
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 »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Show-Off (1926) Malcolm St. Clair, Ford Sterling, Claire McDowell, Charles Goodrich

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 »
Cameo Kirby (1923) John Ford, John Gilbert, Gertrude Olmstead, Alan Hale, Drama

Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man’s daughter. Read More »
High and Dizzy (1920) Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Comedy, Short

After a long wait, a young doctor finally has a patient come to his office. Read More »
Number Please (1920) Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Short, Comedy, Romance

Harold is spending the day at the amusement park, unfulfilled and alone. Read More »
Get Out and Get Under (1920) Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Fred McPherson, Comedy, Short

A young man is awakened from a nightmare by the telephone ringing – his girlfriend is calling him, because he is late for an amateur theatrical production. Read More »
The Cat and the Canary (1927) Paul Leni, Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Rich old Cyrus West’s relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. Read More »