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1937 Top Ten List

History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)

Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)

A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)

Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)

Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman)

Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)

Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier)

The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell)

A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman)

Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)

Additional 1937 Films By Rating

The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)

Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)

Stella Dallas (King Vidor)

Lady Killer (Jean Grémillon)

The Prince and the Pauper (William Keighley)

Marked Woman (Lloyd Bacon)

Jericho (Thornton Freeland)

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): Captains Courageous (Fleming); Confession (May); Dead End (Wyler); The Dybbuk (Waszynski); The Edge of the World (Powell); The Good Earth (Franklin); The Hurricane (Ford); Kid Galahad (Curtiz); Lost Horizon (Capra); Stage Door (La Cava); Topper (McLeod); Underworld (Micheaux); Young and Innocent (Hitchcock)