Best of 1928

A carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.

All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and their airplanes. Then one of the aviators is killed. His replacement is Captain Philip Blythe, who can't help but notice Jeannine: when he lands the first time, she is standing in the middle of his "runway." She makes a more favorable impression when he sees her later by the lilacs. When all of the young men depart on a mission, Blythe promises to return.

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

An honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.

A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.

An American polo player, arrogant and full of himself, must vindicate his actions to win the heart of a girl, Polly, after getting himself booted off the U.S. polo team.

Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.

In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.

Fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.