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TOP FILMS OF THE 1940's (full results)

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Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 113 28 12
#2 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) 85 24 7
#3 The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) 44 14 3
#4 The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) 26 8 1
#5 Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné, 1945) 24 8 1
#6 The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942) 20 6 1
#7 It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) 19 7 1
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949) 19 5 2
#9 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) 17 7 -
#10 Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1943) 16 6 -
#11 His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) 15 6 -
#12 Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, 1947) 13 4 1
#13 Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) 12 6 1
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) 12 4 1
#14 The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940) 11 3 1
The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger, 1943) 11 4 1
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947) 11 3 -
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948) 11 3 1
#18 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) 10 3 1
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) 10 3 1
Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) 10 3 1
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) 10 4 -
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) 10 5 -
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940) 10 4 -
#24 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) 9 3 -
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1949) 9 2 1
#26 Bambi (David Hand, 1942) 8 2 -
I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller, 1949) 8 2 -
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) 8 3 1
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) 8 2 1
#30 Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945) 7 2 -
A Canterbury Tale (Powell/Pressburger, 1944) 6 2 1
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945) 6 2 -
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell/Pressberger, 1946) 6 2 1
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, 1948) 6 3 -
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L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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