Silent Film at the California Theatre, 

with Dennis James at the Wurlitzer organ   

(Cinequest 2024)

Friday March 8 at 7:15 PM

Showing at the California Theatre, 345 S 1st Street in San Jose.

Tickets are available online at www.cinequest.org, or in person at the California Theatre on the day of the show.

The Mark of Zorro (1920)

Douglas Fairbanks, the original swashbuckler, plays Zorro, the masked hero who protects the poor citizens of Old California against their rapacious governor. Fairbanks is equally impressive as the dashing, athletic Zorro (performing his own stunts) and his alter ego, the foppish Don Diego. 

 With Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, George Periolat. 

 Directed by Fred Niblo. Produced by Douglas Fairbanks. Scenario by Eugene Miller, based on “The Curse of Capistrano” by Johnston McCulley. Photographed by William McGann, Harry Thorpe. Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp. 8 reels, approximately 110 minutes.

Friday March 8 at 7:00 PM at the California Theatre in San Jose.

Our Hospitality  (1923)

Buster journeys south to collect his inheritance and finds himself in the middle of feuding families. Like Fairbanks, Keaton performed his own stunts. 

 “Sublime silent comedy … with a genuinely hair-raising finale.” Leonard Maltin. 

With Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Buster Keaton, Jr., Joseph Keaton, Kitty Bradbury, Joe Roberts, Leonard Clapham. 

 Directed by Buster Keaton, John Blystone. Story, scenario and titles by Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman. Photographed by Elgin Lessley, Gordon Jennings. Metro Pictures. Approximately 74 minutes.

Friday March 8 at approx. 9:30 PM at the California Theatre in San Jose.