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Tag Archives: 1920s
By the law (1926) Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success Read More »
L’Argent (1928) Marcel L’Herbier, Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Yvette Guilbert
The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. Read More »
You Never Know Women (1926) William A. Wellman, Florence Vidor, Lowell Sherman, Clive Brook
You Never Know Women is a thrilling romance that constructs a combustible love triangle between a Russian dancer Read More »
The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) Jean Grémillon, Paul Fromet, Geymond Vital, Genica Athanasiou
Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany Read More »
Napoleon (1927) Abel Gance, Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays Read More »
Hell’s Heroes (1929) William Wyler, Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
When four men rob a bank, one is killed and the other three escape into the desert where they lose their horses in a storm. Read More »
Michel Strogoff (1926) Viktor Tourjansky, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Kovanko, Acho Chakatouny
Things look bleak for Russia when the invading Tartars cut off all telecommunications between the border cities and the capital. Read More »
Love (1927) Edmund Goulding, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett
In Czarist Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky Read More »
The Lost World (1925) Harry O. Hoyt, Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. Read More »
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen
Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film takes depicts the history of witchcraft Read More »
The Pace That Kills (1928) William A. O’Connor, Norton S. Parker, Owen Gorin, Thelma Daniels, Florence Turner
Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister Read More »
The Last Laugh (1924) F.W. Murnau, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller
Emil Jannings is the doorman of the elegant Atlantic Hotel. He is proud of his uniform and function, and respected by his community. Read More »
Harbor Drift (1929) Leo Mittler, Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, Fritz Genschow
A pre-Depression slice of proletarian life from Weimar Germany, Harbour Drift is unusually interesting Read More »
Noah’s Ark (1928) Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Dolores Costello, George O’Brien, Noah Beery
After a short split prologue showing riches as the root of evil in ancient and modern times Read More »