The First Talkies (1927-1929)
by kishiro6 | created - 27 Sep 2019 | updated - 27 Sep 2019 | PublicList of early Talkies, pre-1930.
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1. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,080 | Gross: $7.63M
2. Lights of New York (1928)
Passed | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 945 | Gross: $1.20M
3. The Singing Fool (1928)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical
A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman
Votes: 281 | Gross: $10.90M
4. Interference (1928)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Paramount's 1st ALL TALKIE Reported killed in action, Philip Voaze(William Powell) lives under an assumed name in London. Deborah Kane(Evelyn Brent) a former love, discovers him and tries ... See full summary »
Directors: Lothar Mendes, Roy Pomeroy | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, William Powell, Doris Kenyon
Votes: 155
5. In Old Arizona (1928)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Western
A charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.
Directors: Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess, Henry Armetta
Votes: 1,295 | Gross: $2.83M
6. Noisy Neighbors (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A family of down-and-out vaudevillians discover that they are the last of the Van Revels, heirs to a Southern plantation and a blood feud with the Carstairs family that began 60 years ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Alberta Vaughn, Jane Keckley, Joseph Quillan
7. The Broadway Melody (1929)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Eddie Kane
Votes: 8,021 | Gross: $6.12M
8. The Dance of Life (1929)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Romance
When a vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer have little luck in their separate careers, they decide to combine their acts; to save money on the road, they get married.
Directors: John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Theodore
Votes: 354
9. The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Mystery
A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had ... See full summary »
Directors: Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks
Votes: 834
10. The Dummy (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Mystery
The Dummy is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Robert Milton and written by Harriet Ford, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Herman J. Mankiewicz and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film stars Fredric ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Milton, Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, John Cromwell, Fred Kohler
Votes: 31
11. Hearts in Dixie (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Musical
Nappus, an elderly farmer, resents the fact that his daughter Chloe is married to a lazy layabout named Gummy, who allows Chloe to do all the house and farm work he himself should be doing.... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Stepin Fetchit, Clarence Muse, Eugene Jackson, Dorothy Morrison
Votes: 33
12. Syncopation (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.
Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Morton Downey, Barbara Bennett, Ian Hunter
Votes: 93
13. The Wild Party (1929)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara
Votes: 555
14. Coquette (1929)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis
Votes: 2,317
15. The Desert Song (1929)
Passed | 123 min | Action, Musical, Romance
The Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur
Votes: 126
16. The Voice of the City (1929)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.
Director: Willard Mack | Stars: Robert Ames, Willard Mack, Sylvia Field, Jim Farley
Votes: 91
17. Close Harmony (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Directors: John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Harry Green, Jack Oakie
Votes: 56
18. Nothing But the Truth (1929)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Richard Dix, Helen Kane, Louis John Bartels, Ned Sparks
Votes: 104
19. Alibi (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took ... See full summary »
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanor Griffith
Votes: 953
20. Broadway (1929)
Passed | 104 min | Crime, Music, Romance
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 461
21. The Hole in the Wall (1929)
73 min | Drama, Mystery
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Claudette Colbert, David Newell, Nellie Savage, Edward G. Robinson
Votes: 237
22. The Lady from the Sea (1929)
56 min | Romance
A Goodwin Sands lifeboatman rescues a shipwrecked girl who tries to win him away from his fiancée.
Director: Castleton Knight | Stars: Moore Marriott, Mona Goya, Ray Milland, Bruce Gordon
Votes: 35
23. Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Votes: 1,328
24. Gentlemen of the Press (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
A driven newspaperman misses out on the joys and sorrows of ordinary life.
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Charles Ruggles, Betty Lawford
Votes: 114
25. Mother's Boy (1929)
82 min | Drama, Musical
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day, who lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of ... See full summary »
Director: Bradley Barker | Stars: Morton Downey, Beryl Mercer, John T. Doyle, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 20
26. The Black Watch (1929)
Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, David Torrence, David Rollins
Votes: 480
27. The Squall (1929)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who, while on the run from her abusive husband, takes shelter in a farmhouse, where she seduces and holds in thrall all the male members of the family.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Alice Joyce, Richard Tucker, Myrna Loy, Loretta Young
Votes: 435
28. A Dangerous Woman (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
The commissioner of a remote outpost in Africa has a mistress who is so sexy and seductive that she has made several of the local white men kill themselves. She learns that the ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Olga Baclanova, Clive Brook, Neil Hamilton, Clyde Cook
Votes: 61
29. The Rainbow Man (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Eddie Dowling, Marian Nixon, Frankie Darro, Sam Hardy
Votes: 17
30. The Valiant (1929)
66 min | Drama
After killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law under a false name, intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Johnny Mack Brown, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 538
31. Border Romance (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Drama, Music
In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Armida, Don Terry, Marjorie Kane, Victor Potel
Votes: 51
32. On with the Show! (1929)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil
Votes: 376
33. The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, Warner Oland, Fredric March
Votes: 203
34. The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
Passed | 113 min | Drama
Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's ... See full summary »
Director: Bayard Veiller | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, H.B. Warner, Raymond Hackett
Votes: 158
35. The Idle Rich (1929)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is ... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Bessie Love, Leila Hyams, Robert Ober
Votes: 152
36. The Wheel of Life (1929)
55 min | Drama, Romance
Captain Yeullat, a young British officer, prevents a young woman from drowning herself in the Thames, but she disappears before he learns her identity. Later in India, he meets her as the wife of Colonel Dangan, and they fall in love.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, O.P. Heggie, Arthur Hoyt
Votes: 28
37. Thunderbolt (1929)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 885
38. The Flying Fool (1929)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Boyd, Marie Prevost, Tom O'Brien, Russell Gleason
Votes: 102
39. Blackmail (1929)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Votes: 11,975
40. The Fall of Eve (1929)
67 min | Comedy
Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr. Mack. When Mack's wife insists on joining the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Ford Sterling, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Rankin
41. High Voltage (1929)
Passed | 63 min | Drama
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Boyd, Carole Lombard, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley
Votes: 432
42. Fashions in Love (1929)
73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Fay Compton, Miriam Seegar, John Miljan
Votes: 19
43. The River of Romance (1929)
78 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Mary Brian, June Collyer, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 46
44. Broadway Babies (1929)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Musical
A Chorus girl who is in love with her stage manager is led to believe that he is in love with another young woman, so, she agrees to marry a bootlegger instead.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Marion Byron, Sally Eilers, Charles Delaney
Votes: 227
45. Behind That Curtain (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Eve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King
Votes: 548
46. Divorce Made Easy (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Directors: Neal Burns, Walter Graham | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Marie Prevost, Johnny Arthur, Frances Lee
47. Wonder of Women (1929)
95 min | Drama
A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Peggy Wood, Harry Myers
Votes: 89
48. Dangerous Curves (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Kay Francis, David Newell
Votes: 164
49. Drag (1929)
85 min | Drama
A writer is torn between his wife, and a more sophisticated woman that he lusts after.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Lucien Littlefield, Kathrin Clare Ward, Alice Day
Votes: 70
50. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
At an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston
Votes: 579
51. Street Girl (1929)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks
Votes: 478
52. Paris Bound (1929)
73 min | Drama, Romance
Pre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry's Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between James and Mary Hutton, during which the two paramours they deserted wait patiently--and manipulatively--in the wings.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Ann Harding, Fredric March, Carmelita Geraghty, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 154
53. The Cocoanuts (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 8,201 | Gross: $3.92M
54. Say It with Songs (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Musical
Joe Lane kills another man in a fistfight after learning that the man has made improper advances towards his wife. Joe goes to prison for the murder. When Joe gets out of prison, he visits ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Davey Lee, Marian Nixon, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 157
55. Half Marriage (1929)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying ... See full summary »
Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Olive Borden, Morgan Farley, Ken Murray, Ann Greenway
Votes: 173
56. The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
During the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O.P. Heggie
Votes: 388
57. Charming Sinners (1929)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance
Set in London, Kathryn Miles's marriage is threatened when she discovers her husband's longstanding affair with her best friend but surprises everyone when she uses it to create a new life for herself.
Directors: Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Mary Nolan, William Powell
Votes: 106
58. Madame X (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Drama
A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.
Director: Lionel Barrymore | Stars: Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 561
59. Hallelujah (1929)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical
A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray
Votes: 2,000
60. Marianne (I) (1929)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
During World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 1,275
61. The Greene Murder Case (1929)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Mystery
At the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Jean Arthur
Votes: 478
62. The Girl in the Show (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Bessie Love, Raymond Hackett, Edward J. Nugent, Mary Doran
Votes: 138
63. Salute (1929)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Fraternal rivalry intensifies when two brothers play on opposing teams in a big Army-Navy football match.
Directors: David Butler, John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, William Janney, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 261
64. Big News (1929)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louis Payne, Wade Boteler
Votes: 321
65. Big Time (1929)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
Director: Kenneth Hawks | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Daphne Pollard, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 81
66. The Letter (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). ... See full summary »
Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne
Votes: 879
67. Side Street (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Tom Moore, Owen Moore, Matt Moore, Emma Dunn
Votes: 107
68. The Great Gabbo (1929)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.
Directors: James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson, Marjorie Kane
Votes: 1,002
69. Flight (1929)
Passed | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 364
70. The Unholy Night (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
Director: Lionel Barrymore | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 403
71. Rio Rita (1929)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey
Votes: 764
72. Hold Your Man (1929)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Mary Hopkins leaves her husband to study painting in Paris. A former sweetheart persuades him to go to Paris for a divorce. Jack wants wife back after she confesses an imaginary affair. Rhea is discredited, and Jack and Mary are reunited.
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Laura La Plante, Scott Kolk, Eugene Borden, Mildred Van Dorn
Votes: 14
73. The Great Divide (1929)
Passed | 72 min | Musical, Romance, Western
Steven Ghent has decided to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. When the representatives are delayed for a few days, he ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith, Myrna Loy, Creighton Hale
Votes: 203
74. Three Live Ghosts (1929)
87 min | Comedy
Read the 1936 version of this movie
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Beryl Mercer, Hilda Vaughn, Harry Stubbs, Joan Bennett
Votes: 35
75. Happy Days (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Margie, a singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York although she's in love with the owner's grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Charles E. Evans, Marjorie White, Richard Keene, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 179
76. They Had to See Paris (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides that the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr., Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 203
77. High Treason (1929)
95 min | Sci-Fi
Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright, Jameson Thomas
Votes: 206
78. Wise Girls (1929)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The father of three grown daughters tries to keep his sanity, even after his free-spirited middle daughter rebelliously marries a poor plumber.
Directors: E. Mason Hopper, Elliott Nugent | Stars: Elliott Nugent, Norma Lee, Roland Young, J.C. Nugent
Votes: 132
79. Illusion (1929)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Kay Francis
Votes: 41
80. The Lady Lies (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, Charles Ruggles, Patricia Deering
Votes: 123
81. The Delightful Rogue (1929)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Romance
Lastro (Rod La Rocque), a rogue pirate sails to Tapit where he encounters Nydra (Rita La Roy), an Americana singer in a waterfront dive, who is the object of of the jealous affections on ... See full summary »
Directors: Lynn Shores, Leslie Pearce | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Rita La Roy, Charles Byer, Ed Brady
Votes: 67
82. His Glorious Night (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
In a European kingdom, Princess Orsolini is to have a state wedding, arranged by her mother the Queen, but she is in love with Captain Kovacs of the horse guards. She is forced to break off... See full summary »
Director: Lionel Barrymore | Stars: John Gilbert, Catherine Dale Owen, Nance O'Neil, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 67
83. Woman Trap (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dan, a tough police captain, and Ray, a hardened criminal, are estranged brothers. When Ray faces capture, Kitty, the sister of Ray's ex-partner, offers to help him escape because she sees an opportunity for revenge against Dan.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Hal Skelly, Chester Morris, Evelyn Brent, William B. Davidson
Votes: 89
84. Her Private Affair (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Her Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. It is a sound film using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Ann Harding, Harry Bannister, John Loder, Kay Hammond
Votes: 160
85. Hurricane (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a south sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by "Hurricane ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Johnny Mack Brown, Leila Hyams, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 40
86. The Devil's Maze (1929)
90 min | Drama
A seduced girl blames her stillborn baby on a 'dead' explorer, who then returns.
Directors: Sewell Collins, Gareth Gundrey | Stars: Renee Clama, Trilby Clark, Ian Fleming, Hayford Hobbs
87. Dark Red Roses (1929)
63 min | Drama
A sculptor tries to chop the hands off his wife's pianist lover.
Director: Sinclair Hill | Stars: Stewart Rome, Frances Doble, Hugh Morton, Kate Cutler
88. Sunny Side Up (1929)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Musical
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White, El Brendel
Votes: 458
89. Why Bring That Up? (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in ... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Charles Mack, George Moran, Evelyn Brent, Harry Green
Votes: 27
90. The Love Doctor (1929)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Romance
Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner ... See full summary »
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Richard Dix, June Collyer, Morgan Farley, Miriam Seegar
91. The Trespasser (1929)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 1,442
92. One Hysterical Night (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane... See full summary »
Director: William James Craft | Stars: Reginald Denny, Nora Lane, E.J. Ratcliffe, Fritz Feld
Votes: 20
93. Applause (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Votes: 1,503
94. Mister Antonio (1929)
73 min | Comedy
A happy go lucky Italian town florist befriends the mayor thrown out of a bar but later turns on him when the official has unjustly evicted an attractive young lady from her home.
Directors: James Flood, Frank Reicher | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Virginia Valli, Gareth Hughes, Frank Reicher
Votes: 34
95. In Old California (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Tom Keene, Helen Ferguson, Henry B. Walthall, Carlotta Monti
Votes: 14
96. So Long Letty (1929)
64 min | Comedy, Musical
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Charlotte Greenwood, Claude Gillingwater, Grant Withers, Patsy Ruth Miller
Votes: 190
97. Welcome Danger (1929)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young, Charles Middleton
Votes: 819 | Gross: $3.10M
98. The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Mystery
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard
Votes: 730
99. Oh, Yeah? (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Patricia Caron, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 67
100. The Phantom in the House (1929)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Nancy Welford, Henry B. Walthall, Grace Valentine
Votes: 153
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