George Barnes

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.

1950년대 초엽의 미국. 거대한 운석이 미국의 한 숲에 떨어진다. 그러나 그 운석은 화성인이 쏘아올린 우주선이었던 것이다. 운석에서는 길다란 백조 목을 한 화성인들이 우주선에서 기어 나와 지구인들을 학살하기 시작한다. 지구인들은 그들이 가진 모든 방법들을 동원해 화성인을 퇴치하려 하지만 아무 소용이 없다. 심지어 그들이 마지막 무기로 내세운 핵 폭탄 마저도…. 해결책은 과연 무엇일까?....

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?

Aging advertising executive Alan Miller is a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called by the elevator operator of a residential hotel to come and intervene in the case of one of the guests, struggling Broadway actress Jenny Carey. The two find they have even more in common than their taste for drink. But Jenny wants to put an end to their romance because Alan is a married man, who moreover is the father of two children. How will Jenny and Alan resolve their feelings without destroying Alan's marriage?

화려한 서커스단을 배경으로 서커스 단원 간의 복잡한 인간 관계를 묘사한 영화

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

성경에 나오는 괴력의 사나이 삼손(빅터 마추어)은 젊은 날엔 방황하며 지낸다.그는 유대민족의 청년이지만, 이방인인 블레셋족의 아름다운 처녀 세마다(안젤라 란스베리)와 결혼하려 한다. 그러나, 그와의 결혼을 반대하는 그녀의 친척들이 공격해오고, 급기야 그 와중에 그녀는 살해당하고 만다. 삼손은 그에 대한 복수를 하기 위해 당나귀 턱뼈로 블레셋족을 닥치는 대로 죽인다. 한편, 죽은 세마다의 여동생인 데릴라는 삼손이 지닌 괴력을 탐지하기 위해 그와 결혼한다. 삼손은 아름답고 변덕스런 데릴라에게 빠졌지만, 자신의 힘의 비밀을 쉽게 알려주려 하지 않는다. 잘못된 정보를 실천에 옮긴 블레셋족들의 낭패를 즐겁게 구경하는 삼손. 하지만 데릴라는 그를 구슬려서 결국 긴 머리칼에 힘의 원천임을 알아내고, 머리칼을 자른다. 이리하여 블레셋족의 노예로 전락한 그는 10년 동안 감금되는데, 그제서야 여호와를 찾으며 그동안의 죄를 참회한다. 그동안 그의 머리칼은 계속 자라지만, 어느 누구 하나 눈여겨보는 이가 없다. 마침내 10년 후 블레셋족이 잔치가 있던 날, 삼손을 이끌어내서 희롱하려고 한다. 이때 이미 눈이 먼 그는 거대한 팔레스타인 사원의 기둥을 잡고, 자신의 마지막 힘을 다 써서 무너뜨린다. 처음에는 비웃던 사람들이 그의 괴력으로 빚어진 참사에 놀라고, 데릴라 역시 그 소동의 와중에 비참한 최후를 맞이한다.

Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past -- and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the married attorney, Jordon seduces the easily swayed Marshall, and uses him to cover up her misdeeds. When Jordon becomes the prime suspect for the murder of her wealthy aunt, she turns to Marshall, who goes to great lengths to clear her name.

가난한 어린 시절을 보낸 조는 현재 거물 갱스터 터커 밑에서 변호사로 일하고 있다. 터커는 숫자 도박의 번호를 조작해 거금을 손에 넣으려 하고, 조는 이 사실을 알고 마음에 갈등을 느낀다. 아브라함 폴론스키 감독의 데뷔작. 이후 감독은 반국가행위조사위원회에서 증언을 거부함으로써 블랙리스트에 올랐고, 가명을 쓰는 등 연출 활동에 제한을 받아야 했다.

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.

Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.

천성적으로 인정이 넘치는 샘은 도움을 청하는 사람들을 그냥 지나치지 못한다. 그는 자신은 물론 가족의 재산까지도 기꺼이 내놓는다. 그러다 보니 샘이 저지른 일의 뒤치다꺼리는 모두 자연스럽게 아내 루의 몫이 되고 만다. 그러던 어느 날, 이사를 앞두고 계약금을 지불하려던 루는 샘이 자신 모르게 전 재산을 남에게 빌려 주었다는 사실을 알게 되고, 샘 가족은 파산 위기에 처하게 된다. 샘이 베푼 온정은 과연 다시 샘에게 돌아올 것인가. (2018년 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 레오 맥커리 특별전)

At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.

Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.

Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."

A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.

관습에 얽매이지 않는 젊은 신부 오말리가 변두리 교구 성 메리에 부임한다. 부임 첫날, 오말리 신부는 교구 학교의 아이들에게 잊지 못할 첫 인사를 남겨 완고하고 헌신적인 원장 수녀 베네딕트를 당황하게 만든다. 한편, 낡은 학교는 철거될 위기에 처하고, 서로 다른 관점으로 이견이 많던 오말리 신부와 베네딕트 수녀는 마음을 모아 학교를 구하기 위해 노력한다. 할리우드 코미디의 거장 레오 맥커리의 작품으로, (1944)에 이어 오말리 신부를 중심으로 전쟁으로 지친 사람들의 마음을 위로한다. 잉그리드 버그만은 엄격하지만 한없이 따스한 베네딕트 수녀 역을 맡아 잔잔하게 가슴을 울리는 연기로 찬사를 받았다. (영화의 전당 - 오래된 극장 2016)

그린 매너스 정신병원에서는 원장인 머치슨 박사가 은퇴하고 저명한 정신과 의사인 에드워즈 박사(그레고리 펙)가 새로 부임한다. 그러나 막상 도착한 에드워즈 박사의 모습은 예상외로 젊고 이상한 점이 많다. 병원 직원들의 질문에 모호하게 답하는가 하면 식사 도중에는 포크에 의해 만들어진 자국들을 보고는 극도의 불안감을 보여주기도 한다. 젊고 아름다운 여자 의사인 피터슨(잉그리드 버그만)은 에드워즈와 사랑에 빠지지만 결국 그가 심각한 정신분열증에 시달리는 가짜라는 사실을 알게 된다.

Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene. governed by Don Juan Alvardo, Spainish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesa, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks the jealous Anne Bonney and,also, Captain Benjamin Black, who was already irked, anyway. They overpower Laurent and send Francesa to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado also.

When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.

나는 영국의 불황기였던 1820년에 태어났다. 돈과 지위가 전부였고 사랑이란 단어는 냉대받던 시절이다. 종교는 편협과 잔혹이란 가면을 쓰고 있었으며 가난하고 불행한 자들이 갈 곳은 없었다. 나는 부모 형제가 없는 고아로 게이트헤드의 리드 숙모님 댁에서 어린 시절을 보냈다. 나는 그녀에게서 따뜻한 말 한마디를 들은 기억이 없다.

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...

Several servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal disease. A graphic and frank presentation of the types and treatment of venereal disease follows.

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

신문기자 앤 미첼은 새로운 경영진에 의해 해고통지를 받자, 존 도우라는 이름으로 신문사에 편지를 보내 기사로 게재한다. 타락한 사회에 경종을 울리기 위해 크리스마스 이브에 스스로 목숨을 끊겠다는 기사의 내용은 사회적으로 큰 반향을 일으키고, 앤은 해고를 모면한다. 하지만 그녀는 실재하지 않는 존 도우를 만들어내야 하게 되고, 우여곡절 끝에 전직야구선수 롱 존 윌러비가 그 역할을 맡게 된다

Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.

평범하고 수줍음 잘 타는 그녀는 몬테 카를로에서 몇년 전 아내 레베카와 사별한 부유한 신사 맥심을 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 그녀는 아직도 전처를 잃은 슬픔에 다소 불안정한 심리 상태의 맥심과 결혼 후 그의 대저택 '맨덜리'에 입성한다. 아름답지만 음산하고 기묘한 분위기를 풍기는 대저택 ‘맨덜리’는 죽은 레베카가 마치 살아 숨쉬고 있는 것처럼 레베카에게 깊게 물들어 있다. 집사 댄버스 부인 마저 시종일관 무표정함을 유지하며 경계심을 드러내 그녀를 노이로제 상태로 몰아간다. 하지만 남편 맥심은 자신의 심적 고통 때문에 미처 그녀에게 신경을 쓰지 못하고 그들 부부의 결혼 생활은 위기를 맞이하게 된다. 어느 비 바람 몰아치던 저녁, ‘맨덜리’ 저택의 비밀이 드러날 사건이 일어나는데…

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

남북전쟁이 막 끝난 미국은 또 다시 대륙횡단 철도사업이라는 명목 하에 권력층의 약탈이 자행되는 곳으로 변모된다. 제시제임스와 프랭크 제임스 형제는 철도사 직원의 실수로 어머니를 잃게되고, 철도사와 권력층의 부패에 분노하여 스스로 정의의 무법자가 된다. 철도사와 정부의 탐관오리들을 향한 그들의 무법 활동은 서민들의 큰 지지를 받는다. 하지만 내부의 배신이라는 위험이 점점 제시를 옭아매는데...

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.

Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.

A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.

Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

브로드웨이 프로듀서로 코미디 뮤지컬을 제작해 온 체스터 켄트는 유성 영화의 등장으로 인해 사업상의 위기를 맞이한다. 궁여지책 끝에 그는 짧은 뮤지컬식 영화 도입부를 제작해주는 사업으로 크게 성공을 거두게 된다. 하지만 곧 새로운 아이디어를 내야 한다는 압박에 시달리고, 설상가상으로 라이벌은 그의 작품들을 훔쳐내간다. 그리고 주변의 크고 작은 문제들까지 겹쳐 위기에 봉착하게 되는데... 뮤지컬 감독으로서 버스비 버클리 최고의 뮤지컬 장면들을 감상할 수 있는 영화. (2010년 4회 서울충무로국제영화제)

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.

Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.

Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.

When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.

A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.

At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.

한여름, 뜨거운 뉴욕의 거리. 존스 부인은 이웃들과 모여 안나와 스티브의 관계에 대해 떠들어댄다. 한편, 출장을 갔던 안나의 남편 프랭크는 예정보다 일찍 돌아오는데, 잠시 후 비명과 총소리가 울리고 거리는 구경꾼들로 가득 찬다. 총을 든 프랭크가 붙잡히고, 안나는 병원으로 후송된다. 퓰리처상을 수상한 동명의 희곡을 영화화했으며, 작가 엘머 라이스가 직접 시나리오를 썼다. 하루 정도의 시간과 한정된 공간에서 킹 비더는 긴장감 넘치는 극적 분위기를 자유자재로 만들어냈다.

John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.

A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.

Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.

Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.

A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.

A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."

Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.

This film was released in both silent and sound versions.

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.

The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.

A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.

A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.

Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.

An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.

The Magic Flame (1927) is a feature film directed by Henry King, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the play Konig Harlekin by Rudolph Lothar. George Barnes was nominated at the 1st Academy Awards for Best Cinematography. The film promoted itself as the Romeo and Juliet of the circus upon its release.

A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.

A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.

Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to take the bride to his castle for a night. Rather than accede to the duke's advances, the girl chooses death by her own hand. Montero swears vengeance.....

아리조나 사막이 배경인데 광활한 사막에서 인간이 자연에 맞서 싸우기도 하고 두려워 하기도 하는 모습을 스펙타클하면서도 섬세하게 잡아냅니다.

아흐메드 벤 하산 족장과 다이애나의 아들인 아흐메드는 부랑자 떼의 두목의 딸, 야스민과 사랑에 빠지고 둘은 사람들의 눈을 피해 밀애를 즐긴다. 하지만 아흐메드가 족장의 아들이란 걸 알게 된 부랑자들이 아흐메드를 납치해 몸값을 얻어내려는 사건이 발생한다. 가까스로 위기에서 탈출한 아흐메드는 야스민도 그들과 한패라고 오해하며 그녀에게 사랑과 증오 두 가지 마음을 품게 된다

제정 러시아를 배경으로, 피폐한 민중을 돕는 의적으로 역시 발렌티노 다운 면모를 아낌 없이 보여주는 영화. 약간의 코믹한 연기까지 가미된 그의 능청스러움과 영화적 재미를 더해주는 풍자와 마지막 반전의 매력도 함께 들어있는 복수 활극

Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.

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.

The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .

PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.

After a brief courtship, Rose Stanton (Florence Vidor) marries lawyer Rodney Aldrich (Clyde Fillmore). She wants to be a helpmate, rather than just a plaything to him, but her attempts to study law are met with derision. So Rose leaves Rodney and goes to New York, explaining in a note that she will return when she has earned the right to be his equal. Rose heads for Broadway and lands in the chorus, but soon enough her talent as a designer is discovered and the great Ziegfeld gives her a two year contract to create the costumes for the Follies.

After Mark Hanlon gambles away his fortune and his equity in his house, his daughter Molly marries Kirk, proprietor of the gambling hall; and as mistress of the gaming tables, she meets young Miles Rand, exiled to the West for his reckless behavior.

Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.

Betsy Thorne (Bennett) travels to investigate a missing man where she overhears a conversation between the sheriff and an imported detective that reporters are barred from the house and grounds where the mystery has taken place. She comes across a maid sent to the house from Richmond, and so frightens her that she gains a chance to act in her place. During the first night at the house she is terrified when she sees a ghostly figure come from the grand organ. The house is roused by her screams as she flees the room, and she is forbidden from going back there by the sister of the missing man. During the following night she is locked in her room during a thunderstorm, and while escaping through a window sees the ghostly figure again in the family graveyard. She makes an investigation which starts from a particular chord played at the grand organ. They find that certain keys cause a secret door in the organ to open, revealing a secret passage to a family tomb.

A couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell shock, sees the cross of shame on Jenevieve's breast, gets his memory back and the two pledge their troth.