Norma Besant, daughter of a Southern doctor, is an incorrigible flirt and has many boys on her string. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Mantrap (1926) Victor Fleming, Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young Read More »
The Scar of Shame (1927) Frank Peregini, Harry Henderson, Norman Johnstone, Ann Kennedy
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class Read More »
The Canary Murder Case (1929) Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle, William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall
A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed ‘the Canary’, is a scheming nightclub singer. Read More »
Wild Orchids (1929) Sidney Franklin, Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther
Lillie Sterling comes with her husband, John, on a business trip to Java, expecting a second honeymoon. Read More »
Love One Another AKA Die Gezeichneten (1922) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja
Based on the 1918 novel ‘Elsker hverandre’ by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives Read More »
Happy Days (1929) Benjamin Stoloff, Charles E. Evans, Marjorie White, Richard Keene
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. Read More »
Once Upon a Time AKA Der var engang (1922) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Clara Pontoppidan, Svend Methling, Peter Jerndorff
A beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death. Read More »
Kino Eye AKA Kinoglaz (1924) Dziga Vertov
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. Read More »
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman
Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
Riders of the Purple Sage (1925) Lynn Reynolds, Tom Mix, Mabel Ballin, Beatrice Burnham
When Lew Walters and his three henchmen kidnap Millie and her child, her brother Jim Carson sets out to find her. Read More »
The Lighthouse Keepers AKA Os Faroleiros (1922) Maurice Mariaud, A. Castro Neves, Castro Neves
In a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast. Read More »
Moulin Rouge (1928) Ewald André Dupont, Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray, Jean Bradin
Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre Read More »
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) Rex Ingram, Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
Julio Madariaga is the Argentine patriarch of a wealthy family. He has two daughters, the elder wed to a Frenchman and the other to a German. Read More »
Faces of Children AKA Visages d’enfants (1925) Jacques Feyder, Jean Forest, Victor Vina, Pierrette Houyez
A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. Read More »