Saturday, June 4, 2022

December 1927 (The King of Kings)

London After Midnight (1927)


The Adventurer (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Adventurous Soul (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Alias Texas Pete Owens (Sell 'Em Cowboy) (USA - 1924 - bw) (silent)
The American Beauty (see: Beautiful Fraud, The)
The Arizona Wildcat (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

The Beautiful Fraud (The American Beauty) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Better Man (L'homme à l'Hispano) (Fr - 1926 - bw) (silent)
Beware of Married Men (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
Blind Mothers (Passionate Youth) (USA - 1925 - bw) (silent)
Brass Knuckles (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
Breed of Courage (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Broadway Drifter (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Broadway Madness (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Buttons (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

• Can Love Be Cured? (Kan kærlighed kureres?) (Den - 1923 - bw) (silent)
The Chocolate Girl (La petite chocolatière) (Fr - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Confetti (UK - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Cowboy Courage (USA - 1925 - bw) (silent)
Cross Breed (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

Dancing Vienna (Das tanzende Wien) (Ger - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• The Devil's Pawn (Der gelbe Schein) /USA: The Yellow Ticket (Ger - 1918 - bw) (silent)
The Devil's Saddle (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

Finnegan's Ball (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Flying Luck (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Forbidden Woman (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Forgotten Women (Isle of Forgotten Women) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• French Dressing (see: Lessons for Wives)

• Gallegher (Let 'Er Go Gallegher) (USA - 1928 - bw) (silent)
The Garden of Allah (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Gilded Calf (Gribiche) /USA: Mother of Mine (Fr - 1926 - bw) (silent)
Ginsberg the Great (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
Good Time Charley (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
The Gorilla (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Gun Gospel (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

Haunted Island (serial) (USA - 1928 - 10 chapters - bw) (silent)
Hawk of the Hills (serial) (USA - 1927 - 10 chapters - bw) (silent) ¹
A Hero for a Night (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Her Primitive Mate (No Place to Go) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
His Greatest Battle (USA - 1925 - bw) (silent)
• His Rise to Fame (see: Rising to Fame)
Home Made (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Home Sweet Home (USA - 1926 - bw) (silent)
Hook and Ladder No. 9 (see: Pendulum, The)
The House Behind the Hedge (Unknown Treasures) (USA - 1926 - bw) (silent)

If I Were Single (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
In a Moment of Temptation (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Isle of Forgotten Women (see: Forgotten Women)

• The Kick-Off (USA - 1926 - bw) (silent)
The King of Kings (USA - 1927 - bw and col) (silent) ²

Ladies Must Dress (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Last Outlaw (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Laughing Husband (Der lachende Ehemann) (Ger - 1926 - bw) (silent)
• Lessons for Wives (French Dressing) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• Let 'Er Go Gallegher (see: Gallegher)
The Life of Riley (see: Red Hot Riley)
Life's Crossroads (see: Silken Lady, The)
A Light in the Window (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Little Snob (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
London After Midnight (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• The Love Mart (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Love Slave (Junges Blut) (Ger - 1926 - bw) (silent)
Luck (Lille Lise let-paa-taa) (Den - 1923 - bw) (silent)

The Main Event (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Man Crazy (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Man Who Waited (USA - 1922 - bw) (silent)
The Masked Mannequin (Der Fürst von Pappenheim) (Ger - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• The Masked Menace (serial) (USA - 1927 - 10 chapters - bw) (silent)
Mother of Mine (see: Gilded Calf, The)
My Best Girl (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• My Friend From India (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

No Place to Go (see: Her Primitive Mate)

On the Stroke of Twelve (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
On Your Toes (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

Passionate Youth (see: Blind Mothers)
The Pendulum (Hook and Ladder No. 9) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
A Perfect Gentleman (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Pretty Clothes (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Put 'Em Up (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

Red Hot Riley (The Life of Riley) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Red Raiders (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Return of Boston Blackie (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Ridin' Wild (USA - 1925 - bw) (silent)
• Rising to Fame (His Rise to Fame) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Rose of the Golden West (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

Sailor Izzy Murphy (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
• The Scarlet Peacock (Das Karussell des Lebens) (Ger - 1919 - bw) (silent)
Sell 'Em Cowboy (see: Alias Texas Pete Owens)
Service for Ladies (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Shadows of the Past (Violantha) (Ger/Swz - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• Shanghai Bound (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Shootin' Irons (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Silken Lady (Life's Crossroads) (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Silk Legs (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Silver Slave (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
South Sea Love (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• The Strange Case of Captain Ramper (see: Wildman, The)
Striving for Fortune (USA - 1926 - bw) (silent)

The Test of Donald Norton (USA - 1926 - bw) (silent)
Thanks for the Buggy Ride (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
That's My Daddy (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (USA - 1927 - bw) (music / sound fx)
Unknown Treasures (see: House Behind the Hedge, The)

The Valley of the Giants (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Villa by the Sea (Feu!) (Fr - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Violantha (see: Shadows of the Past)

Wages of Conscience (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Web of Fate (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
• The Wildman (Ramper, der Tiermensch) /USA: The Strange Case of Captain Ramper (Ger - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Winds of the Pampas (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Winning Oar (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Wizard (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
Wolf Fangs (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)
The Woman on Trial (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

• The Yellow Ticket (see: Devil's Pawn, The)
Your Wife and Mine (USA - 1927 - bw) (silent)

¹ Condensed feature version: Hawk of the Hills (1929), with music and sound fx.

² Reissued in 1928 with music and sound fx.

Primary sources:
Unless otherwise indicated, titles in this entry were first trade-shown in London in Dec 1927, as per Kine Weekly (1889-1971) and The Bioscope (1908-1932). Some films may have been screened earlier in other cities. Nationwide release dates may differ.

Updated 8 Dec 2023.


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