A theater electrician’s love to a ballet dancer is tested when he is elected minister. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The New Enchantment AKA L’inhumaine (1924) Marcel L’Herbier, Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat
Claire Lescot is a famous prima donna. All men want to be loved by her. Read More »
Variety (1925) Ewald André Dupont, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti
Prologue: The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison Read More »
The Bay of Death AKA Bukhta smerti (1926) Abram Room, Nikolai Saltykov, Leonid Yurenev, Vasili Yaroslavtsev
The mechanic on a battleship during the Civil War in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution Read More »
The Toll Gate (1920) Lambert Hillyer, William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton
Outlaw Black Deering leads a band of desperadoes, but decides to give up the bandit life. Read More »
Jes’ Call Me Jim (1920) Clarence G. Badger, Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Lionel Belmore
Jim Fenton helps rescue a falsely imprisoned inventor and assists Read More »
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 AKA 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, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller
Sheik Ahmed (Valentino) desperately wants fiesty British socialite Diana (Ayres), therefore that he abducts Read More »
Flight (1929) Frank Capra, Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves
Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. 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 »