Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, who has a terrible mother-in-law. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Manslaughter (1922) Cecil B. DeMille, Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson
Lydia Thorne, a wealthy girl who loves speed and thrills, is unsympathetic when Evans Read More »
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929) Reginald Barker, Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston
Writer William Magee accepts a wager that he can finish writing a book in 24 hours 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 »
A Woman of Distinction AKA Eine Frau von Format (1928) Fritz Wendhausen, Mady Christians, Peter C. Leska, Hans Thimig
A sparkling Ruritanian comedy starring two great actresses: Mady Christians is an ambassador Read More »
Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Cecil B. DeMille, Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels
Robert and Beth Gordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Read More »
Haunted Spooks (1920) Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace Howe
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer Read More »
Through the Breakers (1928) Joseph Boyle, Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert, Clyde Cook
This melodrama that involves an ocean liner, shipwreck, murder and a suicide on a South Seas island. Read More »
Two Timid Souls AKA Les deux timides (1928) René Clair, Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra Flory
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy Read More »
Paris Asleep AKA Paris qui dort (1925) René Clair, Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean
Early roots of sci-fi magic are given to us in the form of a scientist who invents Read More »
The Secret Spring AKA Koenigsmark (1923) Léonce Perret, Karl Heyl, Huguette Duflos, Henry Houry
Grand Duchess Aurora if forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph. Read More »
The Girl in the Show (1929) Edgar Selwyn, Bessie Love, Raymond Hackett, Edward J. Nugent
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Read More »
Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) Michael Curtiz, Georg Reimers, Victor Varconi, Lucy Doraine
When the old multimillionaire Jackson Harber wants to marry the young model Mary Read More »
City Butterfly AKA Großstadtschmetterling (1929) Richard Eichberg, Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, Nien Soen Ling
Made at the height of Anna May Wong’s fame in Europe, Pavement Butterfly Read More »
Cobra (1925) Joseph Henabery, Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson
A penniless, skirt-chasing Italian nobleman finds love Read More »