Old San Francisco (MOD)

Old San Francisco (MOD)Buildings shake and crumble. Rubble rains down, burying hapless victims. Flames rage throughout what was once the Paris of the Pacific. This stirring recreation of the earthquake of 1906 is the finale to Old San Francisco, but plenty happens before the famed sequence. Warner Oland (later one of the screen's most memorable Charlie Chans) plays a cruel city boss, a Chinese disguised as an Occidental, who lusts after a gently bred daughter of the Spanish

made with the assistance of his widow Audrey and featuring timeless songs (Long Gone Lonesome Blues

the Phantom of the Opera and more of the Silent Era's greatest horror roles

Porthos Jr

[Fairbanks] plays the love game with his eyes and his heart both open

Their stage costar Leif Erickson joins them in counterpoint as the emotionally clenched housemaster

one of the main boilers in the aging liner explodes

located beneath the palace of Alexander the Great

To echo a line from the most famous Rains-Curtiz collaboration

His next film would make him an undisputed star

Wish fulfillment meets wit in a sassy

Robert Young (as Cuffy) and Margaret O'Brien (as the castle's six-year-old current owner) conjure peals of merry laughter out of an exuberant

both literally and figuratively