Movies I think are great
Beauty and the Beast (1946, Cocteau)
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945, McCarey)
The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks)
Black Narcissus (1946, Powell & Pressburger)
Blood of the Beasts (1949, Franju)
A Canterbury Tale (1944, Powell & Pressburger)
Canyon Passage (1946, Tourneur)
Cat People (1942, Tourneur)
Caught (1949, Ophuls)
Christmas in July (1940, P. Sturges)
Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)
Cluny Brown (1946, Lubitsch)
Le corbeau (1943, Clouzot)
Dark Passage (1947, Daves)
Day of Wrath (1943, Dreyer)
Duel in the Sun (1946, K. Vidor)
Dumbo (1941)
Experiment Perilous (1944, Tourneur)
Force of Evil (1948, Polonsky)
Foreign Correspondent (1940, Hitchcock)
Good News (1947, C. Walters)
The Great Dictator (1940, Chaplin)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944, P. Sturges)
Heaven Can Wait (1943, Lubitsch)
High Sierra (1941, Walsh)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945, Powell & Pressburger)
Isle of the Dead (1945, Robson)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945, Eisenstein)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946, Eisenstein)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Tourneur)
Jour de fete (1948, Tati)
The Lady Eve (1941, P. Sturges)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948, Welles)
Late Spring (1949, Ozu)
The Leopard Man (1943, Tourneur)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Ophuls)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Powell &
Pressburger)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Powell & Pressburger)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944, Sturges)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947, Chaplin)
Notorious (1946, Hitchcock)
Orpheus (1949, Cocteau)
Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur)
The Palm Beach Story (1942, P. Sturges)
Quai des Orfevres (1947, Clouzot)
Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock)
The Red Shoes (1948, Powell and Pressburger)
The Restless Moment (1949, Ophuls)
Rope (1948, Hitchcock)
Scarlet Street (1945, F. Lang)
The Seventh Victim (1943, Robson)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Lubitsch)
Suspicion (1941, Hitchcock)
La terra trema (1948, Visconti)
They Live by Night (1948, N. Ray)
They Were Expendable (1945, Ford)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940, Powell, Berger)
Thieves’ Highway (1949, Dassin)
The Third Man (1949, Reed)
To Be or Not to Be (1942, Lubitsch)
Under Capricorn (1949, Hitchcock)
Les visiteurs du soir (1942, Carné)
White Heat (1949, Walsh)
The Woman in the Window (1945, F. Lang)
The Woman on the Beach (1947, Renoir)
Movies I don’t think are great but enjoy immensely
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948, Barton)
Berlin Express (1948, Tourneur)
The Big Steal (1949, Siegel)
The Black Swan (1942, H. King)
Blood on the Moon (1948, Wise)
Body and Soul (1947, Rossen)
Border Incident (1949, A. Mann)
Born to Kill (1947, Wise)
Brute Force (1947, Dassin)
Casablanca (1943, Curtiz)
A Chump at Oxford (1940, A. Goulding)
Cobra Woman (1944, Siodmak)
Colorado Territory (1949, Walsh)
Daisy Kenyon (1947, Preminger)
Dressed to Kill (1946, Neill)
Escape in the Fog (1945, Boetticher)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943, Neill)
The Ghost Ship (1943, Robson)
Go West (1940, Buzzell)
Green for Danger (1946, Gilliat)
Gun Crazy (1949, J. Lewis)
Hangover Squre (1945, Brahm)
The Heiress (1949, Wyler)
I Married a Witch (1942, Clair)
I Shot Jesse James (1949, Fuller)
Johnny Belinda (1948, Negulesco)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Hamer)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945, Stahl)
Lost in a Harem (1944, Reisner)
Macbeth (1948, Welles)
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944, Wise)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston)
Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz)
My Favorite Wife (1940, Kanin)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945, Joseph Lewis)
A Night in Casablanca (1946, Mayo)
Nightmare Alley (1947, Goulding)
Now, Voyager (1942, Rapper)
The Outlaw (1943, Hughes, Hawks)
Portrait of Jennie (1948, Dieterle)
Samson and Delilah (1949, DeMille)
The Scarlet Claw (1944, Neill)
The Sea Hawk (1940, Curtiz)
The Set-Up (1949, Wise)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943, Neill)
The Spiral Staircase (1946, Siodmak)
Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942, Thorpe)
This Gun for Hire (1942, Tuttle)
The Uninvited (1944, Allen)
Whirlpool (1949, Preminger)
The Window (1949, Tetzlaff)
The Wolf Man (1941, Waggner)
Mostly great movies with things that annoy me
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, Wyler)
Bicycle Thieves (1948, De Sica)
The Clock (1945, Minnelli)
Fort Apache (1948, Ford)
Gilda (1946, C. Vidor)
Going My Way (1944, McCarey)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Ford)
Henry V (1944, Olivier)
His Girl Friday (1940, Hawks)
How Green Was My Valley (1940, Ford)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Capra)
Laura (1945, Preminger)
My Darling Clementine (1946, Ford)
Odd Man Out (1947, Reed)
Paisan (1946, Rossellini)
The Pirate (1948, Minnelli)
Red River (1948, Hawks)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, Ford)
The Southerner (1945, Renoir)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941, P. Sturges)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941, Walsh)
This Land Is Mine (1943, Renoir)
Mostly bad movies with moments of greatness
The Barkley’s of Broadway (1949, C. Walters)
The Curse of the Cat People (1944, Wise, Fritsch)
Dead of Night (1945, Crichton, Dearden, et al)
Detour (1945, Ulmer)
Easter Parade (1948, C. Walters)
For Me and My Gal (1942, Berkeley)
The Fountainhead (1949, K. Vidor)
The Gang’s All Here (1943, Berkeley)
The Harvey Girls (1946, Sidney)
Jane Eyre (1944, Stevenson)
Lifeboat (1944, Hitchcock)
The Long Voyage Home (1940, Ford)
The Paradine Case (1947, Hitchcock)
Spellbound (1945, Hitchcock)
Till the Clouds Roll By (Whorf)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948, P. Sturges)
The Unfinished Dance (Koster)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946, Minnelli)
Movies others regard as great that I don’t like
Adam’s Rib (1949, Cukor)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Capra)
Double Indemnity (1944, Wilder)
Fantasia (1940)
Gaslight (1944, Cukor)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947, Kazan)
Hamlet (1948, Olivier)
Key Largo (1948, Huston)
The Lost Weekend (1945, Wilder)
On the Town (1949, Donen & Kelly)
Open City (1945, Rossellini)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, Wellman)
The Philadelphia Story (1940, Cukor)
Pinocchio (1940)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, Garnett)
Sergeant York (1941, Hawks)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Hitchcock)
To Have and Have to Not (1944, Hawks)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Huston)
Woman of the Year (1942, Stevens)
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