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 »
Tag Archives: 1920s
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 »
Flesh and the Devil (1926) Clarence Brown, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson
Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station. Read More »
L’Atlantide (1921) Jacques Feyder, Jean Angelo, Stacia Napierkowska, Georges Melchior
Lost legionnaire André de Saint-Avit (Georges Melchoir) is rescued from the desert sands. Read More »
Howdy Broadway (1929) Charles J. Hunt, Tommy Christian, Ellalee Ruby, Johnny Kane
A story about wild youth is framed in this early musical from Poverty Row company Rayart that includes such songs as “I Want You to Know I Love You” Read More »
A Page of Madness (1926) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa
A husband picks up a job as a janitor at an insane asylum scheming all the time to be close to Read More »
Nana (1926) Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane
Based on the famous novel by Emile Zola. The vivacious and beautiful Nana seeks Read More »
Their Own Desire (1929) E. Mason Hopper, Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife Read More »
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Jean Epstein, Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
Allan has a hard time finding the Usher’s house, which is known to be cursed… Read More »
The Family Secret (1924) William A. Seiter, Baby Peggy, Gladys Hulette, Frank Currier
A modest man unknowingly has a baby with a woman from a affluent family. Read More »