1924 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1924, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Beau Brummel
Directed by: Harry Beaumont
Starring: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers
Country: United States of America
Outline: George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries ...
Sherlock Jr.
Directed by: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
Country: United States of America
Outline: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
The Last Laugh
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz
Country: United States of America
Outline: An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious Hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Manhandled
Directed by: Allan Dwan
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Lilyan Tashman, Ian Keith
Country: United States of America
Outline: When her boyfriend, Jimmy, forgets a date, Tessie McGuire, a department store clerk, attends a party at the studio of Robert Brandt where she makes a hit with impersonations. There Riccardi... See full synopsis »
The Thief of Bagdad
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher
Country: United States of America
Outline: A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Kriemhild's Revenge
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Starring: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller
Country: United States of America
Outline: After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that...
Greed
Directed by: Erich von Stroheim
Starring: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller
Country: United States of America
Outline: The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
The Enchanted Cottage
Directed by: John S. Robertson
Starring: Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman, Alfred Hickman
Outline: A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets a plain but also a very kind ...
Monsieur Beaucaire
Directed by: Sidney Olcott
Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon
Country: United States of America
Outline: When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the ...
The Marriage Circle
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale
Country: United States of America
Outline: Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun's colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has had...
L'inhumaine
Directed by: Marcel L'Herbier
Starring: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat, Fred Kellerman
Country: United States of America
Outline: Claire Lescot is a famous prima donna. All men want to be loved by her. Among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared ...
Peter Pan
Directed by: Herbert Brenon
Starring: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, George Ali, Esther Ralston
Country: United States of America
Outline: Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.
The Iron Horse
Directed by: John Ford
Starring: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick
Country: United States of America
Outline: After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Michael
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison
Country: United States of America
Outline: Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.
Open All Night
Directed by: Paul Bern
Starring: Viola Dana, Jetta Goudal, Adolphe Menjou, Raymond Griffith
Outline: A couple's marriage is going stale. She wants a take-charge kind of guy, someone who'll show her who the boss is. He's not that type, and in fact believes that women don't really respect ...
Secrets of the Night
Directed by: Herbert Blaché
Starring: James Kirkwood, Madge Bellamy, Zasu Pitts, Rosemary Theby
The Sea Hawk
Directed by: Frank Lloyd
Starring: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery
Country: United States of America
Outline: A wrongly convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.
The Red Lily
Directed by: Fred Niblo
Starring: Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, Frank Currier, Mitchell Lewis
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.
Wild Oranges
Directed by: King Vidor
Starring: Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier
Outline: Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and ...
The Lighthouse by the Sea
Directed by: Malcolm St. Clair
Starring: William Collier Jr., Rin Tin Tin, Louise Fazenda, Charles Hill Mailes
Outline: A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy ...
Waxworks
Directed by: Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni
Starring: Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, William Dieterle
Country: United States of America
Outline: A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.
The Fighting Coward
Directed by: James Cruze
Starring: Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Noah Beery, Cullen Landis
Romola
Directed by: Henry King
Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman
Country: United States of America
Outline: In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a ...
America
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Starring: Neil Hamilton, Carol Dempster, Erville Alderson, Charles Emmett Mack
Country: United States of America
Outline: The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
$50,000 Reward
Directed by: Clifford S. Elfelt
Starring: Ken Maynard, Esther Ralston, Bert Lindley, Edward Peil Sr.
Outline: Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
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