1927 Movies

Adaptation of Jack Londos's short story "The South of the Slot". Partially lost.

Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced tha...

Partially lost.

Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the mo...

Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate...

Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she invents a husband for herself called Major Smith. Tr...

The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.

Film by Richard Oswald.

A gangster falls in love with the daughter of a former colleague who has quit the rackets. However, things aren't exactly what they appear to be.

The second short from the "Mickey McGuire" film series. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip "Toonerville Trolley". "Mickey McGu...

Billed as "a cinema-propaganda poster," this 1927 short advocates the purchase of government bonds as a means to combat a British trade embargo. Its d...

a short documentary

A white man disguises himself as a black man in order to get a job in the city shining shoes. He later travels out west, and gets mixed up with a gold...

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguis...

'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)

One of Oskar Fischinger's earliest films, Seelische Konstruktionen (as it is known in German),clearly points the way to the masterpieces of musically...

Former Viennese orchestra leader Anton von Barwig has been searching for his daughter, taken by his ex-wife, for many years. The search has reduced hi...

Travelogue style documentary about a journey through Africa.