Tag: 1925

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Wallace MacDonald, Brandon Hurst
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can’t find the people she left him with.

Director: Various
Stars: Various
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.

Director: Monta Bell
Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Frank Currier
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Lights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel, and is an adaptation of the play The Merry Wives of Gotham by Laurence Eyre (USA). The film has color sequences using tinting, Technicolor, and the Handschiegl color process.

Director: George W. Hill
Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him “Zander”. When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Stars: Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A sensual European countess arrives at a small American town where she quickly provokes moral outrage from the community. Upon arriving, even before she steps out of her taxi a district attorney informs her that loose women aren’t welcome here. Donning a cigarette holder she explains with a seductive smile that she comes from Italy and asks for directions to her cousins château. The femme fatales exploits include drinking, smoking in public, enticing men, wearing extravagant garments and boasting a tattoo of a skull on her forearm.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

After her father’s death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants’ riot. She is then helped by Raynal who falls in love with her but is too shy to tell her. Sheltered by his father, Virginia is robbed by her uncle of the money Raynal gave her to pay the bill in the village. He and his son then start to consider her a thief.

Director: Joseph Henabery
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A penniless, skirt-chasing Italian nobleman finds love and scandal when he travels to New York City.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, Zasu Pitts
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.

Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Stars: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.

Director: William Beaudine
Stars: Mary Pickford, William Haines, Walter James
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

The tenements are home to an international community, including the friends and family of a tough young ragamuffin named Annie Rooney, but their neighborhood may be threatened by a dangerous street gang.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

Director: Ewald André Dupont
Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Prologue: The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. “Boss”, a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ”erotic sensations”. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys “Boss'” happiness.

Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman form a conspiracy known as “The Unholy Three” and commit a series of robberies.

Director: Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Johannes Meyer, Astrid Holm, Karin Nellemose
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Stars: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort, his daughter Greta, who also has lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. She rents a room of the flat she, her young sister and her father are living in to an American Red Cross official, who pays $60 rent, but the money is taken by some of her father’s creditors. But their neighbour, shop owner Mrs Greifer knows how to “help”, she and Mrs. Merkel are running a nightclub with a brothel…

Director: Erich von Stroheim
Stars: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A prince must woo the now wealthy dancer he once abandoned in order to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Germany

Two couples’ romances are fancifully intertwined.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Stella, a small town girl, marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common. The whole thing is a failure; after the birth of their daughter, Laurel, the Dallases separate, and Stephen returns to New York. As Laurel grows into a young woman, Stella realizes that she can?t provide for her properly and sends her to live with Stephen and his new family. Laurel later marries a pleasant upper class boy as Stella stands in the rain, watching the ceremony through a window.

Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Director: King Vidor, George W. Hill
Stars: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.

Director: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick
Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.

Director: Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day.