Tom Ricketts Movies

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical....

She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song...

Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith),...

After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself...

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with...

A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is...

"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.

Young shop-girl Mamie Conroy and wealthy Jeanette Gregory become close friends. When Mamie foils an attempted abduction of Jeanette, the latter's...

Bill Ensor is Bluff Stuart's silent partner in a gambling den. An unpleasant feeling develops among the partners because Stuart feels that Bill's...

A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that...

A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.

Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out...

Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred...

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an...

A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.

Will Barton is really sick and about to. He is afraid of leaving his daughter Netta alone in the world.

A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of...

Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he...