Directors The Thirties Vs. The Forties - A Movie Tournament (1 Viewer)

[Marc Fedderman]

Nominate:

30's:
Trouble in Paradise
The Roaring Twenties

40's:
Sullivan's Travels
Beauty and the Beast

Second:

30's:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
It Happened One Night

 

[george kaplan]

Nominate:

1930s:

The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps

1940s:

The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon

Second:

1930s:

Trouble in Paradise

1940s:

Sullivan's Travels

 

[Walter Kittel]

Nominate

30s
King Kong
Mutiny on the Bounty

40s
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Released next week!
The Best Years of Our Lives

Second:
It Happened One Night
The Maltese Falcon
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

- Walter.

 

[Adam_S]

Nominate
30s:
The Thin Man
Grand Illusion

40s:
How Green was my Valley
A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven)

Second:
King Kong
The Lady Vanishes

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

 

[george kaplan]

Second:

The Thin Man

 

[SteveGon]

Heh, we overshot a bit on the Forties list so I guess we'll take it to 25 films apiece.

Seconding:

30s: Freaks and Grand Illusion

40s: Day of Wrath and The Shop Around the Corner

We need four more films for the thirties and two more for the forties. Feel free to second what you can.

 

[george kaplan]

I guess I'll second Frankenstein.

 

[Brook K]

2nd
Mutiny on the Bounty

 

[Marc Fedderman]

Second:
Grand Hotel

 

[Adam_S]

second Adam's Rib and the Roaring Twenties

 

[SteveGon]

And that finishes it up. Actually I took the liberty of taking it up to 30 films per list by throwing in the following films: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 42nd Street, Gone With the Wind, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The 39 Steps (30s) and The Bicycle Thief, The Big Sleep, How Green Was My Valley, Yankee Doodle Dandy (40s).

First brackets up in a minute...

 

[SteveGon]

Round 1 - Bracket 1

The Roaring Twenties vs. The Maltese Falcon


Round 1 - Bracket 2

The Blue Angel vs. Brief Encounter

 

[Brook K]

abstain
The Blue Angel

 

[george kaplan]

The Maltese Falcon
Brief Encounter

There are certainly some films in this tourney that I don't like, but at least there aren't any I haven't seen, so I won't have to abstain, which is nice.

 

[Marc Fedderman]

The Maltese Falcon
Abstain

As much as I love The Roaring Twenties, it was too hard for me to vote against the quintessential noir film (and one of Bogart's best performances to boot).

Both of the films in the second match-up interest me, but I haven't seen either one.

 

[Adam_S]

and the forties kick ass in round one with great films against two good ones, easy on this round, though I dread some of the eventual matchups.

Maltese Falcon

Brief Encounter

 

[SteveGon]

Heh, yes, these are relatively easy matchups...

New brackets up tomorrow. Keep the votes comin'!

 

[Walter Kittel]

abstain
Brief Encounter

I'm dreading some of the eventual matchups.

- Walter.

 

[Bill McA]

The Roaring Twenties
The Blue Angel

 

[SteveGon]

My votes: The Maltese Falcon and Brief Encounter (tough one, actually).


The Maltese Falcon and Brief Encounter advance.


Round 1 - Bracket 3

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs vs. Beauty and the Beast


Round 1 - Bracket 4

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang vs. The Bicycle Thief