SILENT F&SF MOVIES ON YOUTUBE 1920 - 1929

Part four of a comprehensive listing of all silent movies that are considered fantasy or science fiction and available in some form on YouTube. For details, see the Introduction on Silent F&SF Movies on YouTube 1895-1906. Click here for 1895-1906. Click here for 1907-1913. Click here for 1914-1919.

Abbreviations

d director

p producer

s screenwriter

c cinematographer

se special effects

lp leading players

co- in collaboration

1920

Algol - Tragödie der Macht (Algol: The Tragedy of Fate), also Power

1:51:43

p Richard Oswald

d Hans Werckmeister

s Hans Brenert

c Axel Graatkjær, Hermann Kircheldorff

lp Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hanna Ralph, Erna Morena, Ernst Hofmann, Gertrude Welcker, Hans Adalbert von Schlettow, Käthe Haack

Note: English intertitles

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1:19:33

p Aldoph Zucker

d John S. Robinson

s Clara S. Beranger

c Karl Strauss, Roy Overbough

lp John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane, J. Malcolm Dunn, Cecil Clovelly, Nita Naldi, George Stevens, Louis Wolheim

Note: Adapted from Richard Manfield's stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel

Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem: How He Came Into the World)

1:24:09

co-d Paul Wegener and Carl Boese

s Paul Wegener

c Karl Freund

se Carl Boese

lp Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Friedrich Keuhne, Lyda Salmonova, Otto Gebühr, Hans Stürm, Loni Nest, Greta Schröder, Max Kronert

Note: English intertitles

The Master Mystery

20 parts 8:23; 8:41; 8:33; 8:44; 8:39; 8:42; 8:35; 8:35; 8:34; 8:35; 8:35; 8:38; 8:38; 8:36; 8:35; 8:34; 8:39; 8:34; 8:42; 8:38

p Benjamin A. Rolfe

d Burton King

co-s Arthur B. Reeve and Charles A. Logue

c David Calcagini

lp Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, William Pike, Ruth Stonehouse, Charles Graham, Floyd Buckley, Jack Burns, Edna Britton

Note: Originally produced in fifteen chapters, the YouTube version takes the available fragments and arbitrarily cuts them into 20 pieces; Hardy says 1918, Strickland and Ackerman say 1919, but is definitely 1920; Arthur B. Reeve released a novelized version in 1919

Terror Island

54:18

p Famous-Lasky Players

d James Cruze

s John W. Grew, Arthur B. Reeve, and Walter Woods

c William Marshall

lp Harry Houdini, Jack Brammall, Lila Lee, Rosemary Theby, Wilton Taylor, Guy Mordaunt, Eugene Pallette, Edward Brady, Captain Ted E. Duncan, Fred Turner

Note: originally seven reels; reels three and four have been lost

1921

L'Atlantide (Atlantis)

2:42:44

d/s Jacques Feyder

c Georges Specht, Victor Morin, Amédée Morrin

lp Jean Angelo, Georges Melchior, Stacia Napierkowska

Note: French intertitles; based on the novel by Pierre Benoit

L'Uomo Meccanico (The Mechanical Man)

26:13

d André Deed

s André Deed

c Alberto Chentrens

lp Giulia Costa, André Deed, Carl Lauritzen, Valentina Frascaroli, Mathilde Lambert, Gabriel Moreau, Ferdinando Vivas-May

Note: fragment; colored through gels

1922

A Blind Bargain

57:36

p Wallace Worsley

d Samuel Goldwyn

s J. G. Hawks

c Norbert Brodin

lp Lon Chaney, Raymond McKee, Jacqueline Logan, Fontaine LaRue, Virginia True Boardman, Aggie Herring, Virginia Madison

Note: No longer available

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler) parts 1 and 2

part 1: 2:37:32

part 2: 1:55:32

p Erich Pommer

d Fritz Lang

co-s Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou

c Carl Hoffman

lp Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel, Bernhard Goetzke, R obert Forster-Larrinaga, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Georg John, Charles Puffy, Grete Berger, Julius Falkenstein, Lydia Potechina, Julius E. Herrmann

Note: Based on a novel by Norbert Jacques; part 1 is called Der große Spieler: Ein Bild der Zei (The Great Gambler: A Picture of the Time), part 2 is called Inferno: Ein Spiel von Menschen unserer Zeit (Inferno: A Game for the People of our Age); English subtitles under German intertitles

The Man from Beyond

1:15:54

p Harry Houdini

d Burton L. King

co-s Harry Houdini, Coolidge Streeter

c Harry Fischbeck

lp Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Edwin Connelly, Frank Montgomery, Luis Alberni, Yale Benner, Jane Connelly, Nita Naldi

1923

Hoffmanns Erzählungen (Tales of Hoffmann)

4:04

d/p Max Neufeld

s Josef Molina

lp Dagny Servaes, Friedrich Feher, Eugen Neufeld, Max Neufeld, Karl Ehmann, Viktor Franz, Karl Forest, Paul Askonas, Lola Urban-Kneidlinger

Note: fragment; Based on Jacques Offenbach's opera interpeting three stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann

Evolution, also Darwin's Theory of Evolution

41:15

p Max Fleishcher

se Willis O'Brien

Note: Stop-motion animation

1924

Аэли́та (Aelita: Queen of Mars), also Aelita: Queen of the Robots

1:51:36

d Yakov Protazanov

c Emil Schünemann, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky

s Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep

lp Yuliya Solntseva, Nikolai Batalov, Igor Ilyinsky , Vera Orlova, Nikolai Tsereteli , Pavel Pol, Konstantin Eggert , Yuri Zavadsky, Valentina Kuindzhi, N. Tretyakova, Aleksandra Peregonets, Iosif Tolchanov

Note: Based on Alexei Tolstoy's novel; English intertitles

Black Oxen

58:27

d/p Frank Lloyd

s Mary O'Hara

c Norbert F. Brodine

lp Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, Alan Hale, Otto Nelson, Otto Lederer, Clara Bow, Kate Lester, Thomas Ricketts, Tomas Guide, Harry Mestayer

Note: Based on the novel by Gertrude Atherton

Orlac’s Hände (The Hands of Orlac)

1:52:43

d/p Robert Wiene

s Louis Nerz

c Hans Androschin , Günther Krampf

lp Conrad Veidt, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri, Alexandra Sorina, Paul Askonas, Fritz Strassny

Note: Based on Maurice Renard's novel Les Mains d'Orlac; English intertitles; Hardy lists it under 1925

Paris Qui Dort (Paris Alseep), also The Crazy Ray, At 3:25

44:21

p Henri Diamant Burger

d/s René Clair

c Maurice Desfassiaux, Paul Guichard

lp Henri Rollan, Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean, Madeleine Rodrigue, Bull Montana, Myla Seller, Antoine Stacquet, Marcel Vallée

Note: Sources disagree about the date, probably made in 1923 but not released until late 1924; partial reconstruction

1925

Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride

21:32
d Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock

c Edgar Lyons

lp Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard

s Tay Garnett (intertitles)

Note: parody of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Lost World

1:44:13
co-p Earl Hudson and Watterson R. Rothacker

d Harry O. Hoyt

s Marion Fairfax

se Willis O'Brien

c Arthur Rodeson, Fred Jackman

lp Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lewis S. Stone, Arthur Hoyt, Alma Bennett, Virginia Brown Faire, Bull Montana, Frank Finch Smiles, Jules Cowles, Margaret McWade, Charles Wellesley, George Bunny

Note: Based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel; part stop-motion animation