Movies 1928 Page 45

Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also runs a 10th Avenue rooming house in New York city....

Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets...

1928 Australian Silent film

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.

A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years...

Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing...

The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short

Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.

To prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie a ruthless construction crew foreman, attempts to...

A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River

The film was produced as a compilation film. Blum reported in “Film-Kurier“ (5.11.1928): "It will be assembled from excerpts of partly...

Documentary of the H.A. and Sidney Snow expedition to the Far North in search of the Steffansson Expedition.

A British army unit sets out to rescue the son of a maharajah, who has been kidnapped by a rebel group.

Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the...

The Jenkins Orphanage Band - comprised of young African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolin performs for the newsreel.

Marines et cristeaux is a silent film from 1928

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged...

Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds...

In order to break up her son's engagement to a postmaster's daughter, a wealthy matron hires the girl as the family maid, then sets up her son with a...

Wrongfully convicted rancher Jack Bowen (Neal Hart), imprisoned through the machinations of Dick Thompson (William Quinn), escapes from prison just...

While there isn't a clear synopsis of this short it it known that it was a slapstick "Christie Comedy," a popular series of shorts from that era...

Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One...

An Inkwell Imps short.

Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with...

Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen

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

The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than is usually served from the screen (Tampa Times,...

1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some...

Immerse yourself in the industry of the North West Frontier, from the Khyber Pass to the city of Peshawar. Roving among bazaar traders including...

A story with a college background revolves around sprinter Charles Paddock, utilizing newsreel footage of the 1924 Olympic Games.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

"He [Walter Lantz] and Tiny Ward are the two comics who are crazy about their visitor from the city, the very decorative Peggy Shaw. As they are...

Depressive Toni is diagnosed with idlesness by his doctor who recommends more excitement and danger. Another patient, a celebrated detective who...

Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.

Oswald takes Miss Rabbit out for a ride in his jalopy and soon finds himself in a race with a chasing police car.

A criminal mastermind uses a "death ray" machine to bring down government airplanes. Police dog, Silverstreak, aids in capturing the insane inventor...

A cycle of songs performed by the singer Florence Brady.