Simple Question, Difficult Answer: Best Director of the 1920s

As we come up on the end of the 1920s, it's time to start looking back.  I'll be putting up some polls and incorporating the results into my decade wrap-up.

First up, Best Director!

The choices are:

• Fritz Lang (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler)
• F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, The Last Laugh, Sunrise)
• Erich von Stroheim (Greed, Queen Kelly)
• Buster Keaton (The General, The Seven Chances)
• Fred Niblo (Ben-Hur, The Mark of Zorro)
• Alfred Hitchcock (The Ring, The Manxman)
• Alan Crosland (The Jazz Singer, The Beloved Rogue)
• D.W. Griffith (Way Down East, America)
• Charles Chaplin (The Kid, The Gold Rush)
• Raoul Walsh (The Thief of Baghdad, Sadie Thompson)
• Or a choice of your own

The poll can be found in the sidebar. As always, feel free to show your work below!

Poll closes on July 21, 2012.