16 Thursday Oct 2014
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Directed: Alfred Santell
Year: 1927
Nominated: Best Actor – Richard Barthelmess
Plot in 25 Words: An extremely unlikable boxer is pressed into service in the American army. Wounded in battle, prayer and the American flag help his wounds to heal.
14 Tuesday Oct 2014
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Directed: Josef von Sternberg
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Actor – Emil Jannings
Won: Best Actor – Emil Jannings
Plot in 25 Words: Small-time Russian actor relives his past as a big-time Russian general, brought low by revolutionaries, love, and loss in deepest, darkest, Russia.
14 Tuesday Oct 2014
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Directed: Lewis Milestone
Year: 1927
Nominated: Best Director – Lewis Milestone
Won: Best Director – Lewis Milestone
Plot in 25 Words: The original odd couple break out of a German POW camp and go from one disaster to another ending with a stolen love in Arabia.
05 Sunday Oct 2014
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Directed: King Vidor
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Director – King Vidor
Plot in 25 Words: A boy is brought up believing he is destined to be ‘somebody’. Finding out he isn’t is quite a shock. Death, suicide and tears galore.
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