Films other than Russian and Soviet mentioned in the Documents and Introduction
Note: Only sufficient credits are given to identify well-known films. Brief plot outlines are provided for the least familiar films. All films are listed alphabetically according to their conventional English-language title; in cases where no such established translation exists, original-language titles are cross-indexed.
All Quiet on the Western Front d: Lewis Milestone s: from novel by Erich Maria Remarque lp: Lew Ayres, Louis Wollheim. Universal (USA) 1930
Balaclava d: Maurice Elvey, Milton Rosner lp: Cyril McLaglen, Benita Hume. Gainsborough (GB) 1930 [US title: The Jaws of Hell, a.k.a. The Charge of the Light Brigade]
Borderline d & s: Kenneth Macpherson lp: Paul Robeson, Helga Doorn (HD), Eslanda Robeson. Pool (Switzerland) 1930 [Tense relations between a group of characters caught in emotional web in unidentified country: Adah, a black woman, leaves her white lover to return to Pete; the lover’s hysterical companion dies by the knife with which she threatens him.]
Burning Embers (Le Brasier ardent) d: Ivan Mosjoukine, Alexander Volkov lp: Mosjoukine p: Ermoliev. Pathé (France) 1922
Carmen d: Ernst Lubitsch s: Hans Kraly, Norbert Falk, after Mérimée’s story lp: Pola Negri. Union-Ufa (Germany) 1918 [US release 1921, as Gipsy Blood]
Chaplin and Anne Boleyn (?) Identification uncertain, but probably Behind the Screen Mutual (USA) 1916
Chaplin in the Cinema (?) Identification uncertain, but possibly His New Job Essanay (USA) 1915
Chaplin in the Salvation Army (?) Identification uncertain, but there is a mission scene in Easy Street Mutual (USA) 1917
Chicago d: Frank Urson (supervised Cecil B. DeMille) lp: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi. Pathé-DeMille (USA) 1927 [A devoted husband takes the blame for his wife’s murder of a persistent admirer]
The Docks of New York d: Josef von Sternberg s: Jules Furthman lp: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova. Paramount (USA) 1928 [A coal stoker rescues a girl from suicide and marries her]
The Doomed Battalion d: Cyril Butcher s: Luis Trenker lp: Trenker, Tala Birell. Universal (USA) 1932 [Austrian troops defend Tyrol pass against Italian attack]
Dr Mabuse (Dr Mabuse der Spieler Pt 1: Ein Bild der Zeit; Pt 2 Inferno – Menschen der Zeit) d: Fritz Lang s: Lang, Thea von Harbou, from a novel by Norbert Jacques lp: Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Ullstein-Uco Film-Decla-Bioscop-Ufa (Germany) 1922
Drifters d, s, ed, p: John Grierson ph: Basil Emett. Empire Marketing Board (GB) 1929 [Documentary on North Sea herring fishers]
The Exploits of Elaine. Serial starring Pearl White. (USA) 1915
Faust d: F. W. Murnau lp: Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn. Ufa (Germany) 1926
The Fighting Coward d: James Cruze lp: Ernest Torrence, Noah Beery (USA) 1923 [Satire on ambitious super-productions like Birth of a Nation, set among aristocrats of the Mississippi]
Flight d: Frank Capra lp: Jack Holt, Ralph Graves. Columbia (USA) 1929 [Two friends in Marines Flying Squadron are rivals in love]
Foolish Wives d: Erich von Stroheim lp: Rudolph Christians, Mae Busch, von Stroheim. Universal (USA) 1922
The Indian Tomb (Das indische Grabmal) d: Joe May s: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou lp: Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Lya de Putti. Joe May Company (Germany) 1920 [A foreign architect is imprisoned by his employer, the Maharajah, after eloping with the latter’s woman]
Intolerance d & s: D. W. Griffith lp: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron. Wark Producing Company (USA) 1916
The Island of Bliss (Insel der Seligen) d: Max Reinhardt (Austria-Hungary) 1913
The Jazz Singer d: Alan Crosland lp: Al Jolson. Warners (USA) 1927
The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) d: F. W. Murnau lp: Emil Jannings. Ufa (Germany) 1924
Legion of the Condemned d: William Wellman lp: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray. Paramount (USA) 1928 [WWI flying melodrama]
Metropolis d: Fritz Lang s: Lang, Thea von Harbou lp: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel. Ufa (Germany) 1927
Modern Times d, s: Charles Chaplin lp: Chaplin, Paulette Goddard. Chaplin-United Artists (USA) 1936
Napoleon d: Abel Gance lp: Albert Dieudonné. Les Films Historiques (France) 1927
The Nibelungs (Die Nibelungen Pt 1: Siegfried; Pt 2: Kriemhilds Rache) d: Fritz Lang s: Thea von Harbou Lp: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Bernhard Goetzke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Decla-Bioscop (Germany) 1922–4
Niniche d: Victor Janson lp: Ossi Oswalda (Germany) 1924 [Presumably a vehicle for the popular actress who had been discovered by Lubitsch in 1919]
Orphans of the Storm d: D. W. Griffith lp: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish. United Artists (USA) 1921
Our Hospitality d: Buster Keaton, Jack Blystone lp: Keaton, Natalie Talmadge. Metro (USA) 1923
Shattered (Scherben) d: Lupu Pick s: Carl Mayer lp: Werner Krauss (Germany) 1921
Skyscraper d: Howard Higgin lp: William Boyd, Alan Hale. DeMille Pictures (USA) 1928
The Thief of Bagdad d: Raoul Walsh s: Elton Thomas (i.e. Douglas Fairbanks) ph: Arthur Edeson ad: William Cameron Menzies lp: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston. United Artists (USA) 1924
Variety d, s: E. A. Dupont ph: Karl Freund lp: Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti. Ufa (Germany) 1925 [Known as Variété in France and Vaudeville in the USA]
Verdun (Verdun – Vision d’histoire) d: Leon Poirier lp: Jeanne Marie Laurent, Antonin Artaud. Gaumont (France) 1928
Way Down East d: D. W. Griffith lp: Lillian Gish. First National (USA) 1920
Westfront 1918 d: G. W. Pabst lp: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl. Nero Film (Germany) 1930
Wings d: William Wellman lp: Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen. Paramount (USA) 1927
A Woman of Paris d: Charles Chaplin lp: Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou. United Artists (USA) 1923 [Released Moscow 23.10.1925]
World Melody (Melodie der Welt) d: Walter Ruttmann (Germany) 1930