Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Read More »
Tempest (1928) Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. Read More »
Peter the Great (1922) Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy
Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country Read More »
Walking Back (1928) Rupert Julian, Cecil B. DeMille, Richard Walling, Sue Carol, Robert Edeson
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher “borrows” a neighbor’s car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. Read More »
Hungry Hearts (1922) E. Mason Hopper, Bryant Washburn, Helen Ferguson, E. Alyn Warren
A Hollywood adaptation of the short stories of Anzia Yazierska, the first writer to bring stories Read More »
The Unholy Three (1925) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
A sideshow ventriloquist, a midget, and a strongman form a conspiracy known as “The Unholy Three” and commit a series of robberies. Read More »
Taras Shevchenko (1926) Pyotr Chardynin, Amvrosi Buchma, Vasili Lyudvinsky, Ivan Khudoleyev
The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. Read More »
The White Desert (1922) Ernst Wendt, Karl Balta, Maria Bauer, Dita Borissowa
About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Sweden. Read More »
Die Republik der Backfische (1928) Constantin J. David, Käthe von Nagy, Raimondo Van Riel, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
The ridin’, ropin’ and shootin’ Billie is shipped from the Argentinian pampas to Europe to be polished girls’ boarding school. Read More »