My Favorite Joseph H. Lewis Films (New)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Gun Crazy (1949)

2.   Cry of the Hunted (1953)

3.   The Halliday Brand (1957)

4.   The Big Combo (1955)

5.   Terror in a Texas Town (1958)

6.   So Dark the Night (1946)

7.   My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

8.   The Undercover Man (1949)
(I saw it a long time ago on TCM)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   A Lady Without Passport (1950)

2.   Retreat, Hell! (1952)

3.   A Lawless Street (1955)

4.   Desperate Search (1952)

5.   7th Cavalry (1956)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite Arthur Penn Films (New)

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1.   Alice’s Restaurant (1969)

2.   Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

3.   Night Moves (1975)

4.   Mickey One (1965)

5.   Four Friends (1981)

6.   The Left Handed Gun (1958)

7.   The Missouri Breaks (1976)

8.   Little Big Man (1970)

9.   Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Target (1985)

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   Regeneration (1915)

3.   High Sierra (1941)

4.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Silent Version)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

2.   They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Dark Command (1940)

5.   They Drive By Night (1940)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   The Big Trail (1930)

8.   What Price Glory (1926)
(Silent Version)

9.   The Bowery (1933)

10. Manpower (1941)

11. Colorado Territory (1949)

12. The Man I Love (1947)

13. Pursued (1947)

14. Uncertain Glory (1944)

My Favorite Edgar G. Ulmer Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   The Black Cat (1934)

2.   Detour (1945)

3.   Bluebeard (1944)

4.   Ruthless (1948)

5.   The Man from Planet X (1951)

6.   The Naked Dawn (1955)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Strange Illusion (1945)

2.   Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

3.   The Strange Woman (1946)

Note: I first saw The Naked Dawn on television a decade ago on some TV station.

My Favorite Jan Troell Films (New)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Hamsun (1996)

2.   Everlasting Moments (2008)

3.   Zandy’s Bride (1974)

4.   The New Land (1972)

5.   The Emigrants (1971)

6.   Flight of the Eagle (1982)

 

My Favorite Preston Sturges Films (Revised and Updated)

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1.   The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

2.   The Lady Eve (1941)

3.   The Palm Beach Story (1942)

4.   Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

5.   Christmas in July (1940)

6.   Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

7.   The Great McGinty (1940)

8.   Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

9.   The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

10. The Great Moment (1944)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

11. The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

 

My Favorite Anthony Mann Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Naked Spur (1953)

2.   Winchester ’73 (1950)

3.   He Walked by Night (1948) (co-directed with Alfred L. Werker)

4.   Bend of the River (1952)

5.   The Man from Laramie (1955)

6.   The Far Country (1954)

7.   Man of the West (1958)

8.   The Furies (1950)

9.   Devil’s Doorway (1950)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   T-Men (1947)

2.   Raw Deal (1948) (No relation to the 1986 film)

3.   The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

4.   El Cid (1961)

5.   Side Street (1950)

6.   Railroaded! (1947)

7.   The Tin Star (1957)

8.   Border Incident (1949)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films (New)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

2.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

3.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

4.   Au revoir les enfants (1987)

5.   Atlantic City (1980)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)

My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   M (1931)

2.   Metropolis (1927)

3.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

4.   Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic (1959)

5.   The Big Heat (1953)

6.   The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7.   Spies (1928)

8.   Die Nibelungen (1924)

9.   Scarlet Street (1945)

10. The Woman in the Window (1944)

11. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

12. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

13. Rancho Notorious (1952)

14. House by the River (1950)

15. The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

16. Destiny (1921)

17. The Spiders (1919/1920)

18. Harakiri (1919)

19. Liliom (1934)

20. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) (Not the 2009 version)

21. Woman in the Moon (1929)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

23. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

24. Ministry of Fear (1944)

25. You Only Live Once (1937)

26. Man Hunt (1941)

27. Human Desire (1954)

28. Western Union (1941)

29. You and Me (1938)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Clash by Night (1952)

32. Fury (1936) (No releation to the 1978 or 2014 films)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Cloak and Dagger (1946)

2.   Moonfleet (1955)

3.   American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950)