111 years ago:
The Old Actor (US)
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives hi...
1912-05-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/143770
#TheOldActor #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicFilm

113 years ago:
The Unchanging Sea (US)
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of tim...
1910-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/189584
#TheUnchangingSea #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicMovies

111 years ago:
The Lesser Evil (US)
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
1912-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/193855
#TheLesserEvil #DWGriffith #MaeMarsh #AlfredPaget #PreCode #Movies

109 years ago:
Brute Force (US)
A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book enacted: Weakhands loses his girlfriend to Bruteforce, but chances upon a design for a weapon to vanquish his rival and win her back. His tribe sees this and sets h...
1914-04-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174041
#BruteForce #DWGriffith #AlfredPaget #HarryCarey #PreCode #Film

111 years ago:
Help! Help! (US)
A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in h...
1912-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/193823
#HelpHelp #MackSennett #MabelNormand #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicFilm