Top 50: 1940's

By: Trolley Freak

Likely to change the more films I see. In chronological order…

The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)

Results Table:

Howard Hawks – 4 films (His Girl Friday, Ball Of Fire, To Have And Have Not, The Big Sleep)

Ball Of Fire (1941)

Alfred Hitchcock – 3 films (Rebecca, Shadow Of A Doubt, Notorious)
Orson Welles – 3 films (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger)
John Huston – 3 films (The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)
Carol Reed – 3 films (Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man)

The Fallen Idol (1948)

Ernst Lubitsch – 2 films (The Shop Around The Corner, To Be Or Not To Be)
Robert Bresson – 2 films (Angels Of The Streets, Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne)
Henri-Georges Clouzot – 2 films (Le Corbeau, Quai Des Orfèvres)
Luchino Visconti – 2 films (Ossessione, La Terra Trema)
William Wyler – 2 films (The Best Years Of Our Lives, The Heiress)

Le Corbeau (1943)

David Lean – 2 films (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations)
Vittorio De Sica – 2 films (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves)
Robert Hamer – 2 films (It Always Rains On Sunday, Kind Hearts And Coronets)
Yasujirô Ozu – 2 films (The Record Of A Tenement Gentleman, Late Spring)
Akira Kurosawa – 2 films (Drunken Angel, Stray Dog)

Great Expectations (1946)

Raoul Walsh -1 film (High Sierra)
Michael Curtiz – 1 film (Casablanca)
Carl Theodor Dreyer – 1 film (Day Of Wrath)
William A. Wellman – 1 film (The Ox-Bow Incident)

Day Of Wrath (1943)

Billy Wilder – 1 film (Double Indemnity)
Marcel Carné – 1 film (Children Of Paradise)
Roberto Rossellini – 1 film (Rome, Open City)
Frank Capra – 1 film (It’s A Wonderful Life)
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger – 1 film (Black Narcissus)

Children Of Paradise (1945)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 1 film (The Ghost And Mrs. Muir)
Jacques Tourneur – 1 film (Out Of The Past)
Nicholas Ray – 1 film (They Live By Night)
Giusepee de Santis – 1 film (Bitter Rice)
Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen – 1 film (On The Town)