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THE TEN BEST PICTURES
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THE best motion pictures of the years 1922 to 1930 dre listed below. Productions listed are ' those selected as the ten best of each year, in the annual Film Daily polls. The ten best of 1931 may be had by turning to page 63.
(*) During the early stages of the FILM DAILY poll, certain productions were selected twice. Voting system has been altered so that critics now vote from a ballot supplied by The Film Daily. This ballot includes pictures actually released during the year.
TEN BEST OF 1922
Picture
Votes Distributor
Star
Orphans of the Storm 31
Grandma's Boy 29
Blood and Sand 28
Prisoner of Zenda 25
When Knighthood Was in
Flower 22
Nanook of the North 21
Smilin' Through 20
Tol'able David 19
•Robin Hood 17
Oliver Twist 13
United Artists . . 5ish Sisters, Monte Blue
Asso. Exhibitors Harold Lloyd
Paramount ..... Rudolph Valentino
Metro All Star
Paramount Marion Davies . .
Pathe Natives
First National . . Norma, Talmadge First National . . Sick Barthelmess United Artists .J)oug Fairbanks . First National . . .Jackie Coogan . . .
Director
D. W. GriflSth Fred Newmeyer Fred Niblo Rex Ingram
R. G. Vignola R. J. Flaherty Syd. Franklin Henry King Allan Dwan Frank Lloyd
TEN BEST OF 1923
Picture
Votes Distributor
Star
Covered Wagon 53
Merry Go-Round 26
The Hunchback of Notre
Dame 25
•Robin Hood 25
Green Goddess 22
Scaramoucbe 20
Safety Last 18
Rosita 18
Down to Sea in Ships 17
Little Old N. y 17
Paramount Ernest Torrence, J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson
Universal Mary Philbin, Norman
Kerry
Universal Lon Chancy
United Artists . Douglas Fairbanks.
Goldwyn George Arliss . . . .
Metro S^o Star
Pathe Harold Lloyd . . . .
United Artists . Mary Pickford . .
Hodkinson Raymond McKee
GoldwynCosmo Marion Davies . .
Director James Cruze
Rupert Julian
Wallace Worsley
Allan Dwan Sidney Olcott Rex Ingram Fred Newmeyer, Sam
Taylor Ernst Lubitsch Elmer CHfton Sidney Olcott
TEN BEST OF 1924
Picture Votes Distributor Star Director
Thief of Bagdad 52 United Artists ..Douglas Fairbanks Raoul Walsh
Sea Hawk 51 First National ..Milton Sills, Enid Ben Frank Lloyd
nett, Wallace Beery..
Monsieur Beaucaire 36 Paramount Rudolph Valentino Sidney Olcott
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