The Most Dangerous Game(Ernest B. Schoedsack & Irving Pichel)
Million Dollar Legs(Edward Cline)
Back Street(John M. Stahl)
Shanghai Express(Josef von Sternberg)
Red-Headed Woman(Jack Conway)
Bird of Paradise(King Vidor)
Boudu Saved From Drowning(Jean Renoir)
White Zombie(Victor Halperin)
Three on a Match(Mervyn LeRoy)
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 Animal Kingdom (Griffith);
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Capra); Broken Lullaby
(Lubitsch); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (Sherman); Horse
Feathers (McLeod); Law and Order (Cahn); The Old Dark
House (Whale); Once in a Lifetime (Mack); Scarface
(Hawks); Tiger Shark (Hawks)
As yet unseen: Nothing I'm aware of.
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.