Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1939

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip39banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1939: World Premieres</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=stgcoach.html style="text-decoration:none">Stagecoach</a></b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=gwtw.html style="text-decoration:none">Gone with the Wind</a></b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</Font></b></Font> Dir. Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Jean Arthur <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Young Mr. Lincoln</Font></b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Eddie Collins <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Wizard of Oz</Font></b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=darkvict.html style="text-decoration:none">Dark Victory</a></b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=ninotchk.html style="text-decoration:none">Ninotchka</a></b></Font> Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Felix Bressart <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Love Affair</Font></b></Font> Dir. Leo McCarey. With Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1939</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Babes in Arms</b></Font> Dir. Busby Berkeley. With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Drums Along the Mohawk</b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Intermezzo</b></Font> Dir. Gregory Ratoff. With Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Mary Todd <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Bette Davis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle</b></Font> Dir. H.C. Potter. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Also from 1939</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Goodbye, Mr. Chips</b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With Robert Donat, Greer Garson, John Mills<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Only Angels Have Wings</b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Cary Grant, Thomas Mitchell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Rules of the Game</b></Font> Dir. Jean Renoir. With Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Women</b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Wuthering Heights</b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1939</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Beau Geste</b></Font> Dir. William Wellman. With Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Daughters Courageous</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With John Garfield, Claude Rains<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Destry Rides Again</b></Font> Dir. George Marshall. With James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Golden Boy</b></Font> Dir. Rouben Mamoulian. With Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Le Jour se l&#232ve</b></Font> Dir. Marcel Carn&#233. With Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Midnight</b></Font> Dir. Mitchell Leisen. With Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Of Mice and Men</b></Font> Dir. Lewis Milestone. With Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr.<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Old Maid</b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Roaring Twenties</b></Font> Dir. Raoul Walsh. With James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums</b></Font> Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi. With Sh&#244tar&#244 Hanayagi<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</b></Font> Dir. Alfred L. Werker. With Basil Rathbone<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Another Thin Man</b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With William Powell, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>At the Circus</b></Font> Dir. Edward Buzzell. With the Marx Brothers, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Bachelor Mother</b></Font> Dir. Garson Kanin. With Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Dodge City</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Each Dawn I Die</b></Font> Dir. William Keighley. With James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Four Feathers</b></Font> Dir. Zoltan Korda. With John Clements, Ralph Richardson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Gunga Din</b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Harlem Rides the Range</b></Font> Dir. Richard C. Kahn. With Herb Jeffries, Lucius Brooks<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Hound of the Baskervilles</b></Font> Dir. Sidney Lanfield. With Basil Rathbone, Richard Greene<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</b></Font> Dir. William Dieterle. With Chales Laughton<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Idiot's Delight</b></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Jamaica Inn</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Jesse James</b></Font> Dir. Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Juarez</b></Font> Dir. William Dieterle. With Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>King of the Underworld</b></Font> Dir. Lewis Seiler. With Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Little Princess</b></Font> Dir. Walter Lang. With Shirley Temple, Richard Greene<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Miracles for Sale</b></Font> Dir. Tod Browning. With Robert Young, Florence Rice, Henry Hull<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Raffles</b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Rains Came</b></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Remember?</b></Font> Dir. Norman Z. McLeod. With Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Lew Ayres<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Story of Alexander Graham Bell</b></Font> Dir. Irving Cummings. With Don Ameche<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Union Pacific</b></Font> Dir. Cecil B. DeMille. With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Way Down South</b></Font> Dir. Bernard Vorhaus. 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