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Tag Archives: 1910s
The Doll (1919) Ernst Lubitsch
Because the Baron of Chanterelle wants to preserve his family line, he forces his timid nephew Lancelot to choose one of the village maidens to wed. Read More »
The Merry Jail (1917) Das fidele Gefängnis
Based on Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, the actions of ‘The Merry Jail’ occur over the course of a single eventful day and night. Read More »
The Woman God Forgot (1917) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth
Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. Read More »
Eerie Tales (1919) Richard Oswald, Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel
After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil Read More »
Broken Blossoms (1919) D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London’s seedy Limehouse District Read More »
The Infamous House / Det berygtede Hus (1912) Urban Gad, Augusta Blad, Richard Christensen, Frederik Jacobsen
The young woman, Nina, works as a singer at a Copenhagen variety, but when her contract expires Read More »
Meyer from Berlin (1919) Ernst Lubitsch
A bumbling, self-indulgent husband goes on a vacation away from his wife. Read More »
The Student of Prague (1913) Paul Wegener
A poor student rescues a beautiful countess and soon becomes obsessed with her. Read More »
The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913)
On the day of the dog feast at the Indian encampment, the waifs arrived at Elderbush Gulch. Read More »