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Tag Archives: 1920s
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 »
End of the Earth (1929) Jean Epstein, Gibois, Jean-Marie Laot, Malgorn, Drama

On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. Read More »
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) Wallace Worsley, Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Drama, Romance

Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. Read More »
The Red Dance (1928) Raoul Walsh, Dolores del Rio, Charles Farrell, Ivan Linow, Drama, Romance

Tasia (Dolores del Río), a gorgeous dancer lower group of Russia, drops heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell) Read More »