What are your favorite silent movies?

(In no particular order)

Sunrise
The Manxman (Hitchcock)
The Farmer's Wife (Hitchcock)
The Lodger (Hitchcock)
Metropolis

My Top 10

10. Story of Floating Weeds(Izu)/The Virginian(DeMille)
9. The Kid Brother(Wilde)
8. The Phantom of the Opera(Julian)
7. Nanook of the North(Flaherty)
6. Passion of Joan of Arc(Dreyer)
5. Battleship Potemkin(Eisenstein)
4. Last of the Mohicans(Tourneur/C.Brown)
3. Sherlock Jr./The General(Keaton)-tie
2. The Gold Rush(Chaplin)
1. Sunrise(Murnau)

others- Greed(excellent film; the only reason I left it off was that it is incomplete, but what is there is extraordinary), City Lights, The Kid, and Easy Street(all from Chaplin), The Navigator, The Cameraman, Seven Chances and Our Hospitality(all from Keaton)

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I like this one Sunrise, Intolerance, Modern Time, Pandora's Box, Phantom of the Opera, Ben Hur: Tales of the Christ, Gold Rush, The Kid, Cameraman, Metropolis, Thief of Bagdad. The one I like the most is Birth of Nation, simply a great epic.

In no particular order...
1. The Unholy Three ( One of the Browning/Chaney Masterpieces)
2. Tell It To The Marines ( Hill )
3. He Who Get's Slapped ( Seastrom )
All of the above starring the GREAT Lon Chaney. All of which feature him sans grotesque make-up.

4.The Wind ( Seastrom )
5. Sunrise ( Murnau )
6. Seven Years Bad Luck ( Max Lender-very underrated )
7. Daddy Long Legs- Can't recall offhand who directed it, but it starred Mary Pickford.


Question for all of you: Where do you get such incredible access to silent films? Mine is pretty much limited to TCM and the 'Halloween' themed movies shown in Milwaukee during October. I own 'Phantom' and 'Hunchback' starring Chaney, and have seen 'Nosferatu' and was not at all impressed with it. Quite let down with that one, actually. To those who listed it as a fave, could you tell me why? Perhaps I missed something.


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Favourites, eh? As opposed to the best? Mine are heavily predicated on comedy.


Chaplin Top 3: A Dog's Life, The Pilgrim, City Lights

Keaton Top 3: Seven Chances, The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Lloyd Top 3: Grandma's Boy, The Kid Brother, The Freshman

Langdon: The Strong Man

Laurel & Hardy: Putting Pants on Philip, Two Tars, Big Business

Griffith: Hands Up!


Dramas/Melodramas:

I keep coming back to The Big Parade, Sunrise, Pandora's Box, The Thief of Baghdad, Greed, Flesh and the Devil, The Iron Horse.


But the silent era was really defined and best represented by its comedians, and there are at least a dozen other comedies I haven't listed that I watch more often than I will even Greed or Sunrise.

1. A Woman of Affairs (Clarence Brown)
2. Anna Christie (John Griffith Wray)
3. Barbed Wire (Rowland V. Lee)
4. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
5. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Thomas Schadt)
6. Big Parade, The (Vidor)
7. Birth Of A Nation, The (Griffith)
8. Black Pirate, The (Albert Parker)
9. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
10. Cameraman, The (Keaton/Sedgwick)
11. City Girl (Murnau)
12. Crowd, The (Vidor)
13. Down to the Sea in Ships (Elmer Clifton)
14. Eagle, The (Clarence Brown)
15. Feel My Pulse (Gregory La Cava)
16. Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown)
17. Foolish Wives (Stroheim)
18. General, The (Keaton/Bruckman)
19. Grand Duchess and, The Waiter, The (Mal St. Clair)
20. Intolerance (Griffith)
21. Iron Horse, The (Ford)
22. It (Clarence Badger)
23. Joyless Street, The (Pabst)
24. Lady Windermere’s Fan (Lubitsch)
25. Last Command, The (Sternberg)
26. Last Laugh, The (Murnau)
27. Lilac Time (George Fitzmaurice)
28. Lost Girl, The (Pabst)
29. Love of Jeanne Ney, The (Pabst)
30. Marriage Circle, The (Lubitsch)
31. Merry Widow, The (Stroheim)
32. Metropolis (Lang)
33. Navigator, The (Keaton/Crisp)
34. Our Hospitality (Keaton/Blystone)
35. Queen Kelly (Stroheim)
36. Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh)
37. Seven Chances (Keaton)
38. Show People (Vidor)
39. Son of the Sheik, The (George Fitzmaurice)
40. Sparrows (William Beaudine)
41. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton/Reisner)
42. Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The (Lubitsch)
43. Sunrise (Murnau)
44. Ten Commandments, The (DeMille)
45. Tol’able David (Henry King)
46. Way Down East (Griffith)
47. What Price Glory? (Raoul Walsh)
48. Wild and Wooly (John Tansey)
49. Wild Orchids (Sidney Franklin)
50. Wings (Wellman)

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