In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from his unsympathetic father, while the son returns to his profligate ways. Robbed of her child first when he is a baby, and later when they are separated by the war, she suffers imprisonment, contempt, and shame in order to protect the child.

A lost film – a 4 minute fragment from the end of the first reel of this film was recovered in Dalian, China, and is now kept at Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Japan. It was first shown to the public in 2003.

The Case of Lena Smith (4m fragment) - 1929, DVDRip x264.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	4mn 18s
Size:	55.5 MiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	716x576 ~> 768x576
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 797 kb/s
Audio

https://nitro.download/view/9D6D689EFCC74B4/The_Case_of_Lena_Smith_(4m_fragment)_-_1929,_DVDRip_x264.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/df3c2a21ee4d884a775c49d1af8195a9/The_Case_of_Lena_Smith_(4m_fragment)_-_1929,_DVDRip_x264.mkv

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:English intertitles, French, German

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A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed ‘the Canary’, is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed ‘the Canary’. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the crime was also killed. Only one man, debonair detective, Philo Vance, might be able to figure out who silenced ‘the Canary’.

The Canary Murder Case (1929) Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle - 1080p.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
Size: 	2.97 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1296x1080
Aspect ratio:  	1.200
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	5 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.149
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/99D14CDBE63BCAD/The_Canary_Murder_Case_(1929)_Malcolm_St._Clair,_Frank_Tuttle_-_1080p.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

many thanks to @Marcio for this copy.

The post Malcolm St. Clair & Frank Tuttle – The Canary Murder Case (1929) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent. One of John Ford’s most important silent films, made very much under the influence of his Fox studio mate, F.W. Murnau.

2.17GB | 1h 36m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/71D23A3455D9E52/Four.Sons.1928.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/9471c7fa48fea79271664eddb9fc772d/Four.Sons.1928.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Silent,English Intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post John Ford – Four Sons (1928) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A Bavarian mother loses three sons in World War I and goes to America to join the fourth.

3.07GB | 1h 36m | 960×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9C9424C2424CD45/Four.Sons.1928.720p.Amazon.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-QOQ.mkv

Language:English intertitles
Subtitles:English SDH

The post John Ford – Four Sons (1928) first appeared on Cinema of the World.