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

[benpaco]

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?
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[Mercury]

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
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[nutso42]

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!

[CA Dreamin]

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.)

[badseed]

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

[AwaitingAndrew]

[Mercury]

[Hayden]

Deadline has been pushed until the 24th

List will be posted on the 25th

[CA Dreamin]

[benpaco]

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
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