For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms.
Tag Archives: 1920s
Merry-Go-Round (1923) Rupert Julian, Erich von Stroheim, Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Cesare Gravina, Drama
Life’s merry-go-round goes full tilt for Agnes, a virtuous carny at Vienna’s Prater just before the Great War.
Greed (1924) Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Drama, Thriller, Western
The Charlatan (1929) George Melford, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Rockliffe Fellowes, Thriller, Crime
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about.
Her Private Affair (1929) Paul L. Stein, Ann Harding, Harry Bannister, John Loder, Drama
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be blackmailer and suffers a crisis of conscious when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück / Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness (1929) Phil Jutzi, Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold
Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin’s Wedding district.
Lady of the Pavements (1929) D.W. Griffith, Lupe Velez, Jetta Goudal, Albert Conti, Drama, Romance
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a “girl of the streets” than her.
Fräulein Else / Miss Else (1929) Paul Czinner, Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann, Albert Steinrück, Drama
A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Ernst Lubitsch, Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Comedy
Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton.
Untamed (1929) Jack Conway, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Drama
When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company.