The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as ‘Jerry Cleggert’, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Marriage Circle (1924) Ernst Lubitsch, Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Read More »
Welcome Danger (1929) Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco Read More »
Kentucky Pride (1925) John Ford, Gertrude Astor, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry B. Walthall
The story of a Beaumont race horse, told through from the point of view of the horse via intertitles. Read More »
The Saga of Gosta Berling AKA Gösta Berlings saga (1924) Mauritz Stiller, Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Read More »
Serpent AKA Orochi (1925) Buntarô Futagara, Tsumasaburô Bandô, Misao Seki, Utako Tamaki
The story of a decent samurai who is widely considered a scum and a criminal. Read More »
Miss Else AKA Fräulein Else (1929) Paul Czinner, Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann, Albert Steinrück
A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace. Read More »
Gipsy Anne AKA Fante-Anne (1920) Rasmus Breistein, Asta Nielsen, Einar Tveito, Johanne Bruhn
The story of an orphaned girl brought up by the Storlein family. Read More »
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927) Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Kru, Chantui, Nah
Kru is a pioneer, living deeper in the jungle of northern Siam than any of his predecessors. Read More »
Le vertige (1926) Marcel L’Herbier, Emmy Lynn, Jaque Catelain, Roger Karl
The film opens with the overthrow of the Czar during the 1917 Russian revolution. Read More »
Wild Oranges (1924) King Vidor, Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. Read More »
The Hole in the Wall (1929) Robert Florey, Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, David Newell
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Read More »
The Circle (1925) Frank Borzage, Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life … except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. Read More »
They Had to See Paris (1929) Frank Borzage, Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr.
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. Read More »
The Magician (1926) Rex Ingram, Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier
A young girl, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist,and the love of a young surgeon Read More »