86% (2)  Peter Pan  105 min,  [Adventure, Fantasy, Family]  [Herbert Brenon]  [29 Dec 1924]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 73%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win.
Actors:  Betty Bronson, Cyril Chadwick, Ernest Torrence, Esther Ralston, George Ali, Mary Brian
Writer:  J.M. Barrie (play), Willis Goldbeck (screenplay)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  N/A    Country:  USA
Plot:  Peter Pan, the kid who doesn't want to grow up, arrives at the Darling home searching for his shadow. He meets the Darling children and takes them to Never-Never Land, where they will fight against Capt. Hook and his pirate ship and crew. At the end the children will be back in their warm beds.
Rotten Tomatoes:   When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter Pan, made famous on the stage by Maude Adams. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and even Gloria Swanson thought they were perfect for the role, but Barrie's own choice was Betty Bronson, a virtual unknown. The story is familiar to nearly everyone. When Mr. and Mrs. Darling (Cyril Chadwick and Esther Ralston) go to a party, they leave their children -- Wendy (Mary Brian), Michael (Philippe de Lacey), and John (Jack Murphy) -- in the care of their dog, Nana. But Peter (Bronson) shows up with the fairy, Tinker Bell (Virginia Brown Faire), and they take the children to Never Never Land. They have a series of adventures with the Lost Boys and defeat Captain Hook (Ernest Torrence) and his band of pirates. Finally, the children return home to Mrs. Darling, who is overjoyed to have them back. She adopts the Lost Boys and offers to take Peter in too, but he refuses to grow up and flies away after promising to visit Wendy every year. An interesting side note -- although she had no involvement in casting Brian as Wendy, Ralston had discovered her a couple of years earlier while judging a beauty contest.
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73% (1)  A Kiss for Cinderella  105 min,  [Fantasy, Drama, Romance]  [Herbert Brenon]  [22 Dec 1925]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 73%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Betty Bronson, Dorothy Cumming, Esther Ralston, Henry Vibart
Writer:  J.M. Barrie (play), Willis Goldbeck, Townsend Martin
External Links:  Wikipedia  IMDb     Language:  N/A    Country:  USA
Plot:  N/A
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71% (1)  Old Ironsides  111 min,  [Drama, History]  [James Cruze]  [06 Dec 1926]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 71%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, George Bancroft, Wallace Beery
Writer:  Laurence Stallings (story), Harry Carr (suggested and adapted by), Walter Woods (suggested and adapted by), Rupert Hughes (titles)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  N/A    Country:  USA
Plot:  An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This 11-reel silent film is set at the time of Stephen Decatur's defeat of the Barbary pirates in Tripoli. Decatur himself is a secondary character herein: most of the screen time goes to the romantic leads, able- bodied seaman Charles Farrell and damsel-in-permanent-distress Esther Ralston.
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68% (1)  Children of Divorce  70 min,  Passed,  [Drama, Romance]  [Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg]  [25 Apr 1927]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 68%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Clara Bow, Einar Hanson, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper
Writer:  Owen Johnson (novel), Adela Rogers St. Johns (story), Hope Loring (screenplay), Louis D. Lighton (screenplay), Alfred Hustwick (titles)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  N/A    Country:  USA
Plot:  A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Originally made for television, the film concerns three divorces and the effect on the varied economic level present in each family.
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67% (1)  Womanhandled  70 min,  PASSED,  [Adventure, Comedy, Romance]  [Gregory La Cava]  [28 Dec 1925]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Cora Williams, Edmund Breese, Esther Ralston, Richard Dix
Writer:  Arthur Stringer (story), Luther Reed (adaptation)
External Links:  Wikipedia  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can resist the flaming flapper and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
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67% (1)  Rome Express  94 min,  [Thriller]  [Walter Forde]  [01 Nov 1932]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win.
Actors:  Conrad Veidt, Donald Calthrop, Esther Ralston, Finlay Currie, Hugh Williams, Joan Barry, Muriel Aked
Writer:  Sidney Gilliat (additional dialogue), Sidney Gilliat (scenario), Clifford Grey (story), Ralph Stock (dialogue), Frank Vosper (dialogue)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, French, Italian    Country:  UK
Plot:  A sinister character boards the Rome Express on the trail of a valuable Van Dyke painting, recently stolen from a Paris gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train populated with a motley assortment of passengers. including adulterous lovers, a very annoying golf fanatic, a French police chief and an American silent film star any one of whom could have the painting he desperately seeks..
Rotten Tomatoes:   Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various passengers of a European express train. On this particular run, the train is a veritable hotbed of intrigue, with crooks and blackmail victims seemingly in every coach. Among the naughty and nice characters are continental favorites Conrad Veidt, Cedric Hardwicke and Finlay Currie, as well as American silent film star Esther Ralston. Rome Express enabled director Walter Forde to graduate from inexpensive regional comedies to prestige British productions. The film was also an obvious inspiration for such later intrigue-on-the-rails epics as The Lady Vanishes (38) and Night Train (39). Rome Express was remade in 1948 as Sleeping Car to Trieste. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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