May 11, 1970

Top 10 Films of 1951

1. "Alice In Wonderland" (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, USA)

2. "The Red Badge Of Courage" (John Huston, USA)

3. "Strangers On A Train" (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

4. "The Lavender Hill Mob" (Charles Crichton, UK)

5. "An American In Paris" (Vincente Minnelli, USA)

6. "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (Robert Wise, USA)

7. "The Thing" (Howard Hawks, USA)

8. "Le Journal d'un cure de campagne" (Robert Bresson, France)

9. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Elia Kazan, USA)

10. "L'Auberge rouge" (Claude Autant-Lara, France)


Other great films:

Ace In The Hole
Era Lui!... Si! Si! (Italy)
The Frogmen
The Great Caruso
The Idiot (Japan)
Miss Oyu (Japan)
Tukkijoella (Finland)
Warszawska premiera (Poland)

Short Top 3:

1. "Kierunek Nowa Huta" (Andrzej Munk, Poland)


2. "David" (Paul Dickson, UK)


3. "Nature's Half Acre" (James Algar, Disney, USA)


Other great shorts:

Ensemble For Somnambulists (Canada)

Top Commercial:

"Princess" (Halo Shampoo)


Top TV:

"I Love Lucy: The Girls Want To Go To The Nightclub" (Marc Daniels, CBS)


Cartoon Top 10

1. "Symphony In Slang" (Tex Avery, MGM)


2. "Rabbit Fire" (Chuck Jones, Warner)


3. "Canned Feud" (Friz Freleng, Warner)


4. "Chow Hound" (Chuck Jones, Warner)


5. "Rooty Toot Toot" (John Hubley, Columbia)


6. "Room And Bird" (Friz Freleng, Warner)


7. "Scent-imental Romeo" (Chuck Jones, Warner)


8. "Two Mouseketeers" (William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, MGM)


9. "Lambert The Sheepish Lion" (Jack Hannah, Disney)


10. "The Story Of Time" (Robert G. Leffingwell, UK)


Other great cartoons:

Ballot Box Bunny
Cheese Chasers
Corn Chips
Drip-Along Daffy
Droopy's Double Trouble
The Fair-Haired Hare
A Fox In The Fix
French Rarebit
Fuddy Duddy Buddy
Georgie And The Dragon
A Hound For Trouble
Jerry And The Goldfish
Lion Down
Lovelorn Leghorn
The Merry Circus (Czechoslovakia)
Nit-Witty Kitty
Plutopia
The Prize Pest
Rabbit Every Monday
Slicked-Up Pup
The Wearing Of The Grin
Wonder Gloves
The Woody Woodpecker Polka

Weak films of 1951:

Decision Before Dawn
Fourteen Hours
Go For Broke
Here Comes The Groom
His Kind Of Woman
Lullaby Of Broadway
On Dangerous Ground
On The Riviera
A Place In The Sun
Quo Vadis
Storm Warning
When Worlds Collide

Weak shorts:

Family Portrait (UK)
Presentation ou Charlotte et son steak (France)
Romantic Riviera

Weak cartoons:

Barefaced Flatfoot
A Bear For Punishment
Bee On Guard
Big Top Bunny
A Bone For A Bone
Bunny Hugged
Car Of Tomorrow
Casanova Cat
Cat Napping
Chicken In The Rough
Cock-A-Doodle Dog
Cold Storage
Cold Turkey
Cold War
Corn Plastered
Daredevil Droopy
Dog Collared
Droopy's Good Deed
Dude Duck
Early To Bet
Family Circus
Fathers Are People
Get Rich Quick
Grizzly Golfer
Hare We Go
His Hare Raising Tale
His Mouse Friday
Home Made Home
Leghorn Swoogled
Lucky Number
No Smoking
Out Of Scale
Puddy Tat Twouble
Puny Express
R'coon Dawg
The Redwood Sap
Sleep Happy
Sleepy Time Possum
Sleepy Time Tom
Slingshot 6 7/8
Test Pilot Donald
Tomorrow We Diet
Tweet Tweet Tweety
Tweety's SOS
Wicket Wacky
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