In Czarist Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Lost World (1925) Harry O. Hoyt, Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. Read More »
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen
Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film takes depicts the history of witchcraft Read More »
The Pace That Kills (1928) William A. O’Connor, Norton S. Parker, Owen Gorin, Thelma Daniels, Florence Turner
Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister Read More »
Harbor Drift (1929) Leo Mittler, Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, Fritz Genschow
A pre-Depression slice of proletarian life from Weimar Germany, Harbour Drift is unusually interesting Read More »
Bridal Procession In Hardanger (1926) Rasmus Breistein, Aase Bye, Gunhild Schytte-Jacobsen, Henry Gleditsch
Based on the novel “Marit Skjølte” by Kristofer Janson, this Norwegian silent movie tells the story of young Marit and her love Read More »
Syncopation (1929) Bert Glennon, Barbara Bennett, Bobby Watson, Morton Downey
Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. Read More »
Sweetie (1929) Frank Tuttle, Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Stanley Smith
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys Read More »
Casanova (1927) Alexandre Volkoff, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne
The main plot concerns itself with political intrigue, as Casanova travels from Venice to Russia and back again on a variety of “secret missions.” Read More »
The Mysterious Lady (1928) Fred Niblo, Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz
In Vienna, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Captain Karl von Raden and his partner Captain Max Heinrich learn in the box office Read More »