Making the Grade

Making the Grade 1929

1

Based on George Ade's story about a wealthy young man whose life is changed by his love for a gardener's daughter, transforming him into a more compassionate person.

1929

Explodigger 1010

Explodigger 1010 1929

6.00

The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.

1929

Skating Hounds

Skating Hounds 1929

3.00

A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

1929

Perfect Day

Perfect Day 1929

6.97

Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.

1929

Christina

Christina 1929

1

This part-talkie (17 minutes of dialogue in its 83-minute running time) tells the tale of Christina, the daughter of Dutch toymaker Niklaas. Much to her dad's dismay, Christina falls in love with sideshow huckster Jan. Likewise disapproving of the romance is Jan's jealous employer Mme. Bosman, who frames the young man on an embezzlement charge.

1929

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou 1929

7.40

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

1929

Asphalt

Asphalt 1929

7.27

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

1929

Disraeli

Disraeli 1929

5.10

Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.

1929

Marianne

Marianne 1929

6.30

At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.

1929

Movie Night

Movie Night 1929

6.00

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

1929

Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box 1929

7.46

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

1929

Happy Days

Happy Days 1929

6.00

In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.

1929

Evangeline

Evangeline 1929

6.10

A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.

1929

Fräulein Else

Fräulein Else 1929

6.30

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.

1929

Shanghai Lady

Shanghai Lady 1929

1

Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.

1929

Blackmail

Blackmail 1929

6.50

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

1929

Every Day

Every Day 1929

6.80

Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of routine office work.

1929

The River

The River 1929

7.20

Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.

1929