Classic Film : CFB Poll: Favorites of 1936 *** POLL IS CLOSED ***

Welcome to the new series of yearly polls for the Classic Film Board. This poll is for the year 1936.

These polls will be run by a rotating group of board participants, including flaiky, Rufus-T, me, and hopefully others. Depending on who is running the poll each month, there may be some variations in the rules and/or results postings, but we will try to keep things somewhat consistent with each other.

Unfortunately, we have not received specific authorization from OldAle1 to take over the series of polls he had been running, so we are not claiming to be his direct successors. This is a new series of polls, which is why we're starting with 1936 (instead of 1932, the year OldAle had been planning to do next). The poll rules will be similar, though, and I have taken a lot of phrasing from OldAle's rules below.

To help you with your ballot and in finding films, here are some resources:

IMDb's list of most-rated features from 1936:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1936,1936&title_type=feature&explore=num_votes&sort=num_votes,desc

Wikipedia article for 1936: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_in_film

General rules for the polls:

1. You may vote for as few as FIVE and as many as TWENTY films for this poll. If you wish to mention more films as runners-up, that's fine - but please be clear as to what films are in your top 20 ballot.

2. Feature films, documentaries, short films, and TV movies and miniseries are eligible for these polls; individual regular television episodes and continuing TV series are not. We will make exceptions in rare cases for movies which for some reason have been classified by IMDb as television episodes (example: Persuasion (1995)). Obviously, that's unlikely to be relevant for the current 1936 poll, but it's something that might come up in future polls.

3. One list per user, please.

4. You may list choices in order of preference, in which case your top film will receive a number of points equal to the number of films in your list up to 20, with each next-ranked film receiving one fewer point, or in no order, in which case each film will receive the same number of points. So, for example, if you only vote for 5 ranked films, your top film will receive 5 points and your 5th-place film will receive 1 point. If you vote for 20 unranked films, each film will receive 10.5 points; if you vote for 5 unranked films, each film will receive 3 points. I believe that this is a change from how OldAle scored ballots that had less than 20 titles listed, although I'm not certain if it is a change. Please make sure that if your choices are in order, they are numbered. If I can't figure out what you mean, your ballot may be scored differently from what you expected.

5. I prefer original titles and English language titles, as well as the name of the director(s), particularly if necessary to avoid ambiguity. If I can't figure out which title you are referring to, your vote might be credited to the wrong film.

6. We go by IMDb dates for these polls; while there are instances in which IMDb dates are debatable, the IMDb listing is the default. Should you have questions about years for specific titles, please let me know. Since this is a new series of polls, and all years through 2004 were polled in the old series of polls, past rulings on what films are eligible in particular years are no longer applicable. In other words, if a film was listed in 1937 when the poll was conducted for that year back in 2011, but now it's listed in 1936, it's eligible in 1936 now.

7. There will be a questions & answers post immediately following this one for problematic films to be listed and status updates for this poll.

I plan to keep this poll open until approximately November 18; the following poll will be 1979. After that it will be January, and I expect that we will take off while zetes conducts the 2016 poll.

Any eligibility rulings for the Favorites of 1936 poll will appear here.

Edited to add: No eligibility rulings were needed.

Unranked:

Ceiling Zero, starring James Cagney
Dodsworth
Gold Diggers of 1937
Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

My Man Godfrey
Poppy
Rose Marie
San Francisco
Swing Time

The Great Ziegfeld
Theodora Goes Wild
Three Godfathers
Three Smart Girls (Durbin)
Wife vs. Secretary

Cesar -Marcel Pagnol
Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii)
Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai)
Things to Come, based on the story by H.G. Wells
Night Mail, documentary

Ranked

01. Show Boat (1936) dir James Whale
02. Gion no shimai (1936) Sisters of the Gion
03. Les bas-fonds (1936) The Lower Depths dir Jean Renoir
04. Modern Times (1936)
05. Naniwa erejî (1936) Osaka Elegy
06. The Green Pastures (1936)
07. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
08. Dodsworth (1936)
09. The Petrified Forest (1936) dir Archie Mayo
10. Rembrandt (1936) dir Alexander Korda
11. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
12. Libeled Lady (1936)
13. Camille (1936) dir George Cukor
14. Mayerling (1936) dir Anatole Litvak
15. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) dir Michael Curtiz
16. Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
17. Sabotage (1936) dir Alfred Hitchcock
18. Three Godfathers (1936) dir Richard Boleslawski
19. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) dir John Cromwell
20. San Francisco (1936)

jj

Unranked:

Based on novels by Mignon Eberhart:

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

Murder by an Aristocrat

Based on Perry Mason novels:

The Case of the Velvet Claws

The Case of the Black Cat

Based on Ellery Queen literature:

The Mandarin Mystery

Charlie Chan mysteries:

Charlie Chan at the Opera (I have no recollection of the other 3 films released in 1936. Time for a rewatch, for sure.)

Miscellaneous mysteries/thrillers:

It Couldn't Have Happened, but it did

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The Unguarded Hour

The Petrified Forest

Musicals:

Born to Dance

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen =

I'm not mentioning any of the Thin Man films. I've tried to give them several chances, and I just can't get through them, much as I love mysteries from that time period.

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen =

In case anyone missed it in the discussion thread, here's what OldAle said to me by PM last week:

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Re: Continuing CFB polls: do you have any material you can share?
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IMDb member since May 2005

Tell you what for now - I could theoretically squeeze in a poll if I wanted to do it right away before going on a trip in November - but that trip might be for 3 weeks and I'm not sure when we're leaving. So if you guys want to run the next poll or two before the new year and zetes' 2016 poll, go right ahead, and we'll discuss whether I'll return to it after the new year. I'll try to check in on the forums this weekend but I'm kind of busy for the next day or two I think.


Be true, Unbeliever.

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So everyone please keep in mind that this may just be temporary, but I hope you'll go ahead and vote anyway.


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

I'll watch a couple more films for the poll, but here's my list for now. Probably one of the best years of the decade.

1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
2. The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
3. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
4. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
5. La Belle Equipe (Julien Duvivier)
6. Dodsworth (William Wyler)
7. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
9. The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)

11. Mr Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
12. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
13. After the Thin Man (WS Van Dyke)
14. Swing Time (George Stevens)
15. Show Boat (James Whale)
16. Camille (George Cukor)
17. By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet)
18. Rembrandt (Alexander Korda)
19. The Ex-Mrs Bradford (Stephen Roberts)
20. Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)

HM: Fury, San Francisco, Theodora Goes Wild, A Woman Rebels


I'll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

Ranked

1-The Only Sondirected by Yasujiro Ozu
2-Sisters of the Gion directed Kenji Mizoguchi
3-San Francisco directed by W.S. Van Dyke
4-Mr. Deeds Goes to Town directed by Frank Capra
5-Dodsworth directed by William Wyler
6-Sabotage directed by Alfred Hitchcock
7-Camille directed by George Cukor
8-Modern Times directed by Charlie Chaplin
9-Osaka Elegy directed by Kenji Mizoguchi




Go to bed Frank or this is going to get ugly .

Pigskin Parade
Paddy O Day
The Prisoner of Shark Island
These Three
The Great Ziegfeld
Show Boat
The Invisible Ray
Stowaway
Modern Times
Dodsworth

It's back! Wonderful.

1. Partie de campagne 'A Day in the Country' | Jean Renoir | France
2. Naniwa erejî 'Osaka Elegy' | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan
3. Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | USA
4. Hitori musuko 'The Only Son' | Yasujirô Ozu | Japan
5. Gion no shimai 'Sisters of the Gion' | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan
6. Swing Time | George Stevens | USA
7. Le roman d'un tricheur 'The Story of a Cheat' | Sacha Guitry | France
8. My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | USA
9. Sabotage | Alfred Hitchcock | UK
10. Fury | Fritz Lang | USA

11. Fétiche en voyage de noces | Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz | France
12. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra | USA
13. The Petrified Forest | Archie L. Mayo | USA
14. The Walking Dead | Michael Curtiz | USA
15. San Francisco | W.S. Van Dyke | USA
16. Bullets or Ballots | William Keighley | USA
17. Camille | George Cukor | USA
18. After the Thin Man | W.S. Van Dyke | USA
19. Secret Agent | Alfred Hitchcock | UK
20. Cain and Mabel | Lloyd Bacon | USA

1. Dodsworth
2. Swing Time
3. My Man Godfrey
4. Fury
5. The Only Son
6. Camille
7. Libeled Lady
8. Things to Come
9. Sabotage
10. Sisters of the Gion
11. Modern Times
12. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
13. Wife vs. Secretary
14. I Love to SInga (short)
15. The Petrified Forest
16. The Charge of the Light Brigade
17. The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936 [ Unranked, A - Z ]

As You Like It As You Like It (1936)
Bluebeard Barbe-Bleue (1936)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange Le crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
A Day in the Country Partie de campagne (1936)
Great Guy Great Guy (1936)
The Lower Depths Les bas-fonds (1936)
Modern Times Modern Times (1936)
The Moon's Our Home The Moon's Our Home (1936)
My Man Godfrey My Man Godfrey (1936)
Osaka Elegy Naniwa erejî (1936)
The Prisoner of Shark Island The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Rose Hobart Rose Hobart (1936)
Rose-Marie Rose-Marie (1936)
Sabotage Sabotage (1936)
The Story of a Cheat Le roman d'un tricheur (1936)
Sisters of the Gion Gion no shimai (1936)
Swing Time Swing Time (1936)
Sylvia Scarlett Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
The Texas Rangers The Texas Rangers (1936)
They Were Five La belle équipe (1936)


Put it on a tripod!

1. The Story of a Cheat
2. Modern Times
3. A Day in the Country
4. Show Boat
5. Cesar
6. My Man Godfrey
7. Swing Time
8. The Lower Depths
9. Follow the Fleet
10. Rembrandt
11. Sisters of the Gion
12. Dodsworth
13. Libeled Lady
14. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
15. Camille
16. By the Bluest of Seas
17. Fury
18. Sabotage
19. After the Thin Man
20. The Petrified Forest

Good to start this afresh !

For now :

1. Modern Times ( Charlie Chaplin )
2. César ( Marcel Pagnol )
3. U samogo sinego morya / By the Bluest of Seas ( Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin )
4. Partie de campagne / A Day in the Country ( Jean Renoir )
5. Hitori musuko / The Only Son ( Yasujiro Ozu )
6. My Man Godfrey ( Gregory La Cava )
7. The Petrified Forest ( Archie L. Mayo )
8. Le crime de Monsieur Lange / The Crime of Monsieur Lange ( Jean Renoir )
9. Libeled Lady ( Jack Conway )
10. Naniwa erejî / Osaka Elegy ( Kenji Mizoguchi )
11. Les Bas-fonds / The Lower Depths ( Jean Renoir )
12. Kôchiyama Sôshun / Priest of Darkness (Sadao Yamanaka)
13. Le roman d'un tricheur / The Story of a Cheat ( Sacha Guitry )
14. Le Golem (Julien Duvivier)
15. Thru the Mirror ( David Hand )
16. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor ( Dave Fleischer )
17. La Belle Equipe / They Were Five ( Julien Duvivier)
18. Vámonos con Pancho Villa! / Let's Go with Pancho Villa (Fernando de Fuentes)

Watchlist: Things to Come, Adventure in Paris, Camille, Jenny

#JeSuisCharlie Liberté, liberté chérie !

My Man Godfrey
Modern Times
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
San Francisco
Libeled Lady
Show Boat
The Walking Dead
These Three
The Petrified Forest
The Three Godfathers

1. Modern Times
2. Dodsworth
3. Libeled Lady
4. My Man Godfrey
5. Swing Time
6. Sabotage
7. Fury
8. The Milky Way
9. Camille
10. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
11. These Three
12. Rembrandt
13. The Story of Louis Pasteur
14. Theodora Goes Wild
15. The General Died at Dawn
16. The Petrified Forest
17. Charge of the Light Brigade
18. Charlie Chan at the Opera
19. The Walking Dead
20. The Great Ziegfeld



"The answers to all of life's riddles can be found in the movies."

Les bas-fonds
Cesar
Secret Agent
Swing Time
Le crime de Monsieur Lange

01. My Man Godfrey
02. Modern Times
03. Sabotage
04. Mr Deeds Goes to Town
05. Fury
06. The Only Son
07. The Petrified Forest
08. Partie de Campagne
09. Night Mail
10. Things to Come
11. Bullets or Ballots
12. After the Thin Man
13. The Plainsman
14. Don't Turn 'Em Loose
15. The Last Journey
16. Secret Agent
17. Swing Time
18. Sylvia Scarlett
19. Keep Your Seats, Please!
20. Below the Deadline

Top 20:

1. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
2. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
4. Les bas fonds (The Lower Depths) (Jean Renoir)
5. The Country Cousin (Wilfred Jackson)
6. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
8. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Fleischer/Bowsky)
9. Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)
10. Le crime de Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
11. Thru the Mirror (David Hand)
12. The Cobweb Hotel (Dave Fleischer)
13. Swing Time (George Stevens)
14. Moving Day (Ben Sharpsteen)
15. Dodsworth (William Wyler)
16. Fury (Fritz Lang)
17. Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)
18. Desire (Frank Borzage)
19. Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir)
20. The Moon's Our Home (William A. Seiter)

Bubbling under:
The Green Pastures
Brotherly Love
These Three
Theodora Goes Wild
Rembrandt
Night Mail
The Petrified Forest
What - No Spinach?
Show Boat
I Love to Singa
Come and Get It
Our Relations
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Bohemian Girl
The Walking Dead
The Devil-Doll
Follow the Fleet
Grand Slam Opera
Poppy
How to Be a Detective
Harry Reser and His Eskimos
Bullets or Ballots
Satan Met a Lady
Flash Gordon
Secret Agent
Dracula's Daughter
Intermezzo
Song of Freedom
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ceiling Zero
San Francisco
The Great Ziegfeld
The Singing Kid
The Invisible Ray
Rose-Marie
One Rainy Afternoon
Next Time We Love
The Plough and the Stars

Curiosa:
Breakdowns of 1936
Tell Your Children aka Reefer Madness
Empty Saddles

Bah Humbug:
Mary of Scotland
Romeo and Juliet

Among the unseen:
Anthony Adverse, Beloved Enemy, Born to Dance, The Charge of the Light Brigade, College Holiday, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Gion no shimai, The Gorgeous Hussy, Jenny, Klondike Annie, Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella, La belle equipe, Ladies in Love, The Last of the Mohicans, Le golem, Le roman d'un tricheur, Love Before Breakfast, Mayerling, Naniwa ereji, Nobody's Fool, One in a Million, The Plainsman, Revolt of the Zombies, Speed, Strike Me Pink, Sylvia Scarlett, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Thank You Jeeves, Three Godfathers, Un grand amour de Beethoven, Wife vs. Secretary

God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety

Unranked:

Desire (Frank Borzage)
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)
Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir)
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Theodora Goes Wild (Richard Boleslawski)
Wife vs. Secretary (Clarence Brown)

There are a ton of good shorts this year, but I'm opting not to include them in my ballot this year. This includes Renoir's A Day in the Country.

1. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
2. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
4. Three Godfathers (Richard Boleslawski)
5. Swing Time (George Stevens)
6. The Milky Way (Leo McCarey)
7. Dodsworth (William Wyler)
8. The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. Fury (Fritz Lang)
10. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
11. Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)
12. San Francisco (W.S. Van Dyke)
13. The Devil Is a Sissy (W.S. Van Dyke)
14. Rembrandt (Alexander Korda)
15. The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
16. The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
17. Camille (George Cukor)
18. The Invisible Ray (Lambert Hillyer)
19. Tarzan Escapes (Richard Thorpe)
20. After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)

You know who else was just following orders? HITLER!

Great to see these polls back - will get my ballot up soon

thanks




Tell mama, Tell mama all.

Ranked list:

1. Partie de campagne / A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
2. Arigato-san / Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
3. My Man Godfrey (Gregory LaCava)
4. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
5. Fury (Fritz Lang)
6. Le Crime de Monsieur Lange / The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
7. Hitori musuko / The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. Gion no shimai / Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9. The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)
10. Naniwa ereji / Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
11. U samogo sinyego morya / By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet and S. Mardanin)
12. Achhut Kanya / Untouchable Girl (Franz Osten)
13. The Milky Way (Leo McCarey)
14. Show Boat (James Whale)
15. Craig's Wife (Dorothy Arzner)
16. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
17. Camille (George Cukor)
18. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
19. I Love to Singa (Tex Avery)
20. Desire (Frank Borzage)

Ranked List

01. San Francisco W.S. Van Dyke
02. Hollywood Boulevard Robert Florey
03. Modern Times Charlie Chaplin
04. The Great Ziegfeld Robert Leonard
05. The Prisoner Of Shark Island John Ford
06. Fury Fritz Lang
07. Rose-Marie W.S. Van Dyke
08. Anything Goes Lewis Milestone
09. Charlie Chan's Secret Gordon Wiles
10. Go West Young Man Henry Hathaway
11. Things To Come William C. Menzies
12. Banjo On My knee John Cromwell
13. Doomed Cargo Albert de Courville
14. Charlie Chan At The Opera H. Bruce Humberstone
15. Gold Diggers of 1937 Lloyd Bacon
16. The Lower Depths Jean Renoir
17. Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street George King
18. The Case Of The Black Cat William McGann
19. The Garden Murder Case Edwin L. Marin
20. The Bohemian Girl James Horne, et.al.

End.

Lech

The thirties are not 'my' decade. This is the best I can do:

1.Modern Times (Chaplin)
2.Kôchiyama sôshun (Yamanaka)
3.Le Crime de M. Lange (Renoir)
4.Partie de campagne (Renoir)
5.Song of Freedom (Elder Wills)
6.Pennies from Heaven (McLeod)
7.Fury (Lang)
8.Les Bas-fonds (Renoir)
9. Night Mail (Watt, Wright)
10.My Man Godfrey (LaCava)
11.Mr Deeds Goes to Town (Capra)
12.La vie est à nous (Renoir et al.)

WANTED LIST
Actually I'd record anything I caught from this year but here are my actual actively 'wanted' titles:
And Sudden Death; As You Like It; Así nació el obelisco; Battle Royal; College Holiday; Florida Special; I'd Give My Life; The Invisible Ray; Morena Clara; Preview Murder Mystery; Unpopular Mechanic



If they organise the revolution like they did this meeting, what'll happen?

SUPERB
1 THESE THREE

EXCELLENT
2 LIBELLED LADY
3 OUR RELATIONS

VERY GOOD
4 DODSWORTH

GOOD
5 THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
6 AFTER THE THIN MAN
7 THE PETRIFIED FOREST
8 FOLLOW THE FLEET


WORTH WATCHING
9 GARDEN OF ALLAH
10 CLUB DES FEMMES
11 ANYTHING GOES
12 DEVIL-DOLL
13 SAN FRANCISCO
14 MODERN TIMES
15 SHOWBOAT
16 THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
17 MY MAN GODFREY
18 THINGS TO COME


None of mine are really obscure


PREDICTIONS??? Hmm I'm guessing a screwball slugfest between GODFREY and LADY , with Chaplin a possible top spot and DODSWORTH for gravitas

Tell mama, Tell mama all.

Ranked list

01. After the Thin Man
02. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
03. Charlie Chan at the Opera
04. The Prisoner of Shark Island
05. The Road to Glory
06. Secret Agent
07. Camille
08. Charlie Chan at the Race Track
09. Charlie Chan at the Circus
10. The Devil-Doll
11. Libeled Lady
12. Charlie Chan's Secret
13. The Petrified Forest
14. Things to Come
15. Trouble for Two
16. Under Two Flags
17. San Francisco
18. The Man Who Could Work Miracles
19. It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
20. Sabotage

Haven't seen that much, but here goes:
1. Modern Times
2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
3. Partie de campagne
4. Libeled Lady
5. Camille
6. Secret Agent

Only have 16 rated, these are a top 10 -

1 The Charge of the Light Brigade
2 San Francisco
3 Modern Times
4 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
5 Fury
6 Sabotage
7 Camille
8 The Plainsman
9 The Last of the Mohicans
10 The Story of Louis Pasteur


"He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior."

Jefferson: Please make sure that if your choices are in order, they are numbered. That will make things easier for me when I have to calculate the points for each film.

Have edited my post, and numbered my choices gromit.

Jefferson: Thanks!

The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Frank Capra)
Romeo And Juliet (Geroge Cukor)
Things To Come (William Cameron Menzies)
Fury (Frtiz Lang)
The Crime of Monsieur Lang (Jean Renoir)
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle)
The Man ho Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes)
Rembrandt (Alexander Korda)
By The Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet)
The Man Who Changed His Mind (Robert Stevenson)
After The Thin Man (WS Van Dyke)
A Day In The Country (Jean Renoir)




I'm a police man sir, I don't have any feelings

Ranked:

01. Dodsworth
02. Things to Come
03. Sabotage
04. The Story of Louis Pasteur
05. The Invisible Ray
06. After the Thin Man
07. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
08. The Last of the Mohicans
09. Show Boat
10. San Francisco
11. The Petrified Forest
12. Lloyd's of London
13. The Charge of the Light Brigade
14. Our Relations
15. Ceiling Zero
16. Rembrandt
17. The Man Who Could Work Miracles
18. Bullets or Ballots
19. The General Died at Dawn
20. Rose Marie

Unranked:

Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)
Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes)
Mr Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
Night Mail (Harry Watt, Basil Wright)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
Windbag the Sailor (William Beaudine)
Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country) (Jean Renoir)
Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)
Flash Gordon [serial] (Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Hitori musuko (The Only Son) (Yasujirô Ozu)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Our Relations (Harry Lachman)
Rembrandt (Alexander Korda)
Gion no shimai (Sisters of the Gion) (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Les bas fonds (The Lower Depths) (Jean Renoir)
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Michael Curtiz)

Thanks to you and to flaiky for getting the poll back up. Good luck to OldAle in getting his life back in order. Hope to see him around soon.


1. These Three
2. Modern Times
3. Dodsworth
4. Three Smart Girls
5. Show Boat
6. Libeled Lady
7. The Story of Louis Pasteur
8. The Great Ziegfeld.
9. Swing Time
10. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
11. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
12. Follow the Fleet
13. My Man Godfrey
14. San Francisco
15. Romeo and Juliet
16. Sabotage
17. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
18. As You Like It
19. After the Thin Man
20. Secret Agent



"The trickis not minding that it hurts."

1. Swing Time
2. My Man Godfrey
3. Desire
4. Mr Deeds Goes to Town
5. Libeled Lady
6. The Petrified Forest
7. The Moon's Our Home
8. Theodora Goes Wild
9. Trouble For Two
10. Follow The Fleet
11. Modern Times
12. San Francisco
13. Fury
14. Dodsworth
15. After the Thin Man
16. Craig's Wife

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As we are about halfway through the poll period, I just want to thank everyone who has posted their votes so far, and encourage anyone else who is interested to remember to submit their votes before the deadline.

Also, I have a couple of follow-up comments about my original post:

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These polls will be run by a rotating group of board participants, including flaiky, Rufus-T, me, and hopefully others.

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In addition, farne has also volunteered to work on the polls. http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/261495121?d=262479627#262479627

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Unfortunately, we have not received specific authorization from OldAle1 to take over the series of polls he had been running, so we are not claiming to be his direct successors.

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We did hear from OldAle who said that he was glad that we were interested in continuing this, and I appreciated getting his support to have us run these polls at least for the time being. http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/262797143

Alright Gromit.

I wasn't going to submit a list for this year as my knowledge of this era is ropey at best. But because it is you who is hosting it - one of my most respected users due to your stellar Contributer Board contributions and excellent general disposition - I think I should at the very least make some kind of an effort! So here is the best list I can summon up:

1. Modern Times
2. Sabotage
3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4. Trapped by Television
5. The Man Who Changed His Mind
6. Secret Agent
7. The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
8. The House of Secrets
9. The Rogues' Tavern
10. A Face in the Fog

Cheers

Frazer
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1616919/comments

Frazer: Thank you for your support.

1. Modern Times Charlie Chaplin
2. Swing Time George Stevens
3. Show Boat James Whale
4. My Man Godfrey Gregory La Cava
5. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the SailorDave Fleischer
6. Dodsworth William Wyler
7. Cesar Marcel Pagnol
8. The Charge of the Light Brigade Michael Curtiz
9. The Lower Depths Jean Renoir
10. Confessions of a Cheat Sacha Guitry
11. Le crime de Monsieur Lange Jean Renoir
12. The Walking Dead Michael Curtiz
13. Mayerling Anatole Litvak
14. The Man Who Could Work Miracles Lothar Mendes
15. Sabotage Alfred Hitchcock
16. Follow the Fleet Mark Sandrich
17. The Petrified Forest Archie L. Mayo
18. Fury Fritz Lang
19. Libeled Lady Jack Conway
20. Three Men on a Horse Mervyn LeRoy

Watched for this poll: The Walking Dead (made my ballot), The Cobweb Hotel (good), Bullets or Ballots, Sisters of the Gion, Desire.

Very happy to see this back and kudos to you guys for picking up the torch.

1. Partie de campagne / A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
2. Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
3. Mayerling (Anatole Litvak)
4. Thru the Mirror (David Hand)
5. Allegretto (Oskar Fischinger)
6. Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich)
7. Swing Time (George Stevens)
8. Arigatô-san / Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
9. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
10. Jeune fille au jardin (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
11. Rainbow Dance (Len Lye)
12. Fährmann Maria / Ferryman Maria (Frank Wisbar)
13. Dodsworth (William Wyler)
14. Redes / The Wave (Emilio Gómez Muriel, Fred Zinnemann)
15. La belle équipe / They Were Five (Julien Duvivier)
16. The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)
17. Naniwa erejî / Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
18. I Love to Singa (Tex Avery)
19. Ashita no namikimichi / Morning's Tree-Lined Street (Mikio Naruse)
20. Mickey's Rival (Wilfred Jackson)

1. Partie de campagne (1936)
2. It's Love Again (1936)
3. After the Thin Man (1936)
4. Sabotage (1936)
5. The Devil-Doll (1936)

6. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
7. Libeled Lady (1936)
8. Dusty Ermine (1936)
9. Men Are Not Gods (1936)
10. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)

11. The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
12. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
13. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
14. The Man in the Mirror (1936)
15. Camille (1936)

16. Bulldog Edition (1936)
17. Everything Is Thunder (1936)
18. Things to Come (1936)
19. Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
20. The Mandarin Mystery (1936)

Alphabetically:

Beethoven's Great Love (Gance)
By the Bluest of Seas (Barnet)
Camille (Cukor)
Come and Get It (Hawks & Wyler)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
Desire (Borzage)
The Devil-Doll (Browning)
Final Accord (Sirk)
Fury (Lang)
Lloyd's of London (King)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
Next Time We Love (Griffith)
The Plainsman (DeMille)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford)
The Road to Glory (Hawks)
Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi)
The Story of a Cheat (Guitry)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (Dieterle)
Woman in the Mist (Gosho)

I recently reached 750 seen films from 1936 which sets a good foundation for my picks for this poll. As a result these films and cartoons thrilled me the most:


1. Fury (1936, Fritz Lang)
2. My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory La Cava)
3. These Three (1936, William Wyler)
4. The Petrified Forest (1936, Archie Mayo)
5. Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
6. After the Thin Man (1936, W.S. Van Dyke)
7. Libeled Lady (1936, Jack Conway)
8. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936, Dave Fleischer)
9. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936, Michael Curtiz)
10. Arigatô-san [Mr. Thank You] (1936, Hiroshi Shimizu)
11. Elmer Elephant (1936, Wilfred Jackson)
12. Sabotage (1936, Alfred Hitchcock)
13. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Frank Capra)
14. Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936, Dave Fleischer)
15. Our Relations (1936, Harry Lachman)
16. The Cobweb Hotel (1936, Dave Fleischer)
17. Le roman d'un tricheur [Story of a Cheat] (1936, Sacha Guitry)
18. The Great Ziegfeld (1936, Robert Z. Leonard)
19. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936, John Cromwell)
20. Camille (1936, George Cukor)


And the rest of my Top-50.

21. Show Boat (1936, James Whale)
22. Alpine Climbers (1936, David Hand)
23. Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
24. The Green Pastures (1936, Marc Connelly & William Keighley)
25. Seven Sinners (1936, Albert de Courville)
26. The Country Cousin (1936, Wilfred Jackson)
27. Dodsworth (1936, William Wyler)
28. I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936, Dave Fleischer)
29. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936, Henry Hathaway)
30. Mayerling (1936, Anatole Litvak)
31. Somewhere in Dreamland (1936, Dave Fleischer)
32. Hitori musuko [The Only Son] (1936, Yasujirô Ozu)
33. Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936, Dave Fleischer)
34. Satan Met a Lady (1936, William Dieterle)
35. Three Godfathers (1936, Richard Boleslawski)
36. Milk and Money (1936, Tex Avery)
37. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936, Lloyd Bacon)
38. Der Kaiser von Kalifornien [The Emperor of California] (1936, Luis Trenker)
39. Three Men on a Horse (1936, Mervyn LeRoy)
40. The Texas Rangers (1936, King Vidor)
41. Go West Young Man (1936, Henry Hathaway)
42. Riffraff (1936, J. Walter Ruben)
43. Mickey's Polo Team (1936, David Hand)
44. Thru the Mirror (1936, David Hand)
45. Rembrandt (1936, Alexander Korda)
46. Mary of Scotland (1936, John Ford)
47. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936, Stephen Roberts)
48. Desire (1936, Frank Borzage)
49. Moving Day (1936, Ben Sharpsteen)
50. Captain January (1936, David Butler)

Out of (only) 39 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).

Ranked!

1. Allegretto (Fischinger, 1936, sh)
2. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
3. Rainbow Dance (Lye, 1936, sh)
4. Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country, Renoir, 1936, sh)
5. Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard, Painlevé, 1936, sh)
6. Fury (Lang, 1936)
7. Les bas-fonds (The Lower Depths, Renoir, 1936)
8. The Plow That Broke the Plains (Lorentz, 1936, doc, sh)
9. La fontaine d'Aréthuse (Kirsanoff, 1936, sh)*
10. U samogo sinyego morya (By the Bluest of Seas, Barnet/Mardanin, 1936)
11. Naniwa erejî (Naniwa Elegy, Mizoguchi, 1936)
12. Moving Day (Sharpsteen**, 1936, sh)
13. Jeune fille au jardin (Kirsanoff, 1936, sh)*
14. Dada (Bute/Nemeth, 1936, sh)
15. The Story of Louis Pasteur (Dieterle, 1936)
16. The Birth of the Robot (Lye**, 1936, sh)
17. Master Hands (1936, doc, sh)
18. Swing Time (Stevens, 1936)
19. Elmer Elephant (W. Jackson**, 1936, sh)
20. Gion no shimai (Sisters of the Gion, Mizoguchi, 1936)


2 HMs (sadly, just missed the cut):

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra, 1936)
Arigato-san (Mr. Thank You, Shimizu, 1936)


To see:
too many to count/list.


Notes:
* - NO English title at IMDb. Sorry.
** - uncredited.




vivaLuis

http://www.imdb.com/board/10053967/board/thread/97124879

Since I'm not going to be able to work on the poll this weekend, I'm going to leave it open until Monday, November 21, which will give anyone still working on their list a few more days to see some other films or change their rankings.

Thanks again for running this, and thanks everybody for continuing to contribute. Was good to have you guys take over this fall, I'm turning out to have less time than I thought (though I must admit some of that has been taken up by stupid politics).

So farhopefully will get in a few more in the next day or two but may not have time so throwing this up now:

1. U samogo sinego morya (1936)
2. Things to Come (1936)
3. Partie de campagne (1936)
4. Fury (1936)
5. Hitori musuko (1936)
6. Modern Times (1936)
7. Dodsworth (1936)
8. Le roman d'un tricheur (1936)
9. Arigatô-san (1936)
10. Show Boat (1936)
11. Les bas-fonds (1936)
12. Kôchiyama Sôshun (1936)
13. Undersea Kingdom (1936)
14. Gion no shimai (1936)
15. Naniwa erejî (1936)
16. The Devil-Doll (1936)
17. I Love to Singa (1936)
18. Swing Time (1936)
19. The Gay Desperado (1936)
20. Rose Hobart (1936)

HM:

After the Thin Man
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Le crime de Monsieur Lange
Flash Gordon
Follow the Fleet
Gold Diggers of 1937
The Green Pastures
The Last of the Mohicans
Let It Be Me
Libeled Lady
Lloyd's of London
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Mayerling
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
My Man Godfrey
Page Miss Glory
The Petrified Forest
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Rainbow Dance
Sabotage
Soigne ton gauche
Somewhere in Dreamland
Tarzan Escapes
The Texas Rangers
Thru the Mirror

Still-Must-Sees:

Akanishi Kakita, Ashita no namikimichi, Beethoven, Camille, Cesar, Come and Get It, Devdas, Dracula's Daughter, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Garden of Allah, The Great Ziegfeld, The Invisible Ray, Jenny, Kimi to yuku michi, Night Mail, La nouveau testament, Oboroyo no onna, Our Relations, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Romeo and Juliet, La tender ennemi, Theodora Goes Wild, These Three, Tochuken Kumoemon, The Walking Dead, Wife vs Secretary and many others

Be true, Unbeliever.