There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Cirano di Bergerac (1923) Augusto Genina, Pierre Magnier, Linda Moglia, Angelo Ferrari
Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. Read More »
Madame X (1929) Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett
Young Raymond Floriot, following in his father Louis Floriot’s professional footsteps Read More »
The Power of the Press (1928) Frank Capra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Harris
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he’s sent out to cover a murder. Read More »
Long Pants (1927) Frank Capra, Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe
Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. Read More »
The House on Trubnaya AKA Dom na Trubnoy (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans AKA Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau, George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city Read More »
Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness AKA Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (1929) Phil Jutzi, Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold
Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin’s Wedding district. Read More »
The Pony Express (1925) James Cruze, Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence
The Pony Express is a rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express Read More »
The White Rose (1923) D.W. Griffith, Mae Marsh, Carol Dempster, Ivor Novello
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and Read More »
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) AKA Oktyabr (1927) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 Read More »
One Arabian Night AKA Sumurun (1920) Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant Read More »
Say It with Songs (1929) Lloyd Bacon, Al Jolson, Davey Lee, Marian Nixon
Joe Lane kills another man in a fistfight after learning that the man has made improper advances towards his wife. Read More »
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) Benjamin Christensen, Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help Read More »
High Treason (1929) Maurice Elvey, Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright
Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war. Read More »