Top 10 Films of 1920

1. "The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari" (Robert Wiene, Germany)

2. "The Mark Of Zorro" (Fred Niblo, USA)

3. "The Penalty" (Wallace Worsley, USA)

4. "The Tall Gate" (Lambert Hillyer, USA)

5. "The Parson's Widow" (Carl T. Dreyer, Sweden)

6. "Way Down East" (D.W. Griffith, USA)

7. "Something New" (Nell Shipman, USA)

8. "Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde" (John S. Robertson, USA)

9. "The Golem" (Carl Boese, Paul Wegener, Germany)

10. "Why Change Your Wife ?" (Cecil B. DeMille, USA)


Other great films:

Dla ciebie Polsko (Poland) 

L'Homme du large (France)

Pollyanna
The Saphead


Top 5 Guilty Pleasures of 1920:

1. "Genuine" (Robert Wiene, Germany)

2. "Mousquetaire au restaurant" (France) - short

3. "Le Menage moderne du Madame Butterfly" (France) - short

4. "Within Our Gates" (Oscar Micheaux, USA)

5. "Beautiful Girl At Waterfall" (Claude Friese-Greene, UK) - short

Short Top 10:

1. "L'Illustre attrice Cicala Formica" (Lucio D'Ambra, Italy)

2. "Convict 13" (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, Metro)

3. "One Week" (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, Metro)

4. "The Garage" (Roscoe Arbuckle, Paramount)

5. "Neighbors" (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, First National)

6. "High And Dizzy" (Hal Roach, Pathe)

7. "Haunted Spooks" (Alf Goulding, Roach, Pathe)

8. "The Scarecrow" (Eddie Cline, Buster Keaton, Metro)

9. "Number Please" (Fred C. Newmeyer, Hal Roach, Pathe)

10. "An Eastern Westerner" (Hal Roach, Pathe)

Other great shorts:

Get Out And Get Under

The Taking Of The Winter Palace (Russia)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "A Cat's Life" (Paul Terry, Pathé)

2. "Ouija Board" (Max Fleischer, Paramount)

3. "The Clown's Little Brother" (Max Fleischer, Paramount)

Other great cartoons:

Perpetual Motion

Weak films of 1920:

Anna Boleyn (Germany)
Erotikon (Sweden)
Humoresque
One Arabian Night (Germany)

Weak shorts:

Cinderella Cinders
Dry And Thirsty

Weak cartoons:

Day At The Park
Wonders Of The Deep

The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920) ****

One of the most influential films of all times, a true classic of German Expressionist cinema.

L'Homme du large (1920) ***

Within Our Gates (1920) ***

Genuine (1920) ***

The Penalty (1920) ***

Pollyanna (1920) ***

Dla ciebie Polsko (1920) ***

Excellent war drama about Polish soldiers trying to reconquer Wilno from the Bolshevik invaders. Very patriotic and very anti-Communist, one of the earliest surviving Polish films.

The Tall Gate (1920) ***

Excellent western starring William S. Hart. Constantly surprising.

Humoresque (1920) **

Story of a famous Jewish musician from New York who enrolls in the Army during World War II.

Erotikon (1920) **

Silent Swedish melodrama directed by Mauritz Stiller.

One Week (1920) ****

Buster and his new bride are trying to put a house together, panel by panel. Hilarious film, one of Keaton's finest.

Convict 13 (1920) ****

Buster is mistaken for a criminal. Excellent comedy with many unexpected twists.

The Garage (1920) ****

Fatty and Buster are working in a garage. An excellent silent comedy, very funny.

Neighbors (1920) ****

Buster wants to marry his girlfriend. An excellent film with great chases and hilarious gags.

L'Illustre attrice Cicala Formica (1920) ****

An ambitious young woman finally gets to star in a film. But the premiere of her film is a disaster because due to the inexperience of the projectionist, the actors in the picture are all rapidly moving backwards, causing general laughter in the audience and spelling the end of the glorious but brief cinematic career of our heroine.

The Scarecrow (1920) ***

Buster is chased by a dog. Hilarious, fast-paced comedy short.

Get Out And Get Under (1920) ***

Car chases and car repairs dominate this Harold Lloyd comedy. An uneven, but entertaining romp. Produced by Hal Roach.

An Eastern Westerner (1920) ***

Rich East Coast boy Harold is sent to a lawless Far West town, where he fights a gang of hooded criminals.

Mousquetaire au restaurant (1920) ***

Le Menage moderne du Madame Butterfly (1920) ***

Beautiful Girl At Waterfall (1920) ***

Number Please (1920) ***

This Harold Lloyd comedy is set in an amusement park, but the longest sequence has Harold trying to make a phone call. Later, he's trying to get rid of a wallet.