42nd Street — L. Bacon
Cavalcade — F. Lloyd
Daybreak — Sun Yu
Duck Soup — L. McCarey
King Kong — M.C. Cooper, E.B. Schoedsack
Man’s Castle — F. Borzage
Zero de Conduite — J. Vigo
Ecstasy (Machaty)
Apart From You (Naruse)
The Water Magician (Mizoguchi)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
Every-Night Dreams (Naruse)
Liebelei (Ophuls)
1. King Kong
Duck Soup
I’m No Angel
Little Women
Baby Face
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Bombshell
Man’s Castle
Hallelujah I’m a Bum
Madame Bovary
Zoo In Budapest
The Invisible Man
42nd Street
Liebelei
State Fair
The Power and the Glory
I Cover the Waterfront
Topaze
Thunder Over Mexico
Ecstasy
1. Roman Sandles
Duck Soup
International House
Sons of the Desert
I’m No Angel
She Done Him Wrong
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
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Passing Fancy (Yasujirô Ozu)
Little Toys (Sun Yu)
The Water Magician (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Zéro de conduite (Jean Vigo)
Ecstasy (Gustav Machatý)
Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu)
Daybreak (Sun Yu)
Prisoner 13 (Fernando de Fuentes)
1. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
The Invisible Man (James Whale)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
Night on Bald Mountain (Alexander Alexeieff & Claire Parker)
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda)
Land without Bread (Luis Bunuel)
Flying Down to Rio (Thornton Freeland)
1. Pilgrimage – John Ford
Dragnet Girl – Yasujiro Ozu
Zéro de conduite – Jean Vigo
All I can think of…
Gold Diggers of 1933
International House
King Kong
Fog Over Frisco
Baby Face
Roman Scandals
Flying Down to Rio
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd)
Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper)
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian)
Land Without Bread (Luis Bunuel)
Viktor und Viktoria (Reinhold Schunzer)
Lady for a Day (Frank Capra)
42nd Street (Lloyd bacon)
zéro de conduite
the testament of dr mabuse
land without bread
the bitter tea of general yen
footlight parade
dinner at eight
king kong
duck soup
bombshell
baby face
liebelei
design for living
hallelujah i’m a bum
queen christina
the private life of henry viii
gold diggers of 1933
42nd street
the invisible man
man’s castle
passing fancy
one of my favorite years xD
Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo)
Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman)
The Kennel Murder Case (Michael Curtiz)
King Kong (Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack)
Cavalcade is an odd film. It is arguably the most forgotten of all the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar winners, and when you see it, it trods so slowly in some places that you can understand why it is so easily dismissed. However, once it ends, and you begin to think about it, you find it has an amazing scope, some very profound moments, and it doesn’t leave your head.
1. duck soup
she done him wrong
the invisible man
japanese girls at the harbour
passing fancy
mystery of the wax museum
king kong
she done him right
1) King Kong
Duck Soup
Gold Diggers of 1933
Pilgrimage
Zero de Conduite
42nd Street
Footlight Parade
Queen Christina
Sons of the Desert
Baby Face
Man’s Castle
The Invisible Man
Doctor Bull
She Done Him Wrong
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang
The Fatal Glass of Beer, Clyde Bruckman
Las Hurdes, Luis Buñuel
Liebelei, Max Ophuls
The Invisible Man, James Whale
Doctor Bull, John Ford
1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
King Kong
Footlight Parade
Zero for Conduct
Queen Christina
Gold Diggers of 1933
42nd Street
Duck Soup
I’m No Angel
Betty Boop cartoons
The Invisible Man
Dinner at Eight
Baby Face
Flying Down to Rio
International House
The Fatal Glass of Beer
Ugokie kori no tatehiki
Cavalcade
Haven’t seen – The Bitter Tea of General Yen
The last full year of pre-Code Hollywood – dozens of films of interest.
1. Queen Christina
King Kong
Gold Diggers of 1933
Zero For Conduct
Intentional leave-out:
Land w/o Bread…I love Bunuel, but this film is really condescending towards an actual problem. Not to mention killing/torturing animals for the sake of getting shots is despicable (cf. Cannibal Holocaust).
1. King Kong
Duck Soup
Zero for Conduct
Three Little Pigs
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Night on Bald Mountain
Popeye the Sailor
Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
The Invisible Man
The Fatal Glass of Beer
Please add Bunuel’s Land Without Bread to my list.
Zéro de conduite
Duck Soup
Passing Fancy
King Kong
Dinner at Eight
Queen Christina
Design for Living
Little Women
Land Without Bread
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
42nd Street
Baby Face
I’m No Angel
Snow White (Betty Boop cartoon)
Gold Diggers of 1933
1. Dinner at Eight
Baby Face
Hallelujah I’m a Bum
Design for Living
1. Pilgrimage (John Ford)
2. Zero de Condiute (Jean Vigo)
3. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra)
4. The Testament of Doctor Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
5. Dragnet Girl (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
7. Thunder Over Mexico (Sergei Eisenstein) (though the 1979 reconstruction is much more preferable)
(1) Liebelei
Runners-up: Hitlerjunge Quex – Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend and The Private Life of Henry VIII
1. Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
King Kong (Meriam Cooper and Ernest Schoesdack)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley)
Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu)
Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley)
Betty Boop’s May Party (Dave Fleischer)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz)
The Moving Picture Fight of the Fox and the Possum (Ikuo Oishi)
Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber)
Misery in the Borinage (Joris Ivens and Henri Storck)
The Sin of Nora Moran (Phil Goldstone)
The Worst Woman In Paris? (Monta Bell)
Hoy cow, what a year! Missing plenty but …
QUEEN CHRISTINA
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Bombshell
Design for Living
Dinner at Eight
Duck Soup
The Invisible Man
Land Without Bread
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Wild Boys of the Road
Zero de Conduite
1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Please add “Nieuwe Gronden, Joris Ivens” to my list.
1) Misère au Borinage (Joris Ivens / Henri Storck)
A Canção de Lisboa (A Song of Lisbon) (José Cottinelli Telmo)
Central Airport (William A. Wellman)
Dekigokoro (Passing Fancy) (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Eagle and the Hawk (Stuart Walker)
Employees’ Entrance (Roy Del Ruth)
Footnote to Fact (Lewis Jacobs)
Hallelujah I’m a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman)
Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) (Luis Bunuel)
I Loved You Wednesday (Henry King / William Cameron Menzies)
Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
Man’s Castle (Frank Borzage)
Marie, légende hongroise (Pal Fejos)
La maternelle (Children of Montmartre) (Jean Benoit-Levy / Marie Epstein)
Okraina (Outskirts) (Boris Barnet)
Only Yesterday (James M. Stahl)
Oramunde (Emlen Etting)
Quatorze Juillet (July 14) (Rene Clair)
Zero de Conduite (Zero for Conduct) (Jean Vigo)
1. Sonnenstrahl (P. Fejös)
Duck Soup (L. McCarey)
King Kong (E.B. Schoedsack & M.C. Cooper)
Doctor Bull (J. Ford)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (F. Capra)
Pilgrimage (J. Ford)
Hallelujah I’m a Bum (L. Milestone)
Anna und Elisabeth (F. Wisbar)
Ekstase (G. Machatý)
MovieGuide1
What I’m asking you to do is to fill a ballot with some titles of your own choice. 1933 must be the year of first release (according to IMDb).
– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites.
– There is no need to rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.
– You may change your ballot as many times as you’d like.
A certain standardization of the outcome is predictable, but it is not our goal to establish a Canon. It’s just a game and individual votes are the true centers of attraction.
Results will be presented in a specially created Movie List.
Thank you in advance for joining us in this game.