Tag Archives: 1920s

“Sixth Part of the World” was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Read More »

A wife, tired of her husband’s non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. Read More »

A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothy’s Quest (1922) is a rare Read More »

When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello) Read More »

A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help Read More »

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day Read More »

Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. Read More »

Chorus girl Jill and composer Fred are happily married until he steps out on her with another woman. Read More »

‘Nobody helps me — I help them!’ boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed Read More »

Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown Read More »

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 »

Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »

A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »

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 »

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Read More »