Barry Holmes (Johnny Mack Brown), a southern songwriter, come to New York City’s Tin-Pan Alley Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Sunny Side Up (1929) David Butler, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White
Molly and Bee, sweet young ‘working girls,’ live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Read More »
The Passion of Joan of Arc AKA La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
The sufferings of a martyr, Jeanne D’Arc (1412-1431). Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and d’Estivet spits on her. Read More »
Discord AKA Hans engelska fru (1927) Gustaf Molander, Lil Dagover, Gösta Ekman, Karin Swanström
Two English gentlemen of the upper class, Ivor Willington and Lionel Jessop, play a card game Read More »
The Great Gabbo (1929) James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. Read More »
Sadie Thompson (1928) Raoul Walsh, Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane
Sadie Thompson arrives in Pago-Pago to start a new life, but when extremist missionary Davidson Read More »
Tol’able David (1921) Henry King, Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis
When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother Read More »
Bed and Sofa AKA Tretya meshchanskaya (1927) Abram Room, Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. Read More »
Forward, Soviet! AKA Shagay, sovet! (1926) Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet. Read More »
Little Old New York (1923) Sidney Olcott, Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died. Read More »
The Bush Cinderella (1928) Rudall Hayward, Dale Austen, Mae Bain, Allan Cornish
A rural melodrama with a dash of high seas adventure on the Waitemata Harbour Read More »
Body and Soul (1925) Oscar Micheaux, Paul Robeson, Marshall Rogers, Lawrence Chenault
A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. Read More »
Secrets of a Soul AKA Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning
A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Read More »
The Last Performance (1929) Pál Fejös, Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Leslie Fenton
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. Read More »
The Signal Tower (1924) Clarence Brown, Virginia Valli, Rockliffe Fellowes, Frankie Darro
A railroad worker accepts a colleague’s offer to stay in his home Read More »