Top 10 of the Decade: The 1940s

[LoathedVermin72]

1. Black Narcissus
2. 49th Parallel
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Laura
5. The Red Shoes
6. Leave Her to Heaven
7. Raw Deal
8. Johnny Belinda
9. Les visiteurs du soir
10. A Letter to Three Wives

Honorable Mentions: Citizen Kane, He Walked by Night, The Small Back Room, Swamp Water, Thunder Rock, I Know Where I’m Going!

[Dev]

I haven't seen that many movies from the 40s

[bada]

Red River
12 O'Clock High
Wolf Man
It's a Wonderful Life
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Grapes of Wrath
Pinocchio
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

[LoathedVermin72]

I haven't seen that many movies from the 40s

You can never give me shit about my movie opinions again

[Dev]

I haven't seen that many movies from the 40s

You can never give me shit about my movie opinions again

Just because I'm not huge on old movies, doesn't mean I don't know more about the new ones.

[LoathedVermin72]

I haven't seen that many movies from the 40s

You can never give me shit about my movie opinions again

Just because I'm not huge on old movies, doesn't mean I don't know more about the new ones.

[BurtReynolds]

lol there were no movies in the 1940s. next you'll tell me they had cell phones.

[Dev]

yeah let's go back and watch a bunch of black and white crap even though they invented colour now.

[nyquillyn]

Notorious
Rope
The Grapes of Wrath
Rebecca
Double Indemnity
The Third Man
Laura
Citizen Kane
Key Largo
The Postman Always Rings Twice

[The Argonaut]

1. Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
2. Brute Force (Dassin)
3. I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur)
4. Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
5. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
6. Out of the Past (Tourneur)
7. Citizen Kane (Welles)
8. Cat People (Tourneur)
9. One Wonderful Sunday (Kurosawa)
10. Blood of the Beasts (Franju)

contenders: Great Expectations, The Red Shoes, Lost Weekend, Shoe-shine

[epilogue]

1. Casablanca
2. Citizen Kane
3. Pinocchio
4. Lifeboat
5. It's A Wonderful Life
6. The Third Man
7. Arsenic and Old Lace
8. Fantasia
9. The Shop Around the Corner
10. Miracle on 34th Street

I really haven't seen a lot of movies from the 40s.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Sorry Joey, but man I hate "it's a wonderful life"

[Alex]

the key to this list is leaving off citizen kane (or just relegating it to a low rank) so that people know you're serious

[Alex]

Sorry Joey, but man I hate "it's a wonderful life"

you have finally and irrevocably broken my heart, ruddo

[E.H. Ruddock]

Sorry Joey, but man I hate "it's a wonderful life"

you have finally and irrevocably broken my heart, ruddo

It isn't a bad movie, I was just made to watch it so much when I was a kid. Ugh.

[Alex]

Sorry Joey, but man I hate "it's a wonderful life"

you have finally and irrevocably broken my heart, ruddo

It isn't a bad movie, I was just made to watch it so much when I was a kid. Ugh.

you're a heartless man if you don't tear up at the end of that movie. it really separates the mcparadigms from the humans with the capacity for emotion.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Sorry Joey, but man I hate "it's a wonderful life"

you have finally and irrevocably broken my heart, ruddo

It isn't a bad movie, I was just made to watch it so much when I was a kid. Ugh.

you're a heartless man if you don't tear up at the end of that movie. it really separates the mcparadigms from the humans with the capacity for emotion.

Maybe the first thirty times I saw it. But you become numb after that. Probably like lenny hating Chik-fil-a or something

[Alex]

Sorry Joey, but man I hate "it's a wonderful life"

you have finally and irrevocably broken my heart, ruddo

It isn't a bad movie, I was just made to watch it so much when I was a kid. Ugh.

you're a heartless man if you don't tear up at the end of that movie. it really separates the mcparadigms from the humans with the capacity for emotion.

Maybe the first thirty times I saw it. But you become numb after that. Probably like lenny hating Chik-fil-a or something

it's a blunderful life

[epilogue]

Sorry Joey, but man I hate "it's a wonderful life"

I don't hate it. But I don't LOVE it. I just really haven't seen very many movie from the 40s. And I really love Stewart, in general. So I gave it a high mark. Those first four on my list are movies I genuinely adore.

[Anders]

1. Casablanca
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Rebecca
4. It’s A Wonderful Life
5. Sergeant York
6. Double Indemnity
7. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
8. The Best Years Of Our Lives
9. Key Largo
10. The Grapes Of Wrath

Honorable mentions: The Big Sleep, My Darling Clementine, The Ox-Bow Incident, Arsenic and Old Lace, Twelve O'Clock High, Black Narcissus