Best Fantasy Movies of 1925

Two children sneak out of their bedroom on the night of December 24th, so that they can ask Santa Claus where he lives and what he does the rest of the year. Saint Nick tells the children about his life in his ice palace among the reindeer and about the binoculars with which he keeps an eye on all the children in the world.

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.

Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.

An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.

A gin bottle is personified with a spirit. As the gin bottle changes hands the spirit of the bottle tempts the various possessors to take a drink. A pro-prohibition movie, the story exemplifies the tragedies of drinking.

"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe" (Variety, 7 Oct 1925, p44).

Silent film from 1925