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Tag Archives: 1920s
An Andalusian Dog (1929) Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Short, Fantasy, Horror
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction Read More »
Tell It to the Marines (1926) George W. Hill, Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
U.S. Marine Sergeant O’Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, ‘Skeets’ Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. Read More »
Where East Is East (1929) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance
‘Tiger’ Haynes is a respected trapper of jungle beasts for zoos and circuses and a doting father to his beautiful young daughter Toyo. Read More »
La terre (1921) André Antoine, Armand Bour, René Alexandre, Germaine Rouer, Drama
As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Read More »
Tartuffe (1925) F.W. Murnau, Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Drama
Young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance. Read More »
Days of Youth (1929) Yasujirô Ozu, Ichirô Yûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui, Comedy
The film tells of two friends from a university (played by Ichirô Yûki and Tatsuo Saitô) who vie for the attention of the same girl (Junko Matsui) during a skiing trip. Read More »
Zaza (1923) Allan Dwan, Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Romance, Drama
Zaza (Gloria Swanson) is an actress and the favorite at an theater in a small French town and she dreams of performing in Paris. Read More »
The Two Fister (1927) William Wyler, Edmund Cobb, Elsa Benham, Howard Davies, Short, Western
Cobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Read More »
Lights of New York (1928) Bryan Foy, Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Crime, Drama
A young kid from Upstate New York named Eddie (Landis) is conned into fronting for a speakeasy on Broadway. Read More »