Best of 1940

  1. His Girl Friday                                                                  Howard Hawks
  2. The Long Voyage Home                                                  John Ford
  3. Pinocchio                                                                          Ben Sharpsteen, et al.
  4. Seven Sinners                                                                   Tay Garnett
  5. The Shop Around the Corner                                          Ernst Lubitsch
  6. The Philadelphia Story                                                    George Cukor
  7. The Great Dictator                                                           Charlie Chaplin
  8. The Mortal Storm                                                             Frank Borzage
  9. Rebecca                                                                            Alfred Hitchcock
  10. Foreign Correspondent                                                   Alfred Hitchcock

          Honorable Mention

          They Drive by Night -- Walsh,
          Gaslight -- Dickinson

          Films I Enjoyed

          The Grapes of Wrath, The Return of Frank James,
          The Thief of Baghdad, The Great McGinty,
          The Letter, Fantasia,
          Dance, Girl, Dance, Dark Command,
          Santa Fe Trail, The Primrose Path,
          Waterloo Bridge, 
          The Sea Hawk, Night Train to Munich,

          Below the Mendoza Line
           
          Strange Cargo,
          The Westerner,
          The Blue Bird,
          Abe Lincoln in Illinois
                                                 




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