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Tag Archives: 1920s
The Prey of the Wind AKA La proie du vent (1927) René Clair, Sandra Milovanoff, Lillian Hall-Davis, Jean Murat
An early aviator crash lands in a remote European country where he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Read More »
The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) Max Linder, Bull Montana, Frank Cooke
This delightful burlesque of Alexandre Dumas’ famous adventure narrative Read More »
The Shamrock Handicap (1926) John Ford, Janet Gaynor, Leslie Fenton, Willard Louis
Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, the long-lost John Ford silent Shamrock Handicap Read More »
Scaramouche (1923) Rex Ingram, Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. Read More »
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna AKA Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (1929) Hanns Schwarz, Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward
The film’s story concerns the travails of a woman who has been living quite Read More »
Journey into the Night AKA Der Gang in die Nacht (1921) F.W. Murnau, Olaf Fønss, Erna Morena, Conrad Veidt
Dr Eigil Borne is engaged to Hélène, a girl who is madly in love with him. Read More »
The Virginian (1929) Victor Fleming, Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. Read More »
Two Arabian Knights (1927) Lewis Milestone, William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim
Americans Sgt. Peter O’Gaffney and one of his soldiers, privileged “pretty boy” W. Daingerfield Phelps III Read More »
Across to Singapore (1928) William Nigh, Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence
It’s the mid-nineteenth century. The neighboring Shore and Crowninshield families Read More »
The Boob (1926) William A. Wellman, Gertrude Olmstead, George K. Arthur, Joan Crawford
Idealistic farm boy Peter loves Amy whose fancy is urbane Harry. Read More »
Algol: Tragedy of Power AKA Algol – Tragödie der Macht (1920) Hans Werckmeister, Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers. Read More »
The Squall (1929) Alexander Korda, Alice Joyce, Richard Tucker, Myrna Loy
The activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who Read More »
The Flood AKA L’inondation (1924) Louis Delluc, Ève Francis, Edmond Van Daële, Philippe Hériat
In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Read More »
Broadway Babies (1929) Mervyn LeRoy, Alice White, Marion Byron, Sally Eilers
Dee lives with her two girlfriends in a boarding house. Billy is in love with Dee and runs the show where Dee is in the chorus. Read More »