February 16, 1970

Top 10 Films of 1926

1. "The General" (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, United Artists)

2. "A Page Of Madness" (Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan)

3. "Mantrap" (Victor Fleming, Paramount)

4. "For Heaven's Sake" (Sam Taylor, Paramount)

5. "The Strong Man" (Frank Capra, First National)

6. "So This Is Paris" (Ernst Lubitsch, Warner)

7. "Mother" (Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union)

8. "Ella Cinders" (Alfred E. Green, First National)

9. "Beau Geste" (Herbert Brenon, Paramount)

10. "Fig Leaves" (Howard Hawks, Fox)


Other great films:

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (Germany)
The Bat
Battling Butler
Bed And Sofa (Soviet Union)
Exit Smiling
Gribiche (France)
It's The Old Army Game
Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni (Italy)
Sparrows
Three Bad Men
Tramp Tramp Tramp


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1926:

1. "Moana" (Robert J. Flaherty, USA)

2. Faust (F.W. Murnau, Germany)

3. "Last Days Of Pompeii" (Carmine Gallone, Amleto Palermi, Italy)

4. "Voyage au Congo" (Marc Allégret, France)

5. "Her Sacrifice" (Wilfred Lucas, USA)

6. "Nell Gwyn" (Herbert Wilcox, UK)

7. "The Non-Stop Flight" (Emory Johnson, USA)

8. "The Triumph Of The Rat" (Graham Cutts, UK)

9. "Fadeaway" (Dave Fleischer, Red Seal)

10. "Maharadjahens yndlingshustru III" (A.W. Sandberg, Denmark)


Short Top 10:

1. "Wandering Willies" (Del Lord, Sennett, Pathe)

2. "Menilmontant" (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)

3. "Circus Today" (Del Lord, Sennett, Pathe)

4. "45 Minutes From Hollywood" (Fred Guiol, Roach, Pathe)

5. "Danger Ahead" (Percy Pembroke, USA)

6. "Hoboken To Hollywood" (Del Lord, Sennett, Pathe)

7. "Mighty Like A Moose" (Leo McCarey, Roach, Pathe)

8. "Thundering Fleas" (Robert McGowan, Roach, Pathe)

9. "Filmstudie" (Hans Richter, Germany)

10. "A Plantation Act" (Philip Roscoe, Warner)


Other great shorts:


Cartoon Top 10:

1. "Alice's Mysterious Mystery" (Walt Disney, Winkler)

2. "Spirals" (Oskar Fischinger, Germany)

3. "Where Friendship Ceases" (Paul Terry, Pathé)

4, "Koko's Toot Toot" (Dave Fleischer, Red Seal)

5. "Anemic Cinema" (Marcel Duchamp, France)

6. "Alice In The Wooly West" (Walt Disney, Winkler)

7. "Koko The Convict" (Dave Fleischer, Red Seal)

8. "Alice The Fire Fighter" (Walt Disney, Winkler)  

9. "Koko's Paradise" (Dave Fleischer, Red Seal)

10. "Alice's Orphan" (Walt Disney, Winkler)

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A Page Of Madness (1926) *****



The greatest Japanese movie of the 1920's, a visual masterpiece of amazing cinematography and dizzying montage.
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The General (1926) *****

The best silent comedy of all times, starring Buster Keaton as a Southern railway engineer trying to recover his locomotive stolen by Union spies during the Civil War. Perfectly directed and screamingly funny.
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Beau Geste (1926) ****

The original, silent adaptation starring Ronald Coleman.
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For Heaven's Sake (1926) ****

Exciting Harold Lloyd comedy full of wild chases.
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Mantrap (1926) ****

Clara Bow was the greatest sex symbol of the Jazz Age and this is her best film - a funny comedy set in the Canadian wilderness.
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The Strong Man (1926) ****

Harry Langdon's best feature film. It should be seen by anyone who questions his place as one of four great silent comics alongside Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. It's a story of a Belgian soldier who comes to America looking for his girlfriend. Gags are many and great.
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Ella Cinders (1926) ****

Coleen Moore gives a fabulous performance as a modern-day Cinderella who tries to become a Hollywood movie star. Forget “The Artist” (Oscar or no Oscar) – this is the best silent film set in Tinseltown, with Marion Davis' “Show People” a close runner-up. Of course, “Singin' In The Rain” is still the greatest film about Hollywood, sound or silent.
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Brown Of Harvard (1926) ***

A touching homosexual love story is barely concealed in this otherwise routine, thought very well-made, college drama set in Harvard.
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