Pierre Boucheron, alias ‘The Rat’ and a former underworld notoriety Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Skull AKA Dokuro (1927) Sentarô Shirai, Utaemon Ichikawa, Kokuten Kôdô, Ritsuko Niizuma
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Read More »
Anna Boleyn (1920) Ernst Lubitsch, Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII Read More »
Forbidden Paradise (1924) Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou, Rod La Rocque
Forbidden Paradise is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky Read More »
Half Way to Heaven (1929) George Abbott, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.?? Read More »
The Wheel AKA La roue (1923) Abel Gance, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof
Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma Read More »
Street Girl (1929) Wesley Ruggles, Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie
Jobless, homeless and starving Freddie Joyzelle is saved by Mike Fall from the clutches of a masher Read More »
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt
Young Prince Karl Heinrich has spent his entire life behind the palace gates protected from the world. 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 »
The Mark of Zorro (1920) Fred Niblo, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim
In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro Read More »
Dynamite (1929) Cecil B. DeMille, Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. Read More »
Old San Francisco (1927) Alan Crosland, Dolores Costello, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf
The Vasquez family are one of the oldest families in San Francisco Read More »
Eldorado AKA El Dorado (1921) Marcel L’Herbier, Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot
Sibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Read More »
Twelve Miles Out (1927) Jack Conway, John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. Read More »
Hallelujah (1929) King Vidor, Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick Read More »