My Top Ten Lists for the 1930s (with Honorary Mention Lists)

 A movie decade, the 1930s, drifted into my mind, with all of its fantastic films. And so I drafted top ten lists for that decade. Here they are. Feel free to comment.

1930

All Quiet on the Western Front, Anna Christie, The Blue Angel, The Divorcee, Hell's Angels, Little Caesar, Min and Bill, Monte Carlo, Raffles, Romance

(Honorary mentions:Morocco, Animal Crackers, Paid, The Big House, Let Us be Gay, Abraham Lincoln, One Romantic Night, King of Jazz, The Unholy Three, Whoopee)

1931

Cimarron, City Lights, Frankenstein, A Free Soul, Mata Hari, The Miracle Woman, Private Lives, The Sin of Madelon Claudet, The Smiling Lieutenant, Waterloo Bridge

(Honorary mentions: Le Million, Dracula, The Public Enemy, Platinum Blonde, The Champ, Skippy, Arrowsmith, Susan Lenox Her Fall and Rise, The Guardsman, The Bachelor Father)

1932

A Farewell to Arms, Grand Hotel, Jewel Robbery, Love Me Tonight, One Hour with You, One Way Passage, Rasputin and the Empress, Red Dust, Shanghai Express, Trouble in Paradise

(Honorary mentions: I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Boudu Saved from Drowning, Symphony of Six Million, Forbidden, Emma, The Sign of the Cross, Blonde Venus, What Price Hollywood, A Bill of Divorcement, Smilin' Through)



1933

Cavalcade, Dinner at Eight, Duck Soup, 42nd Street, Hold Your Man, Lady for a Day, Little Women, Morning Glory, Queen Christina, The White Sister

(Honorary mentions: King Kong, Flying Down to Rio, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade, She Done Him Wrong, The Private Live of Henry VIII, Night Flight, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Bombshell, Berkeley Square)



1934

The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Gay Divorcee, It Happened One Night, The Little Minister, The Merry Widow, Of Human Bondage, The Scarlet Empress, The Thin Man, Treasure Island, Twentieth Century

(Honorary mentions: Imitation of Life, Cleopatra, The Age of Innocence, The Lost Patrol, Dames, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Death Takes a Holiday, The Painted Veil, Manhattan Melodrama)


1935

Ah Wilderness, Alice Adams, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Tale of Two Cities, The 39 Steps


(Honorary mentions:The Scarlet Pimpernel, David Copperfield, Hands Across the Table, Captain Blood, Bride of Frankenstein, Gold Diggers of 1935, Dangerous, The Informer, A Night at the Opera, Naughty Marietta)


1936

Anthony Adverse, Fury, The Great Ziegfeld, Mary of Scotland, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Petrified Forest, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, Swing Time, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine


(Honorary mentions: Born to Dance, After the Thin Man, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, The Princess Comes Across, Theodora, Goes Wild, Dodsworth, Modern Times, Rembrandt, The Story of Louis Pasteur)

1937

The Awful Truth, Camille, Conquest, Dead End, Easy Living, Lost Horizon, Shall We Dance, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stage Door, Stella Dallas

(Honorary mentions:The Life of Emile Zola, The Good Earth, Captains Courageous, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Hurricane, Nothing Sacred, A Star is Born, History is Made at Night, Topper, In Old Chicago)



1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood, Bringing Up Baby, The Citadel, Grand Illusion, The Great Waltz, Holiday, Jezebel, The Lady Vanishes, Pygmalion, Vivacious Lady

(Honorary mentions:Alexander's Ragtime Band, The Sisters, Marie Antoinette, Boys Town, Carefree, The Mad Miss Manton, The Young in Heart, Algiers, You Can't Take It With You, Four Daughters)

1939 (a very tough year to limit to ten)

Dark Victory, Gone With the Wind, Goodbye Mister Chips, Love Affair, Mister Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, The Old Maid, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Wuthering Heights

(Honorary mentions: Intermezzo, Of Mice and Men, Only Angels Have Wings, Beau Geste, Stagecoach, Midnight, Made for Each Other, The Four Feathers, Union Pacific, Babes in Arms, Destry Rides Again, It's a Wonderful World, On Borrowed Time, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, In Name Only, Gunga Din, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Golden Boy, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Young Mister Lincoln, The Rains Came, Jesse James, Stanley and Livingstone)