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Tag Archives: 1920s
The Racket (1928) Lewis Milestone, Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost
An honest police captain named McQuigg becomes a tough rival to a powerful bootlegger named Scarsi Read More »
A Lady of Chance (1928) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee
Dolly, alias “Angel Face,” meets a naive young man at a hotel who appears to be rich. Read More »
The Lady Lies (1929) Hobart Henley, Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, Charles Ruggles
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney Read More »
April Folly (1920) Robert Z. Leonard, Marion Davies, Conway Tearle, J. Herbert Frank
Novelist April Poole reads her new book to Kerry Sarle, her publisher and sweetheart Read More »
Finances of the Grand Duke / Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (1924) F.W. Murnau, Mady Christians, Harry Liedtke, Robert Scholtz
Director F.W. Murnau and scriptwriter Thea von Harbou both took a change of pace Read More »
The Sheik (1921) George Melford, Rudolph Valentino
Sheik Ahmed (Valentino) desperately wants fiesty British socialite Diana (Ayres), therefore that he abducts Read More »
Where Lights Are Low (1921) Colin Campbell, Sessue Hayakawa, Tôgô Yamamoto, Goro Kino
The Chinese prince T’Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener Read More »
The Pagan (1929) W.S. Van Dyke, Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. Read More »
Smouldering Fires (1925) Clarence Brown, Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. Read More »