The Passion of Joan of Arc – The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein) – Street Angel – The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra – The Crowd – The Docks of New York – October

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The Movies of 1928: World Premieres
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Updated: 15 Jan 2023, with A Girl in Every Port and Street Angel

The Barker Dir. George Fitzmaurice. Milton Sills, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. B

The Cameraman Dir. Edward Sedgwick. Buster Keaton, Marceline Day B
Un Chien andalou Dir. Luis Buñuel. Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil A–
The Circus Dir. Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia A
The Crowd Dir. King Vidor. James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach A

The Docks of New York Dir. Josef von Sternberg. George Bancroft, Betty Compson A

The Fall of the House of Usher Dir. Jean Epstein. Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy A+
The Fall of the House of Usher Dirs. James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber A

A Girl in Every Port Dir. Howard Hawks. Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong B+

In Old Arizona Dirs. Raoul Walsh & Irving Cummings. Warner Baxter C–

The Last Command Dir. Josef von Sternberg. Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent A–
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra Dirs. R. Florey & S. Vorkapich A–

The Passion of Joan of Arc Dir. Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Renée Maria Falconetti A+

The Racket Dir. Lewis Milestone. Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost C

Sadie Thompson Dir. Raoul Walsh. Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore A–
Sex in Chains Dir. William Dieterle. William Dieterle, Mary Johnson A–
A Ship Comes In Dir. William K. Howard. Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser C–
Speedy Dir. Ted Wilde. Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth B
Steamboat Bill, Jr. Dir. Charles Reisner. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence A–
Street Angel Dir. Frank Borzage. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston B

The Telltale Heart Dir. Charles Klein. Otto Matieson, William Herford B

West of Zanzibar Dir. Tod Browning. Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan B+
White Shadows in the South Seas Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. Monte Blue B
The Wind Dir. Victor Sjöström. Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love A–

Zvenigora Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Nikolai Nademsky, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy A+