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.
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Directed: William K. Howard
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Actress – Louise Dresser
Plot in 25 Words: Polish immigrants strive to gain admittance to America. Treated like garbage they become citizens. Wrongful imprisonment and the ultimate sacrifice complete the Polish family’s woes.
29 Monday Sep 2014
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Directed: Raoul Walsh
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Actress – Gloria Swanson
Plot in 25 Words: Prostitute on the run finds love and a judgmental minister on a south sea island. A mysterious and ambiguous ending to a different prostitute story.
29 Monday Sep 2014
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Directed: Frank Borzage
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Won: Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Plot in 25 Words: Woman becomes prostitute by necessity. Escapes arrest and joins the circus. Falls in love. Her past catches up with her. Serves time, lives happily ever after.
16 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Directed: Frank Borzage
Year: 1927
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Won: Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Plot in 25 Words: A man pretends a prostitute is his wife to prevent her arrest. Lies turn to love. Sadly war intervenes. Man returns alive but blind.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Directed: Ted Wilde
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Director – Ted Wilde
Plot in 25 Words: A happy-go-lucky guy endures a series of unsuitable jobs with hilarious consequences before saving his girl’s family business driving a streetcar around New York.
08 Monday Sep 2014
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Directed: Lewis Milestone
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: Two bootlegging gangs fight for control of the streets. Family ties, an honest policeman, and one very young reporter try to keep the criminals honest
08 Monday Sep 2014
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Directed: William A. Wellman
Year: 1927
Nominated: Best Film
Won: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: Two enemies to go war. Become friends. One accidentally kills the other. Remaining soldier comes home and falls in love with the girl next door.
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