Lightnin’ Bill Jones, a man partial to the bottle, does chores and odd jobs around the Calivada Hotel Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Man from the Restaurant AKA Chelovek iz restorana (1927) Yakov Protazanov, Michael Chekhov, Mikhail Klimov, Mikhail Narokov
An elderly man works as a waiter at a luxurious restaurant. He’s content and full of hope, and treasures his family more than anything. Read More »
A Woman of Affairs (1928) Clarence Brown, Greta Garbo
Even when Diana, Neville and David played together as children, Diana knew that she loved Nevs. Read More »
The Yacht of the Seven Sins AKA Die Yacht der sieben Sünden (1928) Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck, Brigitte Helm, John Stuart, Rina Marsa
After the talent agent who was booking entertainment for a strange ship is killed Read More »
The Show (1927) Tod Browning, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore
In a none-too-prestigious side show in Budapest, a performer named Cock Robin Read More »
Speedy (1928) Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
“Speedy” loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. Read More »
North of Hudson Bay (1923) John Ford, Tom Mix, Kathleen Key, Frank Campeau
On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with Estelle MacDonald. Read More »
The Smart Set (1928) Jack Conway, William Haines, Jack Holt, Alice Day
An American polo player, arrogant and full of himself, must vindicate his actions to win the heart of a girl Read More »
This Ancient Law (1923) Das alte Gesetz
Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia Read More »
Seven Chances (1925) Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes
Financial broker Jimmie Shannon is nearly bankrupt when an attorney presents grandfather’s will leaving him seven million dollars. Read More »