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Tag Archives: 1920s
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 »
Timothy’s Quest (1922) Sidney Olcott, Joseph Depew, Helen Rowland, Marie L. Day
A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothy’s Quest (1922) is a rare Read More »
The Lodger (1927) Alfred Hitchcock, June, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello) Read More »
The Scarlet Letter (1926) Victor Sjöström, Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day Read More »
Sparrows (1926) William Beaudine, Tom McNamara, Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller
Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. Read More »
Underworld (1927) Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson, George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
‘Nobody helps me — I help them!’ boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed Read More »
Chinatown Nights (1929) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown Read More »
Moana (1926) Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty, Ta’avale, Fa’amgase, T’ugaita
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »