91% (2) The Wind 95 min, [Drama, Romance, Western] [Victor Sjöström] [23 Nov 1928]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 83%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Dorothy Cumming, Lars Hanson, Lillian Gish, Montagu Love
Writer: Frances Marion (scenario), Dorothy Scarborough (from the novel by)
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Plot: Innocent and naive Letty Mason moves from her Virginia home to Sweet Water on the western prairies to live on the ranch of her cousin Beverly, his wife Cora and their three children. Letty quickly learns how inhospitable the environment in Sweet Water is, the most obvious item being the incessant wind. But equally inhospitable are the unrefined way the people in Sweet Water live to which she is unaccustomed, and Cora, who believes Letty has come to steal Beverly away from her. As such, Cora orders Letty out of her and Bev's house. With no money, Letty is forced to accept one of the marriage proposal she receives, the lesser evil being that from Bev and Cora's ranching neighbor, Lige Hightower, a man who she does not love. Despite a less than harmonious start, Letty, in part due to her isolation as she is more often than not forced to stay inside due to the wind, begins to have affection for Lige, who wants to do right by her, and who promises to send her back to Virginia when he is financial able. But a visitor who takes refuge in their house away from the wind may threaten Letty's ultimate happiness.
Rotten Tomatoes: A country girl goes to live as with her very unpleasant Texas family, where she's forced to deal with a bad marriage, a villainous ex-lover, murder -- and the maddening, never-ceasing desert wind. Deliberately paced, highly symbolic melodrama shot on location in the Mojave Desert.
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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)
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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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78% (1) The Scarlet Letter 115 min, PASSED, [Drama] [Victor Sjöström] [08 Jan 1927]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, External Reviews
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, Lars Hanson, Lillian Gish
Writer: Nathaniel Hawthorne (novel), Frances Marion (adaptation), Frances Marion (titles)
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Plot: In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be: Hester is already married to Roger Prynne, a physician who has been missing seven years. Dimmesdale has to go away to England; when he returns, he finds Hester pregnant with their child, and the focus of the town's censure. In a humiliating public ceremony, she is forced to don the scarlet letter A - for adultery - and wear it the rest of her life. Dimmesdale is encouraged by the church fathers to demand of Hester the person with whom she sinned.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on the classic American novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this silent period drama was put together by star Lillian Gish, who was forced by Louis B. Mayer to assure religious groups that the still-controversial material would not offend their sensibilities. Gish plays heroine Hester Prynne, who becomes the object of affection for Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale (Lars Hanson) in 17th century colonial Massachusetts. Hester is in a loveless marriage to Roger Prynne (Henry B. Walthall), who has not followed her to the colonies. After a trip home to England, Dimmesdale returns to discover that Hester has given birth to his daughter, Pearl, and has been branded with a scarlet letter "A" (for adultery) that she is forced to wear visibly on her person at all times. Hester forces the tortured Dimmesdale to keep the secret of Pearl's paternity, and the sudden appearance of Roger, who was shipwrecked and kidnapped by natives, further complicates matters.
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72% (1) The Divine Woman 80 min, [Drama, Romance] [Victor Sjöström] [14 Jan 1928]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Polly Moran
Writer: John Colton (titles), Dorothy Farnum, Gladys Unger (play)
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Plot: [For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations?
Rotten Tomatoes: People love a good mystery and none were more puzzling than Greta Garbo. Hollywood Remembers: The Divine Garbo recalls the smoky-voiced actress who dictated the parameters of her own stardom. Garbo was a young star, showing up on film at the tender age of 19. Her career lasted a mere 16 years before she entered a self-imposed seclusion. But while she acted, Garbo was an American icon favored for her textured voice and penetrating presence. This program, hosted by Glenn Close, features seldom-seen footage of the famous face and a collection of her greatest hits.
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71% (1) Homecoming 78 min, PASSED, [Drama, Romance, War] [Joe May] [17 Nov 1928]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Dita Parlo, Gustav Fröhlich, Lars Hanson, Theodor Loos
Writer: Leonhard Frank (novel), Joe May (scenario), Fritz Wendhausen (scenario)
External Links: Wikipedia IMDb Language: German Country: Germany
Plot: Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
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71% (1) The Informer 83 min, [Drama] [Arthur Robison] [17 Oct 1929]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Carl Harbord, Lars Hanson, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward
Writer: Benn W. Levy (dialogue), Liam O'Flaherty (novel)
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Plot: In Ireland, an IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.
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