Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Freshman (1925) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict
Harold Lamb’s dream is to go to college and become the most popular student on campus Read More »
The Blackbird (1926) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl Read More »
The Burning Crucible AKA Le brasier ardent (1923) Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Nicolas Koline
A woman, named simply “Elle” and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. Read More »
Hula (1927) Victor Fleming, Clara Bow
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer. Read More »
Champagne (1928) Alfred Hitchcock, Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten
A spoilt rich girl leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father’s champagne business. Read More »
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 »