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The Bordellos of Algiers (1927) on 25 may 1928
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Maria Jacobini, Camilla Horn, Warwick Ward, Jean Bradin, Elizza La Porta, Franz Schafheitlin
The Street of Sin (1928) on 26 may 1928
, 1h10Directed by Mauritz Stiller, Josef von Sternberg, Ludwig Berger, Ludwig Berger, Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Olga Baclanova, Emil Jannings, Fay Wray
Rating69%
Tempest (1928) on 27 may 1928
, 1h51Directed by Lewis Milestone, Victor Tourjanski, Sam Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, George Fawcett, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fast, Ullrich Haupt
Rating66%
The film is set during final days of Czarist Russia and revolves around a peasant who rises through the ranks of the Russian army ending up a Lieutenant. His life is made increasingly difficult by the aristocrats and officers around him who are resentful of his progress. He then finds himself rejected by a princess he falls in love with and, having been caught in her room, is put in prison. There he is stripped of his rank but soon after the Russian Civil War starts and as a result of the Red Terror the tables are turned.
His Tiger Lady (1928) on 27 may 1928
, 1hDirected by Hobart Henley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Evelyn Brent, Rose Dione, Émile Chautard
Rating63%
Walking Back (1928) on 21 may 1928
, 1h2Directed by Rupert Julian, Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sue Carol, Ivan Lebedeff, Robert Edeson, Rupert Julian, Florence Turner, Jane Keckley
Rating67%
Oh, What a Knight (1928) on 27 may 1928
, 6minutesDirected by Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Court métrage Disney d'Oswald le lapin chanceux, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Rating63%
Oswald est un troubadour chevauchant une mule mais chute d'une colline directement dans un château médiéval. Il tente de conquérir une princesse (Ortensia) gardée prisonnière par son père, Pete.
The Hawk's Nest (1928) on 27 may 1928
Directed by Benjamin Christensen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Sōjin Kamiyama, Montagu Love, Mitchell Lewis, Stuart Holmes
The title of The Hawk's Nest comes from the speakeasy around which most of the action revolves. Two bootleggers, played by Milton Sills and Mitchell Lewis, quarrel over a dancer (Doris Kenyon) while a political assassination plot.
The Lion and the Mouse (1928) on 21 may 1928
, 1h5Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors May McAvoy, Lionel Barrymore, Alec B. Francis, William Collier Jr.
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating appearance of a conflict of interests. When one of the Judge's enemies plots to ruin the Judge over this apparent improper behavior, Judge Ross's daughter Shirley sets out to prove her father's innocence.