Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Orphans of the Storm (1921) D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. Read More »
Dream Street (1921) D.W. Griffith, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Ralph Graves
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl. Read More »
Broadway (1929) Pál Fejös, Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Read More »
Applause (1929) Rouben Mamoulian, Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling Read More »
The Cocoanuts (1929) Robert Florey, Joseph Santley, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He’ll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. Read More »
Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock, Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920’s London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Read More »
The Trail of 98 (1928) Clarence Brown, Dolores del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane
The Klondike gold strike of 1897 inspires fortune-seekers to head for Alaska. Read More »
Alibi (1929) Roland West, Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. Read More »
Paid to Love (1927) Howard Hawks, George O’Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald
An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank’s money and shore up the country’s weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Read More »