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Tag Archives: 1920s
Why Be Good? (1929) William A. Seiter, Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing

A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss. Read More »
The Docks of New York (1928) Josef von Sternberg, George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova

Bill Roberts works as a stoker on a coal-red barge. It’s dirty, hard work and the men have to put up with a foreman, Andy Read More »
Tanned Legs (1929) Marshall Neilan, Arthur Lake, June Clyde, Dorothy Revier

Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening Read More »
Running Wild (1927) Gregory La Cava, W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. Read More »
A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) Anthony Asquith, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring

Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison. Read More »
Cafe Electric (1927) Gustav Ucicky, Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti

Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) Read More »
The Holy Mountain (1926) Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen

The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. Read More »
The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921) Stuart Paton, Grace Darmond, Harry Carter, George Chesebro

The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Read More »
The Matinee Idol (1928) Frank Capra, Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. Read More »