1954 Top Ten List
A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
Hobson's Choice (David Lean)
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker)
The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk)
Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional 1954 Films By Rating
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel)
Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)
Hell's Half Acre (John H. Auer)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold)
The Blazing Sun (Youssef Chahine)
Witness to Murder (Roy Rowland)
Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
The Country Girl (George Seaton)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Suddenly (Lewis Allen)
River of No Return (Otto Preminger)
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz)
The Mad Magician (John Brahm)
Fear (Roberto Rossellini)
Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
La strada (Federico Fellini)
World for Ransom (Robert Aldrich)
There's No Business Like Show Business (Walter Lang)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Luis Buñuel)
Beachhead (Stuart Heisler)
Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse)
PHFFFT (Mark Robson)
Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
Senso (Luchino Visconti)
Gorilla at Large (Harmon Jones)
Godzilla (Ishirô Honda)

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.)