1921

Film Decades: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• The Ace of Hearts – directed by Wallace Worsley – starring Lon Chaney and Leatrice Joy
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
• Action – directed by John Ford, starring Hoot Gibson
• The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Frederick Volpe – (GB)
• The Adventures of Tarzan -.directed by Robert F. Hill and Scott Sidney, starring Elmo Lincoln
• The Affairs of Anatol – directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid
• After Midnight – directed by Ralph Ince
• After Your Own Heart – directed by George Marshall, starring Tom Mix
• Among Those Present – starring Harold Lloyd
• L’Atlantide (Missing Husbands), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
• Die Bergkatze (The Wild Cat) – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Victor Janson – (Germany)
• The Bigamist – starring Guy Newall, Ivy Duke – (GB)
• The Blot – directed by Lois Weber; starring Claire Windsor
• The Boat – a Buster Keaton short
• The Bonnie Brier Bush – directed by and starring Donald Crisp – (GB)
• Brewster’s Millions – directed by Joseph Henabery, starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle
• Brownie’s Little Venus – starring Baby Peggy
• Bullets or Ballots – the film debut of Mary Astor
• Buried Treasure – directed by George D. Baker; starring Marion Davies and Norman Kerry
• The Call of Youth – starring Mary Glynne
• Camille – starring Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman and Patsy Ruth Miller
• The Conquering Power – directed by Rex Ingram; starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry
• Desire (Sehnsucht) – directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Conrad Veidt – (Germany)
• Destiny (Der müde Tod) – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen – (Germany)
• Disraeli directed by Henry Kolker, starring George Arliss
• Dracula’s Death (Drakula halála), directed by Károly Lajthay – (Hungary)
• El Dorado, directed by Marcel L’Herbier, starring Ève Francis and Jaque Catelain – (France)
• Enchantment, directed by Robert G. Vignola; starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
• Experience – directed by George Fitzmaurice; starring Richard Barthelmess and Lilyan Tashman
• The Fire Eater – directed by B. Reeves Eason, starring Hoot Gibson
• Fool’s Paradise – directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Conrad Nagel, Mildred Harris, Theodore Kosloff and Baby Peggy
• Forever – directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Wallace Reid and Elsie Ferguson
• The Four Feathers – directed by René Plaissetty – (GB)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – directed by Rex Ingram; starring Rudolph Valentino
• Get-Rich-Quick Peggy – starring Baby Peggy
• The Goat – a Buster Keaton short
• Golfing – starring Baby Peggy
• The Gunsaulus Mystery – directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer
• Hail the Woman – directed by John Griffith Wray, starring Florence Vidor
• The Haunted Castle (Schloss Vogeloed) – directed by F. W. Murnau – (Germany)
• The Haunted House – a Buster Keaton short
• The High Sign – directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
• Humor Risk – the Marx Brothers debut, never released
• The Idle Class – a Charlie Chaplin short
• The Indian Tomb (Das Indische Grabmal) – starring Conrad Veidt – (Germany)
  Jánošík – starring Theodor Pištěk – (Czechoslovakia)
• Jim the Penman – directed by Kenneth Webb, starring Lionel Barrymore
• Journey into the Night (Der Gang in die Nacht) – directed by F.W. Murnau – (Germany)
• The Kid – directed by & starring Charlie Chaplin, with Edna Purviance and Jackie Coogan
• Land of My Fathers – directed by Fred Rains and starring John Stuart and Yvonne Thomas – (GB)
• Leaves from Satan’s Book (Blade af Satans bog) – directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy – directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford, starring Mary Pickford
• Lucky Carson – directed by Wilfrid North, starring Earle Williams and Betty Ross Clarke
• The Lotus Eater – directed by Marshall Neilan, starring John Barrymore and Colleen Moore
• The Love Light – directed by Frances Marion, starring Mary Pickford
• The Lucky Dog – starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• The Mechanical Man (L’uomo meccanico) – directed by Andre Deed – (Italy)
• Miss Lulu Bett, directed by William C. deMille – starring Lois Wilson and Milton Sills
• A Muddy Bride – starring Baby Peggy
• Never Weaken – a Harold Lloyd short
• The Nut – directed by Theodore Reed, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Marguerite De La Motte
• The Offenders – directed by Fenwick L. Holmes, starring Margery Wilson
• On with the Show – starring Baby Peggy
• Orphans of the Storm – directed by D.W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish
• The Painting of Osvaldo Mars – directed by Guido Brignone, starring Mercedes Brignone and Domenico Serra (Italy)
• The Passion Flower – starring Norma Talmadge
• Peck’s Bad Boy – directed by Sam Wood, starring Jackie Coogan
• The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen) – directed by & starring Victor Sjöström – (Sweden)
• The Playhouse – a Buster Keaton short
• The Queen of Sheba – directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Betty Blythe
• A Sailor-Made Man – directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, starring Harold Lloyd
• Sentimental Tommy – directed by George Fitzmaurice; starring Gareth Hughes
• Seven Years Bad Luck – directed by and starring Max Linder
• The Sheik – directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres
• The Silver Lining – directed by Roland West, starring Coit Albertson and Jewel Carmen
• The Sky Pilot – directed by King Vidor
• Society Secrets – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Eva Novak, Gertrude Claire
• Squibs – directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
• Sybil – directed by Jack Denton, starring Evelyn Brent – (GB)
• Third Class Male – starring Baby Peggy
• The Three Musketeers – directed by Fred Niblo, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Through the Back Door – directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford, starring Mary Pickford
• Tol’able David – directed by Henry King; starring Richard Barthelmess
• Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) – directed by Henri Diamant-Berger – (France)
• White and Unmarried
• Woman’s Place – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Constance Talmadge
• The Wonderful Thing, starring Norma Talmadge