$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – WE’RE IN THE NAVY NOW (1926)
“Stinky” Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, “Knockout” Hansen loses a fight with Percival “Sailor” Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the...
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: CAPTAIN JANUARY (1924)
A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – PARISIAN LOVE (1925)
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the...
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: THE BUSHER (1919)
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge? Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – EVE’S LEAVES (1926)
Eve, the boyish daughter of a freighter captain stationed in a Chinese port, is addicted to dime novels and romantic daydreams. Going ashore with her father, she meets Bob Britton, the son of a wealthy tea-planter, who teases her, thinking she is a boy. When Chang Fang, a Chinese pirate, stages a raid on the...
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: YOU’D BE SURPRISED (1926)
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.
Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – A GENTLEMAN OF PARIS (1927)
Edward de Marignan, a young Parisian noble with a weakness for women, promises to retire from his irresponsible life of pleasure. Just as he arrives home from an all-night party, he is paid a visit by his fiancée (Jacqueline), her father (General de Latour), and her mother; and with the help of his efficient valet, Joseph, he receives them properly. To appease the general, Edward sends word to his women friends that he is to be married; he goes to a modiste's to bid farewell to Henriette, Joseph's wife, and is discovered by the valet, who thereupon gives him notice. Edward and Jacqueline are married, and following a houseparty, he gambles heavily with Dufour, but the vengeful valet slips an ace up Edward's sleeve, causing him to be accused of cheating. When Joseph hears the shot with which Edward supposedly wipes out his disgrace, his loyalty moves him to confess; Marignan and his wife are then happily reunited.
Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: HANDS UP (1926)
A southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.
Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren!
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – “The Monster” (1925)
Small-town store clerk Johnny Goodlittle is smitten with his boss's pretty daughter, Betty Watson, and is enrolled in a correspondence school course as an aspiring private investigator. After receiving his diploma, badge, and gun, he involves himself in a local missing person case. The mysterious disappearance occurred in the vicinity of an old dark house...
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: FEEL MY PULSE (1926) WITH SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR ROB KOZLOWSKI
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren! Buy Now SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR ROB KOZLOWSKI WILL BE IN THEATRE LOBBY SELLING HIS BOOKS!!! ...
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – “A Girl In Every Port” (1928)
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them? Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren! Buy Now
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: YOUNG APRIL (1926)
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren! Buy Now HELP SUPPORT OUR NEIGHBORS! We're collecting canned food donations from November 24th through December 5th for the Irving Park Community Food Pantry in the lobbies of both the...
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – “TRUE HEART SUSIE” (1919)
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to...
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: GO WEST (1925)
A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwhelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his...
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – “THE SPEED SPOOK” (1924)
An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren! Buy Now
$10 SILENT ACTION COMEDY FILM: “MISS BLUEBEARD” (1925)
In order to escape the demands on his time and energy by female admirers, Larry Charters, a popular writer of popular songs, arranges to have his friend Bob Hawley impersonate him. Traveling on the Continent, Bob meets a French actress, Colette, on a train. In France, Bob and Colette are accidentally left behind at a...
$10 SILENT COMEDY FILM – “THE SHAMROCK AND THE ROSE” (1927)
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love. Live accompaniment provided by Chicagoland’s premiere organist Jay Warren! Buy Now
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: SILENT FILM SCREENING
On August 9, 1925 the Des Plaines Theatre opened with a screening of "Are Parents People". We will be re-creating the grand opening with a showing of that very silent film - 100 years later - for JUST 25 cents! No RSVP needed and payment will be collected upon entry. Doors to theatre will open...