Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Once Upon a Time AKA Der var engang (1922) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Clara Pontoppidan, Svend Methling, Peter Jerndorff
A beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death. Read More »
Kino Eye AKA Kinoglaz (1924) Dziga Vertov
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. Read More »
The Lighthouse Keepers AKA Os Faroleiros (1922) Maurice Mariaud, A. Castro Neves, Castro Neves
In a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast. Read More »
Moulin Rouge (1928) Ewald André Dupont, Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray, Jean Bradin
Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre Read More »
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) Rex Ingram, Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
Julio Madariaga is the Argentine patriarch of a wealthy family. He has two daughters, the elder wed to a Frenchman and the other to a German. Read More »
Faces of Children / Visages d’enfants (1925) Jacques Feyder, Jean Forest, Victor Vina, Pierrette Houyez
A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. Read More »
Spite Marriage (1929) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle
Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances Read More »
The Sixth Part of the World AKA Shestaya chast mira (1926) Dziga Vertov
“Sixth Part of the World” was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Read More »
The Chaser (1928) Harry Langdon, Gladys McConnell, Helen Hayward
A wife, tired of her husband’s non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. Read More »