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Films of the Early 20th Century: Final List Submissions (2021 edition)

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Time to start the final vote!

You can find attached Excel file with 197 selected films. Please rank the films that you have seen from this list and submit it by email to me at popelton (at) gmail (dot) com.

I'd appreciate it if you don't delete any rows in the Excel file when you return it. The deadline is July 31.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate.

Have fun!
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The Finalists

A Day at the Races | Sam Wood | U.S. | 1937
A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, | UK | 1946
A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | U.S. | 1935
A Woman of Paris | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1923
All Quiet on the Western Front | Lewis Milestone | U.S. | 1930
Animal Crackers | Victor Heerman | U.S. | 1930
Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | U.S. | 1944
Bambi | David Hand et al., | U.S. | 1942
Black Narcissus | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1947
Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning) | Jean Renoir | France | 1932
Bride of Frankenstein | James Whale | U.S. | 1935
Brief Encounter | David Lean | UK | 1945
Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1938
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl | D.W. Griffith | U.S. | 1919
Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | Italy | 1914
Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | U.S. | 1942
Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | U.S. | 1942
Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | U.S. | 1941
City Lights | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1931
Cœur fidèle (The Faithful Heart) | Jean Epstein | France | 1923
Cops | Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton | U.S. | 1922
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) | Robert Wiene | Germany | 1920
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) | Fritz Lang | Germany | 1933
Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) | Josef von Sternberg | Germany | 1930
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem) | Paul Wegener & Carl Boese | Germany | 1920
Der letzte Mann [The Last Laugh] | F.W. Murnau | Germany | 1924
Der müde Tod (Destiny) | Fritz Lang | Germany | 1921
Design for Living | Ernst Lubitsch | U.S. | 1933
Detour | Edgar Ullmer | U.S. | 1945
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) | Lotte Reiniger | Germany | 1926
Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) | G.W. Pabst | Germany | 1929
Die Nibelungen: Film – Siegfried (Siegfried's Death) | Fritz Lang | Germany | 1924
Die Puppe [The Doll] | Ernst Lubitsch | Germany | 1919
Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | U.S. | 1944
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler) | Fritz Lang | Germany | 1922
Dracula | Tod Browning | U.S. | 1931
Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | U.S. | 1933
El Dorado | Marcel L'Herbier | France | 1921
Fantasia | James Algar et al | U.S. | 1940
Fantômas | Louis Feuillade | France | 1913
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage (Faust: A German Folk Legend) | F.W. Murnau | Germany | 1926
Foolish Wives | Erich von Stroheim | U.S. | 1922
Frankenstein | James Whale | U.S. | 1931
Freaks | Tod Browning | U.S. | 1932
Gaslight | George Cukor | U.S. | 1944
Germania anno zero (Germany Year Zero) | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1948
Gilda | Charles Vidor | U.S. | 1946
Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | U.S. | 1939
Great Expectations | David Lean | UK | 1946
Greed | Erich von Stroheim | U.S. | 1924
Heaven Can Wait | Ernst Lubitsch | U.S. | 1943
Hellzapoppin' | H.C. Potter | U.S. | 1941
His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1940
Hypocrites | Lois Weber | U.S. | 1915
Häxan (Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages) | Benjamin Christensen | Denmark | 1922
I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | U.S. | 1943
I Was a Male War Bride | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1949
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | D.W. Griffith | U.S. | 1916
It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | U.S. | 1934
It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | U.S. | 1946
Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | UK | 1949
King Kong | Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack | U.S. | 1933
Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage) | Victor Sjöström | Sweden | 1921
L’âge d’or | Luis Buñuel | France | 1930
L’Atalante | Jean Vigo | France | 1934
La belle et la bête [Beauty and the Beast] | Jean Cocteau | France | 1946
La chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) | Jean Epstein | France | 1928
La grande illusion (Grand Illusion) | Jean Renoir | France | 1937
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) | Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark | 1928
La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) | Jean Renoir | France | 1939
La roue (The Wheel) | Abel Gance | France | 1923
Ladri di biciclette [Bicycle Thieves] | Vittorio de Sica | Italy | 1948
Lady Windermere's Fan | Ernst Lubitsch | U.S. | 1925
Laura | Otto Preminger | U.S. | 1944
Le corbeau [The Raven] | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France | 1943
Le voyage dans la Lune [A Trip to the Moon] | Georges Méliès | France | 1902
Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise) | Marcel Carné | France | 1945
Les vampires (The Vampires) | Louis Feuillade | France | 1915
Letter From an Unknown Woman | Max Ophüls | U.S. | 1948
Levoton veri [Restless Blood] | Teuvo Tulio | Finland | 1946
M | Fritz Lang | U.S. | 1931
Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | U.S. | 1937
Meet Me In St. Louis | Vincenti Minnelli | U.S. | 1944
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] | Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer | Germany | 1930
Meshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid | U.S. | 1943
Metropolis | Fritz Lang | Germany | 1927
Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1936
Monsieur Verdoux | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1947
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra | U.S. | 1936
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | U.S. | 1939
Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd | U.S. | 1935
My Darling Clementine | John Ford | U.S. | 1946
My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | U.S. | 1936
Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | U.S. | 1922
Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (Abel Gance's Napoleon) | Abel Gance | France | 1927
Neighbors [Backyard] | Buster Keaton / Edward F. Cline | U.S. | 1920
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror) | F.W. Murnau | Germany | 1922
Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | U.S. | 1946
One Week | Buster Keaton / Edward F. Cline | U.S. | 1920
Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1939
Ossessione (Obsession) | Luchino Visconti | Italy | 1943
Our Hospitality | Buster Keaton / John G. Blystone | U.S. | 1923
Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | U.S. | 1947
Paisà | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1946
Partie de campagne [A Day in the Country] | Jean Renoir | France | 1936/1946
Pinocchio | Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen et al. | U.S. | 1940
Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | U.S. | 1940
Red River | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1948
Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City) | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1945
Rope | Alfred Hitchcock | U.S. | 1948
Sabotage | Alfred Hitchcock | U.K. | 1936
Safety Last! | Fred C. Newmeyer / Sam Taylor | U.S. | 1923
Scarface | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1932
Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | U.S. | 1945
Sciuscià [Shoeshine] | Vittoria De Sica | Italy | 1946
Seven Chances | Buster Keaton | U.S. | 1925
Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | U.S. | 1943
Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | U.S. | 1924
Shoulder Arms | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1918
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | David Hand et al. | U.S. | 1937
Sons of the Desert | William A. Seiter | U.S. | 1933
Spellbound | Alfred Hitchcock | U.S. | 1945
Stagecoach | John Ford | U.S. | 1939
Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Charles Reisner / Buster Keaton | U.S. | 1928
Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | U.S. | 1941
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. Murnau | U.S. | 1927
Swing Time | George Stevens | U.S. | 1936
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl) | G.W. Pabst | Germany | 1929
The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | U.K. | 1935
The Adventures of Robin Hood | Michael Curtiz & William Keighley | U.S. | 1938
The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey | U.S. | 1937
The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | U.S. | 1946
The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1946
The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | U.S. | 1915
The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton | U.S. | 1928
The Circus | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1928
The Crowd | King Vidor | U.S. | 1928
The General | Buster Keaton / Clyde Bruckman | U.S. | 1926
The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1925
The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | U.S. | 1940
The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1940
The Great Train Robbery | Edwin S. Porter | U.S. | 1903
The Heiress | William Wyler | U.S. | 1949
The Idle Class | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1921
The Immigrant | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1917
The Invisible Man | James Whale | U.S. | 1933
The Kid | Charles Chaplin | U.S. | 1921
The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | U.S. | 1941
The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | U.S. | 1947
The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | U.K. | 1938
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1943
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | 1927
The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | U.S. | 1945
The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | U.S. | 1942
The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | U.S. | 1941
The Naked City | Jules Dassin | U.S. | 1948
The Navigator | Donald Crisp / Buster Keaton | U.S. | 1924
The Ox-Bow Incident | William A. Wellman | U.S. | 1942
The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges | U.S. | 1942
The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | U.S. | 1925
The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | U.S. | 1940
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Albert Lewin | U.S. | 1945
The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | U.S. | 1946
The Red Shoes | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1948
The Scarlet Empress | Josef von Sternberg | U.S. | 1934
The Set-Up | Robert Wise | U.S. | 1949
The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | U.S. | 1940
The Thin Man | W.S. Van Dyke | U.S. | 1934
The Third Man | Carol Reed | UK | 1949
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | U.S. | 1948
The Wind | Victor Sjöström | U.S. | 1928
The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | U.S. | 1939
The Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang | U.S. | 1944
To Be or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch | U.S. | 1942
To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | U.S. | 1944
Top Hat | Mark Sandrich | U.S. | 1935
Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | U.S. | 1932
Un chien andalou [An Andalusian Dog] | Luis Buñuel | France | 1929
Unfaithfully Yours | Preston Sturges | U.S. | 1948
Vampyr | Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark | 1932
Varieté [Variety] | E. A. Dupont | Germany | 1925
Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) | Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark | 1943
White Heat | Raoul Walsh | U.S. | 1949
Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | U.S. | 1942
You Only Live Once | Fritz Lang | U.S. | 1937
Александр Невский (Alexander Nevsky) | Сергей Эйзенштейн (Sergei Eisenstein) / Дмитрий Васильев (Dmitri Vasilyev) | U.S.S.R. | 1938
Броненосец «Потёмкин» (Battleship Potemkin/ Bronenosets Potemkin) | Сергей Эйзенштейн (Sergei Eisenstein) | U.S.S.R. | 1925
Иван Грозный I (Ivan the Terrible, Part I) | Сергей Эйзенштейн (Sergei Eisenstein) | U.S.S.R. | 1944
Октябрь (October) | Сергей Эйзенштейн (Sergei Eisenstein) / Григорий Александров (Grigory Aleksandrov) | U.S.S.R. | 1927
Старое и новое (The General Line) | Сергей Эйзенштейн (Sergei Eisenstein) / Григорий Александров (Grigory Aleksandrov) | U.S.S.R. | 1929
Стачка (Strike) | Сергей Эйзенштейн (Sergei Eisenstein) | U.S.S.R. | 1925
Человек с киноаппаратом [Man with a Movie Camera] | Dziga Vertov | U.S.S.R. | 1929
元禄 忠臣蔵 [The 47 Ronin] | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan | 1941
大人の見る繪本 生れてはみたけれど (I Was Born, But…) | 小津安二郎 (Yasujiro Ozu) | Japan | 1932
小城之春 (Spring in a Small Town) | 費穆 (Fei Mu) | China | 1948
晩春 [Late Spring] | 小津安二郎 (Yasujiro Ozu) | Japan | 1949
狂つた一頁 (A Page of Madness) | 衣笠貞之助 (Teinosuke Kinugasa) | Japan | 1926
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Officially less than week to vote. However I will give you an extra week to vote (because I need it too). So the new dead line is 8th of August.

So far I have received lists from
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Just sent mine, almost completely forgot about this
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Less than four days to vote.

So far I've received lists from
stone37
bonnielaurel
The_Claw
mileswide
BleuPanda
whuntva
Michel
Miguel and
Schüttelbirne

I hope to get the lists from people who have voted in the first round (Greg, pauldrach and Spaniard).
Anyone else who have watched these movies is of course more than welcome to participate in too.
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The voting is officially ended. I would still want to see lists from
Greg wrote:
,
pauldrach wrote:
and
Spaniard wrote:
. Greg has always participated in these film polls so if you're reading this. Please let me know are you going to submit your list today (or tomorrow at latest).
Two movies don't have a single voter (and one of them is not even a wild card nomination(!)). If they don't get a vote I will exclude them from the final top 197.
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Sorry! I'll send mine in asap
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I got list from Greg. No one else commented so I close the voting. The final countdown starts soon.
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