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The Great Movie Tournament - Nominations Thread: 1930s
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:- King Kong (1933), dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
- The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
- Gone with the Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
- M (1931), dir. Fritz Lang
- A Night at the Opera (1935), dir. Sam Wood
- The 39 Steps (1935), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Modern Times (1936), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Alice in Wonderland (1933), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
- Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), dir. David Hand
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) dir. Lewis Milestone
- The Rules of the Game (1939), dir. Jean Renoir
- It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
- The Thin Man (1934), dir. W. S. Van Dyke
- The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), dir. James Whale
- Frankenstein (1931), dir. James Whale
- Dracula (1931), dir. Tod Browning
- City Lights (1931), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) dir. Sam Wood
- The Lady Vanishes (1938), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- White Zombie (1932), dir. Victor Halperin
- The Invisible Man (1933), dir. James Whale
- Freaks (1932), dir. Tod Browning
- Grand Illusion (1937), dir. Jean Renoir
- L'Âge d'Or (1930), dir. Luis Buñuel
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), dir. Frank Lloyd
- Dinner at Eight (1933), dir. George Cukor
- Scarface (1932), dir. Howard Hawks
- Duck Soup (1933), dir. Leo McCarey
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), dir. Fritz Lang
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), dir. Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), dir. Michael Curtiz
- Grand Hotel (1932), dir. Edmund Goulding
- The Women (1939), dir. George Cukor
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), dir. Harold Young
- The Blue Angel (1930), dir. Josef von Sternberg
- The Mummy (1932), dir. Karl Freund
- Vampyr (1932), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Dark Victory (1939), dir. Edmund Goulding
- Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Queen Christina (1933), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
- The Public Enemy (1931), dir. William A. Wellman
- You Can't Take It with You (1938), dir. Frank Capra
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), dir. William Dieterle
- Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), dir. Dorothy Arzner
- Mad Love (1935), dir. Karl Freund
- Swing Time (1936), dir. George Stevens
- My Man Godfrey (1936), dir. Gregory La Cava
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939), dir. Howard Hawks
- Wuthering Heights (1939), dir. William Wyler
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), dir. Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley
- Holiday (1938), dir. George Cukor
- Shanghai Express (1932), dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
- The Black Cat (1934), dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
- Babes in Toyland (1934), dir. Charley Rogers and Gus Meins
- Libeled Lady (1936), dir. Jack Conway
- Sons of the Desert (1933), dir. William A. Seiter
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), dir. Sidney Lanfield
- The Good Earth (1937), dir. Sidney Franklin
- The Petrified Forest (1936), dir. Archie Mayo
- Animal Crackers (1930), dir. Victor Heerman
- Island of Lost Souls (1932), dir. Erle C. Kenton
- 42nd Street (1933), dir. Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
- Easy Living (1937), dir. Mitchell Leisen
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Baby Face (1933), dir. Alfred E. Green
- Gunga Din (1939) dir. George Stevens
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), dir. Allan Dwan
- Little Caesar (1931), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Gulliver's Travels (1939), dir. Dave Fleischer
- Tarzan and His Mate (1934), dir. Cedric Gibbons
- Little Women (1933), dir. George Cukor
- Morocco (1930), dir. Josef von Sternberg
- The Old Dark House (1932), dir. James Whale
- Sylvia Scarlett (1935), dir. George Cukor
- She Done Him Wrong (1932), dir. Lowell Sherman
- Footlight Parade (1933), dir. Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
- Sabotage (1936), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Alice Adams (1935), dir. George Stevens
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), dir. Michael Curtiz
- The Walking Dead (1936), dir. Michael Curtiz
- Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
- Dracula's Daughter (1936), dir. Lambert Hillyer
- Dodsworth (1936), dir. William Wyler
- Stage Door (1937), dir. Gregory La Cava
- Camille (1936), dir. George Cukor
- The Awful Truth (1937), dir. Leo McCarey
- Fury (1936), dir. Fritz Lang
- The Big Trail (1930), dir. Raoul Walsh
- The Raven (1935), dir. Lew Landers
- Lost Horizon (1937) dir. Frank Capra
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935), dir. Jack Conway
List of films not seconded:- Mädchen in Uniform (1931), dir. Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich
- Le Jour se Lève (1939), dir. Marcel Carné
- Reefer Madness (1936), dir. Louis J. Gasnier
- L'Atalante (1934), dir. Jean Vigo
- You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939), dir. George Marshall and Edward F. Cline
- Nothing Sacred (1937), dir. William A. Wellman
- The Tale of the Fox (1937), dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz and Irene Starewicz
- I'm No Angel (1933), dir. Wesley Ruggles
- The Scarlet Empress (1934), dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), dir. Frank Capra
- The Sign of the Cross (1932), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937), dir. William Dieterle
- Trouble in Paradise (1932), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Marked Woman (1937), dir. Lloyd Bacon
- Deluge (1933), dir. Felix E. Feist
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), dir. Anatole Litvak
- Night Nurse (1931), dir. William A. Wellman
- Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
- Dead End (1937), dir. William Wyler
- American Madness (1932), dir. Frank Capra
- The Four Feathers (1939), dir. Zoltan Korda
- Monkey Business (1931), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
- Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), dir. George B. Seitz
- Pépé le Moko (1937), dir. Julien Duvivier
- Madam Satan (1930), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
- The Front Page (1931), dir. Lewis Milestone
- The Little Princess (1939), dir. Walter Lang
- Call Her Savage (1932), dir. John Francis Dillon
- Doctor X (1932), dir. Michael Curtiz
- The Roaring Twenties (1939), dir. Raoul Walsh
- Zero for Conduct (1933), dir. Jean Vigo
- It's a Gift (1934), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
- The Cat and the Canary (1939), dir. Elliott Nugent
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), dir. John Ford
- The Story of Temple Drake (1933), dir. Stephen Roberts
- Red Dust (1932), dir. Victor Fleming
- Blonde Venus (1932), dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Design for Living (1933), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Under Western Stars (1938), dir. Joseph Kane
- Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), dir. Clyde Bruckman
- Jezebel (1938), dir. William Wyler
- Of Human Hearts (1938), dir. Clarence Brown
- Horse Feathers (1932), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
- Comradeship (1931), dir. G. W. Pabst
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