fight to find each other during the French Revolution. Cast: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut. Dir: D.W. Griffith. BW-151 mins, TV-G

July 19
12:00 AM Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The (1923)
In this silent film, a deformed bell-ringer gives sanctuary to a beautiful gypsy accused of witchcraft. Cast: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry. Dir: Wallace Worsley. BW-117 mins, TV-G

August – 2010

August 12
6:00 AM Lady of the Night (1924)
In this silent film, a young man must choose between a woman from the streets and a refined woman, both of whom are in love with him. Cast: Norma Shearer, Malcolm McGregor, George K. Arthur. Dir: Monta Bell. BW-61 mins

7:15 AM Lady Of Chance, A (1928)
In this silent film, a female con artist lures men to her apartment so she can blackmail them. Cast: Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-78 mins, TV-G

8:00 PM Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The (1927)
In this silent film, a young prince attending college falls for a barmaid below his station. Cast: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-106 mins, TV-G

August 24
6:00 AM Busher, The (1919)
In this silent film, a minor-league baseball player gets his shot at the big leagues. Cast: Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert. Dir: Jerome Storm. BW-55 mins, TV-G

7:00 AM He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
In this silent film, a scientist flees his tragic past to become a circus clown. Cast: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert. Dir: Victor Seastrom. BW-72 mins, TV-G

8:30 AM Merry Widow, The (1925)
In this silent film, a European nobleman courts the wealthy American widow he once loved to save his bankrupt homeland, Cast: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall. Dir: Erich von Stroheim. BW-137 mins, TV-PG

11:00 AM Show, The (1927)
In this silent film, a sideshow dancer secretly loves the show’s amoral barker. Cast: John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Lionel Barrymore. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-76 mins, TV-14

12:30 PM Desert Nights (1929)
In this silent film, diamond robbers get caught in a violent sandstorm. Cast: John Gilbert, Mary Nolan, Ernest Torrence. Dir: William Nigh. BW-62 mins, TV-G

8:00 PM 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

10:15 PM Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
A notorious womanizer falls for the woman he has bet he can trick into marriage. Cast: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D’Arcy. Dir: King Vidor. BW-90 mins,

August 25
12:00 AM Flesh And The Devil (1926)
In this silent film, a femme fatale comes between childhood friends. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-113 mins, TV-PG

Note: Created using schedule at TCM.com 
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