Safety Last (1923)
97%
“The large and growing number of Harold Lloyd fans will enjoy Safety Last. It is full of the tricks which have earned him his friends, and in some scenes he is probably funnier than in any previous picture.” –
Chicago Daily News
Feb 22, 2023
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
97%
“Not only is it the best production which has come from Douglas Fairbanks in his extended motion picture career -- it is also one of the few sure film classics, one of the rare and surprising creations of the film world.” –
Chicago Daily News
Oct 22, 2022
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
96%
“The craziest, wildest, shivery movie that has come wriggling across the silver sheet of a cinema house. [It's] like a collaboration of Rube Goldberg, Ben Hecht, Charlie Chaplin and Edgar Allan Poe -- a melting pot of the styles and technique of all four.” –
Chicago Daily News
Oct 3, 2022
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
93%
“In The Hunchback of Notre Dame may be seen what is surely Lon Chaney's masterpiece, the best piece of character work he has done in his interesting life in the movies.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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Nanook of the North (1922)
100%
“Besides geographic facts, Nanook of the North is a story. It is as clean and big and strong a story as Robinson Crusoe. It is as mysterious, sinister and gripping as Treasure Island.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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Blood and Sand (1922)
91%
“Those who rate Valentino an actor of high degree rather than a matinee hero first of all will, after seeing Blood and Sand, continue to give him a top-notch place.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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The Sheik (1921)
79%
“The pageantry of horsemen and spears on backgrounds of white sand and sloping dunes is notable. As a spectacle photoplay it should easily have high rank.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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The Three Musketeers (1921)
92%
“As a spectacle photodrama that cost a million dollars, The Three Musketeers is not much ahead, if at all, of other million dollar spectacle photodramas which have passed before our eyes in recent months and years.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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The Golem (1920)
100%
“The art, the play spirit, the mummery, craft and workmanship which lie back of the production of The Golem are of the stuff out of which the future of the movies is to root and establish a cinema art surpassing that of the present hour.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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The Kid (1921)
100%
“Those constant contenders who maintain that Charlie Chaplin is the master mummer of the movies and the world's greatest actor, either in the silent or the spoken drama, now have another exhibit to put forward in behalf of their argument.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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The North Wind's Malice (1920)
“While the mountains, valleys, sled dogs, running streams and waterfalls of our coldest northern territory are the most interesting feature, there is entertainment connected with the plot and the actors who play the play.” –
Chicago Daily News
Mar 28, 2022
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A Sainted Devil (1924)
67%
“A Sainted Devil is more Valentino than story, more picture than sequence, but, considering that the popular interest is all in Valentino and not at all in his stories, discussion of the successes and failures of this tale by Rex Beach are idle.” –
Chicago Daily News
Jan 11, 2022
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Way Down East (1920)
96%
“In point of acting, photography and sustained dramatic interest, however, this is fully up to what Griffith has done before this.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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The Mark of Zorro (1920)
91%
“Doug's latest picture will be considered by thousands to be his best.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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Metropolis (1927)
97%
“Anyone who had a good time at The Lost World will have a better time at Metropolis, for it carries the spectator into the world of a thousand years hence. No such settings have ever been attempted before on the screen, not even in Intolerance.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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The Testing Block (1920)
“It is fair to say that "Bill" Hart's latest picture is one of his very best.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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The Scarlet Letter (1926)
“Hawthorne wrote a daring story. Seastrom turned it into a picture that dares to be poignant and poetic in the midst of sensational happenings such as branding, desertions, seductions, public confessions of sin and moral accusations.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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“Rin-Tin-Tin, the dog being starred in films with such success by Warner Brothers, demonstrates again his almost human powers in Tracked by the Police.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
83%
“Sorrows of Satan has the sense of vastness, chaos, originality, and sudden interludes of unimagined beauty that make Griffith so much akin, in his present stage, to Walt Whitman, the poet.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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Babe Comes Home (1927)
78%
“Like "Red" Grange, this other athletic marvel is surprisingly good as an actor. Perhaps the control of muscle and nerve they have learned in sport makes them unusually responsive in obeying film direction.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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Faust (1926)
91%
“[Faust] is one of the most beautiful of all works of the moving picture. It should be in the library of every art school and museum of America.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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Flesh and the Devil (1926)
94%
“Miss Garbo is hereafter a star to be reckoned with, so perfectly does she create a character for the heroine, lovely, pitiful, thrilling Felicitas, who drifts downward without ever realizing that the world holds such things as morals.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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Rough House Rosie (1927)
75%
“Clara Bow seems to be winning in the race of flappers.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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It (1927)
88%
“It is smart, funny and real. It makes a full-size star of Clara Bow and it hits William Austin out of the minor class into the upper crust of screen comedians.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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What Price Glory? (1926)
100%
“It rises above the appeals of patriotism, sentiment, humor, and romance -- although it has all those things -- to shake the whole emotional structure of spectators with an epic portrait of two fascinating and violent men.” –
Chicago Daily News
Dec 14, 2021
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