1927 in Film

1927 In Film

U.S.A. unless stated

  • Annie Laurie, starring Lillian Gish
  • Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Beloved Rogue starring John Barrymore, Marceline Day
  • Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (documentary) - (Germany)
  • Blighty, directed by Adrian Brunel; starring Ellaline Terriss and Lillian Hall-Davis - (Britain)
  • The Bugle Call
  • Buttons
  • The Cat and the Canary, directed by Paul Leni
  • Chicago
  • Children of Divorce, starring Clara Bow, Gary Cooper and Esther Ralston
  • The Chinese Parrot
  • College, starring Buster Keaton
  • Confetti, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Jack Buchanan and Annette Benson - (Britain)
  • The Dove, starring Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery
  • Downhill, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans - (Britain)
  • The Drop Kick, starring Richard Barthelmess
  • Education of a Prince - (France)
  • The End of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • The First Auto, starring Barney Oldfield, Patsy Ruth Miller, Charles Emmett Mack, Russell Simpson, Gibson Gowland
  • The Gaucho, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez
  • Her Wild Oat, starring Colleen Moore
  • His First Flame, starring Harry Langdon
  • The Honorable Mr. Buggs, starring Anna May Wong
  • Hula, starring Clara Bow
  • Husband Hunters, starring Mae Busch, Jean Arthur and Mildred Harris
  • Huntingtower, by George Pearson, starring Harry Lauder - (Britain)
  • It, starring Clara Bow
  • The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy
  • Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
  • 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 starring Corinne Griffith
  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring June and Ivor Novello - (Britain)
  • 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, starring Gloria Swanson
  • Mata Hari starring Magda Sonja (Germany)
  • Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Alfred Abel - (Germany)
  • Mockery, starring Lon Chaney
  • The Mountain Eagle, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi - (Britain)
  • 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
  • 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 - (Britain)
  • Singed, starring Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter
  • Slide, Kelly, Slide, starring Harry Carey
  • Spring Fever, starring Joan Crawford
  • The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer
  • Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor
  • Svengali directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Paul Wegener (Germany)
  • Twelve Miles Out, directed by Jack Conway, starring John Gilbert and Joan Crawford
  • 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

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