Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok’s castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Gaucho (1927) F. Richard Jones, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern, Adventure, Romance
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. Read More »
Le Joueur d’Echecs / The Chess Player (1927) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Drama, Fantasy
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress. Read More »
Alraune (1928) Henrik Galeen, Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, Iván Petrovich, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Now or Never (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Mae Bilson, Comedy, Short
Among Those Present (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Aggie Herring, Comedy, Short
Dr. Jack (1922) Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince, Comedy
I Do (1921) Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Comedy, Short
The Affairs of Anatol (1921) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley, Comedy, Drama
The Battle of the Sexes (1928) D.W. Griffith, Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Comedy
The Cock-Eyed World (1929) Raoul Walsh, Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Comedy, Musical
Two Marines who spend their lives battling each other find themselves stationed in Russia, where they fight over a sexy Russian girl Read More »
Never Weaken (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Short, Comedy, Thriller
Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor “cures”, thereby building a reputation. Read More »
Menilmontant (1926) Dimitri Kirsanoff, Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Short, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways. Read More »
Oliver Twist (1922) Frank Lloyd, Jackie Coogan, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Drama
Oliver’s mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker Read More »
A Sailor-Made Man (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Comedy
When The Girl’s father insists that, before he will agree to The Boy’s marrying his daughter, he must first prove that he can do something more worthwhile than act the playboy. Read More »