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While New York Sleeps
While New York Sleeps (1920) on 23 august 1920
, 1h20
Directed by Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Estelle Taylor, Marc McDermott, Earl Metcalfe
Rating64% 3.231583.231583.231583.231583.23158
Épisode 1 Out of the Night Une femme mariée est confrontée à la réapparition de son précédent mari qu'elle croyait mort. Alors qu'il était en train de demander de l'argent en échange de son silence, il est tué par un cambrioleur. Elle prend l'arme et déclare à son mari qu'elle vient de tuer un voleur.
The Untamed
The Untamed (1920) on 29 august 1920

Directed by Emmett J. Flynn
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Tom Mix, Pauline Starke, George Siegmann, James O. Barrows, Charles K. French, Sid Jordan

Joe Cumberland trouve "Dan le siffleur" dans le désert et lui offre l'hospitalité dans son ranch, après l'avoir soigné avec l'aide de sa fille Kate. Dan, devenu adulte, reste sauvage, avec un caractère qui l'amène souvent à la colère. Dan va chercher à se venger après que le hors-la-loi Jim Silent a essayé de le tuer lors dune bagarre dans un saloon. Kate est faite prisonnière par Silent, Dan capture Lee Haines, un des hommes de Silent, mais ce dernier fait prisonnier le père de Kate. Après un échange de prisonniers, Dan suit la piste des hors-la-loi et les tue tous à l'exception de Silent. Les deux adversaires en viennent aux mains et Dan étrangle Silent. Sa revanche accomplie, Dan se calme et s'installe avec Kate.
The Head of Janus
The Head of Janus (1920) on 26 august 1920
, 1h47
Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Conrad Veidt, Magnus Stifter, Bela Lugosi, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Margarete Kupfer, Gustav Botz
Rating70% 3.5202953.5202953.5202953.5202953.520295
Conrad Veidt plays Dr. Warren (the Dr. Jekyll character) who changes into Mr. O'Connor (a parallel of Mr. Hyde). This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus (the Roman god of the doorway), which Warren / O'Connor purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane Lanyon (Margarete Schlegel). When she refuses the gift, horrified, Warren / O'Connor is forced to keep the statuette himself.
One Week
One Week (1920) on 29 august 1920
, 19minutes
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin
Rating80% 4.0455154.0455154.0455154.0455154.045515
The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement". The end result is depicted in the picture. As if this were not enough, Keaton finds he has built his house on the wrong site and has to move it. The movie reaches its tense climax when the house becomes stuck on railroad tracks. Keaton and Seely try to move it out the way of an oncoming train, which eventually passes on the neighboring track. As the couple look relieved, the house is immediately struck and demolished by another train coming the other way. Keaton stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap (attaching the building instructions) and walks off with Seely.