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Subgenre Sampler
Mother (1926)
- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov - In one of the masterpieces of early Russian cinema, a fable of pre–revolutionary worker–resistance and Tsarist oppression is heightened…
Son of the Sheik (1926)- Dir. George Fitzmaurice
Feat. Rudolph Valentino - Rudolf Valentino's most famous and best outing is a high camp romp in the desert in which he plays the dual role of father and son, no doubt to…
Tartuffe (Herr Tartuff) (1926)- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha - This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a…
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)- Dir. Harry Edwards
Feat. Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford - An overlooked silent oddity from Harry Langdon, whose boyish innocence contrasted sharply against the likes of contemporaries Chaplin and Keaton.…
Battleship Potemkin (1925)- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov - This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Eagle, The (1925)- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Rudolph Valentino - Rudolph Valentino's penultimate picture – and one of his most popular – in which he plays a Russian lieutenant who becomes a masked…
Gold Rush, The (1925)- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain - Immortal comedy with Charlie Chaplin at his clownish best. The Little Tramp is a lone gold prospector who through a series of adventures, strikes it…
Greed (1925)- Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt - One of the great silent masterpieces paints a savagely ironical portrait of a mismatched marriage in oldtime San Francisco, ruined through greed of…
Kriemhilde's Revenge (Die Nibelungen Pt. 2) (1925)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Margarete Schon, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos - Second part of Lang's Die Nibelungen saga (Part One – SIEGFRIED) has the aggrieved Kriemhilde joining forces with Attila the Hun against her…
Last Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925)- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings - One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
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