1947 Top Ten List
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (Albert Lewin)
Quai des Orfèvres (H.G. Clouzot)
Born to Kill (Robert Wise)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)
Additional 1947 Films By Rating
The Web (Michael Gordon)
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)
Lured (Douglas Sirk)
Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery)
Monsieur Verdoux: A Comedy of Murders (Charles Chaplin)
The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
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)

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.)