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Memory Lane (1926)

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Memory Lane

John M. Stahl | USA | 1926 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

Wed 17 Dec 2025

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One of Stahl’s last silent films, this timeless exploration of love and second chances stars Eleanor Boardman, Conrad Nagel and William Haines. Masterfully blending the comic with the bittersweet, it is a testament to Stahl’s ability to craft romantic stories with sensitivity and restraint.

Haines plays what some consider his finest role, though his acting career was to be cut short in the following decade because of his refusal to deny his homosexuality. According to Imogen Sara Smith, with this film Stahl became “a filmmaker who ranks with Mikio Naruse as an artist of tender irony and heartbreaking reserve”.

35mm print courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington.

Format: 35mm
Language: English
Source: The Library of Congress, Washington
Courtesy: Roadshow
Runtime: 76 mins

Event duration

76 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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