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Tag Archives: 1920s
Eldorado / El Dorado (1921) Marcel L’Herbier, Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot

Sibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Read More »
Twelve Miles Out (1927) Jack Conway, John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford

Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. Read More »
Hallelujah (1929) King Vidor, Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine

In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick Read More »
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 »