List of American films of 1920
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A list of American films of 1920 is a compilation of American film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s that were released in the year 1920
1920 in film
The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1920:U.S.A. unless stated*The $1,000,000 Reward...

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The $1,000,000 Reward
The $1,000,000 Reward
The $1,000,000 Reward was a 1920 drama film serial, directed by George Lessey, and produced by Harry Grossman. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Coit Albertson* Buck Connors* Louise Hotaling* George Lessey* Joe Smith Marba...

George A. Lessey  Coit Albertson
Coit Albertson
Coit Albertson was an American silent film actor.-Biography:Edward Coit Albertson was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of George and Elizabeth Albertson, and began his acting career on Broadway, where, among other productions, he played in Stubborn Cinderella...

 
A Child for Sale
A Child for Sale
A Child for Sale is a 1920 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson, starring Gladys Leslie and Creighton Hale.-Plot: Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two childen in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children for $1,000 to a...

 
Ivan Abramson
Ivan Abramson
Ivan Abramson was a director of American silent films active in the 1910s and 1920s.Abramson emigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1880s and soon became involved in Jewish newspaper field. In 1905 he founded an opera company. In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce...

 
Gladys Leslie
Gladys Leslie
Gladys Leslie was an American actress in silent film, active in the 1910s and 1920s. Though less-remembered than superstars like Mary Pickford, she had a number of starring roles from 1917 to the early 1920s and was one of the young female stars of her day.-Film career:Leslie began her movie...

, Creighton Hale
Creighton Hale
Creighton Hale was an Irish-born American movie actor who worked in the silent film era.-Career:While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company...

 
Melodrama
Among Those Present
Among Those Present
Among Those Present is a 1921 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis.-Cast:* Harold Lloyd - The Boy* Mildred Davis - The Girl* James T. Kelley - Mr. O'Brien, the Father* Aggie Herring - Mrs. O'Brien, the Mother...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 Short 
The Big Catch
The Big Catch
The Big Catch is a 1920 short Western film released by the Universal Film Mfg. Co. , written by Ford Beebe, directed by Leo D. Maloney and starring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Dorothy Wood* Jim Corey...

 
Leo D. Maloney
Leo D. Maloney
Leo D. Maloney was an American film actor, director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 156 films between 1911 and 1929. He also directed 47 films between 1914 and 1929....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Western Short 
The Brand Blotter  Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Broncho Kid
The Broncho Kid
The Broncho Kid is a 1920 short Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Yvette Mitchell* Dudley Hendricks - * Jim Corey...

 
Mack V. Wright
Mack V. Wright
-Selected filmography:Director*Wolf Tracks *Masked *Thieves' Clothes *The Broncho Kid *Red Blood *The Texas Terror *Tarzan and the Golden Lion *South of the Rio Grande...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Western Short 
The Champion Liar
The Champion Liar
The Champion Liar is a 1920 short Western film directed by and starring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Jim Corey* Dorothy Wood* Andrew Waldron* Jack Walters* Ida Tenbrook...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Western Short 
Cinders
Cinders (film)
Cinders is a 1920 short film directed by Edward Laemmle and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Edward Laemmie  Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Short 
Convict 13
Convict 13
Convict 13 is a 1920 short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline.- Plot :Keaton goes from a golf game with his girlfriend to death-row in prison through a case of mistaken identity...

Edward F. Cline
Edward F. Cline
Edward Francis Cline was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood.-Career:...

, Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
The Common Sin Rod La Rocque
Rod La Rocque
-Biography:He was born Roderick La Rocque in Chicago, Illinois. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was...

, Nita Naldi 
Double Danger
Double Danger
Double Danger is a 1920 short Western film directed by Albert Russell and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Dorothy Wood* Georgia Davey* Charles Newton* Jim Corey...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film is based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore.The film was directed by John S....

John S. Robertson
John S. Robertson
John Stuart Robertson was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. He broke into filmmaking in 1915 with Vitagraph, then with Famous Players-Lasky, making 57 features in his career...

John Barrymore
John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...

 
Horror
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 
An Eastern Westerner
An Eastern Westerner
An Eastern Westerner is a 1920 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.-Cast:* Harold Lloyd - The Boy* Mildred Davis - The Girl* Noah Young - Tiger Lip Tompkins, The Bully, Leader of the Masked Angels* James T...

 
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
Fight It Out
Fight It Out
Fight It Out is a 1920 short Western film directed by Albert Russell and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson - Sandy Adams* Charles Newton - Duncan McKenna* Jim Corey - Slim Allen* Dorothy Wood - Jane McKenna* Ben Corbett - Henchman...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Fightin' Terror
The Fightin' Terror
The Fightin' Terror is a 1920 short Western film directed by and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Yvette Mitchell* Jim Corey* Mark Fenton* George Rand* Harry Tenbrook...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
A Gamblin' Fool
A Gamblin' Fool
A Gamblin' Fool is a 1920 short Western film released by Universal Film Mfg. Co. , written by Ford Beebe, directed by Leo D. Maloney and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Get Out and Get Under
Get Out and Get Under
Get Out and Get Under was a 1920 silent comedy film, which starred Harold Lloyd with Mildred Davis, and was directed by Hal Roach.The car in the movie, to which Lloyd was alternately devoted or frustrated, appears to be a 1920 Ford Model T....

 
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
The Grinning Granger
The Grinning Granger
The Grinning Granger is a 1920 short Western film directed by Leo D. Maloney and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Hair Trigger Stuff
Hair Trigger Stuff
Hair Trigger Stuff is a 1920 short Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Mildred Moore* George Field* Beatrice Dominguez* Tote Du Crow* Charles Newton* Andrew Waldron...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Haunted Spooks
Haunted Spooks
Haunted Spooks is a 1920 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis.- Plot :The action in Haunted Spooks is sparked by Harold's romantic problems. The opening sequence has him disappointed in love and trying, with notable lack of success, to commit suicide...

Alfred J. Goulding
Alfred J. Goulding
Alfred John "Alf" Goulding was an Australian-born American film director and screenwriter. He directed 182 films between 1917 and 1959....

, Hal Roach
Hal Roach
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
Held Up for the Makin's
Held Up for the Makin's
Held Up for the Makin's is a 1920 short Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
High and Dizzy
High and Dizzy
High and Dizzy is a 1920 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. The plot revolves around a young woman who sleepwalks and the doctor who is attempting to treat her...

Hal Roach
Hal Roach
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
His Nose in the Book
His Nose in the Book
His Nose in the Book is a 1920 short Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Mildred Moore* B. Reeves Eason Jr.* Jim Corey* George Field* Tom London -...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
His Royal Slyness
His Royal Slyness
His Royal Slyness is a 1920 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It was remade in 1927 as Long Fliv the King which featured Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Harold Lloyd - The American Boy* Mildred Davis - Princess Florelle...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Huckleberry Finn Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...

 
I Do
I Do (1921 film)
I Do is a 1921 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. This short is notable for having a cartoon wedding in the first scene.-Cast:* Harold Lloyd - The Boy* Mildred Davis - The Girl* Noah Young - The Agitation* Jackie Morgan - The Disturbance...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
'In Wrong' Wright
'In Wrong' Wright
'In Wrong' Wright is a 1920 American western silent film directed by Albert Russell and starring Hoot Gibson.- Cast :* Hoot Gibson* Dorothy Wood* Harry Jackson* Charles Herzinger * Tom London * Jim Corey...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Jack-Knife Man
The Jack-Knife Man
The Jack-Knife Man is a 1920 silent drama film directed by King Vidor.-Cast:* F. A. Turner - Peter Lane * Harry Todd - 'Booge'* Bobby Kelso - 'Buddy'* Willis Marks - Rasmer Briggles* Lillian Leighton - Widow Potter...

King Vidor
King Vidor
King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...

 
The Jay Bird
The Jay Bird
The Jay Bird is a 1920 short Western film directed by Phil Rosen and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Last of the Mohicans Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown was an American film director.-Early life:Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was 11. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of...

, Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...

 
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...

 
Adventure
Adventure film
Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 
The Leopard Woman
The Leopard Woman
The Leopard Woman is a 1920 silent era adventure/romance/drama motion picture starring Louise Glaum, House Peters, and Noble Johnson.Directed by Wesley Ruggles and produced by J. Parker Read, Jr., the screenplay was adapted by H. Tipton Steck and Stanley C...

 
Wesley Ruggles  Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum was an American actress. Best known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career....

, House Peters
House Peters, Sr.
Robert House Peters, Sr. was a British-born American silent film actor, known to moviegoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions."-Biography:...

 
Adventure
Adventure film
Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 Romance
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 
Feature length
Feature length
Feature length is motion picture terminology referring to the length of a feature film. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a feature length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes to be eligible for an Academy Award.The term may also...

Love, Honor, and Behave F. Richard Jones
F. Richard Jones
Frank Richard Jones was an American director and producer.-Early life and career:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Jones was sixteen years old when he became involved in the fledgling film industry in his hometown with the Atlas film company...

, Erle C. Kenton
Erle C. Kenton
Erle C. Kenton , was an American film director. He directed 131 films between 1916 and 1957.He was born in Norboro, Montana and died in Glendale, California from Parkinson's disease.-Selected filmography:...

 
Charlie Murray 
Madame X
Madame X (1920 film)
Madame X is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. A copy of this film survives at the George Eastman House.-Plot:A woman is thrown out of her home by her jealous husband and sinks into depravity. Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her son, who does not...

 
Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd was a film director, scriptwriter and producer...

 
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The Man with the Punch
The Man with the Punch
The Man with the Punch is a 1920 short Western film directed by Edward Laemmle and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson - The stranger * Jim Corey - Sheriff Jeff Sellers* Charles Newton - Frank Lane* Dorothy Wood - Mary Lane...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)
The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro...

Fred Niblo
Fred Niblo
Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.-Biography:He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg...

Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....

 
Swashbuckler
Swashbuckler films
Swashbuckler films are an action-adventure subgenre often characterised by swordfighting and adventurous heroic characters, often set in Renaissance Western Europe with appropriately lavish costumes. Morality is often clear-cut, heroic characters are clearly heroic and even villains tend to have a...

 
Masked
Masked (film)
Masked is a 1920 short Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Virginia Browne Faire* Dan Crimmins* Nelson McDowell* Jim Corey* Tom London...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Neighbors
Neighbors (1920 film)
Neighbors is a 1920 short comedy film written, directed by and starring comedian Buster Keaton.- Plot :Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox play young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence...

Edward F. Cline
Edward F. Cline
Edward Francis Cline was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood.-Career:...

, Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
Now or Never
Now or Never (film)
Now or Never is a 1921 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.The plot involves traveling with a child on a train.Harold's car is a 1919 Mercer series 5 Raceabout.-Cast:* Harold Lloyd - The Boy* Mildred Davis - The Girl...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
Number, Please?
Number, Please?
Number, Please? is a 1920 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.-Plot:While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend . When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it...

 
Fred C. Newmeyer
Fred C. Newmeyer
Fred C. Newmeyer was an American actor and film director. A native of Central City, Colorado, he is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing Harold Lloyd movies The Freshman and Girl Shy. Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in...

, Hal Roach
Hal Roach
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

 
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
One Law for All
One Law for All (film)
One Law for All is a 1920 short Western film directed by Leo D. Maloney and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Western Short 
One Week Edward F. Cline
Edward F. Cline
Edward Francis Cline was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood.-Career:...

, Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse also known as Over the Hill is a silent film about a woman who has a lot of children, and who never gets the chance to enjoy life. The film starred actress Mary Carr and almost all of her real-life children....

Harry Millarde  Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
The Penalty
The Penalty (film)
The Penalty is an American crime film, originally released in 1920. It was directed by Wallace Worsley, and written by Philip Lonergan and Charles Kenyon, based upon the pulp novel by Gouverneur Morris. It starred Lon Chaney, Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, and Claire Adams.-Cast:*Charles...

Wallace Worsley
Wallace Worsley
Wallace A. Worsley Sr. was an American stage actor who became a director in the silent film era. Worsley directed 29 films during the years 1918-1928 and acted in 7 films. He directed several films starring Lon Chaney Sr...

Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney, Sr.
Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...

 
Crime
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 
Pollyanna
Pollyanna
Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same optimistic outlook. The book was such a success, that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna...

Paul Powell
Paul Powell (director)
Paul Powell was a director and producer of silent films in early Hollywood. He is best known for directing Mary Pickford in Pollyanna in 1920.-Selected filmography:* Her Market Value * Dangerous Lies...

 
Howard Ralston
Howard Ralston
Howard Ralston , was an American actor. He appeared in 9 films between 1920 and 1924.He was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA and died in Los Angeles, California.-External links:...

 
Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
The Rattler's Hiss
The Rattler's Hiss
The Rattler's Hiss is a 1920 short Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Mildred Moore* Tote Du Crow* George Field...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Roarin' Dan
Roarin' Dan
Roarin' Dan is a 1920 short Western film directed by Phil Rosen and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Round-Up  Fatty Arbuckle
Fatty Arbuckle
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd...

 
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 had an uncredited role
Runnin' Straight
Runnin' Straight
Runnin' Straight is a 1920 short Western film directed by Arthur J. Flaven and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Virginia Browne Faire* Ted Brooks* L. M. Wells* C.E. Anderson - * Rhea Haines...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Saphead
The Saphead
The Saphead is a 1920 comedy film featuring Buster Keaton. It was the actor's first starring role in a full-length feature and the film that launched his career....

Herbert Blaché
Herbert Blaché
Herbert Blaché was a British-born American film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 56 films between 1912 and 1929.Along with his wife, filmmaking pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, he founded Solax Studios in 1910....

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow (1920 film)
The Scarecrow is a 1920 short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 19 minutes...

Edward F. Cline
Edward F. Cline
Edward Francis Cline was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood.-Career:...

, Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 
Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 Short
The Sheriff's Oath
The Sheriff's Oath
The Sheriff's Oath is a 1920 short Western film directed by Phil Rosen and featuring Hoot Gibson. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Arthur Mackley* Martha Mattox* Josephine Hill...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Shootin' Fool
The Shootin' Fool
The Shootin' Fool is a 1920 short Western film directed by and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Shootin' Kid
The Shootin' Kid
The Shootin' Kid is a 1920 short Western film directed by and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Smilin' Kid
The Smilin' Kid
The Smilin' Kid is a 1920 short Western film directed by and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Dorothy Wood* Lucille Rubey - * Mary Royce* Jim Corey...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments (1920 film)
Stolen Moments is a silent movie starring Rudolph Valentino and Marguerite Namara. It was released in December 1920, just a few months before Valentino was elevated to stardom by his performance in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...

James Vincent
James Vincent
James Vincent was an American actor and film director of the silent era. He appeared in 23 films between 1910 and 1951...

 
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...

, Marguerite Namara
Marguerite Namara
Marguerite Namara was a classically trained American lyric soprano whose varied career included serious opera, Broadway musicals, film and theater roles, and vocal recitals, and who counted among her lifelong circle of friends and acquaintances many of the leading artistic figures of the first...

 
Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
The Stranger
The Stranger (1920 film)
The Stranger is a 1920 short Western film featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Superstition
Superstition (1920 film)
Superstition is a 1920 short Western film directed by Edward Laemmle and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Charles Newton* Jim Corey* Dorothy Wood* Betty Keller...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Thieves' Clothes
Thieves' Clothes
Thieves' Clothes is a 1920 short Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and featuring Hoot Gibson....

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Trail of the Hound
The Trail of the Hound
The Trail of the Hound is a 1920 short Western film directed by Albert Russell and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Jim Corey* Charles Newton* Ben Corbett* W.S. Weatherwax* Dorothy Wood...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Tipped Off
Tipped Off
Tipped Off is a 1920 short Western film directed by Albert Russell and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Gertrude Olmstead* Jim Corey* Charles Newton* Jack Walters...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
The Two-Fisted Lover
The Two-Fisted Lover
The Two-Fisted Lover is a 1920 short Western film directed by Edward Laemmle and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Dorothy Wood* Jim Corey* Walter Crowley* Katherine Bates* Nancy Caswell* Charles Newton...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Way Down East
Way Down East
Way Down East is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is the best known of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play Way Down East by Lottie Blair Parker...

D.W. Griffith  Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....

Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
West Is Best
West Is Best
West Is Best is a 1920 short Western film directed by Phil Rosen and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Josephine Hill* William Lloyd* Ah Wing* H. H. Pattee - * Harry Schumm* C. E. Anderson...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 
Within Our Gates
Within Our Gates
Within Our Gates is a silent race film that dramatically expresses the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro".-Production background:...

Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...

 
Evelyn Preer
Evelyn Preer
Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis , was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity...

 
Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
Wolf Tracks
Wolf Tracks
Wolf Tracks is a 1920 short Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and featuring Hoot Gibson.-Cast:* Hoot Gibson* Thelma Percy* Tom London - * Jim Corey* Charles Newton...

 
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.-Early life and career:...

 

External links

  • American film at the Internet Movie Database
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  • 1920 films at the Internet Movie Database
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