First is it too late to...

...make that joke?

Yes. yes it is.

The countdown will start proper after Deal or No Deal it will be in the format we know and love from #60 to #1 and up to that point it won't be quite as fleshed out.

In order to make the poll work I had to include only those with 2 or more enteries and a bonus of 20 points for every vote after the second was added just make sure that two high votes alone didn't land a film in the top 50.

To start then, here are the single vote films that were included in a top ten.

One #10 vote
Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (jmmrsn)
Mad Love (TerryKath'sBrain)
Napoleon (RocketMan)
Scarlett Street (FallingandLaughing)

One #9 Vote
Dragonwyck (TerryKath'sBrain)

One #8 Vote
Phantom of the Opera [1943] (TerryKath'sBrain)
Oliver Twist (Without Opinion)
Little Foxes, The (Velocity)

One #7 Vote
House of the Seven Gables (TerryKath'sBrain)
A Letter to Three Wives (The Good Dr. Bill)

One #6 Vote
Lost Horizon, The (GhostTownofMyBrain)
Gold Rush, The (Agrimorfee)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Velocity)

One #9 Vote
Dragonwyck (TerryKath'sBrain)

People really should see this one. Vincent Price as a drug addled attic exile land baron. Good times!

Good news:






Just about every one of the items listed will be worth seeing.



Bad news:






Just about every one of the items listed will be worth seeing.

boooooooooooo

learn up on your Joseph L. Mankiewicz, you lot

I believe gimmick voted for this as well.


Surprised this only got one vote.

One #5 vote
Topper (Velocity)
Inspector General, The (Agrimorfee)

One #4 vote
Meet Me in St. Louis (Slackmo)

One #3 vote
Bedlam (TerryKath'sBrain)
Big Store, The (Velocity)

One #1 vote
Body Snatcher, The (TerryKath'sBrain)
Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Gimmick)


We will start at #110 in about an hour.



Not in his top 50.

Oh- I must have missed that. Movies listed beyond #50 did not receive points?

No, they didn't. It wasn't worth wasting all those points when trying to spread them across 100 when I thought most lists weren't going to hit 50 (and they didn't.)

Different story for the rest though. 150 or 200 may be viable.

It begins...

109 ) Spellbound (1945)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll.
IMDB link 7.6/10 (6,346 votes)

108 ) My Favorite Wife (1940)
Directed by:Garson Kanin.
Stars: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick and Ann Shoemaker.
IMDB link 7.4/10 (1,460 votes)

107 ) The Great Dictator (1940)
Directed by:Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner and Henry Daniell.
IMDB link 8.3/10 (13,420 votes) - top 250: #102

106 ) Dracula (1933)
Directed by:George Melford.
Stars: Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Álvarez Rubio and Eduardo Arozamena.
IMDB link 7.2/10 (384 votes)

105 ) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Directed by:Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains and Patric Knowles.
IMDB link 8.2/10 (9,156 votes) - top 250: #149

Jesus. 5 in and already two that I should have voted for. Damn me to hell.

Never heard of this one but it sounds like it is a must see!

This bad boy got pinned in under two hours. Those are kat-like numbers.

104 ) The Raven (1935)
Directed by:Lew Landers.
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware and Samuel S. Hinds.
IMDB link 6.8/10 (540 votes)

103 ) Gun Crazy (aka Deadly is the Female)(1949)
Directed by:Joseph H. Lewis.
Stars: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky and Anabel Shaw.
IMDB link 7.8/10 (1,029 votes)

102 ) My Darling Clementine (1946)
Directed by:John Ford.
Stars: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs and Walter Brennan.
IMDB link 8.0/10 (3,057 votes)

101 ) The Lady Eve (1941)
Directed by:Preston Sturges.
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette and William Demarest
IMDB link 8.1/10 (2,681 votes)

100 ) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Directed by: Frank Capra.
Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander and Douglass Dumbrille.
IMDB link 7.9/10 (2,788 votes)

Kind of surprised these 2 movies were rated so low. On second thought Robin Hood doesn't surprise me but Dracula does a bit. I assume more people voted for Nosferatu and some for the Spanish version.

I'm disheartened that we don't have pretty and/or clever pictures or quotes and indie rock references as intros...but perhaps in a list such as this, that would be asking too much of our distinguished vote tabulator and MC.

Lookin' good irregardless. Carry on.

When do you start bumping up the production value--#50?

The stops will be pulled out at #60.

There are many more Dracula related films to come.

Much better than Adam Sandler's crappy version. At least Wynona, Steve B. & John T. were in it.

I'm willing to blurb!!! Would be cool to see blurbs for the top 20.

099 ) Destry Rides Again (1939)
Directed by: George Marshall.
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger and Brian Donlevy
IMDB link 7.8/10 (1,885 votes)

098 ) Grand Hotel (1932)
Directed by: Edmund Goulding.
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore.
IMDB link 7.6/10 (2,320 votes)

097 ) Cat People (1942)
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur.
Stars: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph and Jack Holt
IMDB link 7.4/10 (1,693 votes)

096 ) Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (aka The Olympiad 1936)(1938)
Directed by: Leni Riefenstahl
Stars: Henri de Baillet-Latour, Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Josef Goebbels et al as themselves.
IMDB link 8.3/10 (641 votes)

095 ) A Day at the Races (1937)
Directed by: Sam Wood
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan
IMDB link 7.6/10 (3,106 votes)

If only Tony had played, this would have been kept in.

Still thinking about this. Don't have much time, would have to send them out very soon. Anyone else like this idea, now is the time to say.

I have an excellent vhs copy taped at optimum speed off of a nice widescreen TCM print. This baby just recently has showed up on ebay as a dvd boot, but never has been officially released on dvd or vhs. It just shows up on TCM every couple months.

If you ever wanted a Vincent Price movie, I have a huge collection. Mad Magician in 3D is particularly sweet.

094 ) The Black Narcissus (1947)
Directed by: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons and David Farrar.
IMDB link 8.0/10 (2,252 votes)

093 ) Out of the Past [aka Build My Gallows High](1947)
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming and Richard Webb.
IMDB Link 8.3/10 (3,434 votes) - top 250: #205

092 ) Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers and Patricia Collinge.
IMDB link 8.2/10 (7,467 votes) - top 250: #146

091 ) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Directed by: William A. Wellman.
Stars: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn and William Eythe.
IMDB link 8.3/10 (2,449 votes)

090 ) Ninotchka (1939)
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch.
Stars: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi and Sig Ruman
IMDB link 7.9/10 (3,063 votes)

that's a fucking solid group of movies right there...need to see Black Narcissus, though. Supposed to be real pretty, right?

[quote name='Gareth Keenan Invetigates' date='Mar 23 2006, 03:55 PM' post='48845']
92 ) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)]

Been wanting to see this after it reading it for One Book One Chicago

089 ) Fury (1936)
Directed by: Fritz Lang.
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot and Edward Ellis
IMDB link 7.8/10 (1,499 votes)

088 ) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Directed by: George Seaton.
Stars: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart and Natalie Wood
IMDB link 8.0/10 (6,589 votes)

087 ) How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Directed by: John Ford.
Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp and Roddy McDowall
IMDB link 8.0/10 (3,211 votes)

086 ) To Have and Have Not (1944)
Directed by: Howard Hawks.
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran and Hoagy Carmichael
IMDB link 8.0/10 (5,101 votes)

085 ) Lady For A Day (1933)
Directed by: Frank Capra
Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell and Ned Sparks
IMDB link 7.5/10 (455 votes)




Yeah it's pretty damn solid. Managed to see Black Narcissus when it was re-released at the cinema here last year. Been meaning to see it again as I'm sure an extra viewing would push it up my list. It looked absolutely gorgeous in it's new print and I'm told it's the best it's ever looked. Maybe even a better use of Technicolor than Gone With The Wind. I know the new print is on the region 2 DVD but region 1 I don't know.

Crap! So Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman make the cut? A sad day indeed for Universal Monsters everywhere!

084 ) Woman of the Year (1942)
Directed by: George Stevens
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen and Minor Watson
IMDB link 7.4/10 (1,498 votes)

083 ) Stage Door (1937)
Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick and Constance Collier
IMDB link 7.7/10 (1,388 votes)

082 ) Safety Last! (1923)
Directed by: Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young and Westcott Clarke
IMDB link 8.4/10 (1,119 votes)

081 ) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Directed by: Harold Young
Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce and Bramwell Fletcher
IMDB link 7.7/10 (830 votes)

080 ) La Grande Illusion [aka The Grand Illusion](1937)
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim and Julien Carette
IMDB Link 8.1/10 (6,222 votes) - top 250: #247

A batch of five 30's films are the last ones for tonight.

079 ) The Black Cat (1934)
Directed by:Edgar G. Ulmer.
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop and Egon Brecher.
IMDB link 7.3/10 (984 votes)

078 ) The Thin Man (1934)
Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton and Minna Gombell.
IMDB link 7.9/10 (6,079 votes)

077 ) Top Hat (1935)
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes and Eric Blore
IMDB link 7.6/10 (2,813 votes)

076 ) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Directed by: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin and Eddie Quillan
IMDB link 7.9/10 (3,079 votes)

075 ) Scarface (aka Scarface: The Shame of a Nation)(1932)
Directed by:Howard Hawks/ Richard Rosson
Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins and C. Henry Gordon
IMDB link 7.9/10 (3,045 votes)

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

074 ) The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Stars: Margaret Lockwood , Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty and Cecil Parker.
IMDB link 8.2/10 (5,754 votes) - top 250: #193

073 ) Ivan Groznyy I (aka Ivan The Terrible)(1944)
Directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Stars: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov and Mikhail Zharov.
IMDB link 8.2/10 (1,040 votes) Vote Here

072 ) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Directed by: D.W. Griffith.
Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse and Vera Lewis.
IMDB link 8.0/10 (1,797 votes)

071 ) Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Directed by: Buster Keaton.
Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly and Ward Crane.
IMDB link 8.4/10 (2,330 votes)

070 ) Stagecoach (1939)
Directed by: John Ford.
Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine and Thomas Mitchell.
IMDB link 7.8/10 (6,706 votes)

069 ) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Directed by: Lewis Milestone.
Stars: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
IMDB link 8.1/10 (8,591 votes) - top 250: #207

068 ) Key Largo (1948)
Directed by: John Huston.
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor.
IMDB link 8.0/10 (6,616 votes)

067 ) The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch.
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut and Sara Haden.
IMDB link 8.0/10 (3,690 votes)

066 ) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Directed by: Frank Capra.
Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold and Guy Kibbee.
IMDB link 8.3/10 (14,120 votes) - top 250: #89

065 ) Gaslight (1944)
Directed by: George Cukor
Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty and Angela Lansbury
IMDB link 7.8/10 (3,341 votes)

Final batch before we hit individual posting so comments would be welcome.



064 ) Rope (1948)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke and Constance Collier.
IMDB link 7.9/10 (10,047 votes)

063 ) Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Directed by: Preston Sturges.
Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest and Franklin Pangborn
IMDB link 8.0/10 (3,774 votes)

062 ) The Wolf Man (1941)
Directed by: George Waggner
Stars: Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles and Bela Lugosi
IMDB link 7.4/10 (2,038 votes)

061 ) Rebecca (1940)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson and Nigel Bruce
IMDB link 8.4/10 (14,162 votes) - top 250: #78

Kinda suprised to see Rope and Wuthering Heights so low.

Oh, and Citizen Kane sucks.

#60 Wuthering Heights (1939)
William Wyler

Running time - 99mins
Country of origin - US
Genre - Classic Romantic Drama
Original language - English

Writing credits
Emily Brontë (novel)
Charles MacArthur
Ben Hecht

Cast
Merle Oberon .... Cathy
Laurence Olivier .... Heathcliff
David Niven .... Edgar Linton
Flora Robson .... Ellen
Donald Crisp .... Dr. Kenneth

Academy Awards
Won - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Nomintaed - Best Actor in a Leading Role (Laurence Olivier), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Geraldine Fitzgerald ), Best Art Direction, Best Director, Best Music (Original Score), Best Picture, Best Writing/Screenplay

From The Radio Times Guide to Film

Laurence Olivier's Heathcliff is even more handsome than the Yorkshire moors across which he howls his doomed love for Cathy (Merle Oberon) in this stirring melodrama of seething, brooding and smouldering passion set in England in the 19th century. Produced by Sam Goldwyn, directed by William Wyler, and also starring David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Flora Robson, this is still the best by some way of the five big-screen versions of Emily Brontë's novel (including Spanish and Egyptian productions). It garnered eight Oscar nominations, including best picture, but only won one, for Gregg Toland's black-and-white cinematography. Had there also been an Oscar for best smouldering, Olivier would have walked it



Amazon.co.uk link
IMDB link - 7.9/10 (2,961 votes)
SOMB 499 rank - N/A

Ranked highest by [b][/b] (#5)

And Gaslight...!

Re: Citizen Kane, I think I voted it pretty high on my alltime list, but took it down a few notches in this poll when I realized I haven't wanted to watch it the last few times it's been on tv.

Must hear reasons why!

#59 Laura (1944)
Otto Preminger (with Rouben Mamoulian uncredited)

Running time - 83mins
Country of origin - US
Genre - Classic Film Noir
Original language - English

Writing credits
Vera Caspary (novel)
Jay Dratler and
Samuel Hoffenstein and
Elizabeth Reinhardt (as Betty Reinhardt)
Ring Lardner Jr. uncredited

Cast
Gene Tierney .... Laura Hunt
Dana Andrews .... Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Clifton Webb .... Waldo Lydecker
Vincent Price .... Shelby Carpenter
Judith Anderson .... Mrs. Ann Treadwell

Academy Awards
Won - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Nomintaed - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Clifton Webb ), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration (Black-and-White), Best Director and Best Writing/Screenplay

From The Radio Times Guide to Film

“I shall never forget the night Laura died …” begins the narrator, and neither will you. This taut romantic mystery in which New York detective Dana Andrews falls in love with an image encapsulates what film noir is all about. Otto Preminger's moody, stark direction is greatly helped by the casting of beautiful Gene Tierney in the title role, a southern-accented Vincent Price as a smarmy gigolo and the incomparable Clifton Webb as columnist Waldo Lydecker. The David Raksin score is, quite simply, matchless. If you've never seen it, don't miss, and don't be put off by the film's now classic status — it's a rattling good thriller and bears watching time and time again



Amazon.com link ($7.47)
IMDB link - 8.0/10 (5,997 votes)
SOMB 499 rank - N/A

Ranked highest by TerryKath'sBrain (#5)

#58 Brief Encounter (1945)
David Lean

Running time - 82mins
Country of origin - UK
Genre - Classic Romantic Drama
Original language - English

Writing credits
Noel Coward - play Still Life (uncredited)
Anthony Havelock-Allan - uncredited
David Lean - uncredited
Ronald Neame - uncredited

Cast
Celia Johnson .... Laura Jesson
Trevor Howard .... Dr. Alec Harvey
Stanley Holloway .... Albert Godby
Joyce Carey .... Myrtle Bagot
Cyril Raymond .... Fred Jesson

Academy Awards
Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role (Celia Johnson), Best Director and Best Writing/Screenplay.

Other
Won Grand Prize Cannes Film Festival

From The Radio Times Guide to Film

Co-adapted by Noël Coward from his own one-act play Still Life, this is one of the finest films ever made in Britain. What makes the illicit love between doctor Trevor Howard and housewife Celia Johnson so memorable is their sheer ordinariness — they really could be anybody sat in the dark of the cinema or in the comfort of their armchair. That's why Falling in Love, the unofficial Hollywood remake, fell so flat — Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep simply weren't ordinary enough. Romancing to the strains of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, the leads are outstanding, but credit should also go to the forgotten Cyril Raymond, whose decent dullness as Johnson's husband makes those stolen Thursdays seem so special.



Amazon.com link
IMDB link - 8.4/10 (3,672 votes) - top 250: #165
SOMB 499 rank - N/A

Ranked highest by GarethKeenanInvetigates (#5)

Damn. This thread looks sweet. Nice job, Gareth.

#57 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Robert Hamer

Running time - 101mins
Country of origin - UK
Genre - Classic Black comedy
Original language - English

Writing credits
Roy Horniman (novel Israel Rank)
Robert Hamer
John Dighton

Cast
Dennis Price .... Duke Louis Mazzini/Mazzini Sr.
Valerie Hobson .... Edith D'Ascoyne
Joan Greenwood .... Sibella Holland
Alec Guinness .... Duke Etherel/The Banker/Reverend Lord Henry d'Ascoyne/General Lord Rufus D'Ascoyne/Admiral Horatio d'Ascoyne/Young Henry d'Ascoyne/Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne/Lord Ascoyne d'Ascoyne
Audrey Fildes .... Louisa d'Ascoyne Mazzini, Louis' mother

Other awards
BAFTA Awards - Best British Film

From The Radio Times Guide to Film

Arguably the finest of the Ealing comedies, this superb comédie noire from director Robert Hamer has a deliciously witty script that slips smoothly between dastardly deaths in the guise of a self-satisfied memoir. However, the picture is elevated to greatness by the quality of its playing. Obviously, Alec Guinness, who essays the eight doomed D'Ascoynes, merits every superlative lavished on a performance of astounding versatility and virtuosity. But let's not forget Dennis Price as the ceaselessly inventive killer, and Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson as the vamp and the vestal in his life, who are singularly brilliant.



Amazon.com link
IMDB link - 8.4/10 (4,584 votes) - top 250: #145
SOMB 499 rank - N/A

Ranked highest by GarethKeenanInvetigates (#4)

A few years ago they were threatening a KH&C remake with--ouch--Robin Williams. One of the better things not to have happened.

#56 Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Charles Barton

Running time - 79mins
Country of origin - US
Genre - Comedy
Original language - English

Writing credits
Mary Shelley - (characters) uncredited
Bram Stoker - (characters) uncredited
Robert Lees - (screenplay) &
Frederic I. Rinaldo - (screenplay) &
John Grant - (screenplay)

Cast
Bud Abbott .... Chick Young
Lou Costello .... Wilbur Grey
Lon Chaney Jr. .... Larry Talbot/The Wolf Man
Bela Lugosi .... Count Dracula
Glenn Strange .... The Frankenstein Monster

From The Radio Times Guide to Film

Bud and Lou often just weren't funny enough by themselves. So Universal International set up a series of confrontations from the horror films that had been such a success for the studio in the 1930s. This was one of the naively funniest, with the boys delivering crates to a wax museum (of course) unaware that their consignment contains Count Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr as the Wolf Man play it straight enough to be naturally comic, so the real comedians end up as stooges. Vincent Price is the voice of the Invisible Man and Glenn Strange is the Monster — Boris Karloff hadn't drawn the short straw this time, but did turn up the next year in Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff!



Amazon.com link
IMDB link - 7.4/10 (2,598 votes)
SOMB 499 rank - N/A

Ranked highest by Slackmo (#9)

Absolutely fucking gorgeous. The Criterion DVD looks GREAT, if they ever reissue a newly struck print (or you know for a fact that a print being screened is in excellent condition), go see it in a theater.

Glenn Strange definitely could've been Lon Chaney Juniors twin or something.

#55 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Albert Lewin

Running time - 109mins
Country of origin - US
Genre - Period Horror Drama
Original language - English

Writing credits
Oscar Wilde - (novel)
Albert Lewin

Cast
George Sanders .... Lord Henry Wotton
Hurd Hatfield .... Dorian Gray
Donna Reed .... Gladys Hallward
Angela Lansbury .... Sibyl Vane
Peter Lawford .... David Stone


Academy Awards
Won Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Angela Lansbury) Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration (Black-and-White)

Other awards
Won Golden Globes - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Angela Lansbury)

From The Radio Times Guide to Film

Although MGM had enjoyed success with lavish literary adaptations such as David Copperfield and Pride and Prejudice, this big-budget version of Oscar Wilde's only novel was a rather curious venture for a studio that prided itself on family entertainment. But flamboyant screenwriter/director Albert Lewin turned in a compelling picture that teeters between sophistication and vulgarity. Hurd Hatfield gives a muted performance as Dorian and is thus easily surpassed by Angela Lansbury, who plays the chirpy music-hall singer with whom he falls in lust, and by George Sanders as the languidly witty Lord Henry Wotton. The picture earned co-art director Cedric Gibbons one of his record 40 Oscar nominations.



Amazon.com link
IMDB link - 7.5/10 (1,845 votes)
SOMB 499 rank - N/A

Ranked highest by TerryKath'sBrain (#4)

Abbott & costello Meet Frankenstein:
This is a fun and entertaining movie. When the idea for this movie was first pitched to Abbott & costello they were vehemently against it. They didn't like the idea of having to stoop so low as to use Universal's Monsters to create interest in their movies and thought it signaled a large drop in their star status.

Of interest: Some scenes had to be reshot because Glenn Strange (playing Frankenstein) couldn't stop laughing at Costello's antics; towards the end of shooting, Strange broke his ankle and had to be replaced in a few shots by Lon Chaney Jr., who was costarring in the film as the Wolf Man