1940's Best Movies: 80 Years Later

Some of the omissions:

The Bank Dick
The Great McGinty
Remember the Night
They Drive By Night

My list:

1. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
3. The Letter (William Wyler)
4. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
6. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
7. Contraband (Michael Powell)
8. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
9. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
10. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)

NOT FORGOTTEN: Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen), Fantasia (Disney), Christmas in July (Preston Sturges), My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline), The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor).

Remember the Night is a very good film that has the unfortunate disadvantage of being the second best Christmas movie of 1940 (though I still haven't seen Christmas in July).

I like both of those W.C. Fields pics, but I think he works somewhat better in shorter bursts: The Fatal Glass of Beer, from several years before these two, is prob one of the funniest films I've ever seen.

CiJ is not actually a Christmas movie, so you're okay there

I haven't seen the Borzage, Cukor, or Arzner. I might go with THIEF, which is a pure delight, since it sounds like SHOP has this in the bag (Alfred otm there)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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The Great Dictator is one of the great films of all time and should have gotten a vote or two

forgot to vote in this but would've had a hard time choosing between friday, shop, and rebecca (not perfect but still a fav). great dictator is excellent too.

Not unless it was their ONE favorite, though!

Time for the showdown: The Best Movies Of Years Celebrating An Anniversary Divisible By 10 (1920-2010)

Shop around the corner is suckass schmaltz, arzner was robbed

well, we needed a crackpot opinion eventually!

Eric needs a new hobby.

Years ending in 5?

What a great idea!