Year by Year Polls: 1924 (RESULTS)

[gromit82]

ICM Forum's Favorite Films from 1924

There were 38 voters and 86 different films voted for in this poll. The table below shows all films that received at least 21 points.

Rank	Title	AKA	Director	Points Received	Number of Ballots	Number of IMDb Votes	Link
1	Der letzte Mann	The Last Laugh	F.W. Murnau	379.0	35	14221
2	Sherlock Jr.		Buster Keaton	356.0	34	50519
3	Die Nibelungen: Siegfried		Fritz Lang	344.0	29	6003
4	Greed		Erich von Stroheim	307.0	27	10116
5	Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache	Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge	Fritz Lang	286.0	26	4585
6	The Thief of Bagdad		Raoul Walsh	254.0	22	6347
7	The Navigator		Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton	193.0	28	10140
8	He Who Gets Slapped		Victor Sjöström	191.0	20	3897
9	Girl Shy		Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor	187.0	23	3465
10	L'inhumaine	The Inhuman Woman	Marcel L'Herbier	184.0	17	928
11	Orlacs Hände	The Hands of Orlac	Robert Wiene	162.5	21	3041
12	The Iron Horse		John Ford	139.0	18	2241
13	Michael		Carl Theodor Dreyer	130.0	15	1890
14	Entr'acte		René Clair	123.0	16	3983
15	Gösta Berlings saga	The Saga of Gösta Berling	Mauritz Stiller	120.5	15	1296
16	Hot Water		Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor	112.0	13	1458
17	The Great White Silence		Herbert G. Ponting	108.5	11	1363
18	Ballet mécanique		Dudley Murphy, Fernand Léger	93.0	10	3075
19	Symphonie diagonale		Viking Eggeling	91.0	12	1399
20	The Marriage Circle		Ernst Lubitsch	75.0	8	1336
21	L'hirondelle et la mésange	The Swallow and the Titmouse	André Antoine	63.0	5	210
22	Aelita	Aelita: Queen of Mars	Yakov Protazanov	59.0	8	2680
23	Das Wachsfigurenkabinett	Waxworks	Paul Leni, Leo Birinsky	50.5	12	2126
24	Peter Pan		Herbert Brenon	49.0	9	1103
25	Kinoglaz	Kino Eye	Dziga Vertov	46.0	9	1106
26	Isn't Life Wonderful		D.W. Griffith	42.0	6	374
27	Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov	The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks	Lev Kuleshov	40.0	6	1031
28	The Sea Hawk		Frank Lloyd	33.0	5	558
29	The Red Lily		Fred Niblo	31.0	3	486
30	L'inondation	The Flood	Louis Delluc	30.0	2	64
31	La belle Nivernaise		Jean Epstein	27.5	5	139
32	Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau	Husbands or Lovers	Paul Czinner	27.0	3	95
33	Le lion des Mogols	The Lion of the Moguls	Jean Epstein	26.0	3	153
34	Kean	Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers	Alexandre Volkoff	24.0	3	177
34	Beau Brummel		Harry Beaumont	24.0	2	473
34	Opus III		Walter Ruttmann	24.0	2	388
34	Wild Oranges		King Vidor	24.0	2	538
38	Le miracle des loups	Miracle of the Wolves	Raymond Bernard	23.0	4	91
38	Die Finanzen des Großherzogs	Finances of the Grand Duke	F.W. Murnau	23.0	3	911
40	La galerie des monstres		Jaque Catelain	22.0	3	105
41	Helena		Manfred Noa	21.0	2	116

Films that received 1st-place votes
(ranked in order of number of first-place votes received, then by total points received)

6 - Sherlock Jr. – gromit82, jeff_v, joachimt, monclivie, murnaunosferatu, Mysterious Dude
6 - Die Nibelungen: Siegfried – airdolll, Gordon_Gekko, Leopardi, Lonewolf2003, Minkin, prodigalgodson
5 - Greed – DudeLanez, Good_Will_Harding, OldAle1, Opio, Y U M E
3 - Der letzte Mann – 1SO, Caracortada, PUNQ
3 - The Thief of Bagdad – gunnar, insomnius, peeptoad
3 - Michael – beavis, lineuphere, PopperTheKungFu-Dragon
2 - L’inhumaine – hurluberlu, sol
2 - The Great White Silence – Fergenaprido, klaus78
1 - Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache – St. Gloede
1 - He Who Gets Slapped - Traveller
1 - Orlacs Hände - maxwelldeux
1 - The Iron Horse – Rufus-T
1 - The Marriage Circle - MoTH
1 - Wild Oranges – Angel Glez
1 - North of 50-50 (Len Powers) – Perception de Ambiguity (1 ballot, 20 points)
1 - Conductor 1492 (Frank Griffin, Charles Hines) – 3eyes (1 ballot, 7 points)

Every voter had a first-place vote this time, although I should note that prodigalgodson inquired about having a tie vote for first place between Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache. If that had been allowed (my spreadsheet doesn’t accommodate that), Siegfried would have lost half a point, Kriemhilds Rache would have gained half a point, and none of the rankings would have changed.

From the predecessor poll

On the IMDb Classic Film board, a version of this poll for 1924 was conducted in 2010.
The top 23 films that time around were:

01. The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) … F.W. Murnau (this time: 1)
02. Sherlock, Jr. … Buster Keaton (2)
03. The Navigator … Keaton & Crisp (7)
04. Greed … Erich von Stroheim (4)
05. The Thief of Bagdad … Raoul Walsh (6)
06. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried … Fritz Lang (3)
07. Girl Shy … Newmeyer & Taylor (9)
08. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge … Fritz Lang (5)
09. The Marriage Circle … Ernst Lubitsch (20)
10. He Who Gets Slapped … Victor Sjostrom (8)
11. Entr’acte (short) … Rene Clair (14)
12. Michael/Chained … Carl Theodor Dreyer (13)
13. Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) … Brinsky & Leni (23)
14. Aelita: Queen of Mars … Yakov Protazanov (22)
15. The Iron Horse … Charles Kenyon, et al. (12)
16. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks … Lev Kuleshov (27)
17. Peter Pan … Herbert Brenon (24)
18. Hot Water … Newmeyer & Taylor (16)
19. The Saga of Gosta Berling (Gosta Berlings Saga) … Mauritz Stiller (15)
20. The Red Lily … Fred Niblo (29)
21. Ballet Mecanique (short) … Leger & Murphy (18)
22. The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hande) … Robert Wiene (11)
23. Symphonie diaganale (short) … Viking Eggeling (19)

And the awards go to …

None of the awards I normally cover in this section had been established yet. The most significant film award of this era may have been the Photoplay Award, which gave its top honor for the year to The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (directed by Phil Rosen); only incomplete prints of that film survive, and it received no votes here.

Shorts
The following films under 45 minutes long made the main list:

14. Entr’acte
18. Ballet mécanique
19. Symphonie diagonale
34. Opus III

Your mileage may vary
The following titles are well-known by current standards for 1924 films (over 200 votes) and reasonably well-liked (average rating of 7.0 or higher) by IMDb users, but they didn't make a big impression here:

The Epic of Everest (over 600 votes, 1 ballot, 14 points)
Captain January (over 200 votes, no ballots)

The next poll will be for 1941, followed by 1992 and 1931.

[gromit82]

The results can be found as a list at:
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... /gromit82/

A list of all films receiving votes can be found at:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls566778898/

Every ballot had a list of URLs, and no ineligible films were voted for.

[Rufus-T]

Thanks for result gromit. I came across some good first viewing for this poll. Wish I had time to see few more. The Last Laugh certainly was a great movie. Amazingly, hardly any intertitles. I should start the 1941 poll sometime next week.

[hurluberlu]

Thanks for pulling this gromit !
I am somehow disappointed by the rank of L’Inhumaine as it showed up high on many lists but I guess some of these lists were too short to make a real difference.

[Fergenaprido]

Surprised that The Last Laugh came out on top, but I guess I shouldn't be since it won the last poll. It got the last laugh indeed. Seriously impressive that the top 2 films appeared on almost every single ballot. Either they're the best of the best ever, or they're the lowest common denominator that everyone saw and voted for.

If we ever get around to doing this poll again a decade from now, I hope to have a full ballot by then. Most of the usual suspects at the top don't interest me that much, but some of the lower ones do. Just discovered yesterday that The Marriage Circle is leaving Mubi in a few days; wish I'd noticed that sooner as I would have prioritized it.