Manka Bros. Film Library
The World's Largest Film Library
1920 - 1929
Out In Left Field (Silent - 1926) - 'Before the Code' drama about a homosexual ballplayer who wants to tell the world.
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Glitter and Gams '26 - Corn-U-Copia (Silent - 1926) - A musical (though silent) tribute to corn was the beginning of the end of the 'Gam Gals' franchise. This was the final 'silent musical' before sound took over the industry starring the beautiful Gam Gals (featuring new starlet - and future murder victim - Margie Louise).
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Gam Gals And Sailor Boys '27 (Silent - 1927) - Beautiful Gals and heroic Boys dance and fight for freedom.
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Bubble, Bubble, Toilet Trouble (Silent - 1927) - Beloved bottle-spinning vaudevillian Chester Billington makes his screen debut as a plumber who wreaks havoc in the bathroom of a wealthy, volatile executive. (A 26-year-old Alfred Hitchcock was fired from the film by studio head Khan Manka (Sr.) for his ‘complete lack of talent.’)
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Moby-Dick (Silent - 1928) - Jolly Chester stars as Ismael in this failed attempt at a four-hour high drama with an enormous amount of silent movie title reading involved. (Most audiences cam to the theaters that were equipped with sound equipment so they could hear the fifteen seconds of actual whale sounds. A first for Hollywood!)
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Retards (1929) - James Whale's early experimental film about a ruthless headmaster who makes money parading his mentally-challenged students through secondary school math class. [This film is no longer available in any form and, we believe, no prints of the film remain - which is a good thing.]
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