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Tag Archives: 1920s
Chinatown Nights (1929) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown Read More »
Fighting Eagle (1927) Donald Crisp, Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver, Sam De Grasse
Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Talleyrand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, as a traitor to Napoleon. Read More »
Moana (1926) Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty, Ta’avale, Fa’amgase, T’ugaita
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »
The House on Trubnaya (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Graham Cutts, Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Nina Vanna
Pierre Boucheron, alias ‘The Rat’ and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. Read More »
Underground (1928) Anthony Asquith, Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Read More »
Algol – Tragödie der Macht (1920) Hans Werckmeister, Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers. Read More »
The Belle of Broadway (1926) Harry O. Hoyt, Betty Compson, Herbert Rawlinson, Edith Murgatroyd
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. Read More »
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (1920) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation “Die Spinnen” to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia Read More »
Our Hospitality (1923) John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton
After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family Read More »
Strike (1925) Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov
In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers Read More »
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) Sam Taylor, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell
In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. Read More »
Twelve Miles Out (1927) Jack Conway, John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. Read More »
By the law (1926) Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success Read More »