Top 10 Films of 1922

1. "Dr Mabuse" (Fritz Lang, Germany)

2. "Foolish Wives" (Erich Von Stroheim, Universal)

3. "Nosferatu" (F.W. Murnau, Germany)

4. "Haxan" (Benjamin Christensen, Denmark)

5. "Nanook Of The North" (Robert Flaherty, Pathe)

6. "Dr Jack" (Fred C. Newmeyer, USA)

7. "Grandma’s Boy" (Fred C. Newmeyer, Pathe)

8. "Tess Of The Storm Country" (John S. Robertson, United Artists)

9. "Oliver Twist" (Frank Lloyd, First National)

10. "Manslaughter" (Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount)

Other great films:

Beyond The Rocks

E piccerella (Italy)

Love One Another (Germany)

Once Upon A Time (Denmark)

Rok 1963 (Poland)

Shibukawa Bangoro (Japan)

The Toll Of The Sea

Short Top 10:

1. "Cops" (Eddie Cline, Buster Keaton, First National)

2. "Pay Day" (Charles Chaplin, First National)

3. "The Sawmill" (Larry Semon, Norman Taurog, Vitagraph)

4. "The Blacksmith" (Malcolm St. Clair, Buster Keaton, First National)

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

6. "The Paleface" (Eddie Cline, Buster Keaton, First National)

7. "My Wife's Relations" (Eddie Cline, Buster Keaton, First National)

8. "Scrooge" (George Wynn, UK)

9. "The Electric House" (Eddie Cline, Buster Keaton, First National)

10. "Kino-Pravda No 1" (Dziga Vertov, Russia)

Cartoon Top 10:

1. "Jumping Beans" (Dave Fleischer, Winkler)

2. "The Original Movie" (Tony Sarg, USA)

3. "Bubbles" (Dave Fleischer, Winkler)

4. "Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi" (Wladyslaw Starewicz, France)

5. "Felix Saves The Day" (Otto Messmer, Winkler)

6. "Puss In Boots" (Walt Disney, USA)

7. "Cinderella" (Walt Disney, USA)

8. "Little Red Riding Hood" (Walt Disney, USA)

9. "The Four Musicians Of Bremen" (Walt Disney, USA) 

10. "Aschenputtel" (Lotte Reiniger, Germany)

Weak films of 1922:

Blood and Sand
Down To The Sea In Ships
Flesh And Blood
The Headless Horseman
Mud And Sand
Orphans Of The Storm
Peg O' My Heart
Phantom (Germany)
Robin Hood
Sherlock Holmes
Sky High
Three Must-Get-Theres

Weak shorts:

The Frozen North
Some Baby
Tommy Tucker's Tooth

Weak cartoons:

Chemistry Lesson
Jack The Giant Killer
Two Of A Trade

Foolish Wives (1922) *****

Erich von Stroheim's best film. He plays a vile Russian officer, who seduces married women in Monte-Carlo.

Nosferatu (1922) *****

Excellent horror film, directed by F.W. Murnau, a classic of German expressionism.

Dr Mabuse (1922) *****

Silent German film about a criminal genius.

Haxan (1922) ****

Beyond The Rocks (1922) ***

Silent melodrama about adultery, starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolpho Valentino.

Manslaughter (1922) ***

Cecil B. DeMille's melodrama about a rich and frivolous woman who undergoes a positive transformation while in prison.

The Toll Of The Sea (1922) ***

The first feature film in color.

Rok 1963 (1922) ***

E piccerella (1922) ***

Once Upon A Time (1922) ***

A Danish comedy by Carl T. Dreyer, loosely inspired by "The Taming Of A Shrew".

Shibukawa Bangoro (1922) ***

Love One Another (1922) ***

German film by a Danish director (Carl T. Dreyer), about the pogroms of Jews in Russia.

The Headless Horseman (1922) **

Not as a good as the 1949 Disney version.

Down To The Sea In Ships (1922) **

One of Clara Bow's first films. She plays a stowaway on a whaling ship.

Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) **

Max Linder stars as D'Artagnan in this comic version of ''Three Musketeers''.

Sky High (1922) **

A fine Tom Mix western set in the Grand Canyon.

Peg O' My Heart (1922) **

Silent melodrama about a rebellious Irish lass who falls in love with a British aristocrat.

Phantom (1922) *

F.W. Murnau's silent melodrama about a poet getting in trouble over a woman. Dated and annoying.

Mud And Sand (1922) *

Stan Laurel becomes a famous matador.

Tess Of The Storm Country (1922) ***

Mary Pickford plays a very poor girl whose father is falsely accused of murder. A melodramatic, but compelling story of class struggle in rural America.

Sherlock Holmes (1922) *

Very weak silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novels.

Flesh And Blood (1922) *

Silent drama about an escaped convict (Lon Chaney) and his daughter.

Cops (1922) *****

Buster is chased by hundreds of angry cops in this superb silent comedy.

Kino-Pravda No 1 (1922) ***

The first in a series of short documentaries directed by Dziga Vertov. Shocking images of children dying of hunger.

The Electric House (1922) ***

A series of amusing spot gags involving electrical appliances.

Scrooge (1922) ***

The Paleface (1922) ***

Buster finds himself among hostile Indians.