The Complete Top 25 are as follows (votes cast at the end of each listing)
1 The Wizard of Oz (1939 USA, Fleming/Vidor…392)
2 Gone with the Wind (1939 USA, Fleming…335)
3 City Lights (1931 USA, Chaplin…319)
4 La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939 France, Renoir…280)
5 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938 USA, Curtiz/Keighley…268)
6 M (1931 Germany, Lang…261)
7 Goodbye Mr Chips (1939 UK, Wood…239)
8 Trouble in Paradise (1932 USA, Lubitsch…235)
9 The Informer (1935 USA, Ford…224)
10 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Zangiku Monogatari) (1939 Japan, Mizoguchi…220)
11 Modern Times (1936 USA, Chaplin…215)
12 Wuthering Heights (1939 USA, Wyler…214)
13=Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939 USA, Capra…210)
13=Les Misérables: Parts I, II & III (1934 France, Bernard…210)
15 The 39 Steps (1935 UK, Hitchcock…197)
16 La Grande Illusion (1937 France, Renoir…196)
17 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 USA, Milestone…191)
18 Alexander Nevsky (1938 USSR, Eisenstein…172)
19 It’s a Gift (1934 USA, McLeod…169)
20 Duck Soup (1933 USA, McCarey…166)
21 King Kong (1933 USA, Cooper/Schoedsack…161)
22 Earth (Zemlya) (1930 USSR, Dovzhenko…159)
23 Angels With Dirty Faces (1938 USA, Curtiz…155)
24 The Music Box (1932 USA, Parrott…132)
25 Babes in Toyland (The March of the Wooden Soldiers) (1934 USA, Meins/Rogers…131)
This is a great list (love “M”, “City Lights”, “Robin Hood”, “Angels with Dirty Faces”, etc), though I think “Scarface” and “Top Hat” deserve spots on the top 25. Still, great movies here.
Arrr well, too late, but this would my listing..
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
Frankenstein
1932
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
The Music Box (short)
Scarface
1933
Duck Soup
King Kong
1934
It Happened One Night
Sons of the Desert
1935
The Bride of Frankenstein
The 39 Steps (GB)
1936
Dosworth
Night Mail (Doc short)
1937
Oh Mr. Porter (GB)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Pygmalion (GB)
1939
Destry Rides Again
The Four Feathers (GB)
Gone with the Wind
Goodbye Mr Chips (GB)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Wizard of Oz
The Women
Wuthering Heights
Where the hell is “Bringing Up Baby”, “Way Out West”, “The Petrified Forest” and “Dead End”?
I forgot “I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” and probably a lot more I can’t remember just now. It’s pretty tough to make these Lists as it’s mostly a matter of personal tastes.
Thanks Dijon!!!
Actually, BRINGING UP BABY was our own writer Allan’s Fish’s #1 choice on his own list, but overall it barely missed the Top 25. I am sorry to disagree with you, but WAY OUT WEST, PETRIFIED FOREST and DEAD END did not NOT deserve to finish ahead of any of these 25, with all due respect to you Sir.
THE MUSIC BOX is far better than WAY OUT WEST and those other two are fine, but not great films.
Thanks again.
I love I AM A FUGITIVE as well, but we’re talking Top 25 here. That would fall after the 25 I do feel myself, and yes, of course personal taste is all part of this.