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Tag Archives: 1920s
Little Old New York (1923) Sidney Olcott, Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died. Read More »
The Bush Cinderella (1928) Rudall Hayward, Dale Austen, Mae Bain, Allan Cornish
A rural melodrama with a dash of high seas adventure on the Waitemata Harbour Read More »
Body and Soul (1925) Oscar Micheaux, Paul Robeson, Marshall Rogers, Lawrence Chenault
A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. Read More »
Secrets of a Soul / Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning
A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Read More »
The Last Performance (1929) Pál Fejös, Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Leslie Fenton
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. Read More »
The Signal Tower (1924) Clarence Brown, Virginia Valli, Rockliffe Fellowes, Frankie Darro
A railroad worker accepts a colleague’s offer to stay in his home Read More »
It’s the Old Army Game (1926) A. Edward Sutherland, W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring
Elmer Pettywillie is the owner of a small drug store in Florida, and Mildred Marshall is his clerk. Read More »
Nathan the Wise / Nathan der Weise (1922) Manfred Noa, Fritz Greiner, Carl de Vogt, Lia Eibenschütz
One of the main works of the Age of Enlightenment, a powerful plea in favour of tolerance Read More »
The Man and the Moment (1929) George Fitzmaurice, Billie Dove, Rod La Rocque, Gwen Lee
Two young people get married for all the wrong reasons in this romance. Read More »