In a masked ball in Paris, Manuel Robledo, a young Argentinian architect, meets Elena, the Marquess of Torre Blanca. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The Kiss (1929) Jacques Feyder, Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf, Romance, Drama
Irene is unhappily married to an older businessman, but very much in love with a handsome young lawyer. Read More »
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler / Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Read More »
The Wedding March (1928) Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Drama
Prince Nikki, Lieutenant of the Guard in pre WWI Vienna, is flat broke, but the only advice he gets from his parents is either to shoot himself or to marry money. Read More »
Der Student von Prag / The Student of Prague (1926) Henrik Galeen, Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti, Drama, Horror
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. Read More »
Greed (1924) Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Drama, Thriller, Western
The Charlatan (1929) George Melford, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Rockliffe Fellowes, Thriller, Crime
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Read More »
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Ernst Lubitsch, Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Comedy
Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Read More »
Untamed (1929) Jack Conway, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Drama
When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Read More »
The Man Who Laughs (1928) Paul Leni, Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine’s father’s treachery. Read More »