Betty Compson Movies

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Try & Helpus are two junk dealers, who have to raise five hundred to pay the rent which the villainous landlord demands. Various times the five...

Life's Mockery is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Betty Compson.

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.

The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs...

A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag...

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...

1919 Western serial.

Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco...

Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his...

Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her...

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...