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Tag Archives: 1920s
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 »
Shooting Stars (1928) Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers Read More »
Brother (1929) Werner Hochbaum, Gyula Balogh, Erna Schumacher, Ilse Berger
“Brüder”, a film directed by Herr Werner Hochbaum ( who was a remarkable film director in the talkie 30’s ) Read More »
Love (1927) Edmund Goulding, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett
In Czarist Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky Read More »
Happy Days (1929) Benjamin Stoloff, Charles E. Evans, Marjorie White, Richard Keene
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. Read More »
The Lost World (1925) Harry O. Hoyt, Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. Read More »
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen
Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film takes depicts the history of witchcraft Read More »
The Pace That Kills (1928) William A. O’Connor, Norton S. Parker, Owen Gorin, Thelma Daniels, Florence Turner
Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister Read More »
Secrets (1924) Frank Borzage, Norma Talmadge, Eugene O’Brien, Patterson Dial
An old woman’s memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. Read More »
The Last Laugh (1924) F.W. Murnau, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller
Emil Jannings is the doorman of the elegant Atlantic Hotel. He is proud of his uniform and function, and respected by his community. Read More »
Rio Rita (1929) Luther Reed, Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit “The Kinkajou” over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit. Read More »
Harbor Drift (1929) Leo Mittler, Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, Fritz Genschow
A pre-Depression slice of proletarian life from Weimar Germany, Harbour Drift is unusually interesting Read More »
Noah’s Ark (1928) Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Dolores Costello, George O’Brien, Noah Beery
After a short split prologue showing riches as the root of evil in ancient and modern times Read More »
Bridal Procession In Hardanger (1926) Rasmus Breistein, Aase Bye, Gunhild Schytte-Jacobsen, Henry Gleditsch
Based on the novel “Marit Skjølte” by Kristofer Janson, this Norwegian silent movie tells the story of young Marit and her love Read More »