1928 Movies

A picturesque tour of Guadeloupe (French Caribbean) and its archipelago filmed in 1928 by Alfred Chaumel, colonial administrator: from Pointe-à-Pitre and its harbour to the islands of Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, and La Désirade, passing by the jagged coasts of...

Documentary about the city of Santiago

The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and gu...

The story follows a kind princess, facing danger from an evil prince, while a brave warrior helps her and they fell in love, but face unknown dangers.

Nine part documentary series on the advantages of the Neues Bauen architectural movement, particularly in addressing housing shortages.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a subject for parodies and cash-in attempts. One of them was The Lost Whirl. This film featured stop-motion animation...

Shots of pre-war Rotterdam, both the city and the port.

Will Hay – the schoolmaster laughter-maker at the recent Command Performance. When the cat's away the mice will play.

Oswald plays a cowboy who must rescue Sadie from a runaway stagecoach and Pegleg Pete.

A shell-shocked black soldier is cared for by a miner and his daughter when he wanders into their camp, and makes a fresh start in life with the aid of the American Legion.

Montagu Love pretty much plays himself in this Vitaphone short where he starts off by introducing himself to the viewer and saying most probably remember him for playing villains. He then asks that people pretend that he's surrounded by a dinner party and he's...

A Al Christie comedy short featuring Jimmie Adams & Lorraine MacLean.

A young vassal is betrayed by his corrupt lord.

A comedy short featuring Caryl Lincoln & Eddie Clayton.

Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the bone-breaking falls that slapstick called for and the ability to make himself up as an old coot, which gave him a nice...

Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.