100 or 104 Best Movies of the 1940s Survey

[SelwynMcGinty]

Other decade threads are still live, and there's no reason not to keep this train rolling - welcome to the 1940s!

Once again, it seems prudent to implement a weighted system - this time, participants are asked to list their
Top 25 of theatrical releases between January 1, 1940 and December 31, 1949.

The counting will be as follows:
25 points for the #1 choice, 24 points for the #2 spot, 23 for #3, etc. down the line. The #25 selection will be afforded 2 points, in order to distinguish it from the Honorable Mentions.

If you'd like to list some Honorable Mentions past 25 selections, please do so -
each title past the 25th will be awarded 1 point.

If indicated that there's no particular order, each selection will be awarded 7 points.

Don't imagine this will be tallied any time soon, so there's plenty of chances to change titles and lists.

Of course, any comments, thoughts, suggestions, questions or any discourse regarding Cinema of the great 1940s or anything else are encouraged and appreciated.

As always... thank you to everyone and cheers!

Starting off (this order may be subject to change in the coming days):

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3. Double Indemnity
4. Casablanca
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven)
7. Rope
8. Bicycle Thieves
9. Shadow of a Doubt
10. The Best Years of Our Lives
11. Rome, Open City
12. The Red Shoes
13. Sullivan's Travels
14. Hellzapoppin'
15. Letter from an Unknown Woman
16. The Ox-Bow Incident
17. White Heat
18. Black Narcissus
19. The Set-Up
20. Ossessione (Obsession)
21. Nightmare Alley
22. Gaslight
23. I Walked with a Zombie
24. Drunken Angel
25. Mildred Pierce

Honorable Mentions - It's a Wonderful Life, To Be or Not to Be, Born to Kill,
The Man Who Came to Dinner, Unfaithfully Yours, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Great McGinty, Rebecca, His Girl Friday, Kind Hearts & Coronets, Bitter Rice, Arsenic & Old Lace, Brute Force, Daisy Kenyon, Laura, Caught, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Odd Man Out, The Maltese Falcon, Leave Her to Heaven, Detour, Cat People, The Curse of the Cat People, The Outlaw, Thieves Highway, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The Spiral Staircase, The Razor's Edge and so many others.....

[AKORIS]

01-Casablanca
02-Rebecca
03-Leave Her To Heaven
04-Out Of the Past
05-The Wolf Man
06-Laura
07-Curse Of The Cat People
08-Dumbo
09-Cat People
10-The Spiral Staircase
11-The Body Snatcher
12-Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
13-Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman
14-House Of Frankenstein
15-The 7th Victim
16-Pinocchio
17-High Sierra
18-Dark Passage
19-Isle Of The Dead
20-Son Of Dracula
21-Double Indemnity
22-Notorious
23-White Heat
24-The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
25-To Have And Have Not

[Cremildo]

01. Citizen Kane
02. Late Spring
03. The Search
04. Rebecca
05. The Little Foxes
06. My Darling Clementine
07. The Great Dictator
08. The Picture of Dorian Gray
09. The Heiress
10. The Grapes of Wrath
11. How Green Was my Valley
12. Hamlet
13. Yankee Doodle Dandy
14. The Pride of the Yankees
15. Mrs. Miniver
16. Brief Encounter
17. The Ox-Bow Incident
18. Bicycle Thieves
19. Ivan the Terrible, Part I
20. Letter from an Unknown Woman
21. Double Indemnity
22. Oliver Twist
23. White Heat
24. The Red Shoes
25. Paisan

Runners-up: Odd Man Out; Rome, Open City; Sullivan's Travels

[Mose Harper]

1) Out Of The Past
2) Hold Back The Dawn
3) Shadow Of A Doubt
4) The Mortal Storm
5) The Best Years Of Our Lives
6) The Ghost And Mrs. Muir

Gilda
Gun Crazy
Mildred Pierce
My Darling Clementine
Casablanca
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
The Ox-Bow Incident
Laura
Black Narcissus
Notorious
La Belle Et La Bete
Detour
The Killers
The Postman Always Rings Twice
I Walked With A Zombie
Sullivan's Travels
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Leave Her To Heaven
Mrs. Miniver


This decade is ridiculously rich with all-time greats. I could have easily listed another twenty five favorites before hitting the 'acknowledged' classics like CK, TTM, and others.

[hasslein]

1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Samson & Delilah
3. Treasure Sierra Madre
4. Maltese Falcon
5. Dark Passage
6. White Heat
7. Go West
8. Conflict
9. A Night in Casablanca
10. To Have and Have Not
11. The Outlaw
12. Key Largo
13. Casablanca
14. Naughty Nineties
15. Doctor Cyclops
16. Thief of Bagdad
17. Devil Daniel Webster
18. The Big Sleep
19. Buck Privates
20. Abbott Costello Frankenstein
21. High Sierra
22. Dead of Night
23. Dead Reckoning
24. Tarzan's New York Adventure
25. Mighty Joe Young

[Beckford]

The 40’s
My Personal Favorites

1. PRINCE OF FOXES(’49-Henry King) Tyrone Power, Orson Welles
2. THE WICKED LADY(’45-Leslie Arliss) Margaret Lockwood, James Mason
3. ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN(’48-Charles Barton) A&C, Bela Lugosi
4. THE PIRATE(’48-Vincente Minnelli) Judy Garland, Gene Kelly
5. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(’46-Jean Cocteau) Jean Marais, Josette Day
6. THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE(’44-Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch) Ann Carter, Simone Simon
7. TOGETHER AGAIN(’44-Charles Vidor) Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer
8. THE RED SHOES(’48-Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook
9. HOLIDAY INN(’42-Mark Sandrich) Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
10. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS(’42-Orson Welles) Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten
11. THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI(’48-Orson Welles) Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles
12. THE SEA HAWK(’40-Michael Curtiz) Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall
13. CRISS CROSS(’49-Robert Siodmak) Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo
14. THE PARADINE CASE(’47-Alfred Hitchcock) Gregory Peck, Alida Valli
15. THE RAZOR’S EDGE(’46-Edmund Goulding) Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney
16. CENTENNIAL SUMMER(’46-Otto Preminger) Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell
17. THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR(’47-Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison
18. I TAKE THIS WOMAN(’40-W.S. Van Dyke) Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
19. HIGH SIERRA(’41-Raoul Walsh) Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
20. THE SEVENTH VICTIM(’43-Mark Robson) Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks
21. ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN(’48-Vincent Sherman) Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors
22. THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS(’43-David Butler) Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan
23. THE MARK OF ZORRO(’40-Rouben Mamoulian) Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
24. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS(’41-Preston Sturges) Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
25. THIS GUN FOR HIRE(’42-Frank Tuttle) Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake

Honorable Mention (chronological)

[Show spoiler]CHARLIE CHAN IN PANAMA(‘40-Norman Foster)
DAS HERZ DER KONIGIN(’40-Carl Froelich)
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT(‘40-Alfred Hitchcock)
MY FAVORITE WIFE(40‘Garson Kanin)
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD(‘40-Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Ludwig Berger)
‘TIL WE MEET AGAIN(‘40-Edmund Goulding)
CITIZEN KANE('41-Orson Welles)
INVISIBLE GHOST(’41-Joseph H. Lewis)
LA CORONA DI FERRO('41-Alessandro Blasetti)
LADIES IN RETIREMENT(’41-Charles Vidor)
SUN VALLEY SERENADE(’41-Bruce Humberstone)
TWO-FACED WOMAN(’41-George Cukor)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS(’41-Gregory La Cava)
WESTERN UNION(’41-Fritz Lang)
ZIEGFELD GIRL(’41-Robert Z. Leonard)
ARABIAN NIGHTS(’42-John Rawlins)
CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS(’42-Michael Curtiz)
CAT PEOPLE(’42-Jacques Tourneur)
DESPERATE JOURNEY(’42-Raoul Walsh)
FLYING TIGERS(’42-David Miller)
LE MARIAGE DE CHIFFON(’42-Claude Autant-Lara)
LETTRES D’AMOUR(’42-Claude Autant-Lara)
NIGHT MONSTER(’42-Ford Beebe)
SPY SHIP(’42-B. Reeves Eason)
THE HARD WAY(’43-Vincent Sherman)
JITTERBUGS(’43-Malcolm St. Clair)
L’ETERNEL RETOUR(’43-Jean Delannoy)
LE BARON FANTOME(’43-Serge de Poligny)
THE LEOPARD MAN(43-Jacques Tourneur)
LUMIERE D’ETE(’43-Jean Gremillon)
THE MAD GHOUL(’43-James Hogan)
THE NORTH STAR(’43-Lewis Milestone)
OSSESSIONE(’43-Luchino Visconti)
SON OF DRACULA('43-Robert Siodmak)
THE SONG OF BERNADETTE(’43-Henry King)
STORMY WEATHER(’43-Andrew L. Stone)
THURSDAY’S CHILD(’43-Rodney Ackland)
WHISPERING FOOTSTEPS(’43-Howard Bretherton)
BLUEBEARD('44-Edgar G. Ulmer)
CAN’T HELP SINGING('44-Frank Ryan)
A CANTERBURY TALE('44-Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
DIE FRAU MEINER TRAUME(’44-Georg Jacoby)
DRAGON SEED('44-Harold S. Bucquet, Sidney Franklin)
FRENCHMAN’S CREEK(’44-Mitchell Leisen)
GYPSY WILDCAT(’44-Roy William Neill)
HENRY V(’44-Laurence Olivier)
HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN(’44-Erle C. Kenton(
JANE EYRE(’44-Robert Stevenson)
THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS(’44-Jean Negulesco)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS(’44-Vincente Minnelli)
THE SCARLET CLAW(’44-Roy William Neill)
SONG OF RUSSIA(’44-Gregory Ratoff)
THE SPIDER WOMAN(’44-Roy William Neill)
TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT(’44-Howard Hawks)
THE CORN IS GREEN(‘45-Irving Rapper)
DETOUR(‘45-Edgar G. Ulmer)
HANGOVER SQUARE(‘45-John Brahm)
HOTEL BERLIN(‘45-Peter Godfrey)
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN(‘45-John M. Stahl)
SAN ANTONIO(‘45-David Butler)
SUDAN(‘45-John Rawlins)
THRILL OF A ROMANCE(’45-Richard Thorpe)
A WALK IN THE SUN(’45-Lewis Milestone)
ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY(’45-Gordon Douglas)
CARNIVAL(‘46-Stanley Haynes)
DRAGONWYK('46-Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
ENAMORADA(‘46-Emilio Rodriguez)
HUMORESQUE(‘46-Jean Negulesco)
I SEE A DARK STRANGER(‘46-Frank Launder)
MARTIN ROUMAGNAC('46-Georges Lacombe)
PANIQUE('46-Julien Duvivier)
THE STRANGER(‘46-Orson Welles)
SUSPENSE(’46-Frank Tuttle)
THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE('46-Bruce Humberstone)
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES(‘46-Vincente Minnelli)
BLACK NARCISSUS(‘47-Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
BORN TO KILL(‘47-Robert Wise)
THE BROTHERS(’47-British-David MacDonald)
CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE(’47-Henry King)
THE EXILE(‘47-Max Ophuls)
THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER(‘47-H.C. Potter)
LIGHTHOUSE(’47-Frank Wisbar)
LES MAUDITS(‘47-Rene Clement)
THE MACOMBER AFFAIR(47--Zoltan Korda)
MY WILD IRISH ROSE(47-David Butler)
THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE(‘47-Cavalcanti)
THIS TIME FOR KEEPS(‘47-Richard Thorpe)
ZWISCHEN GESTERN UND MORGEN(’47-Harald Braun)
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST(’48-Michael Gordon)
FURY AT FURNACE CREEK(‘48-Bruce Humberstone)
GERMANIA ANNO ZERO(‘48-Roberto Rossellini)
THE KISSING BANDIT(‘48-Laslo Benedek)
MACBETH(‘48-Orson Welles)
MYSTERY IN MEXICO(‘48-Robert Wise)
PITFALL(‘48-Andre De Toth)
SHED NO TEARS(’48-Jean Yarbrough)
THE SWORDSMAN(‘48-Joseph H. Lewis)
TARZAN AND THE MERMAIDS(‘48-Robert Florey)
THREE DARING DAUGHTERS(‘48-Fred M. Wilcox)
WORDS AND MUSIC(‘48-Norman Taurog)
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE KILLER(‘49-Charles Barton
BEYOND THE FOREST(‘49-King Vidor)
THE BLUE LAGOON(‘49-Frank Launder)
FABIOLA(‘49-Alessandro Blasetti)
I SHOT JESSE JAMES(‘49-Samuel Fuller)
THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY(’49-Daniel Birt)
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS(‘49-Robert Hamer)
LADRI DI BICICLETTE/BICYCLE THEVES(‘49-Vittorio De Sica)
A LETTER TO THREE WIVES(‘49-Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
MANON(‘49-Georges Franju)
MASSACRE RIVER(‘49-John Rawlins)
MY DREAM IS YOURS(‘49-Michael Curtiz)
PINKY(‘49-Elia Kazan)
THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER(‘49-Anthony Pelissier)
STRAY DOG(‘49-Akira Kurosawa)
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT(‘49-Nicholas Ray)
THE THIRD MAN(‘49-Carol Reed)
TOO LATE FOR TEARS(‘49-Byron Haskin)

[Juan de Internet]

1. Casablanca
2. To Be Or Not to Be
3. The Shop Around the Corner
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
   
6. The Philadelphia Story
7. Late Spring
8. National Velvet
9. The Lady Eve
10. To Have and Have Not
    
11. Cluny Brown
12. How Green Was My Valley
13. Notorious
14. His Girl Friday
15. The Palm Beach Story
    
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
17. The Heiress
18. Out of the Past
19. Gilda
20. I Know Where I'm Going!
    
21. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
22. Sullivan's Travels
23. My Favorite Wife
24. My Darling Clementine
25. Brief Encounter

Honorable Mentions

• Random Harvest
• The More the Merrier
• Cat People
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Children of Paradise
  
• A Canterbury Tale
• Black Narcissus
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Great Expectations
• The Bells of St. Mary's

[Cpt. Feeney]

1.The 47 Ronin - Kenji Mizoguchi
2.Intruder in the Dust - Clarence Brown
3.The Yearling - Clarence Brown
4.Black Narcissus - Powell and Pressburger
5.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Powell and Pressburger

6.Rope - Alfred Hitchcock
7.My Darling Clementine - John Ford
8.Odd Man Out - Carol Reed
9.Women of the Night - Kenji Mizoguchi
10.Blood and Sand - Rouben Mamoulian

11.Oliver Twist - David Lean
12.Meet John Doe - Frank Capra
13.Ladies in Retirement - Charles Vidor
14.Forever Amber - Otto Preminger
15.Frenchman’s Creek - Mitchell Leisen

16.Sanshiro Sugata - Akira Kurosawa
17.Le Silence de la Mer - Jean-Pierre Melville
18.A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph L Mankiewicz
19.Caught - Max Ophuls
20.Pinky - Elia Kazan

21.Call Northside 777 - Henry Hathaway
22.La Main du Diable - Marcel Tourneur
23.Panique - Julien Duvivier
24.Lifeboat - Alfred Hitchcock
25.Woman - Kinosuke Kinoshita

[stlcards]

1. Casablanca
2. The Third Man
3. Key Largo
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. It's A Wonderful Life
6. Murder, My Sweet
7. The Big Sleep
8. Out Of The Past
9. Laura
10. Double Indemnity
11. Notorious
12. Night Train To Munich
13. They Were Expendable
14. Lifeboat
15. Gilda
16. Shadow Of A Doubt
17. Suspicion
18. Rebecca
19. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
20. Red River
21. The Killers
22. The Blue Dahlia
23. Sullivan's Travels
24. The Big Clock
25. Citizen Kane

Honorable Mention:
The Lady From Shanghai
Spellbound
Foreign Correspondent
The Woman In The Window
Mildred Pierce
His Girl Friday
Saboteur
The Stranger
Dark Command
Too Late For Tears

[Leslie Dame]

1. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
2. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
3. Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
4. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
5. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
6. The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford)
7. Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
10. Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)
11. The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
12. Pinocchio (1940, Walt Disney)
13. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
14. Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
15. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Michael Curtiz)
16. Fantasia (1940, Walt Disney)
17. To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
18. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
19. Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
20. Red River (1948, Howard Hawks)
21. The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor)
22. Sergeant York (1941, Howard Hawks)
23. Gaslight (1944, George Cukor)
24. White Heat (1949, Raoul Walsh)
25. Oliver Twist (1948, David Lean)

[RiotNarita]

1 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2 The Sea Hawk
3 The Heiress
4 Laura
5 The Letter
6 Objective, Burma!
7 To Be or Not to Be
8 It’s a Wonderful Life
9 Rebecca
10 Casablanca
11 Reign of Terror
12 The Shop Around the Corner
13 Virginia City
14 Gaslight
15 The More the Merrier
16 The Postman Always Rings Twice
17 The Third Man
18 Mildred Pierce
19 Out of the Past
20 Foreign Correspondent
21 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
22 Lady on a Train
23 Criss Cross
24 Dark Passage
25 Colorado Territory
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- Gentleman Jim
- Miracle on 34th Street
- The Killers
- Battleground
- Black Narcissus
- The Big Sleep
- The Maltese Falcon
- Leave Her to Heaven

[apricissimus]

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Best Years of Our Lives
3. Brief Encounter
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Casablanca
6. Back Street
7. A Foreign Affair
8. The Lady Eve
9. The Red Shoes
10. Remember the Night
11. Now Voyager
12. Waterloo Bridge
13. Humoresque
14. Meet Me in St. Louis
15. The Shop Around the Corner
16. The Lost Weekend
17. Yankee Doodle Dandy
18. The Heiress
19. Hold Back the Dawn
20. My Reputation
21. The Major and the Minor
22. Five Graves to Cairo
23. Red River
24. Leave Her to Heaven
25. The Passionate Friends

[REPULSION-65]

1. The Heiress (1949)
2. Rebecca (1940)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
5. Double Indemnity (1944)
6. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
7. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
8. The Little Foxes (1941)
9. Notorious (1946)
10. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

11. Gilda (1946)
12. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
13. The Red Shoes (1948)
14. Rope (1948)
15. Out of the Past (1947)
16. Black Narcissus (1947)
17. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
18. Laura (1944)
19. The Big Sleep (1946)
20. Mildred Pierce (1945)

21. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
22. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
23. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
24. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
25. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

[LaughOGram]

1. Citizen Kane
2. Pinocchio
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Out of the Past
5. Hellzapoppin'
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. The Shop Around the Corner
8. Murder, My Sweet
9. The Third Man
10. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
11. The Big Sleep
12. Detour
13. My Darling Clementine
14. Meet Me in St. Louis
15. The Wolf Man
16. Black Narcissus
17. Adam's Rib
18. Kind Hearts & Coronets
19. It's a Wonderful Life
20. Cat People
21. Nightmare Alley
22. Scarlet Street
23. Brute Force
24. White Heat
25. Portrait of Jennie

[principehomura]

01) To Be or Not To Be (E. Lubitsch, 1942)
02) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (M. Powell, E. Pressburger, 1943)
03) Double Indeminity (B. Wilder, 1944)
04) Les Enfants du Paradis (M. Carnè, 1945)
05) The Shop Around the Corner (E. Lubitsch, 1940)
06) The Red Shoes (M. Powell, E. Pressburger, 1948)
07) A Matter of Life and Death (M. Powell, E. Pressburger, 1946)
08) A Letter to Three Wives (J.L. Mankiewicz, 1949)
09) Monsieur Verdoux (C. Chaplin, 1947)
10) Black Narcissus (M. Powell, E. Pressburger, 1947)
11) The Magnificent Ambersons (O. Welles, 1942)
12) Ball of Fire (H. Hawks, 1941)
13) Arsenic and Old Lace (F. Capra, 1944)
14) I Married a Witch (R. Clair, 1942)
15) The Great Dictator (C. Chaplin, 1940)
16) The Shadow of the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1941)
17) Dies Irae (C.T. Dreyer, 1943)
18) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (J.L. Mankiewicz, 1947)
19) Remember the Night (M. Leisen, 1940)
20) It's a Wonderful Life (F. Capra, 1946)
21) The Palm Beach Story (P. Sturges, 1942)
22) Suspicion (A. Hitchcock, 1941)
23) The Philadelphia Story (G. Cukor, 1940)
24) Letter From an Unknown Woman (M. Ophuls, 1948)
25) That Lady in Ermine (E. Lubitsch, 1948)

it was the hardest one

[SelwynMcGinty]

@ Beckford, appreciate all the Honorables - was pleasantly surprised at how many of those classics I had seen, like Dragonwyck, Stormy Weather, They Made Me a Criminal and perhaps the ultimate Poverty Row picture, Detour.

Very curious to one day see Dragon Seed, it seems polarizing to say the least.
Beyond the Forest was hard to find for a long time, need to check that out too.

[merlinjones]

1) Casablanca
2) Pinocchio
3) It's a Wonderful Life
4) Shadow of a Doubt
5) Notorious!
6) Black Narcissus
7) La Belle et Le Bete
8) Double Indemnity
9) Dumbo
10) Fantasia
11) Bambi
12) Song of the South
13) The Grapes of Wrath
14) Meet John Doe
15) The Lady Eve
16) Citizen Kane
17) Meet Me in St. Louis
18) The Thief of Bagdad
19) His Girl Friday
20) The Mark of Zorro
21) Stairway to Heaven
22) Spellbound
23) The Window
24) Miracle on 34th Street
25) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

The Bishop's Wife
The Litttle Foxes
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The Three Caballeros
The Heiress
Rebecca
Leave Her to Heaven
The Yearling
So Dear to My Heart
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Red Shoes
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Lifeboat
The Philadelphia Story
Ball of Fire
Strike Up the Band
Gaslight
Arsenic and Old Lace

[ophone]

As for the 1930s, my knowledge is severely lacking.

But also here I've got a favourite:
The Great Dictator (1940: Charlie Chaplin)

I think Hynkel's speech is even funnier when you're fluent in German. That said, I totally dig the barber's speech too, which hasn't lost its meaning after all those decades, especially nowadays.