1934 Poll 2.0

[Angel]

Angèle
Broadway Bill
Córka generala Pankratowa (The General Pankratov's Daughter)
Dames
Der verlorene Sohn (The Prodigal Son)
El compadre Mendoza (Godfather Mendoza)
Imitation of Life
La crise est finie (The Crisis Is Over)
La mujer del puerto (The Woman of the Port)
Lac aux dames (Ladies Lake)
Le grand jeu
Little Man, What Now?
Maskerade (Masquerade in Vienna)
Massacre
Pyshka (Boule de suif)
Rapt (The Kidnapping)
Shen nu (The Goddess)
The Black Cat
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
It Happened One Night
L'atalante
Man of Aran
The Scarlet Empress
The Thin Man

To see before the deadline:
David Harum
Kinkanshoku
La cieca di Sorrento
Le paquebot Tenacity
The Captain Hates the Sea

Wanted:
Caravan
De Jantjes
De witte
Garmon
La traviesa molinera
Peterburgskaya noch
Seconda B
Vosstaniye rybakov

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

1860 - Alessandro Blasetti. Low-key fascist propaganda maybe, but it's easy to ignore.

On this theme, you may be interested to know that the version most often in circulation today is a postwar 1951 re-edit by Blasetti. The only change is that he removed a final scene set in the present that had veterans of the Risorgimento saluting Fascist soldiers/blackshirts.

[Lencho of the Apes]

On this theme, you may be interested to know that the version most often in circulation today is a postwar 1951 re-edit by Blasetti. The only change is that he removed a final scene set in the present that had veterans of the Risorgimento saluting Fascist soldiers/blackshirts.

Ah-ha... I didn't know that. Thanks, Ev. The only thing approaching a red flag that I noticed was the way the movie emphasized that Garibaldi's strategy involved establishing a benevolent dctatorship in Sicily... which, in context, looks like a quick/easy way to legitimize Benito's reign.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

For Ulmer's birthday, I watched Thunder Over Texas, Ulmer's only B series western. Unfortunately, it's not much good.

[dominicano1970]

Angele (Pagnol)
Broadway Bill (Capra)
Cleopatra (DeMille)
David Harum (Cruze)
The Goddess (Wu)
Imitation of Life (Stahl)
It Happened One Night (Capra)
Little Man, What Now? (Borzage)
Man of Aran (Flaherty)
Our Neighbor Miss Yae (Shimazu)

Amok (Otsep)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)
Dames (Enright, Berkeley)
Eclipse (Shimizu)
Everybody's Woman (Ophuls)
Judge Priest (Ford)
A Modern Hero (Pabst)
Our Daily Bread (Vidor)
Sadie McKee (Brown)
Tarzan and His Mate (Gibbons)

[karl]

La belle de nuit (Louis Valray).

Two French movies from this year about a Parisian chap who's jilted by a lady and who in some distant place (Toulon this time - not so distant as La Grande Jeu's North Africa) meets a lady who's the spittin image of her. I liked em both about equally. However, based on this alone I don't see why the mysterious director's "rediscovery" (see here: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts ... uis-valray) occasioned so much fanfare among so-called cineastes. That's the French, though. They tend to make a big deal out of little things.

Eclipse (Shimizu Hiroshi).

Late silent melodrama with a rather complicated plot about a feller who, though quiet and unassuming, has a devastating effect on women - and the trouble that causes him and them. The worst luck falls to a handsome charming friend who has better job prospects yet loses out twice to quiet-and-unassuming. Has some of those fine Shimizu touches, but it's far from his finest hour.

[ofrene]

A Story of Floating Weeds
Everybody’s Woman
The Scarlet Empress

It Happened One Night
The Merry Widow
Twentieth Century

L'Atalante
Maskerade
Rapt (The Kidnapping)

Heat Lightning
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
The Goddess

[ororama]

1. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
2. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
4. Three Songs About Lenin (Dziga Vertov)
5. Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty)
6. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
7. Maskerade (Willi Forst)
8. The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich)
9. The Old Fashioned Way (William Beaudine)
10. Death Takes a Holiday (Mitchell Leisen)
11. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
12. Betty in Blunderland ( Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall)
13. Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl)
14. Street Without End (Mikio Naruse)
15. It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
16. Crime Without Passion (Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur)
17. Treasure Island (Victor Fleming)
18. Tarzan and His Mate (Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway)
19. Judge Priest (John Ford)
20. Zouzou (Marc Allégret)

[karl]

Angèle
The Downfall of Osen
L'atalante
Man of Aran

A Story of Floating Weeds
The Scarlet Empress
Rapt
La signora di tutti

The Goddess
Le Grand Jeu
La Belle de Nuit
Liliom

The Lost Patrol
Maria Chapdelaine
My Neighbor Miss Yae
El Compadre Mendoza

Now and Forever
A Modern Hero
The Wedding of Palo
Uzhmuri

[...]

Feels like we'd just done '34, but I guess that's just my memory playing tricks on me. I'll try to mix things up a little bit from last time just for the hell of it.

Heat Lightning
Black Cat
Mandalay
L'Atalante
Jolly Fellows

Zou Zou
The Goddess
Broken Melody
El Compadre Mendoza
It's a Gift

Maskerade
Heinz im Mond
One More River
We're Not Dressing
Massacre

Wonderbar
Four Frightened People
Lieutenant Kizhe
Public Stenographer
March of the Wooden Soldiers

Subject to change if I get around to it before the poll closes

[lineuphere]

A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu)
L'Atalante (Vigo)
It Happened One Night (Capra)
The Goddess (Wu)

Chanson d'Armor (Epstein)
New Earth (Ivens)
The Thin Man (Van Dyke)
A Mother Should Be Loved (Ozu)

Street Without End (Naruse)
Crime Without Passion (Garmes, Hecht, MacArthur)
Twentieth Century (Hawks)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)

[niminy-piminy]

1934 poll No16:
ALONG CAME A DUCK (Burt Gillett, Steve Muffati)

1934 post-code about an infant who while chasing a duck starts to hallucinate a (titillating) frog. superb dialogues!

https://youtu.be/vLpAvPmpqUA

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
One-Horse Farmers (Gus Meins)
Opened by Mistake (James Parrott)
Upperworld (Roy Del Ruth)
Dames (Ray Enright)

Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Leisen)
Syncopated City (Roy Mack)
Full Speed (Mario Mattoli)
Poor Cinderella (Dave Fleischer)
Jimmy the Gent (Michael Curtiz)

Three Chumps Ahead (Gus Meins)
Bum Voyage (Nick Grinde)
Death on the Diamond (Edward Sedgwick)
Giallo (Mario Camerini)
Heat Lightning (Mervyn LeRoy)

Black Moon (Roy William Neill)
Il cuore rivelatore (Alberto Mondadori)
Screen Test for Joan of Arc (Unknown)
Gulliver Mickey (Burt Gillett)
Belle of the Nineties (Leo McCarey)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Reminder that ballots, and edits to ballots, are due tonight at roughly midnight EDT. Tally will be posted sometime tomorrow evening.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Pretty much locked in, though I wanted to do lots more...

A Story Of Floating Weeds - Ozu *
Our Daily Bread
The Black Cat
Man Of Aran

El Compadre Mendoza
The Man Who Knew Too Much
La Mujer Del Puerto - Arcady Boytler
The Scarlet Empress - Von Sternberg *

Crime Wthout Passion - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur *
L'Atalante - Jean Vigo *
The Lost Patrol - Ford *
Little Man What Now - Borzage *

Manhattan Melodrama *
Stingaree - Wellman *
twentieth Century - Hawks *
1860 - Alessandro Blasetti *

It Happened One Night
Liliom - Lang *
The Gay Divorcee
It Never Happened - James Sibley Watson

[Curtis, baby]

L'atalante
It Happened One Night
The Thin Man

The Gay Divorcee
Cleopatra
The Scarlet Empress

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Manhattan Melodrama
Judge Priest

It's a Gift
Street Without End
Our Neighbor Miss Yae

A Story of Floating Weeds
We Live in Prague
Red Hot Momma

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Results

A clear winner in L'Atalante. Outside of the top two, I'd say we have a fairly eclectic top ten that expresses the character of the forum. Top 50 below.

1. L'Atalante / 39

2. It Happened One Night / 30.5

3. Everybody's Woman / 25.5
— A Story of Floating Weeds / 25.5

5. The Goddess / 25
— Maskerade / 25

7. El Compadre Mendoza / 22.5

8. The Black Cat / 21.5

9. Chanson d'Armor / 21

10. Rapt / 20.5

11. Man of Aran / 20
12. The Scarlet Empress / 19.5
— Twentieth Century / 19.5
14. The Thin Man / 19
15. Angele / 15
16. The Gay Divorcee / 14
— Le Grand Jeu / 14
— Judge Priest / 14
19. Our Neighbour, Miss Yae / 13.5
20. The Man Who Knew Too Much /12

21. Heat Lightning / 11.5
22. The Lost Patrol / 11
— The Merry Widow / 11
24. Jolly Fellows / 10.5
25. Crime without Passion / 10
— The Furies (excerpt from CwP) / 10
— Imitation of Life / 10
— Little Man, What Now? / 10
— Marijka the Unfaithful / 10
— La mujer del puerto / 10

31. Dames / 9.5
32. Our Daily Bread / 9
33. It's a Gift / 8.5
34. Cleopatra / 8
— The Prodigal Son / 8
36. Heinz im Mond / 7.5
— Zouzou / 7.5
38. Broadway Bill / 7
— Funny Little Bunnies / 7
— Liliom / 7
— The Private Life of Don Juan / 7
— Tarzan and His Mate / 7

43. Boule de Suif / 6
The Old Fashioned Way / 6
Red Hot Mamma / 6
The Scarlet Pimpernel / 6
Street without End / 6
We Live in Prague / 6
49. Massacre / 5.5
— One More River / 5.5