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Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Hayden — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:12:07 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/25/2016 15:12

Everything is tallied 😄 Just about to post this list.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

cestuneblague — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:06:39 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 09/25/2016 14:06

Hey, sorry know Im late but if it's possible for a last second squeeze in here's a list of okay movies:

Children of Paradise
Bambi
The Bicycle Thief
Late Spring
Laura
His Girl Friday
Odd Man Out
To Be or Not to Be
La Terra Trema
Rebecca
Stairway to Heaven/A Matter of Life and Death
The Great Dictator
Citizen Kane
Meshes in the Afternoon
Rome, Open City
The Lost Weekend
Naked City
Fantasia
Casablanca
Ivan the Terrible
My Darling Clementine
Children of the Beehive
Oliver Twist
The Big Sleep
The Philedalphia Story
Pinocchio
Stray Dogs
Leave Her to Heaven
Fragment of Seeking
Beauty and the Beast
Dumbo
The Killers
Intruder in the Dust
Great Expectations
Red River
Mildred Pierce
It Always Rains on Sunday
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad
Spring in a Small Town
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Thieve’s Highway
The Treasures of the Sierra Madre
Scarlett Street
La Silence de La Mer
Drunken Angel
The Spring River Flows East
The Lady from Shanghai
The Children Are Watching Us
Torment
The Well-Digger’s Daughter
Christmas USA
Paisan
Witch’s Cradle
never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Portrait of Jennie
The Best Years of Our Lives
Record of a Tenement Gentlemen
Gilda
Meet Me in St Louis
Day of Wrath
There Was a Father
At Land
Strike Up the Band!
Music in Darkness
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Ball at the Anju House
The Pride of the Yankees
Fallen Angel
The Girl in the News
Meditation on Violence
Jane Eyre
Ornamental Hairpin
Miracle on 34th Street
Traveling Actor
Noose
Crisis

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

CA Dreamin — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:28:02 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 09/25/2016 04:28

EDIT: Same exact list as before except Monsieur Verdoux is #44 and everything beneath it is one rank lower:

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. It's A Wonderful Life
4. Double Indemnity
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets
6. Notorious
7. Laura
8. Mildred Pierce
9. The Big Sleep
10. The Ox-Bow Incident
11. Scarlet Street
12. Bicycle Thieves (or The Bicycle Thief)
13. Shadow of a Doubt
14. Detour
15. Arsenic and Old Lace
16. The Heiress
17. The Magnificent Ambersons
18. Rebecca
19. Sullivan's Travels
20. The Treasure of Sierra Madre
21. The Maltese Falcon
22. Black Narcissus
23. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
24. The Third Man
25. The Great Dictator
26. Nightmare Alley
27. Shoeshine
28. Rope
29. Passport to Pimlico
30. Key Largo
31. To Have and Have Not
32. Gaslight (1944)
33. House of Strangers
34. The Sea Hawk
35. The Woman in the Window
36. The Wolf Man
37. The Picture of Dorian Gray
38. A Matter of Life and Death
39. Call Northside 777
40. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
41. The Great McGinty
42. The Grapes of Wrath
43. The Philadelphia Story
44. Monsieur Verdoux
45. Dear Murderer
46. The Snake Pit
47. All My Sons
48. The Shop Around The Corner
49. The Little Foxes
50. Dark Passage
51. Man Hunt
52. Meet John Doe
53. Dumbo
54. Red River
55. The Palm Beach Story
56. Sorry, Wrong Number
57. Hangover Square
58. Whisky Galore!
59. Gentleman Jim
60. The Stranger

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

cestuneblague — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:25:46 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 09/24/2016 19:25

Ill try to get one in later today

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Hayden — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:58:39 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/24/2016 16:58

Aight, after tallying everything up, this is by no means a runaway by anything. The ten top 10 could change with a single list submission.

Hoping for a few more to be submitted today 😄

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Hayden — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 11:59:35 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/24/2016 15:59

Last day for lists 😄

Starting to tally them up now.

Also, my (short) list:

1. Casablanca
2. Bicycle Thief
3. The Red Shoes
4. Gilda
5. The Great Dictator
6. Citizen Kane
7. Brief Encounter
8. Rope
9. Fantasia
10. Beauty and The Beast
11. Jour De Fete
12. Pinocchio
13. The Third Man
14. Louisiana Story
15. Ministry of Fear
16. Meshes of The Afternoon
17. The Naked City
18. Rome, Open City
19. Le Corbeau
20. Bambi

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Hayden — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:15:37 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/24/2016 02:15

dividesbyzero wrote:

sadly I don't really have time to organize this to the extent I want but yeah here https://letterboxd.com/dividesbyzero/list/maya-deren-some-other-people-favorites-of/

Aaaah, thanks Dbz 😄 That's a super cool list.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how this one turns out 😄 I have no idea what it looks like right now... gotta start tallying tomorrow 😨

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:08:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/24/2016 02:08

sadly I don't really have time to organize this to the extent I want but yeah here https://letterboxd.com/dividesbyzero/list/maya-deren-some-other-people-favorites-of/

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Hayden — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:06:27 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/23/2016 18:06

Last day for lists tomorrow 😄

I have a lot of work to do with the tallying... 😨

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

benpaco — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:46:29 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 09/23/2016 16:46

Didn't get through my whole watchlist and not going to be able to do much more today. Here's what I've seen, minus a couple I didn't like, sorry this is largely Disney/other kids schlock. Also been since middle school since I saw a few of these so it's very possible I'm being overly easy/hard on some:

1 It's A Wonderful Life
2 The Great Dictator
3 Cassablanca
4 Alice in Wonderland
5 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
6 Citizen Kane
7 The Wolf Man
8 Border Patrol
9 Holiday Inn
10 Tarzan's New York Adventure
11 The Invisible Man Returns
12 Dumbo
13 The Three Caballeros
14 Miracle on 34th Street
15 Bambi

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

CA Dreamin — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:24:46 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 09/20/2016 14:24

Hayden wrote:

Deadline has been pushed until the 24th

Well in that case, I can fit a couple more in. Working 12 hour days today through Thu but I'm sure I'll watch something Fri and Sat. I'll send my additions.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Hayden — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:28:57 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/20/2016 11:28

Deadline has been pushed until the 24th 😁

List will be posted on the 25th 😄

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Mercury — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:52:58 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 09/19/2016 00:52

badseed wrote:

If I remove It's a Wonderful Life from my list completely will that take it out of the #1 spot?

Please don't do it, no matter the answer.

Also what the last guy said, citizen Kane is gonna get it, followed by Casablanca or Its a wonderful life. People just seem to love them some C. Kane.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

AwaitingAndrew — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:22:51 GMT

Author: AwaitingAndrew

Posted: 09/18/2016 21:22

badseed wrote:

If I remove It's a Wonderful Life from my list completely will that take it out of the #1 spot?

I'm sure #1 is Citizen Kane, it has the most #1s and has been in every list of those posted here.

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

badseed — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:54:08 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 09/18/2016 19:54

If I remove It's a Wonderful Life from my list completely will that take it out of the #1 spot?

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

CA Dreamin — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:14:28 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 09/18/2016 03:14

I normally wait to last second to send in a list, but I'm gonna be busy af with work the next few days so I probably won't be able to fit in any more movies between now and the deadline. Wish I had time to squeeze in a few more '40s flicks, but oh well. Here's my list:

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. It's A Wonderful Life
4. Double Indemnity
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets
6. Notorious
7. Laura
8. Mildred Pierce
9. The Big Sleep
10. The Ox-Bow Incident
11. Scarlet Street
12. Bicycle Thieves (or The Bicycle Thief)
13. Shadow of a Doubt
14. Detour
15. Arsenic and Old Lace
16. The Heiress
17. The Magnificent Ambersons
18. Rebecca
19. Sullivan's Travels
20. The Treasure of Sierra Madre
21. The Maltese Falcon
22. Black Narcissus
23. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
24. The Third Man
25. The Great Dictator
26. Nightmare Alley
27. Shoeshine
28. Rope
29. Passport to Pimlico
30. Key Largo
31. To Have and Have Not
32. Gaslight (1944)
33. House of Strangers
34. The Sea Hawk
35. The Woman in the Window
36. The Wolf Man
37. The Picture of Dorian Gray
38. A Matter of Life and Death
39. Call Northside 777
40. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
41. The Great McGinty
42. The Grapes of Wrath
43. The Philadelphia Story
44. Dear Murderer
45. The Snake Pit
46. All My Sons
47. The Shop Around The Corner
48. The Little Foxes
49. Dark Passage
50. Man Hunt
51. Meet John Doe
52. Dumbo
53. Red River
54. The Palm Beach Story
55. Sorry, Wrong Number
56. Hangover Square
57. Whisky Galore!
58. Gentleman Jim
59. The Stranger

(If I do find time to catch one more '40s flick, it would be Monsieur Verdoux. That's next on my dvd queue, and I'll lyk its placement if I watch it in time.)

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:55:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/16/2016 14:55

My internet has returned! And not a moment too soon!

Here is a (tragically not 100) list of 40s movies, ranked from #1 - #85

Citizen Kane
Children of Paradise
Bicycle Thieves
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Great Dictator
The Magnificent Ambersons
Late Spring
Ivan the Terrible Part I
The Red Shoes
Day of Wrath

Arsenic and Old Lace
The Third Man
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Grapes of Wrath
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Rope
It's a Wonderful Life
Beauty and the Beast
Drunken Angel
Lost Weekend

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Ox-Bow Incident
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Casablanca
Spellbound
Laura
My Darling Clementine
Hamlet
Lifeboat
Letter From an Unknown Woman

Adam's Rib
Rebecca
The Big Sleep
The Bank Dick
Notorious
His Girl Friday
Stairway to Heaven (Matter of Life and Death)
Red River
Maltese Falcon
Monsieur Verdoux

Macbeth
Philadelphia Story
Ossessione
Woman in the Window
Gaslight
Lady From Shanghai
Mark of Zorro
Henry V
Shoeshine
Brief Encounter

Orphee
Stray Dog
Black Narcissus
Shadow of a Doubt
Scarlet Street
White Heat
Gilda
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Three Musketeers
Le Corbeau

Dumbo
A Canterbury Tale
Jour de Fete
Under Capricorn
Le Terra Trema
Odd Man Out
My Favorite Wife
Foreign Correspondent
Gentlemen's Agreement
The Stranger

Great Expectations
All the King's Men
Suspicion
Germany, Year Zero
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Picture of Dorian Gray
Saboteur
The Invisible Man Returns
Mr. Skeffington
Rome, Open City

State Fair
Pinocchio
How Green Was my Valley
Double Indemnity
Bambi

Some of these movies have not been getting nearly enough attention (Ivan the Terrible, Late Spring, and Day of Wrath specifically) but hoping for a good result nonetheless.

Kane for #1!

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

Mercury — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:33:32 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 09/15/2016 20:33

It's. It much of a list cuz I don't have nearly as much familiarity with 40s films as I do more recent decades. But nonetheless I threw this top 40 for this poll.

Casablanca
It's A Wonderful Life
Double Indemnity
The Shop Around The Corner
Brief Encounter
The Philadelphia Story
The Third Man
Rome Open City
Citizen Kane
Letter From An Unknown Woman

His Girl Friday
Drunken Angel
Paison
Germany Year Zero
Bicycle Thieves
Fantasia
The Lost Weekend
Arsenic and Old Lace
Meet Me In Saint Louis
Late Spring

Miracle on 34th Street
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Day of Wrath
Children of Paradise
The Maltese Falcon
The Grapes of Wrath
Rope
Notorious
Dumbo
The Big Sleep

Spellbound
The Great Dictator
Great Expectations
Beauty and the Beast
Meet John Doe
Rebecca
The Magnificent Ambersons
To Have and Have Not
The Best Years of Our Lives
Bambi

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

benpaco — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:45:49 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 09/15/2016 18:45

Going to try to get a list in proper but as is it would only be 9 movies so I'm going to use that as encouragement to go through some of my watchlist. Also, how are we counting 47 Ronin? One movie or each part is seperate?

Re: Best Ever Films of The 40's [Poll: Deadline Sept 24]

AwaitingAndrew — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:04:02 GMT

Author: AwaitingAndrew

Posted: 09/14/2016 04:04

1. It’s A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
2. The Shop Around The Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)
3. The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)
4. Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
5. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
6. Come Live With Me (Brown, 1941)
7. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
8. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
9. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
10. Holiday Inn (Sandrich, 1942)

11. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940)
12. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
13. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
14. Saboteur (Hitchcock, 1942)
15. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
16. Pinocchio (Dir. by many, 1940)
17. Laura (Preminger, 1944)
18. The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman, 1943)
19. The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
20. My Favorite Wife (Kanin, 1940)

21. Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
22. Woman Of The Year (Stevens, 1942)
23. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
24. The Talk Of The Town (Stevens, 1942)
25. Bambi (Dir. by many, 1942)
26. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
27. Call Northside 777 (Hathaway, 1948)
28. Spellbound (Hitchcock, 1945)
29. Miracle on 34th Street (Seaton, 1947)
30. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)

31. Shadow Of A Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)
32. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
33. Dark Passage (Daves, 1947)
34. Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (Barton, 1948)
35. The Bishop’s Wife (Koster, 1947)
36. Dumbo (Dir. by many, 1941)
37. A Foreign Affair (Wilder, 1948)
38. Rings On Her Fingers (Mamoulian, 1942)
39. No Time For Comedy (Keighley, 1940)
40. To Have And Have Not (Hawks, 1944)

It's possible that I'll get to one more film, and I'll update if it makes my top 40 of the '40s, but I wanted to make sure I got my list up before the cutoff date arrives.