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Top Ten Lists 1930-1939

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-- 1930s --

#1: All Quiet on the Western Front (dir: Lewis Milestone)
#2: The Grand Illusion (dir: Jean Renoir)
#3: Of Mice and Men (dir: Lewis Milestone)
#4: M (dir: Fritz Lang)
#5: The 39 Steps (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#6: City Lights (dir: Charles Chaplin)
#7: Lost Horizon (dir: Frank Capra)
#8: Freaks (dir: Tod Browning)
#9: Dinner at Eight (dir: George Cukor)
#10: Bringing Up Baby (dir: Howard Hawks)

#11: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir: Frank Capra)
#12: The Rules of the Game (dir: Jean Renoir)
#13: Grand Hotel (dir: Edmund Goulding)
#14: The Good Earth (dir: Sidney Franklin)
#15: Modern Times (dir: Charlie Chaplin)
#16: Mutiny on the Bounty (dir: Frank Lloyd)
#17: Triumph of the Will (dir: Leni Riefenstahl)
#18: The Lady Vanishes (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#19: Gone with the Wind (dir: Victor Fleming)
#20: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (dir: Sam Wood)
#21: I Am a Fugative from a Chain Gang (dir: Mervyn LeRoy)
#22: Little Caesar (dir: Mervyn LeRoy)
#23: Duck Soup (dir: Leo McCarey)
#24: It Happened One Night (dir: Frank Capra)
#25: Olympia (dir: Leni Riefenstahl)
#26: Angels with Dirty Faces (dir: Michael Curtiz)
#27: The Invisible Man (dir: James Whale)
#28: Anna Christie (dir: Clarence Brown)
#29: A Night at the Opera (dir: Sam Wood)
#30: The Man Who Knew Too Much (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#31: Alexander Nevsky (dir: Sergei Eisenstein)
#32: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (dir: William Dieterle)
#33: Stagecoach (dir: John Ford)
#34: Mata Hari (dir: George Fitzmaurice)
#35: The Private Life of Henry VIII (dir: Alexander Korda)
#36: Queen Christina (dir: Rouben Mamoulian)
#37: Dracula (dir: George Melford)
#38: My Man Godfrey (dir: Gregory La Cava)
#39: Dodsworth (dir: William Wyler)
#40: The Thin Man (dir: W.S. Van Dyke)
#41: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (dir: Ben Sharpsteen)
#42: They Won't Forget (dir: Mervyn LeRoy)
#43: The Public Enemy (dir: William Wellman)
#44: Wuthering Heights (dir: William Wyler)
#45: Frankenstein (dir: James Whale)
#46: Bride of Frankenstein (dir: James Whale)
#47: The Charge of Light Brigade (dir: Michael Curtiz)
#48: The Twentieth Century (dir: Howard Hawks)
#49: Fury (dir: King Vidor)
#50: The Prisoner of Zenda (dir: John Cromwell)

 


-- 1939 --

#1:  Of Mice and Men (dir: Lewis Milestone)
#2:  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir: Frank Capra)
#3:  The Rules of the Game (dir: Jean Renoir)
#4:  Gone with the Wind (dir: Victor Fleming)
#5:  Goodbye, Mr. Chips (dir: Sam Wood)
#6:  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (dir: William Dieterle)
#7:  Stagecoach (dir: John Ford)
#8:  Wuthering Heights (dir: William Wyler)
#9:  The Wizard of Oz (dir: Victor Fleming)
#10:  Gunga Din (dir: George Stevens)

 

-- 1938 --

#1:  Bringing Up Baby (dir: Howard Hawks)
#2:  The Lady Vanishes (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#3:  Angels with Dirty Faces (dir: Michael Curtiz)
#4:  Alexander Nevsky (dir: Sergei Eisenstein)
#5:  You Can't Take It With You (dir: Frank Capra)
#6:  A Christman Carol (dir: Edwin L. Marin)
#7:  Jezebel (dir: William Wyler)
#8:  Boys Town (dir: Norman Taurog)
#9:  Holiday (dir: George Cukor)
#10:  The Dawn Patrol (dir: Edmund Goulding)

 

-- 1937 --

#1:  The Grand Illusion (dir: Jean Renoir)
#2:  Lost Horizon (dir: Frank Capra)
#3:  The Good Earth (dir: Sidney Franklin)
#4:  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (dir: Ben Sharpsteen)
#5:  They Won't Forget (dir: Mervyn LeRoy)
#6:  The Prisoner of Zenda (dir: John Cromwell)
#7:  Night Must Fall (dir: Richard Thorpe)
#8:  The Life of Emile Zola (dir: William Dieterle)
#9:  Captains Courageous (dir: Victor Fleming)
#10:  The Awful Truth (dir: Leo McCarey)

 

-- 1936 --

#1:  Modern Times (dir: Charlie Chaplin)
#2:  Olympia (dir: Leni Riefenstahl)
#3:  My Man Godfrey (dir: Gregory La Cava)
#4:  Dodsworth (dir: William Wyler)
#5:  The Charge of Light Brigade (dir: Michael Curtiz)
#6:  Fury (dir: King Vidor)
#7:  Intermezzo (dir: Gustav Molander)
#8:  M. Deeds Goes to Town (dir: Frank Capra)
#9:  Show Boat (dir: James Whale)
#10:  Bullets or Ballots (dir: William Keighley)

 

-- 1935 --

#1:  The 39 Steps (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#2:  Mutiny on the Bounty (dir: Frank Lloyd)
#3:  Triumph of the Will (dir: Leni Riefenstahl)
#4:  A Night at the Opera (dir: Sam Wood)
#5:  Bride of Frankenstein (dir: James Whale)
#6:  Ruggles of Red Gap (dir: Leo McCarey)
#7:  The Lives of Bengal Lancer (dir: Henry Hathaway)
#8:  A Tale of Two Cities (dir: Jack Conway)
#9:  David Copperfield (dir: George Cukor)
#10:  Les Miserbles (dir: Richard Boleslawski)

 

-- 1934 --

#1:  It Happened One Night (dir: Frank Capra)
#2:  The Man Who Knew Too Much (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#3:  The Thin Man (dir: W.S. Van Dyke)
#4:  The Twentieth Century (dir: Howard Hawks)
#5:  Cleopatra (dir: Cecil B. DeMille)
#6:  Of Human Bondage (dir: John Cromwell)
#7:  The Count of Monte Cristo (dir: Rowland V. Lee)
#8:  The Gay Divorcee (dir: Mark Sandrich)
#9:  The Lost Patrol (dir: John Ford)
#10:  Evelyn Prentice (dir: William K. Howard)

 

-- 1933 --

#1:  Dinner at Eight (dir: George Cukor)
#2:  Duck Soup (dir: Leo McCarey)
#3:  The Invisible Man (dir: James Whale)
#4:  The Private Life of Henry VIII (dir: Alexander Korda)
#5:  Queen Christina (dir: Rouben Mamoulian)
#6:  Cavalcade (dir: Frank Lloyd)
#7:  Lady for a Day (dir: Frank Capra)
#8:  Footlight Parade (dir: Lloyd Bacon)
#9:  King Kong (dir: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
#10:  42nd Street (dir: Lloyd Bacon)

 

-- 1932 --

#1:  Freaks (dir: Tod Browning)
#2:  Grand Hotel (dir: Edmund Goulding)
#3:  I Am a Fugative from a Chain Gang (dir: Mervyn LeRoy)
#4:  Mata Hari (dir: George Fitzmaurice)
#5:  The Mummy (dir: Karl Freund)
#6:  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (dir: Rouben Mamoulian)
#7:  A Bill of Divorcement (dir: George Cukor)
#8:  Rich and Strange (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#9:  What Price Hollywood? (dir: George Cukor)
#10:  Tarzan, the Ape Man (dir: W.S. Van Dyke)

 

-- 1931 --

#1:  M (dir: Fritz Lang)
#2:  City Lights (dir: Charles Chaplin)
#3:  Dracula (dir: George Melford)
#4:  The Public Enemy (dir: William Wellman)
#5:  Frankenstein (dir: James Whale)
#6:  The Front Page (dir: Lewis Milestone)
#7:  The Champ (dir: King Vidor)
#8:  Tabu (dir: F.W. Murnau)
#9:  Alexander Hamilton (dir: John Adolfi)
#10:  Svengali (dir: Archie Mayo)

 

-- 1930 --

#1:  All Quiet on the Western Front (dir: Lewis Milestone)
#2:  Little Caesar (dir: Mervyn LeRoy)
#3:  Anna Christie (dir: Clarence Brown)
#4:  Moby Dick (dir: Lloyd Bacon)
#5:  Murder! (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#6:  Abraham Lincoln (dir: D.W. Griffith)
#7:  Free and Easy (dir: Edward Sedgwick)
#8:  The Bishop Murder Case (dir: Nick Grinde)
#9:  Animal Crackers (dir: Victor Heerman)
#10:  Juno and the Paycock (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

 


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