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Tag Archives: 1920s
Wild Orchids (1929) Sidney Franklin, Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther

Lillie Sterling comes with her husband, John, on a business trip to Java, expecting a second honeymoon. Read More »
Love One Another AKA Die Gezeichneten (1922) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja

Based on the 1918 novel ‘Elsker hverandre’ by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives Read More »
Happy Days (1929) Benjamin Stoloff, Charles E. Evans, Marjorie White, Richard Keene

Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. Read More »
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 »