Top Ten Film Lists 1940-1944 (Alphabetical)

1944

• DOUBLE INDEMNITY  (Billy Wilder)

• GASLIGHT  (George Cukor)

• GOING MY WAY  (Leo McCarey)

• HENRY V  (Laurence Olivier)

• LAURA  (Otto Preminger)

• LIFEBOAT  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS  (Vincente Minnelli)

• THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK  (Preston Sturges)

• NATIONAL VELVET  (Clarence Brown)

• TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT  (Howard Hawks)

1943

• CASABLANCA  (Michael Curtiz)

• DAY OF WRATH  (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

• FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS  (Sam Wood)

• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP  (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

• MADAME CURIE  (Mervyn LeRoy)

• THE MORE THE MERRIER  (George Stevens)

• THE OX-BOW INCIDENT  (William A. Wellman)

• SHADOW OF A DOUBT  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• THE SONG OF BERNADETTE  (Henry King)

• WATCH ON THE RHINE  (Herman Shumlin)

1942

• BAMBI  (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield & Norman Wright)

• HOLIDAY INN  (Mark Sandrich)

• THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS  (Orson Welles)

• MRS. MINIVER  (William Wyler)

• NOW, VOYAGER  (Irving Rapper)

• THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES  (Sam Wood)

• RANDOM HARVEST  (Mervyn LeRoy)

• ROAD TO MOROCCO  (David Butler)

• TO BE OR NOT TO BE  (Ernst Lubitsch)

• YANKEE DOODLE DANDY  (Michael Curtiz)

1941

• THE 49TH PARALLEL  (Michael Powell)

• CITIZEN KANE  (Orson Welles)

• DUMBO  (Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts & Ben Sharpsteen)

• HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY  (John Ford)

• THE LADY EVE  (Preston Sturges)

• THE MALTESE FALCON  (John Huston)

• PENNY SERENADE  (George Stevens)

• SERGEANT YORK  (Howard Hawks)

• SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS  (Preston Sturges)

• SUSPICION  (Alfred Hitchcock)

1940

• FANTASIA  (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield & Ben Sharpsteen)

• THE GRAPES OF WRATH  (John Ford)

• THE GREAT DICTATOR  (Charles Chaplin)

• THE GREAT MCGINTY  (Preston Sturges)

• HIS GIRL FRIDAY  (Howard Hawks)

• THE PHILADELPHIA STORY  (George Cukor)

• PINOCCHIO  (Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts & Ben Sharpsteen)

• REBECCA  (Alfred Hitchcock)

• THE SEA HAWK  (Michael Curtiz)

• THE THIEF OF BAGDAD  (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan)