“A Page of Madness” (1926)

The story follows three outlaws who inadvertently rescue a young woman and become her unlikely protectors after her father is killed. Cleveland’s star pianist Jackie Warren performs an original improvised score alongside the screening.

Director Irving Cummings dramatized the 1889 South Fork Dam failure in this film starring George O’Brien as Tom O’Day, a civil engineer concerned with the dam’s instability. This screening includes a guest appearance by noted silent film musician Rodney Sauer, who leads a quintet in a score created expressly for the film.

The story centers on the bond among three English brothers (played by Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, and Ralph Forbes) whose lives are disrupted by the disappearance of a precious family heirloom, leading them to the French Foreign Legion and the battlefields of North Africa. Silent film music specialist Rodney Sauer leads a quintet in a newly compiled score created for the film, combining period music with live performance to heighten its romance, suspense, and grandeur.