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Tag Archives: 1920s
The Mystic (1925) Tod Browning, Aileen Pringle, Conway Tearle, Mitchell Lewis

An American criminal imports a gang of Hungarian gypsies to gain control over a fortune. Read More »
The Eleven Devils / Die elf Teufel (1927) Zoltan Korda, Carl Boese, Gustav Fröhlich, Evelyn Holt, Lissy Arna

The story deals with two fictious teams: The poor workers’ club “Linda” named after the nice girl Read More »
Sunny Side Up (1929) David Butler, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White

Molly and Bee, sweet young ‘working girls,’ live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Read More »
The Passion of Joan of Arc / La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley

The sufferings of a martyr, Jeanne D’Arc (1412-1431). Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and d’Estivet spits on her. Read More »
Discord / Hans engelska fru (1927) Gustaf Molander, Lil Dagover, Gösta Ekman, Karin Swanström

Two English gentlemen of the upper class, Ivor Willington and Lionel Jessop, play a card game Read More »
The Great Gabbo (1929) James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. Read More »
Sadie Thompson (1928) Raoul Walsh, Lionel Barrymore

Sadie Thompson arrives in Pago-Pago to start a new life, but when extremist missionary Davidson Read More »
Tol’able David (1921) Henry King, Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis

When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother Read More »
Bed and Sofa / Tretya meshchanskaya (1927) Abram Room, Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova

A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. Read More »