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1001 Movies to See Before You Die (1940s)

This list is drawn from Steven Jay Schneider’s 1001 Movies to See Before You Die. There is a complete list available, but I got tired of it changing every year when the new edition came out. Given that none of the new editions have deleted a film before the 1980s, this list should stand awhile.

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1. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
2. Rebecca - Criterion Collection  
3. Fantasia (60th Anniversary Special Edition)  
4. The Philadelphia Story
by George Cukor
  
5. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
  
6.
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 Dance Girl Dance
by Dorothy Arzner
  
7. Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
by Hamilton Luske
  
8. The Mortal Storm (1940) (Import Edition - NTSC format - Region 1 - Playable in North America)
by Frank Borzage
  
9. The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
by Edward F. Cline
  
10. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
11. The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
by Preston Sturges
  
12. The Wolf Man
by George Waggner
  
13. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
14.
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 Sergeant York
by Howard Hawks
  
15. Dumbo (Big Top Edition)
by Ben Sharpsteen
  
16. High Sierra (Snap Case)
by Raoul Walsh
  
17. Sullivan's Travels - Criterion Collection  
18. How Green Was My Valley
by John Ford
  
19. The Palm Beach Story
by Preston Sturges
  
20. Now, Voyager (Keepcase)
by Irving Rapper
  
21. Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
  
22. To Be or Not to Be
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
23. Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People
by Robert Wise
  
24. The Magnificent Ambersons  
25. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
26.
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 Meshes of the Afternoon
by Maya Deren
  
27.
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 Fires Were Started
by Humphrey Jennings
  
28. The Man in Grey [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]
by Leslie Arliss
  
29. I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher
by Jacques Tourneur
  
30.
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 The Seventh Victim
by Mark Robson
  
31. The Ox-Bow Incident
by William A. Wellman
  
32. Shadow of a Doubt  
33. Ossessione
by Luchino Visconti
  
34. Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Vincente Minnelli
  
35. To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
by Howard Hawks
  
36. Laura
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
37. Gaslight
by George Cukor
  
38. Henry V - Criterion Collection
by Laurence Olivier
  
39. Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2, Alexander Nevsky) - Criterion Collection
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
40. Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
by Billy Wilder
  
41. Farewell, My Lovely
by Dick Richards
  
42. The Battle of San Pietro  
43. Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
44. Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
by Michael Curtiz
  
45. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
by Marcel Carné
  
46. Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
by Roberto Rossellini
  
47. The Lost Weekend
by Billy Wilder
  
48. Detour
by Edgar G. Ulmer
  
49. I Know Where I'm Going! - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
  
50. The Best Years of Our Lives
by William Wyler
  
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Created by jriekse on Sep 22, 2007.