Top ten silent films
SILENT FILM PIANIST Neil Brand is making sure the golden age of film is getting the recognition it deserves. You heard it here first – black and white silent flicks are about to make a loud comeback .
Especially for express.co.uk readers Neil reveals his TOP TEN silent flicks to see before you die. In no particular order…
FW Murnau’s creepy NOSFERATU will send shivers down your spine. But is this early German expressionist horror film actually a love story? You decide.
The famous comedy duo try to sell Christmas trees in LAUREL AND HARDY’S BIG BUSINESS with hilarious consequences. This is laugh out loud comedy gold.
Silent film legend Buster Keaton stars in STEAMBOAT BILL JR and performs all his own stunts. During the famous cyclone sequence, a building falls on our hero but fortunately he slips through a window and makes it out in one piece.
Watch Harold Lloyd dangling from the bent hands of a clock high above moving traffic in gripping comedy SAFETY LAST.
PANDORA’S BOX with Louise Brooks is the story of a young and beautiful 1920s It girl driven to prostitution, who meets her grisly fate at the hands of Jack the Ripper.
Louise Brooks also stars in the tragic but hopeful DIARY OF A LOST GIRL. Brooks plays heroine Thymiane Henning who falls pregnant after being raped and is sent to a reform school for wayward girls. It’s only when she becomes a prostitute that she is able to regain some control over her life.
UNDERWORLD directed by Josef Von Sternberg is the first gangster movie ever made. It’s got the big shoot out, the mob and it’s made by the man who made Marlene Dietrich a star.
King Vidor’s THE BIG PARADE stars John Gilbert and was the biggest grossing movie of its time. It’s also one of the greatest and extraordinarily brutal war films ever made.
Charlie Chaplin’s revolutionary SHOULDER ARMS is believed to be the first ever film that made war into a comedy.
The legendary Charlie Chaplin makes a second appearance in our top ten list with THE GOLDRUSH. He’s probably the only man who can make bread rolls tap-dance.
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