Year-by-Year Polls: 1941 (CLOSED)

Rufus-T · #1

Welcome to the Year-by-Year Poll!

This poll is for the year 1941

These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. Lots of people will also list other films outside their top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.

The Rules

- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.

- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.

- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 1941.

- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but I will assume it's ranked unless otherwise stated. For ranked ballots it makes it easier if you use a numbered list.

- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles from 1941, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot will be deemed disqualified if the IMDb urls are not included.

The Scoring

For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, well you get the idea.

For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.

Some resources

1941 films with the sorted by most votes on IMDb

1941 films you've rated on IMDb

Wikipedia's 1941 in film article

1941 films you've checked on ICM

1941 films you *haven't* checked on ICM

Previous poll results as ICM lists

2017: 1940 results, 1981 results, 2005 results, 1927 results, 1968 results, 1939 results, 1976 results, 1997 results
2018: 1958 results, 2017 results, 1948 results, 1983 results, 1969 results, 1925 results, 1991 results, 1957 results, 2006 results
2019: 2018 results, 1932 results, 1972 results, 1942 results, 1987 results, 1964 results, 1994 results, 2007 results, 1955 results
2020: 2019 results, 1945 results, 1935 results, 1974 results, 1960 results, 1951 results, 2008 results, 1966 results, 1944 results
2021: 1980 results, 1929 results, 1998 results, 1933 results, 1950 results, 1978 results, 2020 results, 1967 results, 2009 results, 1946 results, 1985 results
2022: 1920 results, 1993 results, 1937 results, 2002 results, 1953 results, 2021 results, 1962 results, 1971 results, 2010 results, 1986 results, 1924 results

The Deadline

This poll will plan to be closed at the end of Monday December 26, midnight Eastern Standard Time, or the Tuesday whenever I log on. You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.

The next poll will be 1992 followed by 1931.

Leopardi · #2

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
3. Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
4. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
5. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
6. All That Money Can Buy (William Dieterle)
7. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Love Crazy (Jack Conway)
9. The Bride Came C.O.D. (William Keighley)
10. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
11. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Edward F. Cline)
12. The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz)
13. Penny Serenade (George Stevens)
14. Sergeant York (Howard Hawks)
15. Out of the Fog (Anatole Litvak)
16. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
17. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
18. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
19. Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter)
20. The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood)

urls

gunnar · #3

1. How Green Was My Valley
2. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
3. The Devil and Daniel Webster (aka All That Money Can Buy)
4. The Devil and Miss Jones
5. Ball of Fire
6. Meet John Doe
7. The Little Foxes
8. It Started with Eve
9. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
10. I Wake Up Screaming
11. 49th Parallel
12. High Sierra
13. The Sea Wolf
14. Johnny Eager
15. Dumbo
16. Truant Officer Donald
17. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
18. Of Pups and Puzzles
19. The Lady Eve
20. Hold That Ghost

urls

@Minkin
shorts that might be worth checking out

Truant Officer Donald
Of Pups and Puzzles
Christmas Under Fire
Rhapsody in Rivets
The Night Before Christmas
Lend a Paw
Forbidden Passage
Churchill's Island
The Rookie Bear
The Tanks are Coming
Army Champions

urls for Minkin's shorts

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034314/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033969/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033465/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034097/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033952/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033824/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033618/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033466/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034127/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034263/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033354/

Perception de Ambiguity · #4

Such a great year.

1. Citizen Kane

I Am Dee Bee

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/?ref_=adv_li_tt

Silga · #5

1. Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak)
2. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
3. Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy)
4. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
5. The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey)
6. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
7. Dressed to Kill (Eugene Forde)
8. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
9. A Woman's Face (George Cukor)
10. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
11. The Wagons Roll at Night (Ray Enright)
12. Unholy Partners (Mervyn LeRoy)
13. Rage in Heaven (W.S. Van Dyke)
14. Among the Living (Stuart Heisler)
15. Flight from Destiny (Vincent Sherman)
16. Ladies in Retirement (Charles Vidor)
17. I'll Wait for You (Robert B. Sinclair)
18. I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone)
19. Out of the Fog (Anatole Litvak)
20. The Wolf Man (George Waggner)

IMDb

klaus78 · #6

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Lady Eve
4. Kanzashi
5. High Sierra
6. Suspicion
7. Sullivan's Travels
8. Genroku chûshingura
9. I Wake Up Screaming
10. Hellzapoppin'

Spoiler

Traveller · #7

01. The Maltese Falcon
02. Sullivan's Travels
03. The Lady Eve
04. Genroku chûshingura
05. Hellzapoppin'
06. Toda-ke no kyôdai
07. Citizen Kane
08. Bandoui bom
09. High Sierra
10. I Wake Up Screaming

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033654/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033704/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034298/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3763958/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033740/

hurluberlu · #8

1 . Citizen Kane ( Orson Welles )
2 . The Maltese Falcon ( John Huston )
3 . Man Hunt ( Fritz Lang )
4 . 49th Parallel ( Michael Powell )
5 . Remorques ( Jean Grémillon )
6 . Sullivan's Travels ( Preston Sturges )
7 . The Shanghai Gesture ( Josef von Sternberg )
8 . They Died with Their Boots On ( Raoul Walsh )
9 . Meet John Doe ( Frank Capra )
10 . Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Victor Fleming )
11 . L'assassinat du Père Noël ( Christian-Jaque )
12 . Dumbo ( Samuel Armstrong, Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen, Wilfred Jackson, John Elliotte, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson )
13 . The Little Foxes ( William Wyler )
14 . Vénus aveugle ( Abel Gance )

links

Torgo · #9

Perception de Ambiguity wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 5:34 pm Such a great year.

Spoiler

1. Citizen Kane

I Am Dee Bee
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/?ref_=adv_li_tt

Rufus-T wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 3:17 am - You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.

I reckon you should know that after a row of semi-trollish nominations ..

jeff_v · #10

1. Citizen Kane
2. Sullivan's Travels
3. The Lady Eve
4. Ball of Fire
5. High Sierra
6. Meet John Doe
7. Dumbo
8. All That Money Can Buy
9. The Maltese Falcon
10. Hellzapoppin'
11. Genroku chÃ»shingura / The 47 Ronin
12. The Devil and Miss Jones
13. The Little Foxes
14. The Shepherd of the Hills
15. Words for Battle
16. Blues in the Night
17. It Started with Eve
18. Remorques
19. Man Hunt
20. Toda-ke no kyÃ´dai / The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

Spoiler

joachimt · #11

1. Citizen Kane
2. Sullivan's Travels
3. Toda-ke no kyÃ´dai
4. The Lady Eve
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. They Died with Their Boots On
7. High Sierra
8. Sergeant York
9. The Little Foxes
10. Hellzapoppin'
11. The Wolf Man

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034298/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034277/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034167/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033836/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033704/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034398/

Rufus-T · #12

Torgo wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 6:55 pm
Perception de Ambiguity wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 5:34 pm Such a great year.

Spoiler

1. Citizen Kane

I Am Dee Bee
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/?ref_=adv_li_tt

Rufus-T wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 3:17 am - You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.
I reckon you should know that after a row of semi-trollish nominations ..

I don't know what is happening to Perception de Ambiguity. Acting very strange lately. Hope everything okay in real life and get back to the Perception de Ambiguity that we know of soon.

prodigalgodson · #13

1. 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)
3. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
4. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
5. Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy)
6. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
7. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
8. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
9. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
10. Hideko the Bus Conductor (Mikio Naruse)

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033654
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034251
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034175
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033774
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033532
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033873
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033716

prodigalgodson · #14

Rufus-T wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 7:34 pm I don't know what is happening to Perception de Ambiguity. Acting very strange lately. Hope everything okay in real life and get back to the Perception de Ambiguity that we know of soon.

Yeah well, that's just like your opinion man.

Rufus-T · #15

prodigalgodson wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 8:49 pm
Rufus-T wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 7:34 pm I don't know what is happening to Perception de Ambiguity. Acting very strange lately. Hope everything okay in real life and get back to the Perception de Ambiguity that we know of soon.
Yeah well, that's just like your opinion man.

Probably is. I do see that he post lists in several polls (at least the year-by-year ones), but not participating. Only recently, I see him write essay length posts rather than the short straight forward posts. Just observation. I could be wrong. As long as he is okay, that is the most important. (Sorry Perception de Ambiguity for talking about you in 3rd person, just replying to posts)

timshelboy · #16

blocho · #17

1. The Little Foxes
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Sea Wolf
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. Johnny Eager
6. How Green Was My Valley
7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. The Face behind the Mask
9. The Maltese Falcon
10. High Sierra
11. Man Hunt
12. Suspicion
13. 49th Parallel
14. I Wake up Screaming

Spoiler

Y U M E · #18

Spoiler

Mysterious Dude · #19

Perception de Ambiguity · #20

Rufus-T wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 9:02 pm
prodigalgodson wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 8:49 pm
Rufus-T wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 7:34 pm I don't know what is happening to Perception de Ambiguity. Acting very strange lately. Hope everything okay in real life and get back to the Perception de Ambiguity that we know of soon.
Yeah well, that's just like your opinion man.
Probably is. I do see that he post lists in several polls (at least the year-by-year ones), but not participating. Only recently, I see him write essay length posts rather than the short straight forward posts. Just observation. I could be wrong. As long as he is okay, that is the most important. (Sorry Perception de Ambiguity for talking about you in 3rd person, just replying to posts)

Tsk, can't even make an innocuous cutesy post on a film forum anymore without having ones mental health called into question. If you thought THAT post was an indication of me losing my marbles I can't image you having seen much of what I posted in the past, let alone any of the shit during my wild years.

Caracortada · #21

The Maltese Falcon
Citizen Kane
Sullivan's Travels
Teresa Venerdì
They Died with Their Boots On
Suspicion
The Little Foxes
High Sierra
The Lady Eve
That Hamilton Woman
Buck Privates
Woody Woodpecker
Hideko no shashô-san
The Wolf Man
You'll Never Get Rich
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Dumbo
Superman
The Great Lie
Tobacco Road

Spoiler

beavis · #22

Having to scrape to get a top10 together. My number 1 is pretty great though!
40's is just not my decade when it comes to movies...

1 Sullivan's Travels
2 La corona di ferro
3 Genroku Chûshingura
4 Vénus aveugle
5 Citizen Kane
6 Remorques
7 The Devil and Miss Jones
8 Toda-ke no kyôdai
9 Hellzapoppin'
10 Kanzashi

Spoiler

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033489/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033654/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034354/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034093/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033533/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034298/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033704/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427424/

Minkin · #23

Here's where I come in and ask for any accessible <30mins shorts that people recommend! I didn't do so hot at watching Canadian shorts, but this is a new month, new look, so I'll try harder to see as many 1941 short recs as possible

gunnar wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 4:20 am @Minkin
shorts that might be worth checking out

Truant Officer Donald
Of Pups and Puzzles
Christmas Under Fire
Rhapsody in Rivets
The Night Before Christmas
Lend a Paw
Forbidden Passage
Churchill's Island
The Rookie Bear
The Tanks are Coming
Army Champions

urls for Minkin's shorts
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034314/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033969/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033465/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034097/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033952/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033824/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033618/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033466/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034127/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034263/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033354/

I'm quite pleased with this selection + knowing in advance to hook me up with my shorts fixings! Only seen Of Pups and Puzzles - which will make my list, but will investigate the others! Thank you for thinking of me!

OldAle1 · #24

Shorts? I got shorts.

Three of the best of the 12 Sniffles cartoons from Chuck Jones:

The Brave Little Bat
Toy Trouble
Sniffles Bells the Cat

More Warner Brothers:

All This and Rabbit Stew
A Coy Decoy
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
A Heckling Hare
Porky's Bear Facts
Tortoise Beats Hare
Wabbit Twouble

Fleischer's first two Superman cartoons

Superman
The Mechanical Monsters

Experimental:

Contrathemis (Dwinell Grant)
Number 2: Message From the Sun (Harry Smith)

General live action:

An Airman's Letter to His Mother (Michael Powell)
Famalicão (Manoel de Oliveira)

These are just my favorites at the moment, I've seen quite a few more, and I suspect I'll be watching a few more shorts before posting my ballot for this year also. There are tons of Disney and MGM cartoons for this year - not really ever priorities for me so I've seen few - and a whole mess of Three Stooges, if you're into those. But it looks like plenty of other fringe stuff as well if you dig. I hope to dig a little.

Rufus-T · #25

Perception de Ambiguity wrote: ↑December 1st, 2022, 5:25 pm
Rufus-T wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 9:02 pm
prodigalgodson wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 8:49 pm
Yeah well, that's just like your opinion man.
Probably is. I do see that he post lists in several polls (at least the year-by-year ones), but not participating. Only recently, I see him write essay length posts rather than the short straight forward posts. Just observation. I could be wrong. As long as he is okay, that is the most important. (Sorry Perception de Ambiguity for talking about you in 3rd person, just replying to posts)
Tsk, can't even make an innocuous cutesy post on a film forum anymore without having ones mental health called into question. If you thought THAT post was an indication of me losing my marbles I can't image you having seen much of what I posted in the past, let alone any of the shit during my wild years.

That is the craziness of forums in the WWW ........ Wild Wild West.

PopperTheKungFu-Dragon · #26

Ranked:

1. Ball of Fire
2. High Sierra
3. How Green Was My Valley
4. The Devil and Miss Jones
5. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
6. Ladies in Retirement
7. The Wolf Man
8. The Maltese Falcon
9. Hold That Ghost
10. The Ghost Train
11. Meet John Doe
12. Hold Back the Dawn
13. Suspicion
14. The Night Before Christmas
15. Blues in the Night
16. Man Hunt
17. Sullivan's Travels
18. The Lady Eve
19. Babes on Broadway
20. The Strawberry Blonde

Spoiler

PUNQ · #27

981... or nearing a thousand films seen from 1941, and this is what my Top-20 (or more) look like:

1. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
3. The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
4. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941, Alexander Hall)
5. Dumbo (1941, 7 directors)

6. The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
7. Sergeant York (1941, Howard Hawks)
8. The Night Before Christmas (1941, Joseph Barbera & William Hanna)
9. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941, Sam Wood)
10. Volpone (1941, Maurice Tourneur & Jacques de Baroncelli)

11. All That Money Can Buy (1941, William Dieterle)
12. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941, Edward F. Cline)
13. The Art of Skiing (1941, Jack Kinney)
14. Man Hunt (1941, Fritz Lang)
15. Tortoise Beats Hare (1941, Tex Avery)

16. Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941, Dave Fleischer & Shamus Culhane)
17. I Wake Up Screaming (1941, H. Bruce Humberstone)
18. Chef Donald (1941, Jack King)
19. Major Barbara (1941, Gabriel Pascal, Harold French & David Lean)
20. The Midnight Snack (1941, Joseph Barbera & William Hanna)

...and a few more suggestions from the year...

21. It Started with Eve (1941, Henry Koster)
22. Blood and Sand (1941, Rouben Mamoulian)
23. The Mechanical Monsters (1941, Dave Fleischer)
24. The Wolf Man (1941, George Waggner)
25. The Heckling Hare (1941, Tex Avery)
26. Vénus aveugle [Blind Venus] (1941, Abel Gance)
27. Hellzappopin (1941, H.C. Potter)
28. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941, W.S. Van Dyke)
29. Tobacco Road (1941, John Ford)
30. Wabbit Twouble (1941, Robert Clampett)
31. Charley's Aunt (1941, Archie Mayo)
32. The Shepherd of the Hills (1941, Henry Hathaway)
33. The Trial of Mr. Wolf (1941, Friz Freleng)
34. How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford)
35. You'll Never Get Rich (1941, Sidney Lanfield)
36. They Died With Their Boots On (1941, Raoul Walsh)
37. High Sierra (1941, Raoul Walsh)
38. Remorques [Stormy Waters] (1941, Jean Grémillon)
39. Buck Privates (1941, Arthur Lubin)
40. Ziegfeld Girl (1941, Robert Z. Leonard & Busby Berkeley)
41. Meet John Doe (1941, Frank Capra)
42. Unfinished Business (1941, Gregory La Cava)
43. The Body Disappears (1941, D. Ross Lederman)
44. Ohm Krüger [Uncle Kruger] (1941, Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton & Herbert Maisch)
45. That Hamilton Woman (1941, Alexander Korda)
46. The Sea Wolf (1941, Michael Curtiz)
47. Whistling in the Dark (1941, S. Sylvan Simon)
48. A Woman's Face (1941, George Cukor)
49. Love Crazy (1941, Jack Conway)
50. L'enfer des anges (1941, Christian-Jaque)
51. Superman (1941, Dave Fleischer)
52. Shejari (1941, Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram)
53. The Reluctant Dragon (1941, Alfred L. Werker & Hamilton Luske)
54. 49th Parallel (1941, Michael Powell)
55. Suspicion (1941, Alfred Hitchcock)
56. Out of the Fog (1941, Anatole Litvak)
57. Baggage Buster (1941, Jack Kinney)
58. Ball of Fire (1941, Howard Hawks)
59. Ladies in Retirement (1941, Charles Vidor)
60. Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (1941, Igor Savchenko)
61. Tie shan gong zhu [Princess Iron Fan] (1941, Wan Guchan & Wan Laiming)
62. Western Union (1941, Fritz Lang)
63. Pimpernel Smith (1941, Leslie Howard)
64. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941, Victor Fleming)
65. Underground (1941, Vincent Sherman)
66. The Shanghai Gesture (1941, Josef von Sternberg)
67. The Corsican Brothers (1941, Gregory Ratoff)
68. Flight from Destiny (1941, Vincent Sherman)
69. Olive's Boithday Presink (1941, Dave Fleischer)
70. L'assassinat du Père Noël [Who Killed Santa Claus] (1941, Christian-Jaque)
71. I Wanted Wings (1941, Mitchell Leisen)
72. I'll Never Heil Again (1941, Jules White)
73. Ich klage an [ I accuse] (1941, Wolfgang Liebeneiner)
74. Timber (1941, Jack King)
75. Maskarad [Masquerade] (1941, Sergey Gerasimov)
76. The Mighty Navy (1941, Dave Fleischer)
77. The Nifty Nineties (1941, Riley Thomson)
78. The Lady from Cheyenne (1941, Frank Lloyd)
79. Blossoms in the Dust (1941, Mervyn LeRoy)
80. Swamp Water (1941, Jean Renoir & Irving Pichel)
81. Truant Officer Donald (1941, Jack King)
82. Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941, John English & William Witney)
83. International Lady (1941, Tim Whelan)
84. Turned Out Nice Again (1941, Marcel Varnel)
85. Road to Zanzibar (1941, Victor Schertzinger)
86. Über alles in der Welt [Above All in the World] (1941, Karl Ritter)
87. Three Girls About Town (1941, Leigh Jason)
88. Shining Victory (1941, Irving Rapper)
89. Blues in the Night (1941, Anatole Litvak)
90. Dressed to Kill (1941, Eugene Forde)
91. Hold That Ghost (1941, Arthur Lubin)
92. Lady from Louisiana (1941, Bernard Vorhaus)
93. Smilin' Through (1941, Frank Borzage)
94. Problem Pappy (1941, Dave Fleischer)
95. The Devil Commands (1941, Edward Dmytryk)
96. So Ends Our Night (1941, John Cromwell)
97. Johnny Eager (1941, Mervyn LeRoy)
98. All This and Rabbit Stew (1941, Tex Avery)
99. That Night in Rio (1941, Irving Cummings)
100. The Big Store (1941, Charles Reisner)

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Torgo · #28

PUNQ wrote: ↑December 6th, 2022, 2:33 pm 981... or nearing a thousand films seen from 1941

No need to brag, I've seen about a thousand [feature] films made before 1968 myself.

...

iCheckMovies · #29

Yeah, PUNQ puts all our viewing patterns into perspective!

1941 is actually one of the years I have seen the least (the WW2 years are all quite bad for me) and have only caught 62 features. Somehow I have still seen 20 films I consider great so at least that's something, even if it is almost exclusively American:

1. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
3. The Sea Wolf (1941, Michael Curtiz)
4. The Little Foxes (1941, William Wyler)
5. Tobacco Road (1941, John Ford)
6. Ball of Fire (1941, Howard Hawks)
7. Roztomilý clovek / A Charming Man (1941, Martin Fric)
8. All That Money Can Buy (1941, William Dieterle)
9. High Sierra (1941, Raoul Walsh)
10. Ladies in Retirement (1941, Charles Vidor)

11. Mikaheri no tou / Introspection Tower (1941, Hiroshi Shimizu)
12. They Died with Their Boots On (1941, Raoul Walsh)
13. Remorques (1941, Jean Grémillon)
14. Manpower (1941, Raoul Walsh)
15. How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford)
16. Genroku Chûshingura / The 47 Ronin (1941, Kenji Mizoguchi)
17. The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
18. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941, Sam Wood)
19. The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
20. Hotel Modrá hvezda / The Blue Star Hotel (1941, Martin Fric)

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viktor-vaudevillain · #30

Haven't seen much from '41, hope to catch a few before deadline - Shanghai Gesture and Sullivan's Travels should fit into my viewing habits atm. Though I rarely get to that... Great films on my list though!

1. How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
2. Ornamental Hairpin (Shimizu)
3. Remorques / Stormy Waters (Grémillon)
4. The Lady Eve (Sturges)
5. Citizen Kane (Welles)
6. Words for Battle (Jennings)
7. Dumbo (Sharpsteen)
8. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033729/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427424/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034093/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034401/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033563/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

MoTH · #31

Ranked list:

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
3. Todake no kyodai / The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Yasujirô Ozu)
4. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
5. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
6. Hideko no shasho-san / Hideko the Bus Conductress (Mikio Naruse)
7. Tortoise Beats Hare (Tex Avery)
8. Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu)
9. Piccolo mondo antico / Old-Fashioned World (Mario Soldati)
10. Teresa Venerdì / Doctor, Beware (Vittorio De Sica)
11. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
12. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
13. Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen)
14. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
15. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
16. The Heckling Hare (Tex Avery)
17. Wabbit Twouble (Robert Clampett)
18. The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood)
19. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
20. The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh)

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PUNQ · #32

Torgo wrote: ↑December 6th, 2022, 7:53 pm
PUNQ wrote: ↑December 6th, 2022, 2:33 pm 981... or nearing a thousand films seen from 1941
No need to brag, I've seen about a thousand [feature] films made before 1968 myself.

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lol, sorry, but bragging rights is the only reward I get for watching so many films from each year

It's then you realize how many average and below par movies there are. You can either see the general consensus of what's the Top-30 or so films from each year... ooooor you can do what I do and watch everything and end up with practically the same top-20 as everybody else

peeptoad · #33

PUNQ wrote: ↑December 7th, 2022, 10:29 am
Torgo wrote: ↑December 6th, 2022, 7:53 pm
PUNQ wrote: ↑December 6th, 2022, 2:33 pm 981... or nearing a thousand films seen from 1941
No need to brag, I've seen about a thousand [feature] films made before 1968 myself.

...
lol, sorry, but bragging rights is the only reward I get for watching so many films from each year It's then you realize how many average and below par movies there are. You can either see the general consensus of what's the Top-30 or so films from each year... ooooor you can do what I do and watch everything and end up with practically the same top-20 as everybody else

It's the journey that counts!

PUNQ · #34

That's true. And the best part of it is all the character actors I've grown to love. Especially back in those days when they made dozens of movies a year. They almost become family members because you see them so often.

peeptoad · #35

^ I feel the same way about many Euro actors who appeared in the gialli and poliziotteschi films... started to think George Hilton might be a long, lost family member.

zzzorf · #36

1. Johnny Eager
2. Ball of Fire
3. How Green Was My Valley
4. The Wolf Man
5. The Night Before Christmas
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. Suspicion
8. Superman
9. The Lady Eve
10. Ladies in Retirement
11. Adventures of Captain Marvel
12. Dumbo
13. The Mechanical Monsters
14. The Monster and the Girl
15. Citizen Kane

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ckfilm88 · #37

Ranked:

1.) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2.) Blood and Sand (Rouben Mamoulian)
3.) How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
4.) The Wolf Man (George Waggner)
5.) Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
6.) Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
7.) Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall)
8.) I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone)
9.) Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
10.) Blossoms in the Dust (Mervyn LeRoy)

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033405/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033729/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034398/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033891/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033712/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033740/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033563/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033407/

Lonewolf2003 · #38

Going to pass on this year, since I can't make a top 10 that will include all the usual suspect anyhow.

Torgo · #39

Lonewolf2003 wrote: ↑December 10th, 2022, 2:26 pm Going to pass on this year, since I can't make a top 10 that will include all the usual suspect anyhow.

Did you just call any contribution so far which doesn't rely on extracanonical entries worthless?

Yeah, I never take part for those either, basically everything pre-1950 for me. Call it strategical non-voting

1SO · #40