Here are the vote counts for the films I'm tracking for my watchlist with less than 5000 votes:
Blithe Spirit (3,830)
Objective, Burma! (3,576)
Isle of the Dead (3,006)
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (2,987)
State Fair (2,831)
Back to Bataan (2,796)
A Walk in the Sun (2,733)
Road to Utopia (2,668)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (2,437)
The Story of G.I. Joe (2,320)
The Clock (2,306)
Conflict (2,195)
The Enchanted Cottage (2,159)
The Southerner (1,900)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1,884)
The Corn Is Green (1,840)
Hangover Square (1,640)
Wonder Man (1,479)
The Naughty Nineties (1,458)
Murder, He Says (1,397)
The Valley of Decision (1,351)
Sanshiro Sugata Pt 2 (1,338)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1,242)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1,200)
The Battle of San Pietro (1,133)
Love Letters (1,111)
The Seventh Veil (1,017)
The Way to the Stars (980)
The Wicked Lady (808)
Vacation from Marriage (715)
Yolanda and the Thief (669)
Kitty (528)
A Diary for Timothy (500)
A Bell for Adano (477)
The Cheaters (353)
The True Glory (274)
The Woman in Green seems to be the only film of the year with total votes in the 4,000 range. So we could lower the threshold to 4,000 or even 3,000 and only barely change the total number of ineligible films ... but it might make for a better precedent for future Retrospot years.
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