The Great Movie Tournament - Nominations Thread: 1920s

[mae]

And here we go!

This is the nominations thread for the tenth and final portion of The Great Movie Tournament where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1920s (from 1920 to 1929). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 1920 and December 31, 1929 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).

Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):

• You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after one other member has made their nomination.
• You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after one other member has made their second.
• If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
• Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.

Once 80 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.

• Round 1: 16 groups of 5 titles - top 3 move on
• Round 2: 16 groups of 3 - top 2 move on
• Round 3: 16 groups of 2 - top 1 move on
• Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
• Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
• Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
• Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner

This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in.

Enjoy and have fun!

List of seconded films:

1. Safety Last! (1923), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
2. Metropolis (1927), dir. Fritz Lang
3. The Phantom of the Opera (1925), dir. Rupert Julian
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), dir. Robert Wiene
6. Sunrise (1927), dir. F. W. Murnau
7. Wings (1927), dir. William A. Wellman
8. The Kid (1921), dir. Charlie Chaplin
9. The Lodger (1927), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
10. The Gold Rush (1925), dir. Charlie Chaplin
11. The Man Who Laughs (1928), dir. Paul Leni
12. Nosferatu (1922), dir. F. W. Murnau
13. Battleship Potemkin (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
14. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
15. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), dir. Fritz Lang
16. The Last Laugh (1924), dir. F. W. Murnau
17. Greed (1924), dir. Erich von Stroheim
18. The Cat and the Canary (1927), dir. Paul Leni
19. Die Nibelungen (1924), dir. Fritz Lang
20. Pandora's Box (1929), dir. G.W. Pabst
21. The General (1926), dir. Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
22. The Thief of Bagdad (1924), dir. Raoul Walsh
23. Häxan (1922), dir. Benjamin Christensen
24. Blackmail (1929), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
25. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), dir. Wallace Worsley
26. Sherlock, Jr. (1924), dir. Buster Keaton
27. The Golem (1920), dir. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
28. The Phantom Carriage (1921), dir. Victor Sjöström
29. The Wind (1928), dir. Victor Sjöström
30. Faust (1926), dir. F. W. Murnau
31. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), dir. G.W. Pabst
32. Nanook of the North (1922), dir. Robert Flaherty
33. West of Zanzibar (1928), dir. Tod Browning
34. Napoleon (1927), dir. Abel Gance
35. The Crowd (1928), dir. King Vidor
36. The Circus (1928), dir. Charlie Chaplin
37. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), dir. Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner
38. He Who Gets Slapped (1924), dir. Victor Sjöström
39. The Cocoanuts (1929), dir. Robert Florey and Joseph Santley
40. The Unknown (1927), dir. Tod Browning
41. The Lost World (1925), dir. Harry O. Hoyt
42. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), dir. Jean Epstein
43. The Freshman (1925), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
44. Robin Hood (1922), dir. Allan Dwan
45. Our Hospitality (1923), dir. Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone
46. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), dir. Fred Niblo
47. The Iron Horse (1924), dir. John Ford
48. Speedy (1928), dir. Ted Wilde
49. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), dir. John S. Robertson
50. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), dir. Rex Ingram
51. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), dir. Herbert Brenon
52. The Pilgrim (1923), dir. Charlie Chaplin
53. Man with a Movie Camera (1929), dir. Dziga Vertov
54. The Scarlet Letter (1926), dir. Victor Sjöström
55. Seven Chances (1925), dir. Buster Keaton
56. Spies (1928), dir. Fritz Lang
57. Woman in the Moon (1929), dir. Fritz Lang
58. The Mark of Zorro (1920), dir. Fred Niblo
59. Michael (1924), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
60. Body and Soul (1925), dir. Oscar Micheaux
61. The Hands of Orlac (1924), dir. Robert Wiene
62. The Penalty (1920), dir. Wallace Worsley
63. The Ten Commandments (1923), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
64. The Unholy Three (1925), dir. Tod Browning
65. Girl Shy (1924), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
66. The Cameraman (1928), dir. Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick
67. Battling Butler (1926), dir. Buster Keaton
68. The King of Kings (1927), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
69. Way Down East (1920), dir. D.W. Griffith
70. The Last Command (1928), dir. Josef von Sternberg
71. Hallelujah (1929), dir. King Vidor
72. 3 Bad Men (1926), dir. John Ford
73. Strike (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
74. The Big Parade (1925), dir. King Vidor
75. Flesh and the Devil (1926), dir. Clarence Brown
76. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), dir. Germaine Dulac
77. Our Dancing Daughters (1928), dir. Harry Beaumont
78. The Toll of the Sea (1922), dir. Chester M. Franklin
79. A Woman of Paris (1923), dir. Charlie Chaplin
80. Salomé (1922), dir. Alla Nazimova and Charles Bryant

List of films not yet seconded:

1. La Roue (1923), dir. Abel Gance
2. Where the North Begins (1923), dir. Chester M. Franklin
3. Arsenal (1929), dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko
4. Scaramouche (1923), dir. Rex Ingram
5. So This Is Paris (1926), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
6. Leaves from Satan's Book (1920), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
7. My Best Girl (1927), dir. Sam Taylor
8. It (1927), dir. Clarence G. Badger
9. The Parson's Widow (1920), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
10. Lonesome (1928), dir. Pál Fejős
11. Waxworks (1924), dir. Paul Leni and Leo Birinski
12. Piccadilly (1929), dir. E.A. Dupont
13. The Jazz Singer (1927), dir. Alan Crosland
14. The Sheik (1921), dir. George Melford
15. Seven Footprints to Satan (1929), dir. Benjamin Christensen
16. The Last of the Mohicans (1920), dir. Maurice Tourneur
17. Street Angel (1928), dir. Frank Borzage
18. The Black Pirate (1926), dir. Albert Parker
19. The Red Kimono (1925), dir. Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport
20. Rio Rita (1929), dir. Luther Reed
21. Orphans of the Storm (1921), dir. D.W. Griffith
22. Alraune (1928), dir. Henrik Galeen
23. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), dir. Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford
24. Souls for Sale (1923), dir. Rupert Hughes
25. A Page of Madness (1926), dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa

[mae]

This is it, folks! Our last nominations thread for this gigantic tournament. I think I'll kick this off with what I imagine has a good shot to win this decade, or at least get to the final:

Safety Last! (1923)
Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

Watch trailer:

[Tommy]

This is it, folks! Our last nominations thread for this gigantic tournament. I think I'll kick this off with what I imagine has a good shot to win this decade, or at least get to the final:

Safety Last! (1923)
Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

Watch trailer:

2ND

Nominate Metropolis

[mae]

I'll second Metropolis.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Robert Wiene

Watch trailer:

[Tommy]

Nosferatu

[mae]

The Kid (1921)
Charlie Chaplin

Watch trailer:

[Tommy]

Sunrise

[frik]

The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Paul Leni

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[mae]

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Watch trailer:

[mae]

By the way, I knew this was going to be slow-moving but I didn't expect it to be this slow. If this pace continues for a bit longer, I think I'll lower the seconding waiting period to one.

[Tommy]

The Phantom of the Opera

[mae]

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Buster Keaton

Watch trailer:

[frik]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Wallace Worsley

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[frik]

The Phantom of the Opera

seconded

[mae]

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Lotte Reiniger

Watch trailer:

[Tommy]

I'll Second The Passion of Joan of Arc

Nominate Wings

[fernandito]

I'll second Metropolis.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Robert Wiene

Watch trailer:

Second.

[mae]

I'll second Sunrise.

[mae]

Pandora's Box (1929)
G.W. Pabst

Watch trailer:

[Lurker]

I'll second Wings. It's one of the about three 20's movies I've seen.

[Tommy]

2ND The Kid
nominate The Lodger

[mae]

I'll second The Lodger.

The Wind (1928)
Victor Sjöström

Watch trailer:

[Tommy]

Nominate The Battleship Potemkin

[mae]

Greed (1924)
Erich von Stroheim

Watch trailer:

[Tommy]

That was my next one!
I will go with La Roue or The Wheel 1923