The Great Movie Tournament - Nominations Thread: 1940s

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And here we go!

This is the nominations thread for the eighth portion of The Great Movie Tournament (eighth of ten) where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1940s (from 1940 to 1949). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 1940 and December 31, 1949 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).

Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):

• You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after one other member has made their nomination.
• You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after two other members has made their seconds.
• If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
• Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.

Once 128 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.

• Round 1: 32 groups of 4 titles - top 3 move on
• Round 2: 32 groups of 3 titles - top 2 move on
• Round 3: 16 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
• Round 4: 16 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
• Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
• Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
• Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
• Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner

This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in. You can also keep up to date with this handy Google Sheet.

Enjoy and have fun!

List of seconded films:

1. Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
2. The Great Dictator (1940), dir. Charlie Chaplin
3. Rebecca (1940), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
5. Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder
6. The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
7. Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
8. The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed
9. It's a Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra
10. Rope (1948), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
11. Fantasia (1940), dir. Samuel Armstrong, Wilfred Jackson, et al
12. The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor
13. Bambi (1942), dir. David Hand
14. The Red Shoes (1948), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
15. Cat People (1942), dir. Jacques Tourneur
16. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), dir. John Huston
17. Laura (1944), dir. Otto Preminger
18. His Girl Friday (1940), dir. Howard Hawks
19. Gaslight (1940), dir. Thorold Dickinson
20. Bicycle Thieves (1948), dir. Vittorio De Sica
21. Suspicion (1941), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
22. The Big Sleep (1946), dir. Howard Hawks
23. To Be or Not to Be (1942), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
24. Children of Paradise (1945), dir. Marcel Carné
25. The Uninvited (1944), dir. Lewis Allen
26. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), dir. John Ford
27. Miracle on 34th Street (1947), dir. George Seaton
28. Late Spring (1949), dir. Yasujirō Ozu
29. Drunken Angel (1948), dir. Akira Kurosawa
30. Black Narcissus (1947), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
31. Mildred Pierce (1945), dir. Michael Curtiz
32. Shadow of a Doubt (1943), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
33. The Lady Eve (1941), dir. Preston Sturges
34. Stray Dog (1949), dir. Akira Kurosawa
35. The Mark of Zorro (1940), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
36. The Wolf Man (1941), dir. George Waggner
37. Detour (1945), dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
38. Foreign Correspondent (1940), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
39. Gilda (1946), dir. Charles Vidor
40. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
41. Pinocchio (1940), dir. Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske
42. Beauty and the Beast (1946), dir. Jean Cocteau
43. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), dir. Frank Capra
44. Red River (1948), dir. Howard Hawks
45. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), dir. Vincente Minnelli
46. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), dir. H. C. Potter
47. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), dir. Victor Fleming
48. The Thief of Bagdad (1940), dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan
49. Saboteur (1942), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
50. The Lady from Shanghai (1947), dir. Orson Welles
51. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), dir. Orson Welles
52. Murder, My Sweet (1944), dir. Edward Dmytryk
53. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), dir. William Dieterle
54. The Spiral Staircase (1946), dir. Robert Siodmak
55. I Married a Witch (1942), dir. René Clair
56. Waterloo Bridge (1940), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
57. Spellbound (1945), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
58. The Bishop's Wife (1947), dir. Henry Koster
59. Key Largo (1948), dir. John Huston
60. Out of the Past (1947), dir. Jacques Tourneur
61. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), dir. Tay Garnett
62. The Stranger (1946), dir. Orson Welles
63. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), dir. William Wyler
64. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), dir. Charles Barton
65. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
66. Great Expectations (1946), dir. David Lean
67. The Snake Pit (1948), dir. Anatole Litvak
68. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), dir. Albert Lewin
69. My Darling Clementine (1946), dir. John Ford
70. Dumbo (1941), dir. Ben Sharpsteen
71. Holiday Inn (1942), dir. Mark Sandrich
72. I Walked with a Zombie (1943), dir. Jacques Tourneur
73. Nightmare Alley (1947), dir. Edmund Goulding
74. On the Town (1949), dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
75. Christmas in Connecticut (1945), dir. Peter Godfrey
76. White Heat (1949), dir. Raoul Walsh
77. Phantom of the Opera (1943), dir. Arthur Lubin
78. The Heiress (1949), dir. William Wyler
79. A Night in Casablanca (1946), dir. Archie Mayo
80. Lifeboat (1944), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
81. Gentleman's Agreement (1947), dir. Elia Kazan
82. Stormy Weather (1943), dir. Andrew L. Stone
83. The Killers (1946), dir. Robert Siodmak
84. Sullivan's Travels (1941), dir. Preston Sturges
85. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), dir. Elia Kazan
86. How Green Was My Valley (1941), dir. John Ford
87. Dead of Night (1945), dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer
88. A Matter of Life and Death (1946), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
89. Twelve O'Clock High (1949), dir. Henry King
90. My Little Chickadee (1940), dir. Edward F. Cline
91. All The King's Men (1949), dir. Robert Rossen
92. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), dir. William A. Wellman
93. Sergeant York (1941), dir. Howard Hawks
94. To Have and Have Not (1944), dir. Howard Hawks
95. Mrs. Miniver (1942), dir. William Wyler
96. Mighty Joe Young (1949), dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
97. Day of Wrath (1943), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
98. Brief Encounter (1945), dir. David Lean
99. The Lost Weekend (1945), dir. Billy Wilder
100. Remember the Night (1940), dir. Mitchell Leisen
101. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), dir. Robert Hamer
102. Hamlet (1948), dir. Laurence Olivier
103. The Pride of the Yankees (1942), dir. Sam Wood
104. The Leopard Man (1943), dir. Jacques Tourneur
105. The Shop Around the Corner (1940), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
106. The Yearling (1946), dir. Clarence Brown
107. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
108. Adam's Rib (1949), dir. George Cukor
109. I Was a Male War Bride (1949), dir. Howard Hawks
110. The Little Foxes (1941), dir. William Wyler
111. National Velvet (1944), dir. Clarence Brown
112. The Major and the Minor (1942), dir. Billy Wilder
113. A Woman's Face (1941), dir. George Cukor
114. Angel and the Badman (1947), dir. James Edward Grant
115. The Palm Beach Story (1942), dir. Preston Sturges
116. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), dir. Preston Sturges
117. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), dir. Irving Reis
118. Jane Eyre (1943), dir. Robert Stevenson
119. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), dir. Preston Sturges
120. Lassie Come Home (1943), dir. Fred M. Wilcox
121. They Were Expendable (1945), dir. John Ford
122. Going My Way (1944), dir. Leo McCarey
123. The Bank Dick (1940), dir. Edward F. Cline
124. Heaven Can Wait (1943), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
125. The Body Snatcher (1945), dir. Robert Wise
126. The Enchanted Cottage (1945), dir. John Cromwell
127. Unfaithfully Yours (1948), dir. Preston Sturges
128. Little Women (1949), dir. Mervyn LeRoy

List of films not seconded:

1. Rome, Open City (1945), dir. Roberto Rosselini
2. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), dir. W. S. Van Dyke
3. The Razor's Edge (1946), dir. Edmund Goulding
4. Don't Fence Me In (1945), dir. John English
5. The Mortal Storm (1940), dir. Frank Borzage
6. The Silence of the Sea (1949), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
7. The Scarlet Claw (1944), dir. Roy William Neill
8. Crossfire (1947), dir. Edward Dmytryk
9. The Farmer's Daughter (1947), dir. H. C. Potter
10. Murder, He Says (1945), dir. George Marshall
11. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), dir. Dorothy Arzner
12. Crook's Tour (1941), dir. John Baxter
13. Battleground (1949), dir. William A. Wellman
14. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940), dir. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor
15. The Naughty Nineties (1945), dir. Jean Yarbrough
16. Cabin in the Sky (1943), dir. Vincente Minnelli
17. The Naked City (1948), dir. Jules Dassin
18. A Letter to Three Wives (1949), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
19. Brute Force (1947), dir. Jules Dassin
20. The Big Street (1942), dir. Irving Reis
21. The Queen of Spades (1949), dir. Thorold Dickinson
22. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
23. Scarlet Street (1945), dir. Fritz Lang
24. The Letter (1940), dir. William Wyler
25. Not Wanted (1949), dir. Elmer Clifton and Ida Lupino
26. The Seventh Victim (1943), dir. Mark Robson
27. Since You Went Away (1944), dir. John Cromwell
28. Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941), dir. George B. Seitz
29. In This Our Life (1942), dir. John Huston
30. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), dir. Roy William Neill
31. The Curse of the Cat People (1944), dir. Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise
32. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), dir. Edward F. Cline
33. Bedlam (1946), dir. Mark Robson
34. Hellzapoppin' (1941), dir. H. C. Potter
35. Man Hunt (1941), dir. Fritz Lang
36. Le Corbeau (1943), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
37. Lured (1947), dir. Douglas Sirk
38. They Drive by Night (1940), dir. Raoul Walsh

[T-Dogz_AK47]

NOMINATION 1


Film: Citizen Kane
Director: Orson Welles
Year: 1941
Trailer:

[mae]

As usual, I'll kick this off with a fitting choice, which I just rewatched last month:

The Great Dictator (1940)
Charlie Chaplin

Watch trailer:

[mae]

Citizen Kane

Seconded, of course.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

As usual, I'll kick this off with a fitting choice, which I just rewatched last month:

The Great Dictator (1940)
Charlie Chaplin

Watch trailer:

And.... Seconded.

[fernandito]

Casablanca

Year: 1942
Dir: : Michael Curtiz

[T-Dogz_AK47]

NOMINATION 2


Film: Rebecca
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1940
Trailer:

[mae]

Double Indemnity (1944)
Billy Wilder

Watch trailer:

[fernandito]

NOMINATION 2


Film: Rebecca
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1940
Trailer:

2nd.

[mae]

I'll second Casablanca.

[fernandito]

I'll second Casablanca.

[Tommy]

The Maltese Falcon

[T-Dogz_AK47]

NOMINATION 3


Film: The Third Man
Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1949
Trailer:

[Tommy]

2ND Double Indemnity

[mae]

Bambi (1942)
David Hand

Watch trailer:

[T-Dogz_AK47]

The Maltese Falcon

Seconded.

[Tommy]

2ND The Third Man

[Tommy]

Nominate The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

[Tommy]

2ND The Third Man

I did this too early, sorry I am already screwing up!

[Tommy]

Nominate The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

And this, geeeez, I need some caffeine.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Nominate The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

And this, geeeez, I need some caffeine.

That nomination is fine Tommy. You are not out of sequence.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

NOMINATION 4


Film: Notorious
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1946
Trailer:

[mae]

The Philadelphia Story (1940)
George Cukor

Watch trailer:

[Tommy]

Nominate The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

And this, geeeez, I need some caffeine.

That nomination is fine Tommy. You are not out of sequence.

I see now. It's getting harder to keep up with the screen.

[Tommy]

Red River