ILX 1940S FILM POLL NOMINATIONS THREAD

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the top-1,000 films thread got me thinking that it was time for another decade poll, and this is the next in line. noir! neorealism! national velvet!

Rules
not hugely different from previous efforts. the nominations thread will be open through the end of september, with voting to start in october. nominations are completely open, as many and as often as you want. cut-off dates are 1940-49, with IMDB as before the arbitrator of release dates. i generally value the nominations threads in these things more than the actual results, because it's where i'm most likely to hear about things i don't know, or be encouraged to see something i've written off. for voting itself, i think i'll allow up to 50 films on each ballot, because i'll have a hard time keeping it under that myself. but anyway, those details will come in the actual voting thread.

in terms of making nominations, just listing films is fine, but any write-ups, raves or links to good sources will be very welcome. as the month goes along i'll keep updating a rolling compendium of nominated titles.

i'll start out with 10 obvious ones that i actually also really love:

To Be or Not to Be
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Meshes of the Afternoon
His Girl Friday
Red River
Late Spring
I Know Where I'm Going!
Unfaithfully Yours
Fantasia

euros in hollywood

1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman
1949 The Reckless Moment
1944 Ministry of Fear
1944 The Woman in the Window
1945 Scarlet Street

guess i'll round out the hawks and huston contenders (at least the ones i've seen).

To Have and Have Not
The Big Sleep
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Key Largo

and also, so as not to leave too many elephants lingering unremarked:

Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Third Man

Let's not fuck around, shall we?

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
The Great Moment (1944)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Christmas in July (1940)
The Great McGinty (1940)
Madame Bovary (1949)
The Pirate (1948)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
The Clock (1945)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Shockproof (1949)
Sleep, My Love (1948)
Lured (1947)
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
Summer Storm (1944)
Hitler's Madman (1943)
Whirlpool (1949)
The Fan (1949)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Forever Amber (1947)
Centennial Summer (1946)
Fallen Angel (1945)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Laura (1944)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Rope (1948)
Notorious (1946)
Spellbound (1945)
Lifeboat (1944)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Saboteur (1942)
Suspicion (1941)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
The 47 Ronin (1942)
Les visiteurs du soir (1942)
La ciel est à vous (1943)
Day of Wrath (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
The Leopard Man (1943)
Lumiere d'été (1943)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
This Land is Mine (1943)
At Land (1944)
Les enfants du paradis (1944)
Jammin' the Blues (1944)
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944)
Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 (1944-1946)
Les dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)
Duel in the Sun (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Three Caballeros (1945)
La belle et la bête (1946)
Five Women around Utamaro (1946)
From This Day Forward (1946)
Gilda (1946)
The Man I Love (1946)
Paisa (1946)
Sciuscia / Shoeshine (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
Germany Year Zero (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Woman on the Beach (1947)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
Good Sam (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Spring in a Small City (1948)
La terra trema (1948)
They Live by Night (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Blood of the Beast (1949)
Ecole des facteurs (1949)
Gun Crazy (1949)
Jour de fête (1949)
Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
Stromboli (1949)
Thieves Highway (1949)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
The Ghost Ship (1943)
Flamingo Road (1949)
Possessed (1947)
Humoresque (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Above Suspicion (1943)
A Woman's Face (1941)
Susan and God (1940)
Strange Cargo (1940)
The Window (Ted Tatzlaff)
Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
On The Town (1949)

Forgot her:

The Letter (1940)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Now, Voyager (1942)
In This Our Life (1942)
Old Acquaintance (1943)
Beyond the Forest (1949)

Border Incident (1949)
Reign of Terror (1949)
Raw Deal (1948)
T-Men (1947)
Railroaded! (1947)
Le tempestaire (1947)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
Road House (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Small Back Room (1949)
White Heat (1949)

Cat People (1943)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Some films noir:

Brighton Rock (1947)
The Third Man (1949)
The Stranger (1946)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Detour (1945)
Caught (1949)

Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)

Brief Encounter (1945)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Dead of Night (1945)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Went The Day Well? (1942)

Mr And Mrs Smith
Stray Dog
It's a Wonderful Life
Arsenic and Old Lace

Angel Face
Diary of a Chambermaid

Le Silence De La Mer

Angel Face is 1952.

Portrait of Jennie
Gaslight
Hangover Square
The Lodger
The Uninvited

Rome, Open City
Fireworks

Nightmare Alley

Skimmed the thread, apologies if they've already been nominated

Whisky Galore! (aka Tight Little Island)
Lady From Shanghai
Green for Danger
Black Narcissus
Brighton Rock
Brief Encounter
Great Expectations

Lady From Shanghai
Brighton Rock
Brief Encounter

Le Corbeau

Excellent decade for movies.

anyone wanna rep for any abbott and costello or three stooges?

all Sturges, McGinty thru Diddlebock

A & C Meet Frankenstein

Road to Utopia

Monsieur Beaucaire (George Marshall/Bob Hope)
A Plumbing We Will Go (Del Lord/The Three Stooges)

The Bank Dick (Ed Cline/WC Fields)

That the TSPDT list is lacking this and any Bob Hope is abominable.

I wonder if I'm the only one to have seen the exceedingly rare Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)?

The Silent Duel (1949) dir. akira kurosawa

i've seen the remake of spring in a small town, which was good. i'd like to see the first iteration.

yep, they're both real good, the Reade showed the original shortly after the remake's release.

would also rep for og Spring in a Small Town

I wonder if I'm the only one to have seen the exceedingly rare Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)?

Nope. Put it in that first long list I posted.

More:

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Calendar Girl (1947)
Colorado Territory (1949)
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
The Kissing Bandit (1948)
Puce Moment (1949)
Pursued (1947)
Ramrod (1947)
Ruthless (1948)
The Shanghai Gesture (1944)
Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
That's My Man (1947)
Till We Meet Again (1944)

Still haven't seen Going My Way or Bells of Saint Mary!

mmm, second-rate McCarey, even for Catholics. Sister Ingrid is hot, though.

I despise the former so someone else can list it if they so desire. Bells is the lovelier (and even mildly scandalous) version.

prefer Crosby selling Bob Hope into slavery

The Dead of Night (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfJ4DdZCBw

this is some scary shit btw

was The Picture of Dorian Grey mentioned? If not, I am.

people seldom remember much from DoN other than Michael Redgrave's dummy. (tho I remember liking other segments)

Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)
Letter from an unknown woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944 - I think)
Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
Paisà (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)

the BEST decade for movies.

Just skimmed the thread. Would like to nominate The Fantastic Night if it hasn't been already.

Brute Force
Born to Kill

My favorite movie of all time is the pic at the top of this thread! Woo!

Gentlemen's Agreement (1947)
Crossfire (1947)

Never seen Portrait of Jennie!

I see no mention of Wm Dieterle's All That Money Can Buy aka The Devil and Daniel Webster...
on TCM tonight in first installment of their focus on Bernard Herrmann, along with Welles' first two.

Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky) -- more John Garfield?

The Thief of Bagdad (M Powell etc)

i really like portrait of jennie. it has a surprisingly edge-of-yr-seat finish.

"Never seen Portrait of Jennie!"

Great movie with astounding cinematography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca_Vo9UZ-ps

Also, we need more Michael Powell: dont know if someone already mentioned them, but Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes are fantastic.

I'm assuming tipsy will include everything from the TSPDT list.

i think most of them are already named here, but i'll crosscheck when i compile the nominations list.

Ooooh add Christmas Holiday to this mofo.

Stranger on the Third floor (1940)

ok, here (i think) is the list so far, including all nominations on this thread plus movies from the TSPDT list. 252 titles, i believe. if you spot omissions, point them out. if you don't like my haphazard alphabetization scheme, direct all complaints to the relevant regulatory agencies.

3 Godfathers
A Canterbury Tale
A Diary for Timothy
A Letter to Three Wives
A Plumbing We Will Go
A Matter of Life and Death
A Royal Scandal
A Scandal in Paris
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Woman's Face
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Above Suspicion
Adam's Rib
All That Money Can Buy (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Arsenic and Old Lace
At Land
Bambi
Beyond the Forest
Black Narcissus
Blood of the Beast
Border Incident
Born to Kill
Brief Encounter
Brighton Rock
Brute Force
Cabin in the Sky
Calendar Girl
Casablanca
Cat People
Caught
Centennial Summer
Christmas Holiday
Christmas in July

Citizen Kane
Colorado Territory
Crossfire
Curse of the Cat People
Daisy Kenyon
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dark Passage
Day of Wrath
Dead of Night
Der Fuehrer's Face
Detour
Devil in the Flesh
Diary of a Chambermaid
Double Indemnity
Duel in the Sun
Dumbo
Ecole des Facteurs
Fallen Angel
Fantasia
Fires Were Started
Fireworks
Five Women Around Utamaro
Flamingo Road
Force of Evil
Foreign Correspondent
Forever Amber
Fort Apache

From This Day Forward
Gaslight
Gentlemen's Agreement
Germany Year Zero
Gilda
Good Sam
Great Expectations
Green for Danger
Gun Crazy
Hail the Conquering Hero
Hamlet
Hangover Square
Heaven Can Wait
Hellzapoppin'
Henry V
Her Cardboard Lover
His Girl Friday
Hitler's Madman
How Green Was My Valley

Humoresque
I Know Where I'm Going!
I Walked With a Zombie
I Was a Male War Bride
In This Our Life
It's a Wonderful Life
Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2
Jammin' the Blues
Jour de Fete
Key Largo
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kiss of Death
La Belle et la Bete
La Ciel Est a Vous
La Terra Trema
Late Spring

Laura
Le Corbeau
Le Silence de la Mer
Le Tempestaire
Leave Her to Heaven
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Les Enfants du Paradis
Les Enfants Terribles
Les Visiteurs du Soir
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Lifeboat
Listen to Britain
Little Rural Riding Hood
Louisiana Story
Lumiere d'Ete
Lured
Madame Bovary
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meshes of the Afternoon

Mildred Pierce
Ministry of Fear
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Verdoux
Moonrise
Motion Painting No. 1
My Darling Clementine
My Love Has Been Burning
My Name Is Julia Ross
Nightmare Alley
Notorious
Now, Voyager
Odd Man Out
Old Acquaintance
On the Town
Ossessione
Out of the Past
Paisa
Phantom Lady
Pinocchio
Portrait of Jennie
Possessed
Puce Moment
Pursued
Quai des Orfevres
Railroaded!
Ramrod
Raw Deal
Rebecca
Red River

Red Hot Riding Hood
Reign of Terror
Roadhouse
Road to Utopia
Rome, Open City
Rope
Ruthless
Saboteur
Samson and Delilah
Scarlet Street
Shadow of a Doubt
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Shockproof
Shoeshine
Slattery's Hurricane
Sleep, My Love
Spellbound
Spring in a Small Town
Sredni Vashtar
Star Spangled Rhythm
Strange Cargo
Stranger on the Third Floor
Stray Dog
Stromboli
Sullivan's Travels
Summer Storm
Susan and God
Suspicion
T-Men
That's My Man
That Uncertain Feeling
The 47 Ronin
The Bank Dick
The Bells of St. Mary's
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Bicycle Thief
The Big Sleep

The Clock
The Dead of Night
The Fallen Idol
The Fan
The Fantastic Night
The Fountainhead
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Ghost Ship
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
The Great McGinty
The Great Moment
The Heiress
The Horn Blows at Midnight
The Kissing Bandit
The Lady Eve
The Lady From Shanghai
The Leopard Man
The Letter
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Little Foxes
The Lodger
The Long Voyage Home
The Lost Weekend
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Maltese Falcon
The Man I Love
The Miracle of Morgan Creek
The Naked City
The Palm Beach Story
The Philadelphia Story
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Pirate
The Reckless Moment
The Red Shoes
The Seventh Victim
The Shanghai Gesture
The Shop Around the Corner
The Silent Duel
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Small Back Room
The Stranger
The Thief of Baghdad
The Third Man
The Three Caballeros
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Uninvited
The Window
The Woman in the Window
They Died With Their Boots On
They Live by Night
They Were Expendable
Thieves Highway
This Land Is Mine
Till the Clouds Roll By
Till We Meet Again
To Be or Not to Be


To Have and Have Not

Tobacco Road
Under Capricorn
Under the Bridges
Unfaithfully Yours
Went the Day Well?
Whirlpool
Whiskey Galore!
White Heat
Woman on the Beach
Yolanda and the Thief
Ziegfeld Follies




Out of the Past

aka Build My Gallows High.

Across the Pacific
Bedlam
Gaslight (UK, 1940 -- fuck the Hollywood one, aside from Angela Lansbury)
Murder, My Sweet
The Seventh Veil

RENOIR:
Swamp Water
The Southerner
The Woman on the Beach

iMdB has Stromboli as 1950.

Begone Dull Care (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svD0CWVjYRY&fmt=18

Some Ealing films that have been missed:

Passport to Pimlico
It Always Rains on Sunday
A Run for Your Money
Champagne Charlie
Scott of the Antarctic

It Always Rains on Sunday is a good one!

That's playing with Brighton Rock (which I've also never seen) at the Castro a week from Sunday. I think I'm going to go.

Brighton Rock was good. Great foot chase through Brighton and some nice performances. It Always Rains On Sunday OTOH is a real gem. Great acting/characters/mood/setting.

I nominate Jean Painleve's "Le Vampire". It's not one of my favorites of his, but I think it's his best known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glxOojE8Cxw