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The Home Theater Forum 100 Great Films of the 1930s It would seem that The Home Theater Forum 100 Great Films of the 1930s was compiled by someone called Brian Lawrence and posted as a challenge to forum members. It's the key list I've been working from lately and the more thirties movies I watch the more I appreciate it, even though it's American-heavy. It's not numbered and is presented alphabetically. The link doesn't seem to work any more so I'm linking to an archived version at the Wayback Machine. The List # Title Year Director IMDb The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon IMDb The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz & William Keighley IMDb After the Thin Man 1936 W. S. Van Dyke IMDb L' âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel IMDb Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei Eisenstein IMDb All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone IMDb Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz IMDb Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman IMDb Another Thin Man 1939 W. S. Van Dyke IMDb L' Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo IMDb The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey IMDb The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer IMDb Blood of a Poet 1932 Jean Cocteau IMDb The Blue Angel 1930 Josef Von Sternberg IMDb Boys Town 1938 Norman Taurog IMDb Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale IMDb Bringing up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks IMDb Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz IMDb Captains Courageous 1937 Victor Fleming IMDb The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz IMDb City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin IMDb David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor IMDb A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood IMDb Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall IMDb Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor IMDb Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler IMDb Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian IMDb Dracula 1931 Tod Browning IMDb Drácula 1931 George Melford IMDb Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey IMDb The Four Feathers 1939 Zoltan Korda IMDb Frankenstein 1931 James Whale IMDb Freaks 1932 Tod Browning IMDb Fury 1936 Fritz Lang IMDb 'G' Men 1935 William Keighley IMDb Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming IMDb The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin IMDb Goodbye, Mr Chips 1939 Sam Wood IMDb Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding IMDb Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir IMDb Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens IMDb Holiday 1938 George Cukor IMDb Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod IMDb The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield IMDb The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle IMDb I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy IMDb I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujiro Ozu IMDb Imitation of Life 1934 John M Stahl IMDb The Informer 1935 John Ford IMDb The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale IMDb Island of Lost Souls 1933 Erle C. Kenton IMDb It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra IMDb It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod IMDb King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack IMDb The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle IMDb Little Caesar 1930 Mervyn LeRoy IMDb Little Women 1933 George Cukor IMDb Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra IMDb The Lost Patrol 1934 John Ford IMDb M 1931 Fritz Lang IMDb Mad Love 1935 Karl Freund IMDb A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935 Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle IMDb Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin IMDb Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod IMDb Mr Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra IMDb Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra IMDb The Mummy 1932 Karl Freund IMDb The Music Box 1932 James Parrott IMDb Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd IMDb My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava IMDb A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood IMDb Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch IMDb Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman IMDb Of Mice and Men 1939 Lewis Milestone IMDb The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale IMDb Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl IMDb The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda IMDb The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman IMDb Red Dust 1932 Victor Fleming IMDb Rembrandt 1936 Alexander Korda IMDb Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir IMDb San Francisco 1936 W. S. Van Dyke IMDb Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks IMDb Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand et al IMDb Sons of the Desert 1933 William A. Seiter IMDb Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava IMDb Stagecoach 1939 John Ford IMDb Swing Time 1936 George Stevens IMDb The Thin Man 1934 W. S. Van Dyke IMDb Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich IMDb Topper 1937 Norman Z. McLeod IMDb Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl IMDb Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch IMDb Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks IMDb Way Out West 1937 James W. Horne IMDb The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming IMDb The Women 1939 George Cukor IMDb Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler IMDb You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra IMDb

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