Tag Archives: 1920s
Secrets of a Soul (1926) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning, Drama
A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.
Chicago (1927) Frank Urson, Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her
The Show of Shows (1929) John G. Adolfi, Frank Fay, William Courtenay, H.B. Warner, Musical
It’s 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see
Speedy (1928) Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Action, Comedy, Family
“Speedy” loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game.
The Wind (1928) Victor Sjöström, Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Drama, Romance, Western
Innocent and naive Letty Mason moves from her Virginia home to Sweet Water on the western prairies to live on the ranch of her cousin Beverly, his wife Cora and their three children.
Weary River (1929) Frank Lloyd, Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden, Drama, Romance
Jerry Larabee (Richard Barthelmess)is a gangster who can play piano and sing, mostly to entertain his girl Alice (Betty Compson), who is quite visibly thrilled by his crooning.
Haunted Spooks (1920) Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace Howe, Short, Comedy
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis).
An Eastern Westerner (1920) Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Comedy, Short, Family, Western
A young New Yorker is the bane of his Christian parent’s existence because of his constant carousing and partying at all hours.
Backbiters (1924) Albert Dieudonné, Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Albert Dieudonné, Eugénie Nau, Drama
Catherine is a servant girl working for the local mayor and victim of the sharp tongues of the mayor’s wife and her friends.