A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Hate Ship (1929) Norman Walker, Jameson Thomas, Jean Colin, Jack Raine
The son of a murdered Russian count invites the suspects on a revenge cruise. Read More »
The Prey of the Wind / La proie du vent (1927) René Clair, Sandra Milovanoff, Lillian Hall-Davis, Jean Murat
An early aviator crash lands in a remote European country where he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Read More »
The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) Max Linder, Bull Montana, Frank Cooke
This delightful burlesque of Alexandre Dumas’ famous adventure narrative Read More »
Scaramouche (1923) Rex Ingram, Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. Read More »
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna / Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (1929) Hanns Schwarz, Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward
The film’s story concerns the travails of a woman who has been living quite Read More »
Journey into the Night (1921) F.W. Murnau
Dr Eigil Borne is engaged to Hélène, a girl who is madly in love with him. Read More »
The Virginian (1929) Victor Fleming, Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. Read More »
Two Arabian Knights (1927) Lewis Milestone, William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim
Americans Sgt. Peter O’Gaffney and one of his soldiers, privileged “pretty boy” W. Daingerfield Phelps III Read More »
Across to Singapore (1928) William Nigh, Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence
It’s the mid-nineteenth century. The neighboring Shore and Crowninshield families Read More »