The Valley Record. A cozy little archive for all my random by-year stuff.
and yes, the shorts noted don't count for the totals.

Monday, February 9, 2009

1940

25 films seen.

★★★★★
Fantasia (lots of people) [x?]
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin) [x2]

★★★★½
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks) [x3]
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor) [x2]
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) [x2]
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen) [x2]
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)

★★★★
All This, and Heaven Too (Anatole Litvak)
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
I Love You Again (W.S. Van Dyke)
The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)

★★★½
The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
The Letter (William Wyler)
Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske/Ben Sharpsteen)
The Thief of Bagdad (lots of people)
Vigil in the Night (George Stevens)
The Westerner (William Wyler)

★★★
Angels Over Broadway (Ben Hecht/Lee Garmes)
My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin)
Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed)
They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh)

★★½
Kitty Foyle (Sam Wood)

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