1949 Top Ten

By: Joseph Judge

Everchanging. Last updated 3/1/2012.

Also seen: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (James Algar/Clyde Geronimi/Jack Kinney) • Come to the Stable (Henry Koster) • The Fountainhead (King Vidor) • I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller) • Knock on Any Door (Nicholas Ray) • Little Women (Mervyn LeRoy) • Pinky (Elia Kazan) • The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls) • Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. DeMille) • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford) • Tension (John Berry) • Twelve O’Clock High (Henry King)

• 01
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 02
  The Heiress
  William Wyler
• 03
  White Heat
  Raoul Walsh
• 04
  They Live by Night
  Nicholas Ray
• 05
  The Set-Up
  Robert Wise
• 06
  A Letter to Three Wives
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 07
  Kind Hearts and Coronets
  Robert Hamer
• 08
  All the King's Men
  Robert Rossen
• 09
  Adam's Rib
  George Cukor
• 10
  Battleground
  William A. Wellman