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Tag Archives: 1920s
High Treason (1929) Maurice Elvey, Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright
Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war. Read More »
The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Graham Cutts, Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Nina Vanna
Pierre Boucheron, alias ‘The Rat’ and a former underworld notoriety Read More »
Skull / Dokuro (1927) Sentarô Shirai, Utaemon Ichikawa, Kokuten Kôdô, Ritsuko Niizuma
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Read More »
Anna Boleyn (1920) Ernst Lubitsch, Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII Read More »
Forbidden Paradise (1924) Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou, Rod La Rocque
Forbidden Paradise is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky Read More »
The Wheel / La roue (1923) Abel Gance, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof
Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma Read More »
Street Girl (1929) Wesley Ruggles, Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie
Jobless, homeless and starving Freddie Joyzelle is saved by Mike Fall from the clutches of a masher Read More »
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt
Young Prince Karl Heinrich has spent his entire life behind the palace gates protected from the world. Read More »
So This Is Paris (1926) Ernst Lubitsch, Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman
Georgette live in Paris with her rather unexciting and effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Read More »