Tag: 1924

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O’Brien, Patterson Dial
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After 40 years of struggle on the Wyoming frontier, a woman reflects on her hardscrabble life with her unfaithful husband.

Director: E. Mason Hopper
Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Eleanor Boardman, James Morrison, Johnnie Walker
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Unlike earlier generations of Marys who used every trickery to secure husbands, Mary the Third questions the validity of marriage in her search for adventure. Unable to decide between quiet, polite Lynn and aggressive Hal, she follows her suitors, along with sweethearts Max and Tish, on an outing, but an attempted seduction sends her home, where she becomes disillusioned by the quarreling of her parents. When they are reconciled, however, she regains her ideals and accepts Lynn.

Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets a plain but also a very kind young woman. She reveals to him that the house he is staying in is in fact a very old honeymoon cottage. Spirits of newlyweds from the past, who are still swirling through the cottage, soon cast a love spell upon them.

Director: Fred Niblo
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, Frank Currier
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A shy, young man, who is completely incapable of talking to women, decides to write a book that details to other bachelors how to find a girlfriend.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.

Director: Marcel L’Herbier
Stars: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.

Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Lilyan Tashman
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Gloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, a shopgirl who, when her boyfriend breaks their date one evening, goes to a party with a louche crowd of artists and hangers-on. She wows them with some zesty mimicry, and so gains an introduction to a better-paying job, impersonating a high-toned Russian countess to attract snobby customers into a dressmaker’s establishment.

Director: Robert Wiene
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Austria | Germany

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn’t know they once belonged to a murderer.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany

After Siegfried’s dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany

Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried’s head. Is Gunther going to do her that favor?

Director: René Clair
Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia
Genre: Short
Country: France

An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

Director: Erich von Stroheim
Stars: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.