And here we go!

This is the nominations thread for the tenth and final portion of The Great Movie Tournament where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1920s (from 1920 to 1929). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 1920 and December 31, 1929 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).

Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):
  • You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after one other member has made their nomination.
  • You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after one other member has made their second.
  • If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
  • Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.

Once 80 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.
  • Round 1: 16 groups of 5 titles - top 3 move on
  • Round 2: 16 groups of 3 - top 2 move on
  • Round 3: 16 groups of 2 - top 1 move on
  • Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner

This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in.

Enjoy and have fun!

List of seconded films:
  1. Safety Last! (1923), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
  2. Metropolis (1927), dir. Fritz Lang
  3. The Phantom of the Opera (1925), dir. Rupert Julian
  4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), dir. Robert Wiene
  6. Sunrise (1927), dir. F. W. Murnau
  7. Wings (1927), dir. William A. Wellman
  8. The Kid (1921), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  9. The Lodger (1927), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  10. The Gold Rush (1925), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  11. The Man Who Laughs (1928), dir. Paul Leni
  12. Nosferatu (1922), dir. F. W. Murnau
  13. Battleship Potemkin (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  14. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
  15. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), dir. Fritz Lang
  16. The Last Laugh (1924), dir. F. W. Murnau
  17. Greed (1924), dir. Erich von Stroheim
  18. The Cat and the Canary (1927), dir. Paul Leni
  19. Die Nibelungen (1924), dir. Fritz Lang
  20. Pandora's Box (1929), dir. G.W. Pabst
  21. The General (1926), dir. Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
  22. The Thief of Bagdad (1924), dir. Raoul Walsh
  23. Häxan (1922), dir. Benjamin Christensen
  24. Blackmail (1929), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  25. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), dir. Wallace Worsley
  26. Sherlock, Jr. (1924), dir. Buster Keaton
  27. The Golem (1920), dir. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
  28. The Phantom Carriage (1921), dir. Victor Sjöström
  29. The Wind (1928), dir. Victor Sjöström
  30. Faust (1926), dir. F. W. Murnau
  31. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), dir. G.W. Pabst
  32. Nanook of the North (1922), dir. Robert Flaherty
  33. West of Zanzibar (1928), dir. Tod Browning
  34. Napoleon (1927), dir. Abel Gance
  35. The Crowd (1928), dir. King Vidor
  36. The Circus (1928), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  37. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), dir. Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner
  38. He Who Gets Slapped (1924), dir. Victor Sjöström
  39. The Cocoanuts (1929), dir. Robert Florey and Joseph Santley
  40. The Unknown (1927), dir. Tod Browning
  41. The Lost World (1925), dir. Harry O. Hoyt
  42. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), dir. Jean Epstein
  43. The Freshman (1925), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
  44. Robin Hood (1922), dir. Allan Dwan
  45. Our Hospitality (1923), dir. Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone
  46. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), dir. Fred Niblo
  47. The Iron Horse (1924), dir. John Ford
  48. Speedy (1928), dir. Ted Wilde
  49. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), dir. John S. Robertson
  50. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), dir. Rex Ingram
  51. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), dir. Herbert Brenon
  52. The Pilgrim (1923), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  53. Man with a Movie Camera (1929), dir. Dziga Vertov
  54. The Scarlet Letter (1926), dir. Victor Sjöström
  55. Seven Chances (1925), dir. Buster Keaton
  56. Spies (1928), dir. Fritz Lang
  57. Woman in the Moon (1929), dir. Fritz Lang
  58. The Mark of Zorro (1920), dir. Fred Niblo
  59. Michael (1924), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  60. Body and Soul (1925), dir. Oscar Micheaux
  61. The Hands of Orlac (1924), dir. Robert Wiene
  62. The Penalty (1920), dir. Wallace Worsley
  63. The Ten Commandments (1923), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
  64. The Unholy Three (1925), dir. Tod Browning
  65. Girl Shy (1924), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
  66. The Cameraman (1928), dir. Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick
  67. Battling Butler (1926), dir. Buster Keaton
  68. The King of Kings (1927), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
  69. Way Down East (1920), dir. D.W. Griffith
  70. The Last Command (1928), dir. Josef von Sternberg
  71. Hallelujah (1929), dir. King Vidor
  72. 3 Bad Men (1926), dir. John Ford
  73. Strike (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  74. The Big Parade (1925), dir. King Vidor
  75. Flesh and the Devil (1926), dir. Clarence Brown
  76. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), dir. Germaine Dulac
  77. Our Dancing Daughters (1928), dir. Harry Beaumont
  78. The Toll of the Sea (1922), dir. Chester M. Franklin
  79. A Woman of Paris (1923), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  80. Salomé (1922), dir. Alla Nazimova and Charles Bryant

List of films not yet seconded:
  1. La Roue (1923), dir. Abel Gance
  2. Where the North Begins (1923), dir. Chester M. Franklin
  3. Arsenal (1929), dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko
  4. Scaramouche (1923), dir. Rex Ingram
  5. So This Is Paris (1926), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  6. Leaves from Satan's Book (1920), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  7. My Best Girl (1927), dir. Sam Taylor
  8. It (1927), dir. Clarence G. Badger
  9. The Parson's Widow (1920), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  10. Lonesome (1928), dir. Pál Fejős
  11. Waxworks (1924), dir. Paul Leni and Leo Birinski
  12. Piccadilly (1929), dir. E.A. Dupont
  13. The Jazz Singer (1927), dir. Alan Crosland
  14. The Sheik (1921), dir. George Melford
  15. Seven Footprints to Satan (1929), dir. Benjamin Christensen
  16. The Last of the Mohicans (1920), dir. Maurice Tourneur
  17. Street Angel (1928), dir. Frank Borzage
  18. The Black Pirate (1926), dir. Albert Parker
  19. The Red Kimono (1925), dir. Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport
  20. Rio Rita (1929), dir. Luther Reed
  21. Orphans of the Storm (1921), dir. D.W. Griffith
  22. Alraune (1928), dir. Henrik Galeen
  23. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), dir. Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford
  24. Souls for Sale (1923), dir. Rupert Hughes
  25. A Page of Madness (1926), dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa