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The Broadway Melody (1929)
The Best Picture of 1928-1929 is....."The Broadway Melody." This is a musical about two vaudeville sisters who travel to New York to make it big on Broadway. The drama and romance proceed from there. Director Harry Beaumont put together a classic backstage [..]
Wings (1927)
The Best Picture of 1927-1928 is....."Wings." This romantic World War I movie tells the story of two pilots in love with the same woman from their home town. Director William A. Wellman ("A Star Is Born" 1937) put together a high quality drama from [..]
The Jazz Singer (1927)
"The Jazz Singer" was the first Hollywood movie to feature sound recording, effectively ending the silent film era. Director Alan Crosland and screenwriter Alfred A. Cohn tell the story of a young Jewish man torn between his religious heritage and his dream of becoming a jazz [..]
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
"Flesh and the Devil" is a romantic silent film about a love triangle which develops when a beautiful woman comes between two friends. Director Clarence Brown turned out a well-paced and engrossing movie which is a fast 113 minute running time. Screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Marian Ainslee did [..]
Curtain Call (1998)
"Curtain Call" is a romantic comedy movie about a struggling book publisher who buys an old Manhattan townhouse. Much to his surprise, it is haunted by the ghosts of two bickering and married theater stars who teach him about life and love. Director Peter Yates ("Bullitt" 1968) put [..]
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
"My Name Is Nobody" is a spaghetti western comedy about a young gunfighter named Nobody who insists that senior gunfighter Jack Beauregard face a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire. The crazy and zany plot proceeds from there, under the supervision of director Tonino Valerii from [..]
Chariots of Fire (1981)
The Best Picture of 1981 is....."Chariots of Fire." This is the true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Harold Abrahams is a Jewish Cambridge student who runs to overcome social prejudice. Eric Liddell is a devout Scottish Christian who runs to glorify [..]
The General (1926)
"The General" is a silent comedy-action film where Buster Keaton plays a Southern train engineer in the Civil War who pursues Union spies to rescue his stolen locomotive and his girl friend. Keaton was involved in most areas of production, including co-directing (with Clyde Bruckman), co-writing the screenplay, [..]
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
"Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ" is a landmark silent film epic following the story of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince betrayed by his childhood friend, the Roman tribune Messala. Judah survives imprisonment and is adopted by a Roman admiral, and returns to Jerusalem seeking [..]
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
"Stanley and Livingstone" is an adventure film loosely based on the true story of New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley's 1871 quest to find Dr. David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary presumed lost in Africa. The high drama proceeds from there, well directed by Henry King ("Jesse James" 1939), [..]