1928 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1928

Notable Films Released in 1928

U.S.A. unless stated

• Across to Singapore, starring Ramón Novarro and Joan Crawford
• The Actress directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Norma Shearer
• Alraune, starring Brigitte Helm and Paul Wegener - (Germany)
• L'Argent (Money), starring Pierre Alcover and Brigitte Helm - (France)
• Arsenal - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Awakening, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Vilma Bánky and Louis Wolheim
• Balaclava - (Britain)
• Beau Sabreur, directed by John Waters, starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent
• Beggars of Life, directed by William Wellman, starring Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks
• The Big City, starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
• The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (Huo shao hong lian si) - (China) - Released in 18 parts as the film runs for a total of 27 hours
• The Cameraman, a Buster Keaton film
• Champagne, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
• The Circus, starring, directed and written by Charles Chaplin
• The Cossacks starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée and Ernest Torrence
• The Crowd, directed by King Vidor
• Dawn, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Sybil Thorndike - (Britain)
• The Divine Woman, starring Greta Garbo
• The Docks of New York, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson and Olga Baclanova
• Easy Virtue, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (La Chute de la maison Usher) - (France)
• The Farmer's Wife, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
• Feel My Pulse, starring Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen and William Powell
• Four Sons, directed by John Ford
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Ruth Taylor and Alice White, subtitles written by Anita Loos
• A Girl in Every Port, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks
• The Godless Girl, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• Hangman's House, directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen and June Collyer
• Homecoming (Heimkehr) - (Germany)
• The House on Trubnaya (Дом на Трубной), directed by Boris Barnet - (U.S.S.R.)
• Interference, Paramount's first ever all talking movie
• Jujiro - (Japan)
• Ladies of the Mob, starring Clara Bow, Richard Arlen and Helen Lynch
• The Last Command, directed by Joseph von Sternberg, starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent and William Powell
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh, starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young
• Lights of New York
• A Little Bit of Fluff, starring Sydney Chaplin and Betty Balfour - (Britain)
• The Man Who Laughs, directed by Paul Leni, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin
• The Matinee Idol, directed by Frank Capra, starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker.
• The Midnight Taxi
• Mother Machree, directed by John Ford
• The Mysterious Lady, starring Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel
• Noah's Ark, starring George O'Brien
• The Noose, starring Richard Barthelmess
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir), directed by Sergei Eisenstein - (U.S.S.R.)
• On Trial, sound film, starring Pauline Frederick and Bert Lytell
• Our Dancing Daughters, starring Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Maria Falconetti - (France)
• The Patsy, directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies and Marie Dressler
• Piccadilly(United Kingdom), starring Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray and Cyril Ritchard
• The Power of the Press, directed by Frank Capra, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
• Ramona, starring Dolores del Río and Warner Baxter
• The Red Dance, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Dolores del Río and Charles Farrell
• Red Hair, starring Clara Bow
• The Ringer directed by Arthur Maude - (Britain)
• The Road to Ruin
• Rose-Marie, starring James Murray and Joan Crawford
• Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore
• The Seashell and the Clergyman (La Coquille et le clergyman) - (France)
• Sex in Chains (Geschlecht in Fesseln), starring and directed by William Dieterle - (Germany)
• Show People, directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies
• The Singing Fool, starring Al Jolson and Betty Bronson
• Sins of the Fathers starring Emil Jannings and Ruth Chatterton
• Skyscraper, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring William Boyd, Alan Hale, Sue Carol and Alberta Vaughn
• The Smart Set, starring William Haines, Jack Holt, and Alice Day
• Speedy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Spione (Spies), directed by Fritz Lang - (Germany)
• Steamboat Bill Jr., a Buster Keaton film
• Steamboat Willie, a Walt Disney Mickey Mouse short
• Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana), starring Valéry Inkijinoff - (U.S.S.R.)
• Street Angel, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• Sweeney Todd - (Britain)
• Take Me Home, a lost film directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Bebe Daniels
• Tempest, starring John Barrymore, Camilla Horn and George Fawcett
• The Terror, starring May McAvoy, Edward Everett Horton, and Louise Fazenda
• Thérèse Raquin, directed by Jacques Feyder - (France)
• Three Sinners starring Pola Negri, Warner Baxter and Olga Baclanova
• Tillie's Punctured Romance, starring W. C. Fields, Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin
• Toni starring Jack Buchanan - (Britain)
• Underground, directed by Anthony Asquith - (Britain)
• The Viking - the first feature-length Technicolor film
• The Wedding March, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim with Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts
• We Faw Down, starring Laurel and Hardy
• West of Zanzibar, starring Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore
• West Point, starring William Haines and Joan Crawford
• What a Night!, directed by A. Edward Sutherland; starring Bebe Daniels
• While the City Sleeps, directed by Jack Conway; starring Lon Chaney
• White Shadows in the South Seas, starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres
• The Wind, directed by Victor Sjostrom, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
• A Woman of Affairs, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert