Friday, July 08, 2005
My top 100 films of the 1940s
1. The Big Sleep
2. Children of Paradise
3. Citizen Kane
4. His Girl Friday
5. The Third Man
6. It's a Wonderful Life
7. Notorious
8. Out of the Past
9. Letter From an Unknown Woman
10. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
11. Casablanca
12. The Lady Eve
13. Double Indemnity
14. Sullivan's Travels
15. A Matter of Life and Death
16. White Heat
17. Odd Man Out
18. Great Expectations
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. The Killers
21. The Red Shoes
22. Ball of Fire
23. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
24. Unfaithfully Yours
25. Orpheus
26. The Woman in the Window
27. Force of Evil
28. Laura
29. Rebecca
30. The Best Years of Our Lives
31. Red River
32. Meet Me in St. Louis
33. Kind Hearts and Coronets
34. My Darling Clementine
35. The Magnificent Ambersons
36. Late Spring
37. The Philadelphia Story
38. Open City
39. Body and Soul
40. Pinocchio
41. Shadow of a Doubt
42. Gilda
43. The Shop Around the Corner
44. La belle et la bete
45. Black Narcissus
46. The Bicycle Thief
47. Foreign Correspondent
48. Rope
49. The Lady from Shanghai
50. Brief Encounter
51. Shoeshine
52. Day of Wrath
53. Hail, the Conquering Hero!
54. High Sierra
55. The Palm Beach Story
56. Hamlet
57. The Fallen Idol
58. Pursued
59. Now, Voyager
60. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
61. Meet John Doe
62. On the Town
63. Dumbo
64. To Be or Not To Be
65. They Live By Night
66. Kiss of Death
67. Ministry of Fear
68. Fantasia
69. Criss Cross
70. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
71. Dead of Night
72. The Devil and Daniel Webster
73. And Then There Were None
74. The Ox-Bow Incident
75. Scarlet Street
76. Mildred Pierce
77. The Stranger
78. The Glass Key
79. Phantom Lady
80. Bambi
81. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
82. The Maltese Falcon
83. Meshes of the Afternoon
84. The 47 Ronin
85. The Talk of the Town
86. Stray Dog
87. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
88. Monsieur Verdoux
89. The Sea Hawk
90. The Bank Dick
91. La Terra trema
92. Louisiana Story
93. Gentleman Jim
94. Ivan the Terrible, Part I
95. Gaslight
96. Detour
97. The Big Clock
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice
99. Cabin in the Sky
100. The Story of G.I. Joe
2. Children of Paradise
3. Citizen Kane
4. His Girl Friday
5. The Third Man
6. It's a Wonderful Life
7. Notorious
8. Out of the Past
9. Letter From an Unknown Woman
10. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
11. Casablanca
12. The Lady Eve
13. Double Indemnity
14. Sullivan's Travels
15. A Matter of Life and Death
16. White Heat
17. Odd Man Out
18. Great Expectations
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. The Killers
21. The Red Shoes
22. Ball of Fire
23. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
24. Unfaithfully Yours
25. Orpheus
26. The Woman in the Window
27. Force of Evil
28. Laura
29. Rebecca
30. The Best Years of Our Lives
31. Red River
32. Meet Me in St. Louis
33. Kind Hearts and Coronets
34. My Darling Clementine
35. The Magnificent Ambersons
36. Late Spring
37. The Philadelphia Story
38. Open City
39. Body and Soul
40. Pinocchio
41. Shadow of a Doubt
42. Gilda
43. The Shop Around the Corner
44. La belle et la bete
45. Black Narcissus
46. The Bicycle Thief
47. Foreign Correspondent
48. Rope
49. The Lady from Shanghai
50. Brief Encounter
51. Shoeshine
52. Day of Wrath
53. Hail, the Conquering Hero!
54. High Sierra
55. The Palm Beach Story
56. Hamlet
57. The Fallen Idol
58. Pursued
59. Now, Voyager
60. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
61. Meet John Doe
62. On the Town
63. Dumbo
64. To Be or Not To Be
65. They Live By Night
66. Kiss of Death
67. Ministry of Fear
68. Fantasia
69. Criss Cross
70. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
71. Dead of Night
72. The Devil and Daniel Webster
73. And Then There Were None
74. The Ox-Bow Incident
75. Scarlet Street
76. Mildred Pierce
77. The Stranger
78. The Glass Key
79. Phantom Lady
80. Bambi
81. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
82. The Maltese Falcon
83. Meshes of the Afternoon
84. The 47 Ronin
85. The Talk of the Town
86. Stray Dog
87. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
88. Monsieur Verdoux
89. The Sea Hawk
90. The Bank Dick
91. La Terra trema
92. Louisiana Story
93. Gentleman Jim
94. Ivan the Terrible, Part I
95. Gaslight
96. Detour
97. The Big Clock
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice
99. Cabin in the Sky
100. The Story of G.I. Joe
