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1920s English-language films
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The list 1920s English-language films includes
Wings, The Virginian, The Phantom of the Opera, The Jazz Singer and It.
The list consists of 5,732 members.
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Tanned Legs
1929 film directed by Marshall Neilan
Overview: Tanned Legs is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical comedy directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Thomas J. Geraghty based on a story by Louis Sarecky. The film starred Ann Pennington, Arthur Lake, June ...
Release date: 10 November 1929Genre: Comedy, MusicalDirector: Marshall NeilanProducer: William LeBaron, Louis SareckyWriter: Thomas J. Geraghty, Louis SareckyPeggy (June Clyde) and Bill (Arthur Lake) are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put...
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Pretty Ladies
1925 film
Overview: Pretty Ladies is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies. Directed by Monta Bell ...
Release date: 15 July 1925Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Monta BellWriter: Adela Rogers St. Johns, Alice D.G. MillerMaggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy... 0
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925 film
Overview: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew ...
Release date: 30 December 1925Genre: Adventure, Drama, RomanceDirector: Fred Niblo, Charles BrabinProducer: Kevin Brownlow, J.J. CohnWriter: Lew Wallace, June MathisA Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. 0
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Rough House Rosie
1927 film
Overview: Rough House Rosie is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film produced and released by Paramount Pictures and directed by Frank Strayer. The film is a starring vehicle for Clara Bow who was then Pa ...
Release date: 14 May 1927Genre: Comedy, Romance, SportDirector: Frank R. StrayerProducer: B.P. SchulbergWriter: Ethel Doherty, Nunnally JohnsonA poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives. 0
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Speakeasy
1929 film
Overview: Speakeasy is a 1929 American pre-Code sports drama film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Edwin J. Burke. The picture was produced and distributed by Fox Film C ... 0
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Old Clothes
1925 film
Overview: Old Clothes is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford. It was a sequel to The Rag Man.
Release date: 9 November 1925Genre: DramaDirector: Edward F. ClineProducer: Jack Coogan Sr.Writer: Robert E. Hopkins, Willard MackTimothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets... 0
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Wings
1927 film
Overview: Wings is a 1927 American silent and synchronized sound film known for winning the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Due to the general public's apathy towards silent films, the film was quickly re ...
Release date: 12 August 1927Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Action, AdventureDirector: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'ArrastProducer: Lucien Hubbard, B.P. SchulbergWriter: John Monk Saunders, Hope LoringTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. 0
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927 film
Overview: Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1927 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and released by Universal Pictures. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized ...
Release date: 4 November 1927Genre: Drama, HistoryDirector: Harry A. PollardCast: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann, Eulalie Jensen, Mona RayProducer: Carl Laemmle, Harry A. PollardWriter: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walter AnthonySlavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War. 0
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The Wild Party
1929 film
Overview: The Wild Party is a 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Clara Bow and Fredric March. Released by Paramount Pictures, it is known as Bow's first talkie. It is the fifth film ...
Release date: 6 April 1929Genre: Comedy, DramaDirector: Dorothy ArznerProducer: E. Lloyd SheldonWriter: Samuel Hopkins Adams, E. Lloyd SheldonWild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames... 0
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The Virginian
1929 film
Overview: The Virginian is a 1929 American pre-Code Western film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, and Richard Arlen. The film was based on the 1902 novel The Virginian by Owen ...
Release date: 9 November 1929Genre: WesternDirector: Victor FlemingProducer: Louis D. Lighton, B.P. SchulbergWriter: Owen Wister, Kirk La ShelleA good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling ... 0
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Show of Shows
1929 film
Overview: The Show of Shows is a 1929 American pre-Code musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all-talking Vitaphone production cost almost $800,000 and was shot almost ...
Release date: 21 November 1929Genre: MusicalDirector: John G. AdolfiProducer: Harry M. Warner, Jack L. WarnerWriter: J. Keirn Brennan, Frank Fay 0
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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 film
Overview: The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel of the same name directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed ...
Release date: 6 September 1925Genre: Drama, HorrorDirector: Rupert Julian, Lon ChaneyProducer: Carl LaemmleWriter: Gaston Leroux, Walter AnthonyA mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. 0
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The Jazz Singer
1927 film by Alan Crosland
Overview: The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized ...Release date: 6 October 1927Genre: Drama, Music, RomanceDirector: Alan CroslandWriter: Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. CohnThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy his father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer. 0
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 film
Overview: The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American drama film starring Lon Chaney, directed by Wallace Worsley, and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. The supporting cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller ...
Release date: 2 September 1923Genre: Drama, History, RomanceDirector: Wallace WorsleyProducer: Carl Laemmle, Irving ThalbergWriter: Victor Hugo, Perley Poore SheehanIn 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love ... 0
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921 film by Rex Ingram
Overview: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 American silent epic war film produced by Metro Pictures Corporation and directed by Rex Ingram. Based on the 1916 Spanish novel The Four Horsemen of the ...
Release date: 6 March 1921Genre: Drama, Romance, WarDirector: Rex IngramCast: Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Bridgetta Clark, Rudolph Valentino, Virginia Warwick, Alan HaleProducer: Kevin Brownlow, David GillWriter: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, June MathisAn extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I. 0
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The Circus
1928 film by Charlie Chaplin
Overview: The Circus is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman ...Release date: 6 January 1928Genre: Comedy, Family, Drama, Romance, AdventureDirector: Charles ChaplinProducer: Charles ChaplinWriter: Charles ChaplinThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus. 0
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The Big Parade
1925 film
Overview: The Big Parade is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane. Written by World War I veteran Laurence ...
Release date: 5 November 1925Genre: Drama, Romance, WarDirector: King Vidor, George W. HillProducer: Kevin Brownlow, David GillWriter: Laurence Stallings, Harry BehnA young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War. 0
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Sunrise
1927 film
Overview: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien ...
Release date: 23 September 1927Genre: Drama, Romance, CrimeDirector: F.W. MurnauCast: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ralph SipperlyProducer: William FoxWriter: Carl Mayer, Hermann SudermannA sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself r ... 0
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Show Boat
1929 film
Overview: Show Boat is a 1929 American pre-Code sound part-talkie romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the 1927 stage musical of the same name as a ...
Release date: 16 March 1929Genre: Musical, Romance, DramaDirector: Harry A. Pollard, Arch HeathProducer: Carl Laemmle Jr.Writer: Edna Ferber, Edward J. MontaigneA mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition 0
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Safety Last!
1923 film
Overview: Safety Last! is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he ...
Release date: 1 April 1923Genre: Comedy, Romance, Family, Action, Thriller, AdventureDirector: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam TaylorProducer: Kevin Brownlow, David GillWriter: Hal Roach, Sam TaylorA boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His ... 0
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