A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Applause (1929) Rouben Mamoulian, Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling Read More »
The Cocoanuts (1929) Robert Florey, Joseph Santley, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He’ll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. Read More »
Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock, Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920’s London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Read More »
Smouldering Fires (1925) Clarence Brown, Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn’t know that he is in love with her younger sister. Read More »
The Trail of 98 (1928) Clarence Brown, Dolores del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane
The Klondike gold strike of 1897 inspires fortune-seekers to head for Alaska. 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 »
Disraeli (1929) Alfred E. Green, George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Biopic of the famed British Prime Minister focusing on his concern about Russia’s growing interest in the Indian subcontinent and his attempts to buy the Suez Canal. Read More »
Alibi (1929) Roland West, Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. Read More »
So This Is Paris (1926) Ernst Lubitsch, Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman
Georgette live in Paris with her rather unexciting and effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Read More »