Two English gentlemen of the upper class, Ivor Willington and Lionel Jessop, play a card game Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
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
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 »
Forward, Soviet! / Shagay, sovet! (1926) Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet. Read More »
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 »