Subgenre Sampler
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this pivotal silent film harnessed the nascent talents of many other German film–makers that would come to…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus… - Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
Alfred Hitchcock Silent Double (The Manxman, The Ring) (1928-1929)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Two silent films from Hitchcock's early career.
Circus, The (1928)- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin - Chaplin's Little Tramp stumbles into a travelling circus where he falls in love and finds work as a circus clown and high–wire artist. Hasn't…
Docks of New York, The (1928)- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. George Bancroft, Betty Compson - George Bancroft plays a roughneck stoker who gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for a wise and weary…
L'Argent (Money) (1928)- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Pierre Alcover, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel… - Classic of the late silent era from French filmmaker, writer and film theorist Marcel L'Herbier, based on the book of the same name by Émile…
Last Command, The (1928)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Emil Jannings - Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra…
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)- Dir. Herbert Brenon
Feat. Lon Chaney, Loretta Young, Nils Asther… - Profoundly moving melodrama with Lon Chaney playing a traveling circus clown who raises an abandoned child as his daughter, but falls into deep…
Man Who Laughs, The (1928)- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova - One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
- October : 10 Days That Shook the World (1928)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikandrov , N. Popov, Boris Livanov - A brilliant reconstruction of the momentous events of 1917, when revolutionary soldiers overthrew the provisional Government bringing Lenin and the…
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