When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) Benjamin Christensen, Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help Read More »
The Scarlet Letter (1926) Victor Sjöström, Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day Read More »
Sparrows (1926) William Beaudine, Tom McNamara, Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller
Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. Read More »
New York Nights (1929) Lewis Milestone, Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, John Wray
Chorus girl Jill and composer Fred are happily married until he steps out on her with another woman. Read More »
Underworld (1927) Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson, George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
‘Nobody helps me — I help them!’ boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed Read More »
Chinatown Nights (1929) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown Read More »
Fighting Eagle (1927) Donald Crisp, Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver, Sam De Grasse
Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Talleyrand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, as a traitor to Napoleon. Read More »
Moana (1926) Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty, Ta’avale, Fa’amgase, T’ugaita
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »
The House on Trubnaya (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Graham Cutts, Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Nina Vanna
Pierre Boucheron, alias ‘The Rat’ and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. Read More »
Underground (1928) Anthony Asquith, Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Read More »
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 Belle of Broadway (1926) Harry O. Hoyt, Betty Compson, Herbert Rawlinson, Edith Murgatroyd
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. Read More »
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (1920) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation “Die Spinnen” to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia Read More »