1929

Film Decades: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• After the Verdict, directed by Henrik Galeen, starring Olga Chekhova and Warwick Ward – (GB)
• Alibi, starring Chester Morris and Mae Busch
• The Alley Cat, directed by Hans Steinhoff – (GB/Germany)
• The American Prisoner, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Carl Brisson, Madeleine Carroll (Britain)
• Un Chien Andalou, a short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí – (France)
• Applause, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Helen Morgan
• Arsenal (a.k.a. January Uprising in Kiev in 1918) – (USSR)
• Asphalt, starring Gustav Fröhlich – (Germany)
• Atlantic, starring Madeleine Carroll, the first sound film made in Germany and the first sound Titanic movie – (GB)
• The Awful Truth
• Berth Marks, a Laurel and Hardy short produced by Hal Roach
• Big Business – directed by J. Wesley Horne & Leo McCarey, starring Laurel & Hardy – short
• Big Time, starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke
• Blackmail – directed by Alfred Hitchcock – (GB)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey, starring Lili Damita
• Broadway, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• The Broadway Melody, musical comedy starring Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love
• Bulldog Drummond, starring Ronald Colman
• The Canary Murder Case, starring William Powell, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur
• Children of the Ritz
• The Clue of the New Pin – (Britain)
• The Cocoanuts, starring the Marx Brothers
• A Cottage on Dartmoor, directed by Anthony Asquith – (GB)
• Coquette, Directed by Sam Taylor, starring Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore
• Dangerous Curves, starring Clara Bow and Richard Arlen
• Desert Nights, a silent film starring John Gilbert
• The Desert Song, a musical operetta with Technicolor sequences
• Devil-May-Care, starring Ramón Novarro – a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
• Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen), directed by G. W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks – (Germany)
• Disraeli, starring George Arliss and Joan Bennett
• Drifters, documentary by John Grierson – (GB)
• Dynamite – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Conrad Nagel and Kay Johnson
• Eternal Love, directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring John Barrymore
• Fancy Baggage, a part-talkie from Warner Brothers Pictures starring Audrey Ferris and Myrna Loy
• Father Vojtech (Páter Vojtěch), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
• Feed ’em and Weep – directed by Leo McCarey – short
• Finis Terræ, directed by Jean Epstein – (France)
• The Flying Fleet, starring Ramón Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, and Edward Nugent
• The Flying Scotsman, starring Moore Marriott and Ray Milland – (GB)
• Footlights and Fools, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Four Feathers, starring Richard Arlen and Fay Wray
• Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, a musical revue with Multicolor sequences
• Fräulein Else, starring Elisabeth Bergner – (Germany)
• The General Line (Старое) – directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
• Glorifying the American Girl, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Gold Diggers of Broadway, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Great Gabbo, a musical drama with Multicolor sequences
• Hallelujah – directed by King Vidor
• Hardboiled Rose, a part-talkie starring Myrna Loy
• Hearts in Dixie, starring Clarence Muse and Stepin Fetchit, drama/musical
• High Treason directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Jameson Thomas and Benita Hume – (GB)
• His Glorious Night, directed by Lionel Barrymore, starring John Gilbert – Gilbert’s first talkie, known as the film that destroyed his career
• The Hole in the Wall – starring Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929, a showcase of talent under contract to MGM
• Hot for Paris, from Fox Film Corporation
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Carlyle Blackwell and Alexander Murski (Germany)
• The Informer, directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson – (GB)
• In Old Arizona, starring Warner Baxter
• The Iron Mask, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Kiss, starring Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel
• Kitty, directed by Victor Saville (Britain)
• A Knight in London, starring Lilian Harvey – (GB/Germany)
• The Lady Lies – starring Walter Huston and Claudette Colbert
• Lady of the Pavements – directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lupe Vélez and William Boyd
• Land Without Women, starring Conrad Veidt – (Germany)
• The Letter
• The Locked Door – directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Rod La Rocque and Barbara Stanwyck
• The Love Parade, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald
• Lucky Star, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern), directed by & starring William Dieterle – (Germany)
• Marianne, starring Marion Davies
• Madame X, directed by Lionel Barrymore
• Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), a documentary – (USSR)
• The Manxman – directed by Alfred Hitchcock – (GB)
• Married in Hollywood, a musical romance with Multicolor sequences
• Melody of the Heart, directed by Hanns Schwarz, starring Willy Fritsch – (Germany)
• Mexicali Rose – directed by Erle C. Kenton, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sam Hardy
• The Miraculous Life of Thérèse Martin (La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin), directed by Julien Duvivier – (France)
• Les Mystères du Château de Dé (The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice), directed by and starring Man Ray – (France)
• The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, starring Warner Oland and Jean Arthur
• The Mysterious Island, starring Lionel Barrymore
• Navy Blues, directed by Clarence Brown
• The New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon) – (USSR)
• New York Nights, starring Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland
• On with the Show!, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Organist at St. Vitus’ Cathedral (Varhaník u sv. Víta), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
• Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks – (Germany)
• Paris, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Piccadilly, a melodrama starring Anna May Wong and Gilda Gray – (GB)
• Pointed Heels, starring William Powell, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Queen Kelly, starring Gloria Swanson (film unfinished because producers balked at releasing a silent film in what was quickly becoming a sound film market)
• Rain, directed by Joris Ivens (Netherlands)
• Redskin, starring Richard Dix, a drama with Technicolor sequences
• The Rescue, starring Ronald Colman and Lili Damita
• Resia Boroboedoer, only film of the Nancing Film Corp. – (Dutch East Indies)
• The Return of the Rat, directed by Graham Cutts and starring Ivor Novello – (GB)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• Rio Rita, starring Bebe Daniels – a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• The River, directed by Frank Borzage
• The Runaway Princess directed by Anthony Asquith and Fritz Wendhausen and starring Mady Christians and Fred Rains (Britain/Germany)
• Sally, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• Salute – directed by John Ford and David Butler and starring George O’Brien, Helen Chandler and William Janney
• The Saturday Night Kid, with Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, and a small early role for Jean Harlow (uncredited)
• Show Boat, a part-talkie based not on the famous musical, but on the Edna Ferber novel that inspired it
• The Show of Shows, starring John Barrymore and Loretta Young, a musical revue with Technicolor sequences
• Side Street, starring the Moore Brothers
• The Single Standard, directed by John S. Robertson, starring Greta Garbo & Nils Asther
• The Skeleton Dance, a Walt Disney animated short
• Smilin’ Guns, a Hoot Gibson Western-comedy
• The Sophomore – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Eddie Quillan, Sally O’Neil
• Spite Marriage, a Buster Keaton film
• St. Louis Blues, starring Bessie Smith
• Den starkaste, directed by Alf Sjöberg – (Sweden)
• Street Girl, directed by Wesley Ruggles, RKO’s first “official” film
• Sunny Side Up, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Syncopation
• The Taming of the Shrew, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
• This Thing Called Love, starring Edmund Lowe and Constance Bennett, a musical romance with Technicolor sequences; considered lost
• The Three Kings, directed by Hans Steinhoff, starring Henry Edwards, Evelyn Holt (Britain/Germany)
• The Three Passions, directed by Rex Ingram – (GB)
• Thunder, directed by William Nigh, starring Lon Chaney and Phyllis Haver
• Thunderbolt, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring George Bancroft and Fay Wray
• A Throw of Dice – (Germany/GB/India)
• The Trespasser, directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Gloria Swanson and Robert Ames
• Turksib – (USSR)
• The Vagabond Lover, starring Rudy Vallée
• The Virginian – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Gary Cooper and Walter Huston
• Wait and See, directed by Walter Forde – (Britain)
• Wall Street, starring Ralph Ince
• Welcome Danger, starring Harold Lloyd
• Where East Is East, directed by Tod Browning; starring Lon Chaney, Lupe Vélez and Estelle Taylor
• The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü), starring Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)
• Why Be Good?
• Wild Orchids, starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther
• Wolf Song – starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Vélez
• Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) – directed by Fritz Lang – (Germany)
• Wonder of Women
• The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna, directed by Hanns Schwarz – (Germany)
• Words and Music – first movie in which John Wayne is credited as Duke Morrison
• The Wrecker (Der Würger) – (GB/Germany)
• Wrong Again – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Laurel & Hardy