Greatest Moments in Silent Cinema

10. The savage zeal of the Klansmen in Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation."

9. The haunted eyes of the actress Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc."

8. The Phantom unmasked in "The Phantom Of The Opera."

7. A man dying in the desert in von Stroheim's "Greed."

6. Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face in "Safety Last."

5. The baby carriage bouncing down the steps in Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin."

4. The dinner guests who find they somehow cannot leave, in Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel."

3. The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in the Georges Melies film "A Voyage to the Moon."

2. Buster Keaton standing perfectly still while the wall of a house falls over upon him; he is saved by being exactly placed for an open window, in "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

1. Charlie Chaplin being recognized by the blind girl in "City Lights".

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Jake



'I CAN WALK' - Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove (1963).