Tag Archives: 1920s
The Battle of the Sexes (1928) D.W. Griffith, Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Comedy
The Cock-Eyed World (1929) Raoul Walsh, Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Comedy, Musical

Two Marines who spend their lives battling each other find themselves stationed in Russia, where they fight over a sexy Russian girl Read More »
Never Weaken (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Short, Comedy, Thriller

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 »
Menilmontant (1926) Dimitri Kirsanoff, Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Short, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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 Twist (1922) Frank Lloyd, Jackie Coogan, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Drama

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 »
A Sailor-Made Man (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Comedy

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 »
Grandma’s Boy (1922) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend, Comedy, Family

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 »
Chuji Tabinikki Daisanbu Goyohen / A Diary of Chuji’s Travels (1927) Daisuke Itô, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hideo Nakamura, Kichiji Nakamura, Drama

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 »
Staroye i novoye / The General Line (1929) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Drama

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

