Thursday, June 30, 2005

My top 100 films of the 1930s

1. M
2. The Rules of the Game
3. City Lights
4. Grand Illusion
5. The Scarlet Empress
6. L' Atalante
7. My Man Godfrey
8. The 39 Steps
9. The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. All Quiet on the Western Front
12. Holiday
13. You Only Live Once
14. A Day in the Country
15. Queen Christina
16. Show Boat
17. Wuthering Heights
18. The Roaring Twenties
19. Easy Living
20. Scarface
21. Le jour se leve
22. I Was Born, But…
23. A Tale of Two Cities
24. Mutiny on the Bounty
25. Bride of Frankenstein
26. Quai des brumes
27. The Lady Vanishes
28. Las Hurdes
29. Dodsworth
30. Fury
31. Freaks
32. Trouble in Paradise
33. Angels with Dirty Faces
34. L'Age D'or
35. Duck Soup
36. The Thin Man
37. Twentieth Century
38. Ruggles of Red Gap
39. Bringing Up Baby
40. Midnight
41. Libeled Lady
42. Boudu Saved from Drowning
43. King Kong
44. Counsellor at Law
45. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
46. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
47. Pygmalion
48. The Adventures of Robin Hood
49. Modern Times
50. La Signora di tutti
51. 42nd Street
52. Monkey Business

53. Love Me Tonight (New: 11/3/2005)
54. Beau Geste
55. Zero for Conduct
56. Gone with the Wind
57. Gold Diggers of 1933

58. A Star Is Born (New: 9/16/05)
59. Little Caesar
60. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
61. Man of Aran

62. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (New: 10/9/05)
63. Lost Horizon
64. Dracula
65. La Bete Humaine
66. Secret Agent
67. Swing Time
68. Shanghai Express
69. The Dawn Patrol
70. Stage Door
71. The Public Enemy
72. Ninotchka
73. The Blue Angel
74. Captain Blood
75. Top Hat
76. Stagecoach
77. Frankenstein
78. The Women
79. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
80. Morocco
81. Earth
82. Tabu
83. Dark Victory
84. It Happened One Night
85. Young and Innocent
86. The Invisible Man
87. Design for Living
88. You Can't Take It With You
89. Sabotage
90. Dragnet Girl
91. Destry Rides Again
92. That Night's Wife
93. The Blood of a Poet
94. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
95. Jezebel
96. One Way Passage
97. Only Angels Have Wings
98. A Night at the Opera
99. Nothing Sacred
100. Pepe le Moko

Comments:
I have seen 62 films from the 30s. And only like 25 enough to put them on as-yet unfinished yearly top 10s.
 
In crix pix terms, I am 'PRO' on only the first 28 of these 100, and 'pro' on the rest. And I've only seen 146 from the decade. The big ones I've yet to see: Olympia, Love Me Tonight, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Merry Widow, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Make Way for Tomorrow and various Laurel & Hardy --most of which are in my rental queue.

At least when I get around to posting my Top 100 of the 40s it won't share any titles with my Bottom 100 of the 40s.
 
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