Prince Wolfram is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Waxworks (1924) Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Fantasy, Horror
The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. Read More »
The Wind (1928) Victor Sjöström, Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Drama, Romance, Western
Innocent and naive Letty Mason moves from her Virginia home to Sweet Water on the western prairies to live on the ranch of her cousin Beverly, his wife Cora and their three children. Read More »
An Eastern Westerner (1920) Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Comedy, Short, Family, Western
A young New Yorker is the bane of his Christian parent’s existence because of his constant carousing and partying at all hours. Read More »
Backbiters (1924) Albert Dieudonné, Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Albert Dieudonné, Eugénie Nau, Drama
Catherine is a servant girl working for the local mayor and victim of the sharp tongues of the mayor’s wife and her friends. Read More »
Joyless Street (1925) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy, Drama
Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. Read More »
The Show-Off (1926) Malcolm St. Clair, Ford Sterling, Claire McDowell, Charles Goodrich, Comedy, Drama
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family’s finances to the brink of ruin. Read More »
Pandoras Box (1929) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Crime, Drama, Romance
Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. Read More »
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Drama
Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drowned. Read More »
The Parsons Widow (1920) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Hildur Carlberg, Einar Röd, Greta Almroth, Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. Read More »