1940 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1940.









20.           SAPS AT SEA

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19.    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

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18.              GO WEST

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17. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

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16.      THE MORTAL STORM

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15.     A CHUMP AT OXFORD

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14.  THE LONG VOYAGE HOME

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                  THE SHOP 

13.    AROUND THE CORNER

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12.        THE BANK DICK

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11.    THE GREAT DICTATOR

                   DAYBREAK

10.       [LE JOUR SE LEVE]

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-tie- 10.    HOTEL DU NORD

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9.                REBECCA

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8.       DANCE, GIRL, DANCE

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7.        THE BAKER'S WIFE

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6.    THE GRAPES OF WRATH

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5.     THE THIEF OF BAGDAD

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4.        CHRISTMAS IN JULY

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3.                PINOCCHIO

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2.         THE HUMAN BEAST

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1.            HIS GIRL FRIDAY

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ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED.

(other films of '40 that could've placed)

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE SEA HAWK

WATERLOO BRIDGE

THE GREAT MCGINTY

THE GHOST BREAKERS

THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS

MADAME BUTTERFLY’S ILLUSION

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1940
TOP 20

1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Hawks)
2. THE HUMAN BEAST (Renoir)
3. PINOCCHIO (Disney)
4. THIEF OF BAGDAD (Michael Powell)
5. CHRISTMAS IN JULY (Preston Sturges)
6. GRAPES OF WRATH (Ford)
7. BAKER'S WIFE (Pagnol)
8. DANCE GIRL DANCE (Arzner)
9. REBECCA (Hitchcock)
10. DAYBREAK (Marcel Carné)                                           -tie- HOTEL DU NORD (Marcel Carné)
11. THE GREAT DICTATOR (Chaplin)
12. THE BANK DICK (Cline)
13. SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Lubitsch)
14. LONG VOYAGE HOME (Ford)
15. CHUMP AT OXFORD (Goulding)
16. MORTAL STORM (Borzage)
17. PHILADELPHIA STORY (Cukor)
18. GO WEST (Buzzell)
19. PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Leonard)
20. SAPS AT SEA (Douglas)

HONORABLE:
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Hitchcock), THE SEA HAWK (Curtiz), WATERLOO BRIDGE (Mervyn LeRoy), THE GREAT MCGINTY (Preston Sturges), GHOST BREAKERS (George Marshall), INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (Joe May), MADAME BUTTERFLY’S ILLUSION (Wagorō Arai)