Top Movies of 1920s


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121. The Freshman

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, James Anderson, Hazel Keener, Joseph Harrington
Plot: Harold Lamb thinks he is prepared for college - by practicing what he has seen in movies - but once he arrives at Tate University - he soon becomes the target of ridicule. The nerdy Lamb makes a friend in Peggy and decides he will do anything to turn around his life and become the most popular big man on campus.

122. Blackmail

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard
Plot: A lady being taken advantage of murders an artist to save her self. An investigation ensues. Somebody tries to blackmail the girl and the detective. Before the truth comes out something unexpected occurs.

123. Little Lord Fauntleroy

Year of Release: 1921
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford
Actors: Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph J. Dowling, James A. Marcus, Kate Price, Fred Malatesta
Plot: A boy from New York is found to be the heir to the fortune of a wealthy English aristocrat.

124. A Woman of Paris

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Chaplin
Actors: Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Adolphe Menjou, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French
Plot: The story revolves around Marie St. Clair and aspiring artist Jean Millet who plans to leave their village for Paris. Marie meets a rich businessman Pierre Revel. Marie's friend is Paulette who get's to have dinner with Revel. A drama from Charlie Chaplin in which he doesn't cast himself, but instead manages to be behind the camera to direct this drama about love, friendship and fate.

125. 7th Heaven

Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Borzage
Actors: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran, David Butler, Marie Mosquini

126. West of Zanzibar

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter, Jacqueline Gadsden, Tiny Ward
Plot: A magician's wife leaves him for another man. The two men fight, leaving the magician paralyzed.

127. The Son of the Sheik

Year of Release: 1926
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Actors: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, Bull Montana

128. The Temptress

Year of Release: 1926
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Niblo
Actors: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore, Marc McDermott, Armand Kaliz, Roy D'Arcy

129. The Unholy Three

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles, Matthew Betz
Plot: Three carnival men and a lady decide to team up to rob wealthy people.

130. In Old Arizona

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irving Cummings
Actors: Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess

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