Silent screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) sounds off in his all-talking debut Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Bulldog Drummond (1929) F. Richard Jones, Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant
Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. Read More »
Skull AKA Dokuro (1927) Sentarô Shirai, Utaemon Ichikawa, Kokuten Kôdô, Ritsuko Niizuma
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Read More »
Four Sons (1928) John Ford, James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton
In Burgendorf, Bavaria, Mother Bernle has four sons. Franz is in the army, Johann works at the forge, Andreas tends the sheep. Read More »
So This Is Paris (1926) Ernst Lubitsch, Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman
Georgette live in Paris with her rather unexciting and effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Read More »
Smouldering Fires (1925) Clarence Brown, Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn’t know that he is in love with her younger sister. Read More »
The Singing Fool (1928) Lloyd Bacon, Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn
Al Stone is singing waiter in a speakeasy who is in love with Molly, the singing star at the speakeasy, but she spurns him. Read More »
Disraeli (1929) Alfred E. Green, George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Biopic of the famed British Prime Minister focusing on his concern about Russia’s growing interest in the Indian subcontinent and his attempts to buy the Suez Canal. Read More »
Maciste in Hell AKA Maciste all’inferno (1925) Guido Brignone, Bartolomeo Pagano, Umberto Guarracino, Mario Saio
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality. Read More »
Condemned! (1929) Wesley Ruggles, Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil’s Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges. Read More »
The Last Command (1928) Josef von Sternberg, Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell
A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. Read More »
The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926) James W. Horne, Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris, Snitz Edwards
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as ‘Jerry Cleggert’, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates Read More »
The Marriage Circle (1924) Ernst Lubitsch, Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Read More »
Welcome Danger (1929) Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco Read More »
Kentucky Pride (1925) John Ford, Gertrude Astor, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry B. Walthall
The story of a Beaumont race horse, told through from the point of view of the horse via intertitles. Read More »