Drama Movies of 1929
The Great Gabbo
After the disastrous failure of Queen Kelly, the great silent film director Eric Von Stroheim began to parcel himself out as an actor-for-hire, his directing career in ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Queen Kelly
Though filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim's notorious profligacy had made him virtually unhirable in the US by 1929, screen-star Gloria Swanson still had faith in him. She ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Pandora's Box
German filmmaker G.W. Pabst's late-silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) stars the hauntingly beautiful Louise ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Eternal Love
Eternal Love was the last silent film of star John Barrymore and director Ernst Lubitsch; thereafter, both men would ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Diary of a Lost Girl
German filmmaker G.W. Pabst and Hollywood expatriate Louise Brooks re-team after the success of Pandora's Box for the ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Evangeline
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline briefly abandoned the curriculum of English Literature 101 for the purposes of this part-talkie screen adaptation. Dolores Del Rio stars as the title character, an Acadian lass whose ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
The Lost Zeppelin
The Lost Zeppelin offers a bonanza of special effects and art-deco sets with a nickel's worth of plot. The film begins at a banquet celebrating an upcoming dirigible expedition to ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Piccadilly
Just before making his talkie directorial debut with Atlantic, director E.A. DuPont dashed off the silent "backstage" drama Piccadilly. By ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Applause
Stage director Rouben Mamoulian jolted the (at the time) ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
The Manxman
Although he was established as a master of suspense by 1929, Alfred Hitchcock was still under contract to British International Pictures, and thus still obliged to direct everything his studio chose for him. Hitch's last ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Arsenal
The Arsenal features Semyon Svashenko as Tyrnish, a humble Ukranian soldier. Through Tyrnish's experiences we are permitted to witness the incredible social upheavals of the World War I years which led to ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! was, for its time, an impressive achievement. Director King Vidor, anxious to make a "personal" project for the impersonal MGM studios, proposed to film a spiritual story set in the deep South with blacks as the main ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
The Phantom in the House
In this convoluted melodrama, a wife frames her ... [ Drama movie - 1929 ]
