clydefro's "Top 50 of 1940s"

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clydefro’s 50 films submitted to the unofficial Criterion Forum’s Lists Project. See here – http://filmjournal.net/clydefro/2007/01/31/top-50-of-1940s/ – for further explanation, justification, and appreciation.

  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  2. 2.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  3. 3.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  4. 4.
    The Palm Beach Story

  5. 5.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

  6. 6.
    Monsieur Verdoux
    by Charles Chaplin

  7. 7.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

  8. 8.
    Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Cocteau

  9. 9.

  10. 10.
    His Girl Friday

  11. 11.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  12. 12.
    Late Spring (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wim Wenders

  13. 13.

  14. 14.
    The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Special Edition)
    by John Huston

  15. 15.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  16. 16.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  17. 17.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  18. 18.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  19. 19.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  20. 20.
    The Fallen Idol (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andy Kelleher

  21. 21.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

  22. 22.
    Red River
    by Arthur Rosson

  23. 24.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  24. 25.
    The Magnificent Ambersons

  25. 26.
    Stray Dog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  26. 27.
    The Set-Up
    by Robert Wise

  27. 28.
    The Killers (1946)
    by Robert Siodmak

  28. 29.
    A Canterbury Tale (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Thompson

  29. 30.
    The Leopard Man & The Ghost Ship
    by Jacques Tourneur

  30. 31.
    Hangmen Also Die
    by Fritz Lang

  31. 33.
    The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

  32. 34.
    Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  33. 35.
    Thieves' Highway (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  34. 36.

  35. 37.
    Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
    by Robert Montgomery

  36. 38.
    Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  37. 39.
    Suspicion
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  38. 41.
    High Sierra (Keep Case Packaging)
    by Raoul Walsh

  39. 42.
    Heaven Can Wait (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  40. 43.

  41. 44.
    Rope

  42. 45.
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    by Preston Sturges

  43. 46.
    Force of Evil
    by Abraham Polonsky

  44. 47.
    Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir)
    by Edmund Goulding

  45. 48.
    Remember the Night (1940)
    by Mitchell Leisen

  46. 49.
    Leave Her to Heaven
    by John M. Stahl

  47. 50.
    This Gun For Hire (Universal Noir Collection)
    by Frank Tuttle

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Created by clydefro on Jun 05, 2008.
 

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Untitled — 51 weeks ago

Two films are at #30?




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