Best Films – 1921

A sensation in its day, Rex Ingram’s film adaptation of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from a screenplay by June Mathis, catapulted Mathis’ protégé Rudolph Valentino to superstardom. Ingram’s wife, the highly capable Alice Terry, played the romantic interest. More than 80 years after its initial release, The Four Horsemen remains a powerful cinematic experience.
FILM
The Conquering Power
d: Rex Ingram; scr: June Mathis
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
d: Rex Ingram; scr: June Mathis
Nobody
d: Roland West; scr: Roland West, Charles H. Smith

Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels in The Affairs of Anatol
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The Affairs of Anatol
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: Jeanie Macpherson

Richard Barthelmess in Tol’able David
ACTOR
Richard Barthelmess
Tol’able David
Jackie Coogan
The Kid
Ralph Lewis
The Conquering Power

Kenneth Harlan, Jewel Carmen in Nobody
ACTRESS
Jewel Carmen
Nobody
Alice Terry
The Conquering Power
Alice Terry
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Agnes Ayres
The Affairs of Anatol
Wanda Hawley
The Affairs of Anatol

Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino in Camille
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Rudolph J. Bergquist
Camille
Henry Cronjager
Tol’able David
Harry Fischbeck
Nobody
Charles Rosher
Little Lord Fauntleroy and Through the Back Door
Charles Rosher, Henry Cronjager
The Love Light
John F. Seitz
The Conquering Power
John F. Seitz, Tom Storey
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Karl Struss, Alvin Wyckoff
The Affairs of Anatol
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