By Vlad Zakh · May 1, 2026
Warner Baxter brought a suave, versatile presence to Hollywood across the silent and early sound eras and won acclaim as one of the era’s most respected leading men. In Old Arizona evades an army sergeant while pursuing a duplicitous woman, 42nd Street pushes a demanding director to the breaking point, Ramona defies a family over a forbidden romance, and The Great Gatsby pursues a lost love amid Jazz Age excess. Aloma of the South Seas and The Awful Truth round out the list.
01 A demanding Broadway director stakes everything on one lavish musical during the Depression.
Directed by Lloyd Bacon · 1h 29m · Rated NR
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02 Dorothy Burgess features in this early talkie western about the charming outlaw known as the Cisco Kid, who evades a determined army sergeant across the frontier.
Directed by Irving Cummings & Raoul Walsh · 1h 35m · Rated NR
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03 Warner Baxter appears in this silent drama about a mixed-race orphan whose forbidden romance with a Native American man defies her adoptive family's prejudice.
Directed by Edwin Carewe · 1h 20m · Rated NR
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Rent or buy: Amazon Video
04 Neil Hamilton appears as a mysterious millionaire's obsessive pursuit of his lost love unravels in the Jazz Age.
Directed by Herbert Brenon · 1h 20m · Rated NR
05 Julanne Johnston features in this silent drama about an island girl whose romance with a shipwrecked sailor is complicated by tribal rivalry.
Directed by Maurice Tourneur · 1h 30m · Rated NR
06 Warner Baxter appears in this silent comedy about a divorcing couple whose petty jealousies threaten to derail their new romances with other partners.
Directed by Paul Powell · 1h 00m
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