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Top Ten Lists 1940-1949
| #1: Citizen
Kane (dir: Orson Welles) #2: The Grapes of Wrath (dir: John Huston) #3: The Bicycle Thief (dir: Vittorio De Sica) #4: The Postman Always Rings Twice (dir: Tay Garnett) #5: Double Indemnity (dir: Billy Wilder) #6: The Third Man (dir: Carol Reed) #7: Shadow of a Doubt (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #8: Casablanca (dir: Michael Curtiz) #9: All the King's Men (dir: Robert Rossen) #10: Notorious (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #11: The Maltese Falcon (dir: John Huston) #12: Hamlet (dir: Laurence Olivier) #13: Suspicion (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #14: The Lost Weekend (dir: Billy Wilder) #15: And Then There Were None (dir: Rene Clair) #16: Body and Soul (dir: Robert Rossen) #17: How Green Was My Valley (dir: John Ford) #18: Laura (dir: Otto Preminger) #19: Dead of Night (dir: Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, and Charles Crichton) #20: It's a Wonderful Life (dir: Frank Capra) #21: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir: John Huston) #22: Macbeth (dir: Orson Welles) #23: Red River (dir: Howard Hawks) #24: Kings Row (dir: Sam Wood) #25: The Philadelphia Story (dir: George Cukor) |
#26: The Big Sleep (dir:
Howard Hawks) #27: The Lady from Shanghai (dir: Orson Welles) #28: The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir: Albert Lewin) #29: The Great Dictator (dir: Charles Chaplin) #30: The Magnificent Ambersons (dir: Orson Welles) #31: Spellbound (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #32: Beauty and the Beast (dir: Jean Cocteau) #33: A Double Life (dir: George Cukor) #34: Sorry, Wrong Number (dir: Anatole Litvak) #35: Lady Eve (dir: Preston Sturges) #36: Adam's Rib (dir: George Cukor) #37: White Heat (dir: Raoul Walsh) #38: Rebecca (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #39: Woman of the Year (dir: George Stevens) #40: For Whom the Bell Tolls (dir: Sam Wood) #41: The Ox-Bow Incident (dir: William A. Wellman) #42: Hail to the Conquering Hero (dir: Preston Sturges) #43: On the Town (dir: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen) #44: Great Expectations (dir: David Lean) #45: The Letter (dir: William Wyler) #46: Yankee Doodle Dandy (dir: Michael Curtiz) #47: Meet John Doe (dir: Frank Capra) #48: The Search (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #49: The Stranger (dir: Orson Welles) #50: Lifeboat (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) |
| #1: The Third Man (dir: Carol Reed) #2: All the King's Men (dir: Robert Rossen) #3: Adam's Rib (dir: George Cukor) #4: White Heat (dir: Raoul Walsh) #5: On the Town (dir: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen) #6: A Letter to Three Wives (dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) #7: The Heiress (dir: William Wyler) #8: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (dir: John Ford) #9: Twelve O'Clock High (dir: Henry King) #10: They Live by Night (dir: Nicholas Ray) |
| #1: Hamlet (dir: Laurence Olivier) #2: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir: John Huston) #3: Macbeth (dir: Orson Welles) #4: Red River (dir: Howard Hawks) #5: The Lady from Shanghai (dir: Orson Welles) #6: Sorry, Wrong Number (dir: Anatole Litvak) #7: The Search (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #8: Rope (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #9: The Red Shoes (dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) #10: Unfaithfully Yours (dir: Preston Sturges) |
| #1: The Bicycle Thief (dir: Vittorio De
Sica) #2: Body and Soul (dir: Irving Reis) #3: A Double Life (dir: George Cukor) #4: Gentleman's Agreement (dir: Elia Kazan) #5: Dark Passage (dir: Delmer Daves) #6: Kiss of Death (dir: Henry Hathaway) #7: Life with Father (dir: Michael Curtiz) #8: Crossfire (dir: Edward Dmytryk) #9: A Miracle on 34th Street (dir: George Seaton) #10: The Bishop's Wife (dir: Henry Koster) |
| #1: The Postman Always Rings Twice (dir:
Tay Garnett) #2: Notorious (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #3: It's a Wonderful Life (dir: Frank Capra) #4: The Big Sleep (dir: Howard Hawks) #5: Beauty and the Beast (dir: Jean Cocteau) #6: Great Expectations (dir: David Lean) #7: The Stranger (dir: Orson Welles) #8: The Best Years of Our Lives (dir: William Wyler) #9: The Killers (dir: Robert Siodmak) #10: My Darling Clementine (dir: John Ford) |
| #1: The Lost Weekend (dir: Billy Wilder) #2: And Then There Were None (dir: Rene Clair) #3: Dead of Night (dir: Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, and Charles Crichton) #4: The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir: Albert Lewin) #5: Spellbound (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #6: They Were Expendable (dir: John Ford) #7: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (dir: Elia Kazan) #8: Henry V (dir: Laurence Olivier) #9: Brief Encounter (dir: David Lean) #10: The Bells of St. Mary's (dir: Leo McCarey) |
| #1: Double Indemnity (dir: Billy Wilder) #2: Laura (dir: Otto Preminger) #3: Hail to the Conquering Hero (dir: Preston Sturges) #4: Lifeboat (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #5: To Have and Have Not (dir: Howard Hawks) #6: Arsenic and Old Lace (dir: Frank Capra) #7: Gaslight (dir: George Cukor) #8: The Miracle of Morgan Creek (dir: Preston Sturges) #9: Meet Me in St. Louis (dir: Vincente Minnelli) #10: Going My Way (dir: Leo McCarey) |
| #1: Shadow of a Doubt (dir: Alfred
Hitchcock) #2: For Whom the Bell Tolls (dir: Sam Wood) #3: The Ox-Bow Incident (dir: William A. Wellman) #4: The Song of Bernadette (dir: Henry King) #5: Heaven Can Wait (dir: Ernst Lubitsch) #6: Phantom of the Opera (dir: Arthur Lubin) #7: Lassie Come Home (dir: Fred M. Wilcox) #8: Madame Curie (dir: Mervyn LeRoy) #9: Watch on the Rhine (dir: Herman Shumlin) #10: Gung Ho! (dir: Ray Enright) |
| #1: Casablanca (dir: Michael Curtiz) #2: Kings Row (dir: Sam Wood) #3: The Magnificent Ambersons (dir: Orson Welles) #4: Woman of the Year (dir: George Stevens) #5: Yankee Doodle Dandy (dir: Michael Curtiz) #6: In Which We Serve (dir: Noel Coward and David Lean) #7: The 47 Ronin, Part II (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi) #8: Bambi (dir: David Hand) #9: The Pride of the Yankees (dir: Sam Wood) #10: To Be or Not To Be (dir: Ernst Lubitsch) |
| #1: Citizen Kane (dir: Orson Welles) #2: The Maltese Falcon (dir: John Huston) #3: Suspicion (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #4: How Green Was My Valley (dir: John Ford) #5: Lady Eve (dir: Preston Sturges) #6: Meet John Doe (dir: Frank Capra) #7: Sullivan's Travels (dir: Preston Sturges) #8: Sergeant York (dir: Howard Hawks) #9: The Man Who Came to Dinner (dir: William Keighley) #10: The 47 Ronin, Part I (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi) |
| #1: The Grapes of Wrath (dir: John Ford) #2: The Philadelphia Story (dir: George Cukor) #3: The Great Dictator (dir: Charles Chaplin) #4: Rebecca (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #5: The Letter (dir: William Wyler) #6: Pinocchio (dir: Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske) #7: Bank Dick (dir: Eddie Cline) #8: His Girl Friday (dir: Howard Hawks) #9: Foreign Correspondent (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #10: The Shop Around the Corner (dir: Ernst Lubitsch) |
Analysis by:
David Perry
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