86% (2)  Flesh and the Devil  112 min,  Passed,  [Drama, Romance]  [Clarence Brown]  [25 Dec 1926]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 80%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 92%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win.
Actors:  Barbara Kent, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson
Writer:  Benjamin Glazer (screen play), Hermann Sudermann (from the novel "The Undying Past" by), Marian Ainslee (titles)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  N/A    Country:  USA
Plot:  Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station. Awed by her beauty, they meet again at the ball and quietly leave together. In her room, her husband, about whom she has neglected to inform Leo, comes in and challenges Leo to a duel. The duel is done, the Count is killed, and Felicitas is a widow. Leo, however, is 'requested' to serve 5 years in Africa and he tells Ulrich to watch over Felicitas while he is gone. After 3 years, Ulrich is able to get a pardon for Leo, and all that Leo thinks about on the way home is Felicitas. When he arrives, he learns that Felicitas has married Ulrich. Felicitas likes that Ulrich is rich and she never told Ulrich the truth about Leo and her. Leo is crushed and does not visit them which saddens Ulrich as he does not know the reason why. Leo tries to stay away from her, but Felicitas uses every opportunity to tempt him to return to her as her lover. She creating a deadly triangle with the two life long friends.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Flesh and the Devil is a romantic melodrama that is most memorable for its nostalgic evocation of an impossibly elegant Austria, as well as for an erotically charged Communion service.
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79% (2)  Lonesome  69 min,  Passed,  [Comedy, Drama, Romance]  [Pál Fejös]  [10 Jan 1929]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 80%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 78%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win.
Actors:  Barbara Kent, Fay Holderness, Glenn Tryon, Gusztáv Pártos
Writer:  Mann Page (story), Edward T. Lowe Jr. (adaptation), Edward T. Lowe Jr. (scenario), Tom Reed (scenario), Tom Reed (titles)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  A lonesome boy and a lonesome girl meet accidentally on their Saturday-off at Coney Island. It is love at fight sight but over the bewilderment of their sudden romance and escape from loneliness, they don't even realize they don'y even known each other's name until a fire breaks out and they are separated.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the same rooming house in New York City, though they've never met; Jim works in a metal fabricating plant, and Mary runs a switchboard for the telephone company. While both have friends, they both long for something more in their lives. One afternoon, Jim decides to go to Coney Island to see the famous amusement park, and on the bus he spies Mary. Jim finds her attractive, and eventually works up the nerve to introduce himself on the beach. The two discover they share a mutual attraction, and over the course of the day Jim and Mary fall in love, while a visit to a fortune teller suggests to Mary that she's met the man who will become her husband. However, Jim and Mary are separated, and despite their best efforts the two don't know how to find one another again. Lonesome was released in 1929, as silent films were giving way to talking pictures; the picture was originally released silent, though it was soon reissued in a version with sound sequences.
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78% (1)  Indiscreet  92 min,  PASSED,  [Comedy, Drama, Musical]  [Leo McCarey]  [16 May 1931]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 78%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Barbara Kent, Ben Lyon, Gloria Swanson, Monroe Owsley
Writer:  Buddy G. DeSylva (story "Obey That Impulse"), Lew Brown (story "Obey That Impulse"), Buddy G. DeSylva (scenario), Lew Brown (scenario), Ray Henderson (scenario)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  On New Year's Eve, Geraldine ('Jerry') Trent decides to break up with her boyfriend Jim Woodward, having finally grown tired of his dishonesty and his infidelities. Soon afterward, Geraldine meets and falls in love with novelist Anthony Blake. Blake knows that she has had a man in her past, but he is content as long as he never finds out who it was. All seems well until her sister Joan returns from a trip, and happily introduces Woodward as the new man in her life.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with producer Joseph M. Schenck, which paid her a straight (and very hefty) salary for both productions. The first film completed under this arrangement was the trivial romantic comedy- musical Indiscreet, scripted and scored by songwriters Buddy G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson, and Lew Brown and directed by the matchless Leo McCarey. Swanson plays Geraldine "Gerry" Trent, a worldly socialite who endeavors to protect her sister Joan (Barbara Kent) from the lecherous machinations of Jim Woodward (Monroe Owsley). But when Joan discovers that Jerry and Woodward were once lovers themselves, she mistakenly believes that Jerry's attempts to break up her romance is motivated by jealousy. In fact, Jerry is completely committed to Joan's brother Tony Blake (Ben Lyon). One of the more successful of Gloria Swanson's talkies, Indiscreet posted a much-needed profit for financially strapped United Artists.
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72% (1)  The Drop Kick  62 min,  [Drama, Sport]  [Millard Webb]  [25 Sep 1927]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 72%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Barbara Kent, Dorothy Revier, Eugene Strong, Richard Barthelmess
Writer:  Katharine Brush (story "Glitter"), Winifred Dunn
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A fictional story of a college football star who is suspected of murdering the coach. He then comes back to win the big game. This film includes 10 college football stars of the day, from various universities.
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69% (1)  Feet First  93 min,  PASSED,  [Comedy]  [Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd]  [08 Nov 1930]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 69%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Barbara Kent, Harold Lloyd, Lillian Leighton, Robert McWade
Writer:  John Grey (story), Alfred A. Cohn (story), Clyde Bruckman (story), Felix Adler (scenario), Lex Neal (scenario), Paul Girard Smith (dialogue)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In his second talking film, Harold Lloyd plays a shoe salesman who does just about anything to encourage a young woman's mistaken impression that he's a millionaire. The film climaxes with Lloyd stuck outside on the ledges of lofty building, in the most elaborate--and maybe the funniest!--"thrill sequence" of his career.
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62% (1)  Welcome Danger  113 min,  Passed,  [Comedy]  [Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair]  [12 Oct 1929]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 62%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Barbara Kent, Charles Middleton, Harold Lloyd, Noah Young
Writer:  Paul Girard Smith (dialogue), Felix Adler (story), Lex Neal (story), Clyde Bruckman (story)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, Cantonese, German    Country:  USA
Plot:  Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A stuffy milquetoast botanist is forced to prove his mettle when he must travel back home to fill his prominent police-captain father's sizable shoes, resulting in the breaking up of a notorious drug ring. Harold Lloyd's first all-talkie is wildly uneven, often miscalculated and clumsy, but frequently hilarious.
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