Silent Cinema

My Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Vertigo (1958)

2.   Marnie (1964)

3.   Family Plot (1976)

4.   Under Capricorn (1949)

5.   The Birds (1963)

6.   The Wrong Man (1956)

7.   The Trouble with Harry (1955)

8.   Psycho (1960)

9.   Rear Window (1954)

10. Frenzy (1972)

11. I Confess (1953)

12. Strangers on a Train (1951)

13. Rope (1948)

14. Notorious (1946)

15. North by Northwest (1959)

16. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

17. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

18. Sabotage (1936)
(I watched it online)

19. The 39 Steps (1935)

20. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

21. Stage Fright (1950)

22. Lifeboat (1944)

23. Rebecca (1940)

24. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

25. To Catch a Thief (1955)

26. Dial M for Murder (1954)

27. Suspicion (1941)

28. Young and Innocent (1937)
(I watched it online)

29. Rich and Strange (1931)
(I watched it online)

30. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
(no relation to the 2005 film)

31. Murder! (1930)

32. Blackmail (1929)

33. The Ring (1927)

34. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

35. Topaz (1969)

36. Spellbound (1945)

37. Torn Curtain (1966)

38. Saboteur (1942)

39. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – Season 1 (1962)
39a. Episode: “I Saw the Whole Thing”
(Television)

40. The Paradine Case (1947)

41. Secret Agent (1936)
(I watched it online)

42. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

43. Number 17 (1932)
(I watched it online)

44. The Manxman (1929)
(I watched it online)

45. The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
(I watched it online)

46. Downhill (1927)

47. Champagne (1928)
(I watched it online)

48. Easy Virtue (1928)
(I watched it online)

49. Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
(I watched it online)

50. Jamaica Inn (1939)
(I watched it online)

51. The Skin Game (1931)
(I watched it online)

52. Mary (1931)

53. The Pleasure Garden (1925)
(I watched it online)

54. Juno and the Paycock (1930)
(I watched it online)

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

1.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 1 (1955)
1a. Episode: “Revenge”
1b. Episode: “Breakdown”
1c. Episode: “The Case of Mr. Pelham”
(Television)

2.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 2 (1956/1956/1957)
2a. Episode: “Wet Saturday”
2b. Episode: “Mr. Blanchard’s Secret”
2c. Episode: “One More Mile to Go”
(Television)

3.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 3 (1957/1958/1958)
3a. Episode: “The Perfect Crime”
3b. Episode: “Lamb to the Slaughter”
3c. Episode: “Dip in the Pool”
(Television)

4.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 4 (1958/1959)
4a. Episode: “Poison”
4b. Episode: “Banquo’s Chair”
(Television)

5.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 5 (1959)
5a. Episode: “Arthur”
5b. Episode: “The Crystal Trench”
(Television)

6.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 6 (1960/1961)
6a. Episode: “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
6b. Episode: “The Horseplayer”
(Television)

7.   Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season 7 (1961)
7a. Episode: “Bang! You’re Dead”
(Television)

My Favorite Howard Hawks Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Rio Bravo (1959)

2.   El Dorado (1966)

3.   Hatari! (1962)

4.   Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

5.   Monkey Business (1952)
(no relation to the 1931 film)

6.   The Big Sky (1952)

7.   Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

8.   Scarface (1932)

9.   Bringing Up Baby (1938)

10. To Have and Have Not (1944)

11. Red River (1948)

12. His Girl Friday (1940)

13. Twentieth Century (1934)

14. Ball of Fire (1941)

15. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

16. The Big Sleep (1946)

17. Red Line 7000 (1965)

18. Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

19. Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)

20. Come and Get It (1936)
(co-directed with William Wyler)

21. Ceiling Zero (1936)

22. Barbary Coast (1935)

23. The Criminal Code (1931)

24. The Dawn Patrol (1930)

25. A Girl in Every Port (1928)
(I watched it online)

26. Paid to Love (1927)
(I watched it online)

27. Fig Leaves (1926)
(I watched it online)

28. The Thing from Another World (1951)
(he may or may not have co-directed it with Christian Nyby)

29. Air Force (1943)

30. Corvette K-225 (1943)
(he may or may not have co-directed it with Robert Rosson)

31. The Crowd Roars (1932)

32. Tiger Shark (1932)

33. Rio Lobo (1970)

34. A Song Is Born (1948)

35. Sergeant York (1941)

36. Today We Live (1933)

37. The Road to Glory (1936)

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

1.   O. Henry’s Full House (1952)
(Segment: “The Ransom of Red Chief”)

 

My Favorite John Ford Films

by John Charet

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

1.   The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

2.   The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

3.   Wagon Master (1950)

4.   7 Women (1966)

5.   Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

6.   The Long Gray Line (1955)

7.   Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

8.   Donovan’s Reef (1963)

9.   Two Rode Together (1961)

10. The Horse Soldiers (1959)

11. Gideon’s Day (1958)
(a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard)

12. The Rising of the Moon (1957)
(Anthology)

13. The Wings of Eagles (1957)

14. The Searchers (1956)

15. The Quiet Man (1952)

16. Fort Apache (1948)

17. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

18. My Darling Clementine (1946)

19. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

20. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

21. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

22. The Whole Town’s Talking (1935)

23. Judge Priest (1934)

24. Pilgrimage (1933)

25. Hangman’s House (1928)

26. Four Sons (1928)

27. Upstream (1927)

28. 3 Bad Men (1926)

29. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

30. Doctor Bull (1933)

31. They Were Expendable (1945)

32. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

33. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

34. Stagecoach (1939)

35. Rio Grande (1950)

36. Wagon Train – Season 4 (1960)
36a. Episode: “The Colter Craven Story”
(Television)

37. 3 Godfathers (1948)

38. Mogambo (1953)

39. The Fugitive (1947)
(no relation to the TV series or the 1993 film)

40. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

41. The Hurricane (1937)

42. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

43. The Informer (1935)

44. The Lost Patrol (1934)

45. Flesh (1932)

46. Just Pals (1920)

47. Hell Bent (1918)

48. Bucking Broadway (1917)

49. Straight Shooting (1917)

50. The Iron Horse (1924)

51. Tobacco Road (1941)

52. Air Mail (1932)

53. When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

54. The Last Hurrah (1958)

55. Mister Roberts (1955)
(co-directed with Mervyn LeRoy)

56. Mary of Scotland (1936)

57. What Price Glory (1952)

58. Arrowsmith (1931)

59. The World Moves On (1934)

60. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

61. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
(I watched it online)

62. Up the River (1930)

63. Riley the Cop (1928)
(I watched it online)

64. Submarine Patrol (1938)
(I watched it online)

65. Men Without Women (1930)

66. Seas Beneath (1930)

67. The Blue Eagle (1926)
(I watched it online)

68. Born Reckless (1930)

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

1.   How the West Was Won (1962)
1a. Segment: “The Civil War (1861-1865)”
(Anthology)

2.   By Indian Post (1919)
(I watched it online)

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Nanook of the North (1922)
(Documentary)

2.   Louisiana Story (1948)

3.   Moana (1926)
(Documentary)
(no relation to the 2016 Disney film)

4.   Man of Aran (1934)
(Documentary)

5.   The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
(Documentary)

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

1.   Elephant Boy (1937)
(co-directed with Zoltan Korda)

My Favorite Sergei Eisenstein Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (1944/1945)

2.   Alexander Nevsky (1938)

3.   Battleship Potemkin (1925)

4.   October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)
(co-directed with Grigori Alekandrov)

5.   Strike (1925)

6.   Que Viva Mexico! (1932/1979)

7.   The General Line (1929)
(co-directed with Grigori Alekandrov)

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

1.   Bezhin Meadow (1937)

2.   Glumov’s Diary (1923)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Romance sentimentale (1930)

My Favorite Allan Dwan Films

by John Charet

* * * * (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 Carl Theodor Dreyer Films

by John Charet

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

1.   Gertrud (1964)

2.   The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

3.   Day of Wrath (1943)

4.   Vampyr (1932)

5.   Ordet (1955)

6.   Michael (1924)

7.   Master of the House (1925)

8.   The Parson’s Widow (1920)

9.   Leaves from Satan’s Book (1921)

My Favorite Rene Clair Films

by John Charet

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

1.   A Nous la Liberte (1931)

2.   Le Million (1931)

3.   Under the Roof of Paris (1930)

4.   The Italian Straw Hat (1928)

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

1.   Entr’acte (1924)

2.   The Crazy Ray (1924)

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

1.   I Married a Witch (1942)

2.   And Then There Were None (1945)