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Tag Archives: 1920s
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) Herbert Brenon, Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young

As professional clowns Tito and Simon are traveling, they happen upon an abandoned child Read More »
Three Women (1924) Ernst Lubitsch, Pauline Frederick, May McAvoy, Marie Prevost

A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Read More »
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. Read More »
Cirano di Bergerac (1923) Augusto Genina, Pierre Magnier, Linda Moglia, Angelo Ferrari

Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. Read More »
Madame X (1929) Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett

Young Raymond Floriot, following in his father Louis Floriot’s professional footsteps Read More »
The Power of the Press (1928) Frank Capra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Harris

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he’s sent out to cover a murder. Read More »
Long Pants (1927) Frank Capra, Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe

Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. Read More »
The House on Trubnaya / Dom na Trubnoy (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik

A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans / Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau, George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city Read More »