Black Narcissus(Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
It Always Rains on Sunday(Robert Hamer)
Body and Soul(Robert Rossen)
Angel and the Badman(James Edward Grant)
T-Men(Anthony Mann)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Railroaded!(Anthony Mann)
Ride the Pink Horse(Robert Montgomery)
Monsieur Verdoux: A Comedy of Murders(Charles Chaplin)
Desperate(Anthony Mann)
Brute Force(Jules Dassin)
Magic Town(William A. Wellman)
Ivy(Sam Wood)
Repeat Performance(Alfred Werker)
The Other Love(Andre de Toth)
The Red House(Delmer Daves)
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.
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):The Bishop's Wife (Koster);
Dark Passage (Daves); Dead Reckoning (Cromwell); A Double
Life (Cukor); The Egg and I (Erskine); Good News
(Walters); The Inheritance (Frank); It Always Rains on
Sunday (Hamer); The Lady From Shanghai (Welles); Lady in
the Lake (Montgomery); The October Man (Baker); The
Paradine Case (Hitchcock); Pursued (Walsh)
As yet unseen:Crossfire (Dmytryk)
I occasionally write reviews
of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.