1935 Top Ten List

A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)

Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)

Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)

Four Hours to Kill! (Mitchell Leisen)

Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway)

Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen)

Man on the Flying Trapeze (Clyde Bruckman)

The Good Fairy (William Wyler)

Additional 1935 Films By Rating

Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)

Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks)

Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin)

Alice Adams (George Stevens)

Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)

The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)

Sanders of the River (Zoltan Korda)

The New Frontier (Carl Pierson)

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): Dangerous (Green); The Dark Angel (Franklin); One More Spring (King); She (Pichel & Holden)

As yet unseen: Ah, Wilderness! (Brown); David Copperfield (Cukor); The Informer (Ford)

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