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

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