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Tag Archives: 1920s
Safety Last (1923) Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
In 1922, the country boy Harold says goodbye to his mother and his girlfriend Mildred Read More »
Körkarlen / The Phantom Carriage (1921) Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
It’s New Year’s Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner Read More »
The Last Command (1928) Josef von Sternberg, Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell
A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. Read More »
The Big Parade (1925) King Vidor, George W. Hill, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
The idle son of a rich businessman joins the Army when the U.S.A. enters The Great War. Read More »
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem – a giant creature made of clay. Read More »
The Wedding March (1928) Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts
Prince Nikki, Lieutenant of the Guard in pre WWI Vienna, is flat broke, but the only advice he gets from his parents is either to shoot himself or to marry money. Read More »
The Wild Party (1929) Dorothy Arzner, Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble Read More »
Salomé (1922) Charles Bryant, Alla Nazimova
Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. Read More »
Sherlock Jr. (1924) Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when Read More »