Public Domain Movies
Running Time: 35 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Tully Marshall.
Due to his mother's obsession with French novelist Alexandre Dumas, a Kansas lad is possessed with the spirit of D'Artagnan, and must protect an innocent young girl from a lecherous old millionaire. Filmed at the Grand Canyon. Written and Edited by Allan Dwan. Dir. Allan Dwan.
Running Time: 52 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, Albert Parker.
Entomologist falls for a wealthy industrialist's daughter, who is engaged to a Malted Milk Magnate that is illegally shipping gunpowder to Mexico. Written by Anita Loos. Dir. Lloyd Ingraham.
Running Time: 58 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Reubens, Charlie Stevens.
In a South American country, Fairbanks is arrested by a tyranical politician, and finds he must lead a jailbreak to free the country's president and his beautiful daughter from the dungeons and restore political stability. Written by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer.
Running Time: 83 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
A shipwrecked nobleman joins a gang of cutthroat pirates to avenge the death of his father.
Running Time: 110 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp.
Fairbanks takes on four different roles, as Zorro's son continues his father's fight against evil and injustice.
Running Time: 68 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Gustave von Seyffertitz.
Big game hunter returns home to find his true love in a mental institution for the wealthy after suffering a nervous breakdown. He proceeds to buy the Hospital, and takes all the hypocondriacs on his yacht, which gets shipwrecked on a desert island. Written by Douglas Fairbanks, Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Maclean Rogers.
Running Time: 51 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Howard Gaye, Jewel Carmen, Lillian Langdon.
Girlfriend of a penniless artist dumps him, so he hires a hitman to kill him; but when the artist's life starts taking a new direction, he decides he wants to live! What now? Dir. Frank McDonald.
Running Time: 77 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Lilian Langdon.
Millionaire thrill-seeker travels to a small European kingdom to find his long lost mother and discover the source of the mysterious income that supports him. Written by Joseph Henabery.
Running Time: 68 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Clarence Handyside, Jean Temple, Loretta Blake.
Vegetarian health food tycoon is embarassed by his carnivorous son, and states that junior must get his picture in the paper before he can receive a half interest in the business and marry his true love. Written by John Emerson and Anita Loos. Dir. L. Frank Baum.
Running Time: 72 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France.
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Seena Owen, Lillian Langdon.
Son of a wealthy New York family loses his fiancee when he's shown to be a coward during a beach bathing incident, but must prove to be a man when his sweetie is kidnapped by Yaqui Indians. Fairbanks' film debut. Written by William Christy Cabanne, Supervised by D.W. Griffith.
Running Time: 55 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Frank Campeau, Monte Blue.
Detective Doug dons the duds of a dude as he goes undercover to thwart a gang of cattle rustlers who decide to add kidnapping to their list of nefarious deeds. Written by Douglas Fairbanks. Dir. Joseph Henabery.
Running Time: 90 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Claire McDowell, Marguerite de la Motte, Robert Mckim, Walt Whitman, Noah Beery Jr.
This is the one, the only, the original and best Zorro film that will have you saying, "Antonio who??" A milquetoast nobleman secretly rides as the dashing protector of the people. Produced by Douglas Fairbanks, his first swashbuckler.
Running Time: 48 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Constance Talmadge, Clyde Hopkins, Fred Warren.
Man goes to great lengths to marry a woman against her father's wishes, but what will they do when the bride, groom, and reverend are separated by insurmountable circumstances? Written by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Mario Bava.
Running Time: 63 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Renick, Wallace Beery, Albert McQuarrie, Frank Campeau.
Bespectacled wimp is hijacked as a prank by several members of a diamond smuggler's gang, and is believed to be a spy by the gang's leader. Supervised and Produced by Douglas Fairbanks.
Running Time: 87 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Charlie Chaplin (cameo).
Fast-paced society farce about Greenwich Village bachelor Fairbanks who is in love with a social worker with a theory that poor children can be made into proper citizens by being exposed periodically to wealthy families. Original music score by Blaine L. Gale.
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Cummings, Eileen Percy, Frank Campeau.
Lowly clerk in a New York button factory takes up the philosophy that a person may have anything he wants if he concentrates on it. This costs him his job, but he soon finds he has been proclaimed King in the country of Vulgaria. Written by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Edmund Goulding.
Running Time: 58 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Joseph Singleton, Frank Bennett, Lillian Langdon.
Wealthy man is charmed by dancer, and takes a job as a bouncer in the bar where she works. Dir. Arthur Dreifuss.
Running Time: 170 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, Alan Hale.
Elaborate sets as well as fights in the Fairbanks' fashion highlight this production of the classic tale of Robin and the Merry Men as they fight against tyranny.
Running Time: 77 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau, Ralph Lewis, Albert MacQuarrie.
New York broker blames his bad luck on an opal ring which he throws away, only to be picked up by the beautiful daughter of an oil baron, with whom he falls in love and must protect from a gold-digging suitor. Written by Douglas Fairbanks and Thomas Geraghty.
Running Time: 58 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Joseph Singleton, Walter Bytell, Calvin Carter.
Railroad tycoon sends his cowboy-obsessed son Fairbanks to the West to check on a railroad deal and cure him of his preoccupation, but Doug soon finds himself in the middle of train holdups, Indian raids and kidnappings; there's even a heroine named Nell!. Written by Anita Loos and Horace P. Carpenter.