1927

Film Decades: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• Annie Laurie, starring Lillian Gish
• Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Beloved Rogue, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore, Marceline Day
• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (documentary) – (Germany)
• Bigamie, starring Heinrich George – (Germany)
• Blighty, directed by Adrian Brunel; starring Ellaline Terriss and Lillian Hall-Davis – (Britain)
• Broadway Nights – directed by Joseph C. Boyle – Barbara Stanwyck made film debut in uncredited role – lost
• The Bugle Call’
• The Cat and the Canary, directed by Paul Leni
• Chicago, directed by Frank Urson
• Children of Divorce – starring Clara Bow, Gary Cooper and Esther Ralston
• The Chinese Parrot, directed by Paul Leni
• The Club of the Big Deed (Союз Великого дела) – (U.S.S.R.)
• College, directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
• Confetti, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Jack Buchanan and Annette Benson – (GB)
• Don’t Tell Everything – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Max Davidson, Spec O’Donnell, Jesse De Vorska – short
• The Dove, directed by Roland West, starring Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery Sr.
• Downhill – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans – (GB)
• The Drop Kick, directed by Millard Webb, starring Richard Barthelmess
• Education of a Prince – (France)
• The End of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Fair Co-Ed, directed by Sam Wood; starring Marion Davies and Johnny Mack Brown
• The First Auto, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Barney Oldfield, Patsy Ruth Miller, Charles Emmett Mack, Russell Simpson, Gibson Gowland
• The Forty-First (Sorok pervyy) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Gaucho, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez
• Ghost Train, directed by Géza von Bolváry, starring Guy Newall – (GB/Germany)
• Her Wild Oat, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Colleen Moore
• His First Flame, directed by Harry Edwards, starring Harry Langdon
• His Greatest Bluff (Sein größter Bluff) – (Germany)
• The Honorable Mr. Buggs, starring Anna May Wong
• Hula – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clara Bow
• Huntingtower, by George Pearson, starring Harry Lauder – (Britain)
• Husband Hunters, directed by John G. Adolfi starring Mae Busch, Jean Arthur and Mildred Harris
• It, starring Clara Bow
• The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy
• Johnny Get Your Hair Cut, directed by B. Reeves Eason and Archie Mayo starring Harry Carey
• The Kid Brother, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
• The King of Kings – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring H. B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming and Joseph Schildkraut
• The Lady in Ermine, directed by James Flood, starring Corinne Griffith
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring June and Ivor Novello – (GB)
• London After Midnight, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney, Sr., Conrad Nagel and Marceline Day
• Long Pants – directed by Frank Capra, starring Harry Langdon
• The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney), directed by G.W. Pabst – (Germany)
• The Love of Sunya, directed by Albert Parker starring Gloria Swanson
• The Loves of Carmen, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Dolores del Río
• Madame Pompadour, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish – (GB)
• Man from the Restaurant (Chelovek iz restorana) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Mata Hari starring Magda Sonja – (Germany)
• Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Alfred Abel – (Germany)
• Mockery, directed by Benjamin Christensen starring Lon Chaney
• The Mountain Eagle – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi – (GB/Germany)
• My Best Girl, starring Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers
• Napoléon directed by Abel Gance, starring Albert Dieudonne – (France)
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Only Way directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring John Martin Harvey and Madge Stuart – (Britain)
• The Patent Leather Kid, starring Richard Barthelmess
• The Private Life of Helen of Troy, directed by Alexander Korda
• Quality Street, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel
• Quinneys, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring John Longden and Alma Taylor – (Britain)
• The Red Mill, directed by William Goodrich (Fatty Arbuckle), starring Marion Davies
• The Ring – directed by Alfred Hitchcock – (GB)
• Robinson Crusoe – (GB)
• Romance of the Western Chamber – (China)
• The Scar of Shame, a race movie starring Harry Henderson and Lucia Lynn Moses
• Seventh Heaven, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• Shooting Stars, directed by Anthony Asquith and A.V. Bramble – (GB)
• Singed, starring Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter
• Slide, Kelly, Slide, starring Harry Carey
• Sorrell and Son, starring H.B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson – (GB)
• Spring Fever, starring Joan Crawford
• The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – directed by F. W. Murnau, starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor
• Svengali directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Paul Wegener – (Germany)
• Tillie the Toiler, directed by Hobart Henley; starring Marion Davies and Matt Moore
• Topsy and Eva, directed by Del Lord; starring Rosetta Duncan and Vivian Duncan
• Twelve Miles Out, directed by Jack Conway, starring John Gilbert and Joan Crawford
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, directed by Harry A. Pollard, starring Margarita Fischer
• Underworld, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
• The Unknown, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney Sr., Norman Kerry, and Joan Crawford
• The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
• When a Man Loves, an early Vitaphone sound movie starring John Barrymore and Dolores Costello who would become John Barrymore’s future wife
• Why Girls Love Sailors, a Laurel and Hardy short
• Wings, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers and Richard Arlen