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Tag Archives: 1920s
Leaves from Satan’s Book AKA Blade af Satans bog (1920) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere

After seeing D. W. Griffith’s epic Intolerance, Denmark’s greatest director, Carl Theodor Dreyer Read More »
Show Boat (1929) Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath, Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy

The film begins with Magnolia, daughter of Captain Andy Hawks and his domineering wife Parthy Read More »
Upstream (1927) John Ford, Nancy Nash, Earle Foxe, Grant Withers

Among the residents of a theatrical boarding house is the last member of a once great acting family, down on his luck. Read More »
The Crowd (1928) King Vidor, Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach

Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. Read More »
Kean (1924) Alexandre Volkoff, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po

By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearean actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of Read More »
Mother of Mine AKA Gribiche (1926) Jacques Feyder, Jean Forest, Rolla Norman, Françoise Rosay

A sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess Read More »
Miss Mend (1926) Boris Barnet, Fyodor Otsep, Natalya Glan, Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Fogel

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike Read More »
Laila (1929) George Schnéevoigt, Mona Mårtenson, Tryggve Larssen, Harald Schwenzen

A spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures. Read More »
The Blue Eagle (1926) John Ford, George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, William Russell

George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose, the local policeman’s daughter. Read More »