Milestone 1926

Film Releases During the Year

Building started in 1925 but the The Empire Cinema Neath was opened on 19th October 1926 by Alderman Richard Jenkins the Mayor of Neath.   The grand opening was attended by the family of the builders - W.H.Snow & Sons.

Clicking on the links gives details of each film, from which you will note that they were silent films.

Films released in 1926

• 3 Bad Men, directed by John Ford
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger.
• Aloma of the South Seas, starring Gilda Gray
• Bardelys the Magnificent, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
• The Bat
• Battling Butler, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Beau Geste, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Ronald Colman and Alice Joyce
• The Bells, directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff
• Beverly of Graustark, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno
• The Black Pirate, directed by Albert Parker, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove
• La Bohème, directed by King Vidor, starring Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
• Brown of Harvard directed by Jack Conway, starring William Haines, Jack Pickford andMary Brian
• Brudeferden i Hardanger (The bridal procession in Hardanger), a Norwegian drama
• Cruise of the Jasper B, starring Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris and Snitz Edwards
• The Devil's Circus, starring Norma Shearer
• Don Juan, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore
• Faust, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman and Emil Jannings
• Flesh and the Devil, directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo
• Fool's Luck, directed by Fatty Arbukle, starring Lupino Lane and George Davis
• The General, starring Buster Keaton
• For Heaven's Sake, directed by Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
• The Great Gatsby, directed by George Cukor, starring Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson
• The Great K and A Train Robbery, starring Tom Mix
• Hands Up!
• Irene, starring Colleen Moore. In color sequence by Technicolor.
• The Johnstown Flood, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor
• Kid Boots, starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow
• Madame Mystery, directed by Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel, starring Theda Bara
• The Magician
• Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Antonio Moreno and Alice Terry
• Miss Mend, directed by Fyodor Otsep, starring Boris Barnet
• Mother, directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
• My Yankee Senor, starring Tom Mix
• Nana directed by Jean Renoir
• Old Ironsides directed by James Cruze starring Esther Ralston
• A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji)
• The Scarlet Letter, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
• The Sea Beast, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O'Hara
• The Show Off, starring Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson and Louise Brooks; directed by Mal St. Clair
• The Son of the Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
• So's Your Old Man, starring W.C. Fields
• The Sorrows of Satan, starring Adolphe Menjou
• Sparrows, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford
• Storm of Passion (Aiyoku no arashi)
• The Strong Man, starring Harry Langdon
• The Student of Prague, starring Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy and Fritz Alberti
• The Temptress, starring Greta Garbo and Antonio Moreno.
• Torrent, starring Ricardo Cortez and Greta Garbo
• A Trip to Chinatown, starring Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe
• The Volga Boatman
• What Price Glory?, starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Rio
• The Winning of Barbara Worth, starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky and Gary Cooper