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Tag Archives: 1920s
West Point (1927) Edward Sedgwick, William Haines, Joan Crawford, William Bakewell
Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. Read More »
The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) Rex Ingram, Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson
When the king is drugged and abducted by his ambitious brother Read More »
Caina: The Island and the Continent / Cainà – La figlia dell’isola (1922) Gennaro Righelli, Maria Jacobini, Carlo Benetti, Ida Carloni Talli
Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. Read More »
The Virginian (1923) Tom Forman, Kenneth Harlan, Florence Vidor, Russell Simpson
Molly Wood arrives in a small Western town to be the new schoolmarm. Read More »
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) J. Charles Haydon, Sheldon Lewis, Alex Shannon, Dora Mills Adams
In this third version of the classic Stevenson novel filmed in 1920, Jekyll, dreaming Read More »
The White Sister (1923) Henry King, Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane
Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Read More »
Pollyanna (1920) Paul Powell, Mary Pickford, Wharton James, Katherine Griffith
After the death of her father, Pollyanna, whose credo has always been Read More »
The Campus Vamp (1928) Harry Edwards, Daphne Pollard, Johnny Burke, Sally Eilers
Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems Read More »
The Cardboard Lover (1928) Robert Z. Leonard, Marion Davies, Jetta Goudal, Nils Asther
A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his “cardboard lover” Read More »