The Golden Twenties (1950)

April. 08,1950

6.6

| Documentary

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

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Cast

Robert Q. Lewis as Narrator

[1979] C.H.O.M.P.S. [1964] Good Neighbor Sam [1957] An Affair to Remember [1950] The Golden Twenties

John Barrymore as Self (archive footage)

[1965] Hollywood My Home Town [1950] The Golden Twenties [1940] The Invisible Woman [1939] Midnight [1938] Bulldog Drummond's Peril [1938] Marie Antoinette

Irving Berlin as Self (archive footage)

[1950] The Golden Twenties [1929] Glorifying the American Girl

Reviews

GazerRise

1950/04/08

Fantastic!

Ceticultsot

1950/04/09

Beautiful, moving film.

Abbigail Bush

1950/04/10

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Mathilde the Guild

1950/04/11

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

boblipton

1950/04/12

This compilation of old film clips, narrated by various sportscasters, commentators and Frederick Lewis Allen, who wrote the definitive memoir of the 1920s -- not a history, since it came out in 1931 -- covers the 1920s, but begins with the Armistice. Well, no one one rang a bell and told me to grow my hair long on January 1, 1960.Too simplistic for my taste, this does have interesting clips throughout, running from Carrie Nation to General Pershing, the great and noteworthy, and ordinary people. It's most interesting for the variety of those clips. If you wish to take a look at it, it's on the DVD set of the silent version of CHICAGO -- which is definitely worth your time.