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Best of the Decade
1 GOOD NEWS (Charles Walters)
2 HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
3 FORT APACHE (John Ford)
4 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
5 LATE SPRING (Yasujiro Ozu)
6 I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (Howard Hawks)
7 CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
8 MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (John Ford)
9 THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
10 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks)
1949
1 LATE SPRING (Yasujiro Ozu)
2 I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (Howard Hawks)
3 THE SPIDER AND THE FLY (Robert Hamer)
4 THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (Nicholas Ray)
5 REIGN OF TERROR (Anthony Mann)
6 BORDER INCIDENT (Anthony Mann)
7 LE SILENCE DE LA MER (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8 THE RECKLESS MOMENT (Max Ophüls)
9 THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
10 SANDS OF IWO JIMA (Allan Dwan)
1948
1 FORT APACHE (John Ford)
2 LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophüls)
3 RAW DEAL (Anthony Mann)
4 SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR (Fritz Lang)
5 EASTER PARADE (Charles Walters)
6 PITFALL (André de Toth)
7 MOONRISE (Frank Borzage)
8 BLACK BART (George Sherman)
9 3 GODFATHERS (John Ford)
10 FORCE OF EVIL (Abraham Polonsky)
1947
1 GOOD NEWS (Charles Walters)
2 MONSIEUR VERDOUX (Charles Chaplin)
3 DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
4 THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Orson Welles)
5 OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
6 THE PRIVATE AFFAIRS OF BEL AMI (Albert Lewin)
7 LE TEMPESTAIRE (Jean Epstein)
8 FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)
9 ANTOINE ET ANTOINETTE (Jacques Becker)
10 NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Edmund Goulding)
1946
1 MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (John Ford)
2 THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
3 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
4 NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
6 CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur)
7 THE CHASE (Arthur D. Ripley)
8 THE BIG SNOOZE (Robert Clampett)
9 KITTY KORNERED (Robert Clampett)
10 CLUNY BROWN (Ernst Lubitsch)
1945
1 THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (John Ford)
2 THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli)
3 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Albert Lewin)
4 DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
5 THE BODY SNATCHER (Robert Wise)
6 OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini)
7 ISLE OF THE DEAD (Mark Robson)
8 THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S (Leo McCarey)
9 NASTY QUACKS (Frank Tashlin)
10 FALLEN ANGEL (Otto Preminger)
1944
1 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks)
2 MINISTRY OF FEAR (Fritz Lang)
3 NONE SHALL ESCAPE (André de Toth)
4 MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
5 THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (Preston Sturges)
6 PHANTOM LADY (Robert Siodmak)
7 THE STUPID CUPID (Frank Tashlin)
8 THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (Fritz Lang)
9 HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (Preston Sturges)
10 LIFEBOAT (Alfred Hitchcock)
1943
1 AIR FORCE (Howard Hawks)
2 THIS LAND IS MINE (Jean Renoir)
3 DAY OF WRATH (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4 I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
5 PUSS N' BOOTY (Frank Tashlin)
6 RUMORS (Friz Freleng)
7 HANGMEN ALSO DIE! (Fritz Lang)
8 LE CORBEAU (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
9 TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE (Robert Clampett)
10 BATAAN (Tay Garnett)
1942
1 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
2 CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
3 THE MOON AND SIXPENCE (Albert Lewin)
4 GENTLEMAN JIM (Raoul Walsh)
5 LADY IN A JAM (Gregory La Cava)
6 TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Ernst Lubitsch)
7 DESPERATE JOURNEY (Raoul Walsh)
8 THE PALM BEACH STORY (Preston Sturges)
9 SABOTEUR (Alfred Hitchcock)
10 THE HECKLING HARE (Tex Avery)
1941
1 CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
2 THE LOYAL 47 RONIN (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 WESTERN UNION (Fritz Lang)
4 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Gregory La Cava)
5 MAN HUNT (Fritz Lang)
6 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (John Ford)
7 THE SHANGHAI GESTURE (Josef von Sternberg)
8 THE LADY EVE (Preston Sturges)
9 THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS (Henry Hathaway)
10 PORKY'S PREVIEW (Tex Avery)
1940
1 HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
2 THE GRAPES OF WRATH (John Ford)
3 THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ernst Lubitsch)
4 THE GREAT MCGINTY (Preston Sturges)
5 REMEMBER THE NIGHT (Mitchell Leisen)
6 THE MORTAL STORM (Frank Borzage)
7 CHRISTMAS IN JULY (Preston Sturges)
8 THE MAN FROM TUMBLEWEEDS (Joseph H. Lewis)
9 CONTRABAND (Michael Powell)
10 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (George Cukor)
