1944: Top 100

Submitted by konekonoir on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 12:09
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  1. -
  2. Henry V (Laurence Olivier)
  3. -
  4. Going My Way (Leo McCarey)
  5. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
  6. -
  7. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
  8. Laura (Otto Preminger)
  9. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
  10. -
  11. Gaslight (George Cukor)
  12. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (Sergei M Eisenstein)
  13. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
  14. -
  15. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)
  16. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
  17. Jammin' the Blues (Gjon Mili)
  18. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
  19. Portrait of Maria (Emilio Fernandez)
  20. Since You Went Away (John Cromwell)
  21. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
  22. Torment (Alf Sjoberg)
  23. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
  24. -
  25. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  26. The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise & Gunther von Fritsch)
  27. The Fighting Lady (Edward Steichen & William Wyler)
  28. The Fighting Sullivans (Lloyd Bacon)
  29. Memphis Belle (William Wyler)
  30. Mr. Skeffington (Vincent Sherman)
  31. Mrs. Parkington (Tay Garnett)
  32. Mouse Trouble (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera)
  33. Movie Pests (Will Jason)
  34. National Velvet (Clarence Brown)
  35. None But the Lonely Heart (Clifford Odets)
  36. Swooner Crooner (Frank Tashlin)
  37. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Mervyn LeRoy)
  38. The Uninvited (Lewis Allen)
  39. Wilson (Henry King)
  40. -
  41. At Land (Maya Deren)
  42. The Battle of China (Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak)
  43. Cover Girl (Charles Vidor)
  44. Days of Glory (Jacques Tourneur)
  45. Dragon Seed (Jack Conway & Harold S Bucquet)
  46. Die Feuerzangenbowle (Helmut Weiss)
  47. It Happened Tomorrow (Rene Clair)
  48. Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson)
  49. The Keys of the Kingdom (John M Stahl)
  50. Lady in the Dark (Mitchell Leisen)
  51. Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
  52. None Shall Escape (Andre De Toth)
  53. Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)
  54. The Princess and the Pirate (David Butler & Sidney Lanfield)
  55. Screwball Squirrel (Tex Avery)
  56. The Sky is Yours (Jean Gremillon)
  57. The Story of Dr. Wassell (Cecil B DeMille)
  58. This Happy Breed (David Lean)
  59. The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson)
  60. Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Edgar Neville)
  61. Voice in the Wind (Arthur Ripley)
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Criteria used were

IMDB Awards Page
IMDB at least 7.5 with 25 votes
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
The Alternative 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000 Long List (1/2 point)
Suggestions (1/4 point)

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1943: Top 100