Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Pandora's Box (1928)- Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer - Louise Brooks become a star and influenced a million haircuts as the voluptuous call–girl, Lulu, whose misdeeds meet with an appropriate fate.
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Renee Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Michel Simon… - An intense recreation of Joan of Arc’s trial and sentence that qualifies as one of cinema’s most transcendental achievements. Consisting…
Phantom of the Opera (1928)- Dir. Rupert Julian
Feat. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Gibson Gowland - First screen version of the Gaston Leroux novel with Lon Chaney grimacing through his greatest hour as the phantom. The atmosphere is creepy and the…
Show People (1928)- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson… - A satire of Hollywood life in the last of the silent years, this rom–com from director King Vidor (THE FOUNTAINHEAD) has Marion Davies playing…
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