1943 Top Ten List

I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)

Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli)

Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder)

Le Corbeau (Henri Georges Clouzot)

Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)

Air Force (Howard Hawks)

A Night to Remember (Richard Wallace)

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

Additional 1943 Films By Rating

Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Children Are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica)

The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)

Old Acquaintance (Vincent Sherman)

Edge of Darkness (Lewis Milestone)

For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.

Ratings are on a needlessly precise 100-point scale.

Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were in many cases already pretty dusty.)

Seen but currently unrated (and not presumptively among my top 10): Jane Eyre (Stevenson); The Leopard Man (Tourneur); The More the Merrier (Stevens); So Proudly We Hail! (Sandrich); This Land Is Mine (Renoir)

As yet unseen: The Human Comedy (Brown); Munchhausen (Von Baky)

I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.