My Favorite Allan Dwan Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Silver Lode (1954)

2.   Driftwood (1947)

3.   Robin Hood (1922)

4.   Slightly Scarlet (1956)

5.   Manhandled (1924)

6.   Zaza (1923)

7.   The Iron Mask (1929)

8.   A Modern Musketeer (1917)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

2.   Heidi (1937)

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   City Lights (1931)

2.   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

3.   The Gold Rush (1925)

4.   Limelight (1952)

5.   Modern Times (1936)

6.   The Great Dictator (1940)

7.   A Woman of Paris (1923)

8.   The Kid (1921)

9.   The Circus (1928)

10. A King in New York (1957)

11. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Keystone Shorts)

1.   His Prehistoric Past (1914)

2.   The New Janitor (1914)

3.   Dough and Dynamite (1914)

4.   His Trysting Place (1914)

5.   Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)

6.   His Musical Career (1914)

7.   Getting Acquainted (1914)

8.   The Property Man (1914)

9.   Laughing Gas (1914)

10. Mabel’s Married Life (1914)

11. A Busy Day (1914)

12. The Rounders (1914)

13. Those Love Pangs (1914)

14. Caught in the Rain (1914)

15. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)

16. His New Profession (1914)

17. The Masquerader (1914)

18. Recreation (1914) 

19. The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Essanay Shorts)

1.   The Bank (1915)

2.   Work (1915)

3.   The Tramp (1915)

4.   In the Park (1915)

5.   His New Job (1915)

6.   A Jitney Elopement (1915)

7.   Shanghaied (1915)

8.   Burlesque on ‘Carmen’ (1915)

9.   Police (1916)

10. A Night in the Show (1915)

11. A Woman (1915)

12. By the Sea (1915)

13. The Champion (1915)

14. A Night Out (1915)

15. Triple Trouble (1918)
(co-directed with Leo White)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Mutual Shorts)

1.   The Immigrant (1917)

2.   Behind the Screen (1916)

3.   The Pawnshop (1916)

4.   The Floorwalker (1916)

5.   The Fireman (1916)

6.   One A.M. (1916)

7.   The Rink (1916)

8.   The Count (1916)

9.   The Vagabond (1916)

10. The Adventurer (1917)

11. The Cure (1917)

12. Easy Street (1917) 

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (First National Shorts)

1.   The Pilgrim (1923)

2.   Shoulder Arms (1918)

3.   A Dog’s Life (1918)

4.   The Bond (1918)

5.   Payday (1922)

6.   The Idle Class (1921)

7.   Sunnyside (1919)

8.   A Day’s Pleasure (1919)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Compilation Films)

1.   The Chaplin Revue (1959)

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   Regeneration (1915)

3.   High Sierra (1941)

4.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Silent Version)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

2.   They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Dark Command (1940)

5.   They Drive By Night (1940)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   The Big Trail (1930)

8.   What Price Glory (1926)
(Silent Version)

9.   The Bowery (1933)

10. Manpower (1941)

11. Colorado Territory (1949)

12. The Man I Love (1947)

13. Pursued (1947)

14. Uncertain Glory (1944)

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   M (1931)

2.   Metropolis (1927)

3.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

4.   Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic (1959)

5.   The Big Heat (1953)

6.   The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7.   Spies (1928)

8.   Die Nibelungen (1924)

9.   Scarlet Street (1945)

10. The Woman in the Window (1944)

11. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

12. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

13. Rancho Notorious (1952)

14. House by the River (1950)

15. The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

16. Destiny (1921)

17. The Spiders (1919/1920)

18. Harakiri (1919)

19. Liliom (1934)

20. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) (Not the 2009 version)

21. Woman in the Moon (1929)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

23. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

24. Ministry of Fear (1944)

25. You Only Live Once (1937)

26. Man Hunt (1941)

27. Human Desire (1954)

28. Western Union (1941)

29. You and Me (1938)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Clash by Night (1952)

32. Fury (1936) (No releation to the 1978 or 2014 films)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Cloak and Dagger (1946)

2.   Moonfleet (1955)

3.   American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950)

My Favorite D.W. Griffith Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Intolerance (1916)

2.   Broken Blossoms (1919)

3.   Way Down East (1920)

4.   True Heart Susie (1919)

5.   Orphans of the Storm (1921)

6.   The Birth of a Nation (1915)

7.   Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924)

8.   The Greatest Question (1919)

9.   A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)

10. The White Rose (1923)

11. Home, Sweet Home (1914)

12. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)

13. The Love Flower (1920)

14. The Idol Dancer (1920)

15. Judith of Bethulia (1914)

16. The Avenging Conscience (1914)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   America (1924)

2.   The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

3.   One Exciting Night (1922)

4.   Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   The Adventures of Dollie (1908)

2.   Balked at the Altar (1908)

3.   Betrayed by a Handprint (1908)

4.   The Black Viper (1908)

5.   A Calamitous Elopement (1908)

6.   Father Gets in the Game (1908)

7.   Money Mad (1908)

8.   Romance of a Jewess (1908)

9.   The Song of the Shirt (1908)

10. At the Altar (1909)

11. The Cord of Life (1909)

12. A Corner in Wheat (1909)

13. The Country Doctor (1909)

14. The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)

15. The Curtain Pole (1909)

16. A Drunkard’s Reformation (1909)

17. Getting Even (1909)

18. The Girls and Daddy (1909)

19. The Golden Louis (1909)

20. Her First Biscuits (1909)

21. The Hessian Renegades (1909)

22. The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)

23. The Lonely Villa (1909)

24. Lucky Jim (1909)

25. The Lure of the Gown (1909)

26. Pippa Passes or the Song of Conscience (1909)

27. The Politician’s Love Story (1909)

28. The Renunciation (1909)

29. Resurrection (1909)

30. The Sealed Room (1909)

31. Those Awful Hats (1909)

32. A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)

33. The Voice of the Violin (1909)

34. An Arcadian Maid (1910)

35. The Fugitive (1910)

36. The House with Closed Shutters (1910)

37. In the Border States (1910)

38. Ramona (1910)

39. The Rocky Road (1910)

40. The Unchanging Sea (1910)

41. What the Daisy Said (1910)

42. The Battle (1911)

43. Enoch Arden Parts I and II (1911)

44. His Trust (1911)

45. His Trust Fulfilled (1911)

46. The Last Drop of Water (1911)

47. The Lonedale Operator (1911)

48. The Miser’s Heart (1911)

49. Swords and Hearts (1911)

50. The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)

51. Friends (1912)

52. The Lesser Evil (1912)

53. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

54. The Narrow Road (1912)

55. The New York Hat (1912)

56. One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)

57. The Painted Lady (1912)

58. The Sunbeam (1912)

59. The Transformation of Mike (1912)

60. An Unseen Enemy (1912)

61. Death’s Marathon (1913)

62. The Mothering Heart (1913)

NOTE: I have watched all of these films and shorts on either VHS or DVD.

My Favorite Charlie Chaplin Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   City Lights (1931)

2.   The Gold Rush (1925)

3.   Modern Times (1936)

4.   The Kid (1921)

5.   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

6.   The Circus (1928)

7.   Limelight (1952)

8.   A Woman of Paris (1923)

9.   The Great Dictator (1940)

10. The Pilgrim (1923)  
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

11. A King in New York (1957)

12. Shoulder Arms (1918)
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

13. A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

14. A Dog’s Life (1918)
(Live-Action Short)
(Part of 1959’s The Chaplin Revue)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Box Sets)

1.   Charlie Chaplin: The First National Collection (1918-1923)/(2000)

2.   Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies (1916-1917)/(2014)

3.   Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies (1914-1917)/(2015)

4.   Chaplin At Keystone (1914)/(2010)