The Great Movie Tournament - Nominations Thread: 1930s

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And here we go!

This is the nominations thread for the ninth portion of The Great Movie Tournament (ninth of ten) where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1930s (from 1930 to 1939). 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, 1930 and December 31, 1939 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 96 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 3 titles - top 2 move on
• Round 2: 32 groups of 2 - top 1 moves on
• Round 3: 16 groups of 2 - 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. King Kong (1933), dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
2. The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
3. Gone with the Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
4. M (1931), dir. Fritz Lang
5. A Night at the Opera (1935), dir. Sam Wood
6. The 39 Steps (1935), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Modern Times (1936), dir. Charlie Chaplin
8. Alice in Wonderland (1933), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
9. Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), dir. David Hand
11. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) dir. Lewis Milestone
12. The Rules of the Game (1939), dir. Jean Renoir
13. It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
14. The Thin Man (1934), dir. W. S. Van Dyke
15. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), dir. James Whale
16. Frankenstein (1931), dir. James Whale
17. Dracula (1931), dir. Tod Browning
18. City Lights (1931), dir. Charlie Chaplin
19. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra
20. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) dir. Sam Wood
21. The Lady Vanishes (1938), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
22. White Zombie (1932), dir. Victor Halperin
23. The Invisible Man (1933), dir. James Whale
24. Freaks (1932), dir. Tod Browning
25. Grand Illusion (1937), dir. Jean Renoir
26. L'Âge d'Or (1930), dir. Luis Buñuel
27. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), dir. Frank Lloyd
28. Dinner at Eight (1933), dir. George Cukor
29. Scarface (1932), dir. Howard Hawks
30. Duck Soup (1933), dir. Leo McCarey
31. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), dir. Fritz Lang
32. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), dir. Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
33. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), dir. Michael Curtiz
34. Grand Hotel (1932), dir. Edmund Goulding
35. The Women (1939), dir. George Cukor
36. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), dir. Harold Young
37. The Blue Angel (1930), dir. Josef von Sternberg
38. The Mummy (1932), dir. Karl Freund
39. Vampyr (1932), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
40. Dark Victory (1939), dir. Edmund Goulding
41. Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
42. Queen Christina (1933), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
43. The Public Enemy (1931), dir. William A. Wellman
44. You Can't Take It with You (1938), dir. Frank Capra
45. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), dir. William Dieterle
46. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), dir. Dorothy Arzner
47. Mad Love (1935), dir. Karl Freund
48. Swing Time (1936), dir. George Stevens
49. My Man Godfrey (1936), dir. Gregory La Cava
50. Only Angels Have Wings (1939), dir. Howard Hawks
51. Wuthering Heights (1939), dir. William Wyler
52. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), dir. Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley
53. Holiday (1938), dir. George Cukor
54. Shanghai Express (1932), dir. Josef von Sternberg
55. Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
56. The Black Cat (1934), dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
57. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
58. Babes in Toyland (1934), dir. Charley Rogers and Gus Meins
59. Libeled Lady (1936), dir. Jack Conway
60. Sons of the Desert (1933), dir. William A. Seiter
61. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), dir. Sidney Lanfield
62. The Good Earth (1937), dir. Sidney Franklin
63. The Petrified Forest (1936), dir. Archie Mayo
64. Animal Crackers (1930), dir. Victor Heerman
65. Island of Lost Souls (1932), dir. Erle C. Kenton
66. 42nd Street (1933), dir. Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
67. Easy Living (1937), dir. Mitchell Leisen
68. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
69. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
70. Baby Face (1933), dir. Alfred E. Green
71. Gunga Din (1939) dir. George Stevens
72. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), dir. Allan Dwan
73. Little Caesar (1931), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
74. Gulliver's Travels (1939), dir. Dave Fleischer
75. Tarzan and His Mate (1934), dir. Cedric Gibbons
76. Little Women (1933), dir. George Cukor
77. Morocco (1930), dir. Josef von Sternberg
78. The Old Dark House (1932), dir. James Whale
79. Sylvia Scarlett (1935), dir. George Cukor
80. She Done Him Wrong (1932), dir. Lowell Sherman
81. Footlight Parade (1933), dir. Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
82. Sabotage (1936), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
83. Alice Adams (1935), dir. George Stevens
84. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), dir. Michael Curtiz
85. The Walking Dead (1936), dir. Michael Curtiz
86. Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
87. Dracula's Daughter (1936), dir. Lambert Hillyer
88. Dodsworth (1936), dir. William Wyler
89. Stage Door (1937), dir. Gregory La Cava
90. Camille (1936), dir. George Cukor
91. The Awful Truth (1937), dir. Leo McCarey
92. Fury (1936), dir. Fritz Lang
93. The Big Trail (1930), dir. Raoul Walsh
94. The Raven (1935), dir. Lew Landers
95. Lost Horizon (1937) dir. Frank Capra
96. A Tale of Two Cities (1935), dir. Jack Conway

List of films not seconded:

1. Mädchen in Uniform (1931), dir. Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich
2. Le Jour se Lève (1939), dir. Marcel Carné
3. Reefer Madness (1936), dir. Louis J. Gasnier
4. L'Atalante (1934), dir. Jean Vigo
5. You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939), dir. George Marshall and Edward F. Cline
6. Nothing Sacred (1937), dir. William A. Wellman
7. The Tale of the Fox (1937), dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz and Irene Starewicz
8. I'm No Angel (1933), dir. Wesley Ruggles
9. The Scarlet Empress (1934), dir. Josef von Sternberg
10. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), dir. Frank Capra
11. The Sign of the Cross (1932), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
12. The Life of Emile Zola (1937), dir. William Dieterle
13. Trouble in Paradise (1932), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
14. Marked Woman (1937), dir. Lloyd Bacon
15. Deluge (1933), dir. Felix E. Feist
16. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), dir. Anatole Litvak
17. Night Nurse (1931), dir. William A. Wellman
18. Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
19. Dead End (1937), dir. William Wyler
20. American Madness (1932), dir. Frank Capra
21. The Four Feathers (1939), dir. Zoltan Korda
22. Monkey Business (1931), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
23. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), dir. George B. Seitz
24. Pépé le Moko (1937), dir. Julien Duvivier
25. Madam Satan (1930), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
26. The Front Page (1931), dir. Lewis Milestone
27. The Little Princess (1939), dir. Walter Lang
28. Call Her Savage (1932), dir. John Francis Dillon
29. Doctor X (1932), dir. Michael Curtiz
30. The Roaring Twenties (1939), dir. Raoul Walsh
31. Zero for Conduct (1933), dir. Jean Vigo
32. It's a Gift (1934), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
33. The Cat and the Canary (1939), dir. Elliott Nugent
34. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), dir. John Ford
35. The Story of Temple Drake (1933), dir. Stephen Roberts
36. Red Dust (1932), dir. Victor Fleming
37. Blonde Venus (1932), dir. Josef von Sternberg
38. Design for Living (1933), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
39. Under Western Stars (1938), dir. Joseph Kane
40. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), dir. Clyde Bruckman
41. Jezebel (1938), dir. William Wyler
42. Of Human Hearts (1938), dir. Clarence Brown
43. Horse Feathers (1932), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
44. Comradeship (1931), dir. G. W. Pabst

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I'll kick things off with not just the best movie of the 1930s, in my opinion, but one of the best of all time, and the funniest movie ever made:

Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Howard Hawks

Watch trailer:

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King Kong (1933)

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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Victor Fleming

Watch trailer:

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King Kong (1933)

Seconded.

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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Victor Fleming

Watch trailer:

Hard Second.

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Frankenstein (1931).

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A Night at the Opera (1935)
Sam Wood

Watch trailer:

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Dracula (1931).

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

Watch trailer:

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Gone with the Wind (1939).

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City Lights (1931)
Charlie Chaplin

Watch trailer:

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The 39 Steps (1935).
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Alfred Hitchcock

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M (1931).
Dir. Fritz Lang

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Well, I have to second my Mom's favorite movie GWTW.

I nominate Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) dir. Sam Wood

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And I'll second M.

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Modern Times (1936).
Dir. Charlie Chaplin

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A Night at the Opera (1935)
Sam Wood

Watch trailer:

Seconded.

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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Frank Capra

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Nominate - Lost Horizons (1937) dir. Frank Capra

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L'Âge d'Or (1930)
Luis Buñuel

Watch trailer:

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Second 39 Steps

Nom - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) dir. Lewis Millestone

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I'll second Modern Times.

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Scarface (1932).