Onelinereview's Film Masterpieces Checklist: 1920s (Part II- 1927 to 1929)

Twenty-Four Film Masterpieces, 1920s:

1. Greed (1924/ US/ d. Erich von Stroheim) [photo, above] (****)

2. The Gold Rush (1925/ US/ d. Charles Chaplin) (****)

3. Napoleon (1927/ Fr./ d. Abel Gance) (****)

4. The Last Laugh (1924/ Ger. D. F. W. Murnau) (****)

5. Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ (1925/ US/ d. Fred Niblo) (****)

6. Battleship Potemkin (1925/ USSR/ d. Sergei Eisenstein) (****)

7. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926/ Ger./ d. Lotte Reiniger) (****)

8. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927/ US/ d. Ernst Lubitsch) (*** 1/2)

9. The Gaucho (1927/ US/ d. F. Richard Jones) (*** 1/2)

10. The General(1927/ US/ d. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman) (*** 1/2)

11. Strike (1925/ USSR/ d. Sergei Eisenstein) (*** 1/2)

12. Safety Last (1923/ US/ Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) (*** 1/2)

13. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924/ Ger./ d. Fritz Lang) (***)

14. The Wind (1928/ US/ d. Victor Sjostrom) (***)

15. Nanook of the North (1922/ US/ d. Robert Flaherty) (***)

16. Blackmail (1929/ UK/ d. Alfred Hitchcock) (***)

17. The Last Command (1928/ US/ d. Josef von Sternberg) (***)

18. Pandora’s Box (1928/ Ger./ d. G. W. Pabst) (***)

19. White Shadows in the South Seas (1929/ US/ d. W. S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty) (***)

20. Man With A Movie Camera (1929/ USSR/ d. Dziga Vertov) (***)

21. The Love Parade (1929/ US/ d. Ernest Lubitsch) (***)

22. Sunrise (1927/ US/ d. F. W. Murnau) (***)

23. October (1928/ USSR/ d. Sergei Eisenstein) (***)

24. Street Angel (1928/ US/ d. Frank Borzage) (***)

Film Masterpieces Checklist 1927-29:

1929
Alibi (US/ d. Roland West) (***)
Applause (US/ d. Rouben Mamoulian) (***)
* Asphalt (Ger./ d. Joe May)
Blackmail (UK/ d. Alfred Hitchcock) (***)
The Broadway Melody (US/ d. Harry Beaumont)
* Bulldog Drummond (US/ d. F. Richard Jones)
* A Cottage on Dartmoor (UK, Swe./ d. Anthony Asquith)
Diary of a Lost Girl (Ger./ D. G. W. Pabst) (** 1/2)
Disraeli (US/ d. Alfred E. Green) (**)
The Divine Lady (US/ d. Frank Lloyd) (** 1/2)
* Four Feathers (US/ d. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Lothar Mendes)
The General Line/ Old and the New (USSR/ d. Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov) (** 1/2)
Hallelujah! (US/ d. King Vidor) (** 1/2)
* The Iron Mask (US/ d. Allan Dwan)
The Love Parade (US/ d. Ernest Lubitsch) (***)
Man With A Movie Camera (USSR/ d. Dziga Vertov) (***)
* The New Babylon (USSR/ d. Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg)
Noah’s Ark (US/ d. Michael Curtiz) (* 1/2)
Pandora’s Box (Ger./ d. G. W. Pabst) (***)
Queen Kelly (US/ d. Erich von Stroheim) (** 1/2)
* Seven Footprints to Satan (US/ d. Benjamin Christensen)
* A Throw of Dice (UK, India, Germany/ d. Frank Osten)
The Virginian (US/ d. Victor Fleming)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Ger./ d. G. W. Pabst, Arnold Fanck) (**)

1928
Arsenal (USSR, Ukraine/ d. Aleksandr Dovzhenko) (**)
* Beggars of Life (US/ d. William Wellman)
The Cameraman (US/ Edward Sedgwick) (** 1/2)
The Crowd (US/ d. King Vidor) (**)
The Docks of New York (US/ d. Josef von Sternberg)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Fr./ d. Jean Epstein) (**)
* Hangman’s House (US/ d. John Ford)
The Italian Straw Hat (Fr./ d. Rene Clair) (* 1/2)
The Last Command (US/ d. Josef von Sternberg) (***)
* Lonesome (US/ d. Pal Fejos)
The Man Who Laughs (US/ d. Paul Leni)
October (USSR/ d. Sergei Eisenstein) (***)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Fr./ d. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
* The Patsy (US/ d. King Vidor)
Sadie Thompson (US/ d. Raoul Walsh)
* Scampolo (It./ d. Augusto Genina)
Show People (US/ d. King Vidor) (***)
Spies (Ger./ d. Fritz Lang) (**)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (US/ d. Charles F. Riesner)
Storm Over Asia (USSR/ d. Vsevolod Pudovkin) (** 1/2)
Street Angel (US/ d. Frank Borzage) (***)
The Wedding March (US/ d. Erich von Stroheim) (***)
White Shadows in the South Seas (US/ d. W. S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty) (***)
The Wind (US/ d. Victor Sjostrom) (***)

1927
* Bed and Sofa (USSR/ d. Abram Room)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ger./ d. Walter Ruttman)
The Cat and the Canary (US/ d. Paul Leni) (**)
* Casanova (Fr./ d. Alexandre Volkoff)
* Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (US/ d. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
* The End of St. Petersburg (USSR/ d. Vsevolod Pudovkin)
Flesh and the Devil (US/ d. Clarence Brown)
* For the Term of His Natural Life (Austral./ d. Norman Dawn)
The Gaucho (US/ d. F. Richard Jones) (*** 1/2)
The General (US/ d. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman) (*** 1/2)
It (US/ d. Clarence Badger) (***)
The Jazz Singer (US/ d. Alan Crosland) (** 1/2)
The Kid Brother (US/ d. Ted Wilde)
The King of Kings (US/ d. Cecil B. DeMille) (***)
The Lodger (UK/ d. Alfred Hitchcock) (** 1/2)
Love of Jeanne Ney, The (Ger./ G. W. Pabst) (**)
Metropolis (Ger./ d. Fritz Lang) (** 1/2)
Napoleon (Fr./ d. Abel Gance)
7th Heaven (US/ d. Frank Borzage) (***)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (US/ d. Ernst Lubitsch) (*** 1/2)
Sunrise (US/ d. F. W. Murnau) (***)
Underworld (US/ d. Josef von Sternberg) (***)
The Unknown (US/ d. Tod Browning) (**)
Wings (US/ d. William Wellman)

Onelinereview's Film Masterpieces Checklist: 1920s (Part I- 1920 to 1926)

Film Masterpieces Checklist: 1920-26

1926
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Ger./ d. Lotte Reiniger) (****)
* A Crazy Page (Jap./ d. Teinosuke Kinugasa)
Faust (Ger./ d. F. W. Murnau) (** 1/2)
For Heaven’s Sake (US/ d. Sam Taylor)
* The Golden Clown (Den. /d. A W. Sandber)
The Great K & A Train Robbery (US/ d. Louis Seiler) (**)
La Boheme (US/ d. King Vidor) (** 1/2)
* Mare Nostrum (US/ d. Rex Ingram)
* Moana: A Story of the South Seas (US/ d. Robert J. Flaherty)
* Mother (USSR/ d. Vsevolod Pudovkin)
Sparrows (US/ d. William Beaudine) (**)
* The Winning of Barbara Worth (US/ d. Henry King)

1925
Battleship Potemkin (USSR/ d. Sergei Eisenstein) (****)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ (US/ d. Fred Niblo) (****)
The Big Parade (US/ d. King Vidor) (*** 1/2)
* Faces of Children (Fr., Switz./ d. Jacques Feyder)
The Freshman (US/ d. Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer) (** 1/2)
The Gold Rush (US/ d. Charles Chaplin) (****)
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (US/ d. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack) (** 1/2)
The Joyless Street(Ger./ d. G. W. Pabst) (**)
The Phantom of the Opera (US/ d. Rupert Julian)
Seven Chances (US/ d. Buster Keaton) (***)
Strike (USSR/ d. Sergei Eisenstein) (*** 1/2)
Variety (Ger./ d. E. A. Dupont) (***)

1924
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (Ger./ d. Fritz Lang) (***)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Ger./ d. Fritz Lang) (** 1/2)
Girl Shy (US/ d. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) (***)
Greed (US/ d. Erich von Stroheim) (****)
He Who Gets Slapped (US/ d. Victor Sjostrom) (**)
The Last Laugh (Ger. D. F. W. Murnau) (****)
The Marriage Circle (US/ d. Ernst Lubitsch) (***)
The Navigator (US/ d. Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp) (***)
The Saga of Gosta Berling (Swe./ d. Mauritz Stiller) (** 1/2)
Sherlock, Jr. (US/ d. Buster Keaton) (***)
The Thief of Bagdad (US/ d. Raoul Walsh) (** 1/2)
Waxworks (Ger./ d. Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni) (** 1/2)

1923
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (US/ d. Wallace Worsley) (* 1/2)
* La Roue (Fr. / d. Abel Gance)
Our Hospitality (US/ d. Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone)
Safety Last (US/ Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) (*** 1/2)
Why Worry? (US/ d. Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor) (***)

1922
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Ger./ d. Fritz Lang) (**)
Grandma’s Boy (US/ d. Fred Newmeyer) (** 1/2)
Haxan (Sweden/ d. Benjamin Christensen) (**)
Nanook of the North (US/ d. Robert Flaherty) (***)
Nosferatu (Ger./ d. F. W. Murnau) (** 1/2)

1921
Destiny (Ger./ d. Fritz Lang) (**)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (US/ d. Rex Ingram) (**)
The Kid (US/ d. Charles Chaplin) (** 1/2)
Orphans of the Storm (US/ d. D. W. Griffith) (**)
The Phantom Chariot (Swe./ d. Victor Sjostrom) (**)

1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Ger./ d. Robert Wiene)
The Golem (Ger./ d. Henrik Galeen, Paul Wegener) (**)
The Last of the Mohicans (US/ d. Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown) (*** 1/2)
The Mark of Zorro (US/ d. Fred Niblo) (***)
Way Down East (US/ d. D. W. Griffith) (* 1/2)

NOTE: Films that I have not yet seen are indicated with a *. I've rated the ones I have seen (using Leonard Maltin's BOMB and * 1/2 to **** star rating). If a film is listed without a * and without a rating, it means I've seen the movie but wish to re-evaluate it before assigning it a rating.