5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1927

After last week's barn buster of a list (we did the year 2015, which we had needed to catch up on anyway) this week our "Siri Says" series returns us to slim pickins - we asked our phone for a number between 1 and 100 and she gave us "27" and so we're choosing from The Movies of 1927. Two big things happened in film this year: one, The Jazz Singer, the first feature film with sound, was released. 

And two, on May 11 Douglas Fairbanks (pictured right) created the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The first Oscars ceremony wasn't until May 1929 but that ceremony was to honor the films of 1927/1928, so the two films that won the top awards (which were only that first year split up into "Outstanding Picture" and "Unique and Artistic Picture" - do you thinks the folks who won "Outstanding Picture" were irritated that they were implying their movie wasn't "Artistic" and that's why the two categories were mashed together the following year? Anyway both of those films make my list below.

In a weird coincidence TCM is having a Alfred Hitchcock marathon this summer and I only just saw the two movies of his seen below in the "Runners-up" category last month for the first time. Since I've seen so few movies from 1927 pretty much anything I have seen from the year makes the "Runners-up" list but they're both interesting films... and Ivor Novello is incredibly swoon-worthy in Downhill.

Why yes thank you @tcm
I could use a reminder
that Ivor Novello could get it pic.twitter.com/7SRgXMDKTt

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) July 6, 2017