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In 1928 the Academy Awards are handed out for the first time. Wings wins Best Picture. 1928 was the last year silent movies were king. Watch the movies listed below and other silent movies online at silentmovies.info
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1. The Singing Fool , a musical drama Part-Talkie motion picture which was released in 1928 by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Jazz Singer.Jolson plays a singing waiter who becomes a Broadway star .
2. The Lights of New York : the first all-talking feature film . The plot of the film centers around Eddie (Cullen Landis), a young kid from Upstate New York who is conned into fronting for a speakeasy on Broadway.
3. In one of his last silent films, Lon Chaney plays a magician who went into a kind of exile in the Belgian Congo after a fight with a man who stole his wife left him a cripple
Other Films
Lillan Gish in The Wind
A classic with stark realism, Gish plays Letty who goes out west to a cousin's ranch.She kills a man who tries to rape her and goes insane as the wind keeps uncovering the killers body .The movie, unlike the book upon which it was based , has an upbeat ending as her new husband helps her recover .
A Man With a Movie Camera
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A classic with stark realism, Gish plays Letty who goes out west to a cousin's ranch.She kills a man who tries to rape her and goes insane as the wind keeps uncovering the killers body .The movie, unlike the book upon which it was based , has an upbeat ending as her new husband helps her recover .
Watch A Woman of Affairs, Greta Garbo and John Gilbert A movie about fast living, 20s style
Lilac Time Gary Cooper and Colleen Moore a WWI love story There was a resurgence in WWI films in the late 20s .
Watch Lilac Time 1928 Gary Cooper and Colleen Moore a WWI love story
Beggars of Life Wallace Berry, Richard Allen, Louise Brooks An offbeat film about pre Depression hobos. Richard Allen is a gentleman hobo, who comes upon a crime scene.Brooks has killed her adoptive father, who tried to rape her .They travel together with her dressed as a boy
watch Beggars of Life
Watch Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box
Myma Loy and Dolores Costello in Noah's Ark One of Warner Brother's most expensive movies . watch Noah's Ark
Un Chien Andalou
Un Chien Andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a 16-minute surrealist film made in France in 1928 by Spanish writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí .It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. You can watch it here .
The Last Command
The Last Command : A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him.
Chicago with Phyllis Haver and Victor Varconi
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