April 17, 1970

Top 10 Films of 1947

1. "Monsieur Verdoux" (Charles Chaplin, USA)

2. "Song Of The South" (Walt Disney, USA)

3. "Out Of The Past" (Maurice Tourneur, USA)

4. "Record Of A Tenement Gentleman" (Yasujirô Ozu, Japan)

5. "Boomerang!" (Elia Kazan, USA)

6. "Kiss Of Death" (Henry Hathaway, USA)

7. "Pursued" (Raoul Walsh, USA)

8. "Dark Passage" (Delmer Daves, USA)

9. "Crossfire" (Edward Dmytryk, RKO)

10. "Black Narcissus" (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK)


Other great films:

Angelina (Italy)
Antoine et Antoinette (France)
The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer
Body And Soul
Brute Force
Call Northside 777
Lady In The Lake
Life With Father
Miracle On 34th Street
Nicholas Nickleby (UK)
Nightmare Alley
Odd Man Out (UK)
One Wonderful Sunday (Japan)
The Paradine Case
Road To Rio
Secret Agent (Soviet Union)
Seven Journeys (Germany)
Woman On The Beach
Zakazane piosenki (Poland)


Top 5 Guilty Pleasures of 1947:

1. "Sauna" (Holger Harrivirta, Finland) - short

2. "Varala naisten paratiisi" (Aimo Jäderholm, Finland) - short

3. "The Cage" (Sidney Peterson, USA) - short

4. "Jan Rohác z Dubé" (Vladimír Borský, Czechoslovakia)

5. "Le Chanteur inconnu" (André Cayatte, France)


Short Top 3:

1. "Fireworks" (Kenneth Anger, USA)

2. "Village Church" (Carl T. Dreyer, Denmark)

3. "Goodbye Miss Turlock" (Edward L. Cahn, USA)


Other great shorts:


Top Commercial:

"Chiquita Banana" (Walt Disney, United Fruit Company)


Cartoon Top 10

1. "King-Size Canary" (Tex Avery, MGM)

2. "Clown Of The Jungle" (Jack Hannah, Disney)

3. "Tweetie Pie" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

4. "Pluto's Blue Note" (Charles Nichols, Disney)

5. "Chip 'n' Dale" (Jack Hannah, Disney)

6. "Foul Hunting" (Jack Hannah, Disney)

7. "Smoked Hams" (Dick Lundy, Universal)

8. "Rhapsody In Wood" (George Pal, Paramount)

9. Motion Painting #1 (Oskar Fischinger, USA)

10. "It's A Grand Old Nag" (Robert Clampett, Republic)


Other great cartoons:

Along Came Daffy
Birth Of A Notion
Catch As Cats Can
Crowing Pains
Doggone Cats
Donald's Dilemma
Enchanted Square 
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