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)
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)
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 Bishop's Wife (Koster);
Dark Passage (Daves); Dead Reckoning (Cromwell); A Double
Life (Cukor); The Egg and I (Erskine); Good News
(Walters); The Inheritance (Frank); It Always Rains on
Sunday (Hamer); Lady in the Lake (Montgomery); The October
Man (Baker); The Paradine Case (Hitchcock); Pursued
(Walsh)
As yet unseen:Crossfire (Dmytryk)
I occasionally write reviews
of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.