Tag: 1921

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation that he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near suicide Annie only to have her rob him of his wallet. “Satan” Synne, the “wickedest woman in New York,” looks promising but she’s only plying her trade to help raise funds for her husband’s surgery. He decides to return to his wife, with all her faults, only to find her carousing with his best friend Max.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or risking his life and exacting vengeance.

Director: Rex Ingram
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Germany

When a woman’s fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Sweden

On New Year’s Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.