To talk about Jehan Frollo from this film, I must first turn the clocks forward again to Disney’s take on the classic Victor Hugo story, which came out in the 1990s. Jehan Frollo, from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). (Sorry, Ford Sterling I still love ya.) With that said, here are My Top 12 Favorite Movie Villains from the 1920s!ġ2.

Also, again, this is for the 1920s anything prior to this date will not be counted. Now, keep in mind, I’m only counting feature-length movies here shorts and serials will not be counted. So, we’re going to go back to the past and give some kudos to this oldies-but-goldies of diabolical devilry. It has been a literal CENTURY since some of these characters, films, and performances first appeared, and they are STILL highly regarded. It’s hard, isn’t it? But once you hit the big 2-0, you suddenly find yourself remembering some of the most iconic images of evil that still permeate our pop culture TO THIS VERY DAY. Try to remember a great movie villain from the time before 1920. Sure, there were exceptions, let’s not generalize TOO much…but I don’t think people really started to FOCUS on movies as anything beyond screwball comedies, started to see them as a serious means of presenting drama and masterful storytelling, until the 1920s. As a result, for the two decades prior, movies were usually more about the novelty of their mere existence story, characters, and performances came secondary, or even tertiary, to effects and the simple fact that they WERE motion pictures. Keep in mind, the motion picture was invented in the late 1880s, and the first proper films didn’t really happen until the early 1900s. In my opinion, the 1920s is when movies really started to BE movies. Well, I’ve now seen more than enough, and I think the time has come to get on track there! However, I always meant to go back and take care of the 1920s, I just didn’t know enough films from that period to really properly fill a list. When I started doing this series of lists of movie villains per decade, I began with the 1930s.

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