Tag Archives: 1920s

Two Marines who spend their lives battling each other find themselves stationed in Russia, where they fight over a sexy Russian girl Read More »

Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor “cures”, thereby building a reputation. Read More »

A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways. Read More »

Oliver’s mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker Read More »

When The Girl’s father insists that, before he will agree to The Boy’s marrying his daughter, he must first prove that he can do something more worthwhile than act the playboy. Read More »

Always the mama’s boy, or in this case a grandma’s boy, Sonny joins a posse after a tramp accused of robbery and murder. Read More »

The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji Kunisada, the legendary bakuto (or gambler, the precursors to modern-day yakuza). Read More »

The horseless Marfa Lapkina, together with the local agronomist and other poor peasants, organizes a dairy farm in the village. Read More »

Harold Van Pelham (Lloyd) is a hypochondriac, rich businessman who sails to the tropics for his ‘health.’ Instead of the peace and seclusion he is seeking, he finds himself in the middle of a revolution. Read More »

Mikaël is an artist who rises as his teacher, the aging Zoret, falls. Zoret gives Mikaël his start, and their relationship is sexual as well. Read More »