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1929 drama films
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The list 1929 drama films includes
Speakeasy, Show Boat, Pandora's Box, The Pagan and The Black Watch.
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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 ...
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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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Pandora's Box
1929 film
Overview: Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. The film follows Lulu ...
Release date: 30 January 1929Genre: Crime, Drama, RomanceDirector: Georg Wilhelm PabstProducer: Heinz Landsmann, Seymour NebenzalWriter: Frank Wedekind, Ladislaus VajdaThe rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her. 0
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Coquette
1929 film by Sam Taylor
Overview: Coquette is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film, starring Mary Pickford. The film was a box office success. For her role, Pickford won the second Academy Award for Best Actress.
Release date: 30 March 1929Genre: DramaDirector: Sam TaylorProducer: Mary Pickford, Sam TaylorWriter: George Abbott, Ann Preston BridgersA flirtatious southern belle is compromised with one of her beaus. 0
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The Pagan
1929 film
Overview: The Pagan is a 1929 synchronized sound romantic drama filmed in Tahiti and produced and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical ...
Release date: 27 April 1929Genre: DramaDirector: W.S. Van DykeWriter: John Russell, Dorothy FarnumA carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself. 0
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Wild Orchids
1929 film by Sidney Franklin
Overview: Wild Orchids is a 1929 American synchronized sound drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther. Only these three stars received ...
Release date: 23 February 1929Genre: Romance, DramaDirector: Sidney FranklinA prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered. 0
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Wolf Song
1929 film
Overview: Wolf Song is a 1929 American sound part-talkie Western romance film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Vélez. While the film has a few sequences with dialog, the majority of the ...
Release date: 30 March 1929Genre: Western, Romance, DramaDirector: Victor FlemingProducer: B.P. Fineman, Lucien HubbardWriter: Harvey Fergusson, John FarrowIn 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats... 0
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The Black Watch
1929 film by John Ford
Overview: The Black Watch is a 1929 American Pre-Code adventure epic film directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, and David Torrence. It was written by James Kevin McGuinness and based on ...Release date: 8 May 1929Genre: Drama, AdventureDirector: John FordProducer: James Kevin McGuinness, Talbot MundyCaptain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward... 0
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Noah's Ark
1928 film
Overview: Noah's Ark is a 1928 American part-talkie epic disaster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello and George O'Brien. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences ...
Release date: 1 November 1928Genre: War, Drama, ActionDirector: Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. ZanuckCast: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul McAllisterProducer: Darryl F. ZanuckWriter: Darryl F. Zanuck, Anthony ColdewayThe Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War. 0
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Girls Gone Wild
1929 film by Lewis Seiler
Overview: Girls Gone Wild was a 1929 pre-Code American melodrama film produced and released by Fox Film Corporation. The film was controversial as an early example of the rising tide of violence and disrespect for ...Release date: 24 March 1929Genre: DramaDirector: Lewis SeilerProducer: Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Beulah Marie Dix 0
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Dynamite
1929 film
Overview: Dynamite is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, and Julia Faye. Written by Jeanie MacPherson, John Howard ...
Release date: 13 December 1929Genre: DramaDirector: Cecil B. DeMilleProducer: Cecil B. DeMilleWriter: Jeanie Macpherson, John Howard LawsonWealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation... 0
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Diary of a Lost Girl
1929 film
Overview: Diary of a Lost Girl (German: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) is a 1929 German silent film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring American silent star Louise Brooks. The film was shot in black and white, and ...
Release date: 27 September 1929Genre: DramaDirector: Georg Wilhelm PabstProducer: Georg Wilhelm PabstWriter: Margarete Böhme, Rudolf LeonhardtAfter falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school. 0
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Blackmail
1929 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Overview: Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard. Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, the film is about ...
Release date: 30 June 1929Genre: Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: Alfred HitchcockProducer: John MaxwellWriter: Charles Bennett, Alfred HitchcockAlice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland... 0
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Asphalt
1929 film
Overview: Asphalt is a 1929 German silent film directed by Joe May. The film stars Gustav Fröhlich and Betty Amann and is about a young woman in Berlin who is driven into poverty and steals a valuable piece of ...
Release date: 12 March 1929Genre: Drama, ComedyDirector: Joe MayCast: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hans AlbersProducer: Max Pfeiffer, Erich PommerWriter: Joe May, Hans SzékelyJoe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German... 0
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His Captive Woman
1929 film
Overview: His Captive Woman is a 1929 American sound part-talkie part-talking drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue ... 0
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Weary River
1929 film by Frank Lloyd
Overview: Weary River is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and William Holden (no relation to William Holden, star of ...
Release date: 10 February 1929Genre: Drama, Romance, MusicalDirector: Frank LloydCast: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden, Louis Natheaux, George E. Stone, Ray TurnerProducer: Frank LloydWriter: Courtney Ryley Cooper, Bradley King 0
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Tide of Empire
1929 film
Overview: Tide of Empire is a 1929 American synchronized sound Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Renée Adorée and Tom Keene. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized ...
Release date: 23 March 1929Genre: WesternDirector: Allan DwanWriter: Peter B. Kyne, Joseph FarnhamCalifornia's gold dicovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits. 0
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The Squall
1929 film
Overview: The Squall is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce and Loretta Young, and based on the 1926 play The Squall by Jean Bart.
Release date: 9 May 1929Genre: DramaDirector: Alexander KordaProducer: Ray RockettWriter: Jean Bart, Bradley KingThe activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who, while on the run from her abusive husband, takes shelter in a farmhouse, where ... 0
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The River
1929 film
Overview: The River is a 1929 sound part-talkie drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film ...
Release date: 6 October 1929Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Frank BorzageProducer: William FoxWriter: John Hunter Booth, Dwight Cummins 0
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The Leatherneck
1929 film
Overview: The Leatherneck is a 1929 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Howard Higgin. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical ...
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