95 years ago:
Glorious Betsy (US)
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washin...
1928-04-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/171354
#GloriousBetsy #AlanCrosland #JohnMiljan #BettyBlythe #PreCode #Film

96 years ago:
The Beloved Rogue (US)
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
1927-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/120829
#TheBelovedRogue #AlanCrosland #JohnBarrymore #ConradVeidt #AngeloRossitto #PreCode #Film

105 years ago:
The Unbeliever (US)
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and ...
1918-02-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174921
#TheUnbeliever #AlanCrosland #ErichvonStroheim #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film