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Tag Archives: 1920s
Salute (1929) David Butler, John Ford, George O’Brien, Helen Chandler, William Janney
John Randall is an Army cadet at West Point. His younger brother Paul is a midshipman at the Naval Academy. Read More »
The Valiant (1929) William K. Howard, Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Johnny Mack Brown
After accidentally killing the key witness to a crime, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law Read More »
The Gold Rush (1925) Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters Read More »
The Flying Fleet (1929) George W. Hill, Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page
The story follows six midshipman after they graduate from Annapolis. Read More »
Loves of Jeanne Nye AKA Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Read More »
Shooting Stars (1928) Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers Read More »
Devil-May-Care (1929) Sidney Franklin, Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Marion Harris
Silent screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) sounds off in his all-talking debut Read More »
Bulldog Drummond (1929) F. Richard Jones, Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant
Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. Read More »
Four Sons (1928) John Ford, James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton
In Burgendorf, Bavaria, Mother Bernle has four sons. Franz is in the army, Johann works at the forge, Andreas tends the sheep. Read More »
The Singing Fool (1928) Lloyd Bacon, Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn
Al Stone is singing waiter in a speakeasy who is in love with Molly, the singing star at the speakeasy, but she spurns him. 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 »
Maciste in Hell AKA Maciste all’inferno (1925) Guido Brignone, Bartolomeo Pagano, Umberto Guarracino, Mario Saio
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality. Read More »
Condemned! (1929) Wesley Ruggles, Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil’s Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges. Read More »
The Last Command (1928) Josef von Sternberg, Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell
A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. Read More »