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What are your top five?

Make Way for Tomorrow
5 (6.1%)
The Grand Illusion
14 (17.1%)
The Awful Truth
9 (11%)
Confession
0 (0%)
Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux
1 (1.2%)
Captains Courageous
4 (4.9%)
Pépé le Moko
2 (2.4%)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
14 (17.1%)
The Good Earth
0 (0%)
Ever Since Eve
0 (0%)
Lost Horizon
1 (1.2%)
The Prisoner of Zenda
0 (0%)
Way Out West
0 (0%)
Easy Living
0 (0%)
Humanity and Paper Balloons
2 (2.4%)
Un carnet de bal
0 (0%)
A Star Is Born
3 (3.7%)
Stage Door
4 (4.9%)
It's Love I'm After
2 (2.4%)
True Confession
0 (0%)
Oh, Mr. Porter!
0 (0%)
The Road Back
0 (0%)
Shall We Dance
1 (1.2%)
Nothing Sacred
0 (0%)
Dead End
1 (1.2%)
A Day at the Races
3 (3.7%)
You Only Live Once
1 (1.2%)
Harvest
0 (0%)
Street Angel
0 (0%)
Stella Dallas
1 (1.2%)
The Life of Emile Zola
3 (3.7%)
Ali Baba Goes to Town
0 (0%)
Angel
0 (0%)
They Won't Forget
0 (0%)
Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes War
0 (0%)
Topper
2 (2.4%)
Wise Girl
0 (0%)
History Is Made at Night
2 (2.4%)
The Hurricane
1 (1.2%)
Maytime
0 (0%)
The Edge of the World
1 (1.2%)
The Prince and the Pauper
0 (0%)
Kid Galahad
0 (0%)
Heidi
0 (0%)
Marked Woman
0 (0%)
Night Must Fall
1 (1.2%)
High, Wide, and Handsome
0 (0%)
What Did the Lady Forget?
0 (0%)
Bezhin Meadow
0 (0%)
In Old Chicago
0 (0%)
Wee Willie Winkie
2 (2.4%)
One Hundred Men and a Girl
0 (0%)
The Spanish Earth
0 (0%)
Song at Midnight
0 (0%)
Beethoven's Great Love
0 (0%)
Children in the Wind
1 (1.2%)
Trade Tattoo
1 (1.2%)

Total Members Voted: 25

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Re: Best Films of 1937
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2010, 01:48:27 AM »
4. Wee Willie Winkie

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Re: Best Films of 1937
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2010, 03:29:07 AM »
5. Dead End
4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
3. The Awful Truth
2. Captains Courageous
1. The Grand Illusion

Just Missed the Cut: Shall We Dance

Film I Most Want To See: Un carnet de bal

Film I Most Want To Revisit: A Star Is Born

Nothing here that I whole-heartedly love, at least not yet.

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Re: Best Films of 1937
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2010, 07:31:16 AM »
   1. La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion) ****
   2. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs ****
   3. Stage Door ***½
   4. The Awful Truth ***
   5. The Good Earth **

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Re: Best Films of 1937
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2010, 12:52:59 PM »

2. Captains Courageous


I've seen that, but don't appear to have put it on a list.  Should be in the 8-10 range for me.
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« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2010, 01:15:55 PM »
2. Captains Courageous
I've seen that, but don't appear to have put it on a list.  Should be in the 8-10 range for me.
It's kind of a nostalgia pick for me. I mean, Spencer Tracy's character is named Manuel Fidello. That's a potential sticking point, for sure. I've been putting off revisiting for a while now, relying on the old "I need to read the book first" excuse. But the book is already on my shelf, so it just may happen one day.

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Re: Best Films of 1937
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2010, 01:20:58 PM »
Nothing here that I whole-heartedly love, at least not yet.

I see a viewing of Wee Willy Winkie in your future.
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« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2010, 01:23:30 PM »
Nothing here that I whole-heartedly love, at least not yet.

I see a viewing of Wee Willy Winkie in your future.

Indeed. I'll be going through the whole Ford at Fox set, if I ever can catch up on Far East films.

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« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2010, 03:24:33 AM »
2. Captains Courageous
I've seen that, but don't appear to have put it on a list.  Should be in the 8-10 range for me.
It's kind of a nostalgia pick for me. I mean, Spencer Tracy's character is named Manuel Fidello. That's a potential sticking point, for sure. I've been putting off revisiting for a while now, relying on the old "I need to read the book first" excuse. But the book is already on my shelf, so it just may happen one day.

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As the world's biggest Cabin Boy fan, it's a film I certainly related to.  Tracy was pretty great, even with the outrageous accent.
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Re: Best Films of 1937
« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2010, 05:37:48 PM »
Please add Humanity and Paper Balloons, Children in the Wind, and Trade Tattoo.

1. Humanity and Paper Balloons
2. Children in the Wind
3. The Grand Illusion
4. Pepe le moko
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« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2010, 09:20:27 PM »
Please add Humanity and Paper Balloons, Children in the Wind, and Trade Tattoo.

Paper Balloons was already there.  I almost added Trade Tattoo inititally, thinking you might vote for it, but I got lazy.

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