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1
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
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Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
Comedy • Farce • Satire
3
Orson Welles • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt
Drama • Family Drama • Period Film
4
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway
Horror • Mystery • Romance
5
Preston Sturges • Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Romance
6
Irving Rapper • Starring: Claude Rains, Bonita Granville, Bette Davis
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
7
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger
Chase Movie • Spy Film • Thriller
8
Michael Curtiz • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
9
Sam Wood • Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, George Herman "Babe" Ruth
10
William Wyler • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Drama • Family Drama • Romance
11
David Hand • Starring: Bobby Stewart, Hardie Albright, Perce Pearce
Animated Musical • Animation • Family
12
William Keighley • Starring: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Holiday Film
13
George Stevens • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
14
Frank Tuttle • Starring: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
15
George Stevens • Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Drama
16
René Clair • Starring: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
17
Mark Sandrich • Starring: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical Romance
18
Stuart Heisler • Starring: Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd, Richard Denning
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
19
Billy Wilder • Starring: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Farce
20
David Butler • Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Buddy Film
21
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Henry Travers, Ronald Colman, Greer Garson
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
22
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy
Costume Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
23
Norman Ferguson • Starring: Fred Shields, José Oliveira, Pinto Colvig
Animated Musical • Animation • Comedy
24
William A. Seiter • Starring: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
25
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
Action • Adventure • Drama
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Vincent Sherman • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre
Comedy • Drama • Parody/Spoof
27
Alberto Cavalcanti • Starring: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor
Drama • Thriller • War
28
Busby Berkeley • Starring: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy
Drama • Musical Drama • Musical
29
Raoul Walsh • Starring: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shûji Sano, Shin Saburi
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
31
Noel Coward, David Lean • Starring: Michael Wilding, Noël Coward, Robert Sansom
Drama • War Drama • War
32
Henry King • Starring: Laird Cregar, Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Historical Film
33
John Huston • Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
Drama • Family Drama • Melodrama
34
Sam Wood • Starring: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
35
David Miller • Starring: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee
Action • Combat Films • Drama
36
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles
Comedy • Farce • Slapstick
37
Chuck Jones
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
38
Jack Kinney
39
Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Foreign Language Film
40
Zoltan Korda • Starring: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen
Adventure • Animal Picture • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
41
Friz Freleng
42
John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Logan Ramsey
Documentary • History • Military and War
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Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
Caper • Comedy • Crime
44
Leo McCarey • Starring: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
45
Dave Fleischer • Starring: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Julian Noa
Animation • Based-on-Comics • Cartoon
46
Harold Young • Starring: Dick Foran, John Hubbard, Elyse Knox
Adventure • Horror • Monster Film
47
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Paulette Goddard, John Wayne, Ray Milland
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
48
Dave Fleischer • Starring: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck
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Robert Clampett
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Adventure • Combat Films • Drama
54
Marcel Carné • Starring: Arletty, Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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John Rawlins • Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers
Crime • Crime Thriller • Detective Film
57
Jack King
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Ray Enright • Starring: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
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Victor Fleming • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Sidney Lanfield • Starring: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard
Comedy
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Comedy Drama • Crime • Crime Comedy
67
Izzy Sparber • Starring: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck
68
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
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John Brahm • Starring: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard
Drama • Gothic Film • Horror
70
William Keighley • Starring: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn
Comedy • Slapstick
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Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce
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Action • Animation • Based-on-Comics
74
George Cukor • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
Drama • Mystery • Psychological Drama
75
Robert Clampett • Starring: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce
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Frank Capra
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Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo • Starring: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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John Farrow • Starring: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, MacDonald Carey
Action • Adventure • Combat Films
79
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Culture and Society • Documentary • Military and War
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81
Richard Thorpe • Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield
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Dan Gordon • Starring: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jack Mercer
85
Lew Landers • Starring: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom
Comedy • Horror • Horror Comedy
86
Elliott Nugent • Starring: Joan Leslie, Eugene Pallette, Henry Fonda
Comedy • Drama • Psychological Drama
87
Arthur Lubin • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran
Comedy Western • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Irving Reis • Starring: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall
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Lewis Seiler • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
Drama • Melodrama
92
Lewis Seiler • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
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Jack King • Starring: Clarence Nash, John McLeish
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Alexander Hall • Starring: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair
Comedy • Screwball Comedy
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Harry Lachman • Starring: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Arleen Whelan
Crime • Detective Film • Mystery
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Charles Lederer • Starring: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
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Edwin L. Marin • Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, J. Edward Bromberg
Action Comedy • Action Thriller • Action
100
Ford Beebe • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Gothic Film • Horror • Mystery
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John Cromwell • Starring: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders
Adventure • Swashbuckler • Period Film
103
William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy
Drama • Melodrama • Period Film
104
Alfred L. Werker • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
105
John Rawlins • Starring: Sabu, Jon Hall, Maria Montez
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Dick Lundy
107
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed
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Jack Conway • Starring: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
Drama • Mystery
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110
Seymour Kneitel • Starring: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Julian Noa
111
Edwin L. Marin • Starring: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, William Gargan
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Tex Avery
113
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
114
S. Sylvan Simon • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson
Action • Action Comedy • Comedy
115
Dave Fleischer
116
Jules Dassin • Starring: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn
117
Wallace Fox • Starring: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
Crime • Crime Thriller • Horror
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Wesley Ruggles • Starring: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling
120
Riley Thomson
121
S. Sylvan Simon • Starring: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Slapstick
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George B. Seitz • Starring: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
124
Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton
Drama • Horror
125
William Nigh • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke
Mystery • Spy Film • Thriller
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Irving Cummings • Starring: Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, John Payne
128
Wallace Fox • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin
Horror • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Horror
129
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna • Starring: Clarence Nash, William Hanna, Martha Wentworth
Animation • Cartoon • Short Film
130
Julien Duvivier • Starring: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
131
Harry Edwards • Starring: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Comedy • Short Film • Slapstick
132
Irving Reis • Starring: George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
133
Richard Wallace • Starring: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Thriller
134
Irving Pichel • Starring: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter
Drama • War • War Drama
135
William Witney • Starring: Kane Richmond, Marguerite Chapman, Sam Flint
Based-on-Comics • Drama • Melodrama
136
Norman Taurog • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter
Comedy Drama • Drama
137
William C. McGann • Starring: John Wayne, Patsy Kelly, Binnie Barnes
Drama • Traditional Western • Western
138
Edward Buzzell • Starring: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr
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Chuck Jones • Starring: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, Harry Lang
140
Nick Grinde • Starring: Ward Bond, Paul Fix, Bobby Watson
Action • Adventure • Spy Film
141
Manoel de Oliveira • Starring: Américo Botelho, Feliciano David, Nascimento Fernandes
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
142
S. Sylvan Simon • Starring: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker
143
Joseph Cornell
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film
144
Alessandro Blasetti • Starring: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
145
Walter Lang • Starring: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman
147
Richard Thorpe • Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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Anatole Litvak • Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell
Drama • Message Movie • Romance
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Robert Stevenson • Starring: Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell
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Jules White • Starring: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
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Leslie Arliss • Starring: James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare
Mystery • Thriller
155
Frank R. Strayer • Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms
Based-on-Comics • Comedy • Screwball Comedy
156
Norman McCabe • Starring: Mel Blanc
157
Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen • Starring: Clarence Nash, Fred Shields, The Sportsmen Quartet
158
Joseph Kane • Starring: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Linda Hayes
Action • Adventure • Singing Cowboy
159
Friz Freleng • Starring: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
160
William Beaudine • Starring: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey
Detective Film • Horror • Mystery
161
Irving Reis • Starring: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason
162
Mitchell Leisen • Starring: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, MacDonald Carey
163
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters
164
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Edward Everett Horton
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Fantasy
165
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter
Childhood Drama • Drama • War Drama
166
Harry Lachman • Starring: J. Carrol Naish, Shepperd Strudwick, Lynne Roberts
Horror • Monster Film
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Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Pinto Colvig
Animal Picture • Animation • Cartoon
169
Albert Lewin • Starring: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley
Drama • Psychological Drama
170
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Robert Taylor, Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy
Adventure • Combat Films • War
171
Howard Bretherton • Starring: Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Nell O'Day
Action • Western
172
Gregory Ratoff • Starring: John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature
173
Walter Lang • Starring: Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche
174
Irving Rapper • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald
175
Ray McCarey • Starring: Virginia Gilmore, James Ellison, Dan Duryea
176
Frank Borzage • Starring: Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt, Cecilia Parker
Musical • Musical Romance • Romance
177
Herbert I. Leeds • Starring: Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Helene Reynolds
178
Frank Borzage • Starring: Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington
179
Jules Dassin • Starring: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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181
Based-on-Comics • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
182
Joseph Kane • Starring: Roy Rogers, George Hayes, Maris Wrixon
Musical • Singing Cowboy • Western
183
Lance Comfort • Starring: Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason
British Noir • Drama • Film Noir
184
Leslie Goodwins • Starring: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Comedy • Farce
185
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey
186
Friz Freleng • Starring: Mel Blanc, The Mellomen
187
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
188
Stanley Logan • Starring: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Action • Adventure • Crime
189
Howard Bretherton • Starring: Buck Jones, Mona Barie, Raymond Hatton
Adventure • Traditional Western • Western
190
Herbert Wilcox • Starring: Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman
191
Leigh Jason • Starring: Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Melodrama
192
Norman McLaren
Animation • Short Film
193
Del Lord • Starring: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
194
István Szöts • Starring: József Bihari, Nándor Bihary, Oszkár Borovszky
195
Hamilton Luske • Starring: Fred Shields
Animation • Cartoon • Documentary
196
Norm McCabe • Starring: Mel Blanc, Michael Maltese, John McLeish
197
Irving Cummings • Starring: Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
198
John Farrow • Starring: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Alexander Knox
Action • War • War Drama
199
Lew Landers • Starring: Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane
200
Based-on-Comics • Comedy
201
Anthony Mann • Starring: MacDonald Carey, Jean Phillips, Eduardo Ciannelli
Action • Action Comedy • Adventure
202
Harold Young • Starring: Hugh Herbert, Peggy Moran, Tom Brown
203
George Sherman • Starring: Damian O'Flynn, Helen Parrish, Dick Purcell
204
H. Bruce Humberstone • Starring: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott
205
Sam Newfield • Starring: Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe, Evelyn Wahl
Adventure • Jungle Film • Romantic Adventure
206
T.J. Särkkä • Starring: Tauno Palo, Regina Linnanheimo, Hanna Taini
207
Richard L. Bare • Starring: George O'Hanlon, Art Gilmore
Comedy • Short Film
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Ray Enright • Starring: Constance Bennett, Broderick Crawford, Patric Knowles
Action • Detective Film • Drama
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Harold S. Bucquet • Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn, Donna Reed
215
Jo Graham • Starring: Kay Francis, Walter Huston, Gloria Warren
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Musical
216
Leslie Howard • Starring: Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John
217
John Huston, Owen Crump • Starring: James Stewart
Documentary • Military and War • Short Film
218
Ford Beebe, John Rawlins • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Helen Parrish, Noah Beery Jr.
Action • Serial • Western
219
Henry Hathaway • Starring: George Montgomery, Maureen O'Hara, John Sutton
Drama • Historical Film • Period Film
220
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Sterling
Drama • Medical Drama
221
Lesley Selander • Starring: Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Joan Barclay
222
Edward F. Cline • Starring: The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Shemp Howard
223
Harold D. Schuster • Starring: Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements
224
William Nigh • Starring: Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne
Detective Film • Mystery
225
Charles Vidor • Starring: Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake
226
James A. Fitzpatrick • Starring: James A. FitzPatrick, Robert Eichelberger
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Tex Avery, Robert Clampett • Starring: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
228
Roy William Neill • Starring: Richard Dix, Lon Chaney Jr., Don Porter
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
229
John Francis Larkin • Starring: George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
230
Joseph Kane • Starring: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally Payne
231
Eugene Forde • Starring: Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris
232
Lance Comfort • Starring: Clifford Evans, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Arundell
233
William Beaudine • Starring: Sidney Blackmer, Thornton Edwards, Byron Foulger
234
Hannu Leminen • Starring: Birgit Kronström, Tauno Palo, Siiri Angerkoski
Comedy • Foreign Language Film
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Renato Castellani • Starring: Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa
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Helmut Käutner • Starring: Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa, Edith Oß
239
Jean Yarbrough • Starring: Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland
240
Jack Hively • Starring: Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt
Drama • Film Noir • Mystery
241
Williem Dieterle • Starring: Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey
242
Orvo Saarikivi • Starring: Ansa Ikonen, Eino Kaipainen, Toppo Elonperä
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
243
Marcel Varnel • Starring: George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley
244
Robert B. Sinclair • Starring: Gracie Allen, William Post, Jr., Paul Kelly
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
245
George Sherman • Starring: Don 'Red' Barry, Lynn Merrick, Robert Homans
Western
246
William Beaudine • Starring: John Beal, Wanda McKay, Warren Hymer
Comedy • Comedy of Errors
247
Bodil Ipsen • Starring: Mogens Wieth, Bodil Kjer, Gull-Maj Norin
Comedy • Female-Directed Film • Foreign Language Film
248
Unknown • Starring: Clarence Nash, Walt Disney
249
Yuli Raizman • Starring: Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, D. Pankratova
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Romance
250
Benjamin Stoloff • Starring: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Detective Film
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