March 10, 1970

Top 10 Films of 1930

1. "L'Age d'Or" (Luis Bunuel, France)

2. "Animal Crackers" (Victor Heerman, Paramount)

3. "All Quiet On The Western Front" (Lewis Milestone, Universal)

4. "The Blue Angel" (Josef von Sternberg, Germany)

5. "That Night's Wife" (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)

6. "King Of Jazz" (John Murray Anderson, Universal)

7. "The Dawn Patrol" (Howard Hawks, Warner)

8. "The Doorway To Hell" (Archie Mayo, Warner)

9. "Feet First" (Clyde Bruckman, Paramount)

10. "Monte Carlo" (Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount)


Other great films:
For Her Sake (Sweden)
Free And Easy
Holiday
I Flunked But (Japan)
Just Imagine
Laughter

1. "Earth" (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Soviet Union)

2. "À propos de Nice" (Jean Vigo, France) - short

3. "Morocco" (Josef von Sternberg, Paramount)

4. "Maria do Mar" (José Leitão de Barros, Portugal)

5. "Hell's Angels" (Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale, United Artists)

6. "Golden Dawn" (Ray Enright, Warner)

7. "Caïn, aventures des mers exotiques" (Léon Poirier, France)

8. "The Shindig" (Burt Gillett, Disney)

9. "Ingagi" (William Campbell, USA)

10. "Massages" (France) - short


Short Top 10:

1. "Aimless Walk" (Alexander Hackenschmied, Czechoslovakia)

2. "Romance sentimentale" (Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, France)

3. "Another Fine Mess" (James Parrott, Roach, MGM)

4. "Below Zero" (James Parrott, Roach, MGM)

5. "Hog Wild" (James Parrott, Roach, MGM)

6. "Laughing Gravy" (James W. Horne, Roach, MGM)

7. "Brats" (James Parrott, Roach, MGM)

8. "Night Owls" (James Parrott, Roach, MGM)

9. "Meet The Boyfriend" (Norman Taurog, Paramount)

10. "Blotto" (James Parrott, Roach, MGM)


Cartoons Top 10 

1. "The Cactus Kid" (Walt Disney, Disney)

2. "Sinkin' In The Bathtub" (Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Warner)

3. "Winter" (Burt Gillett, Disney)

4. "The Chain Gang" (Burt Gillett, Disney)

5. "Dizzy Dishes" (Dave Fleischer, Paramount)

6. "Hash Shop" (Walter Lantz, Universal)

7. "Studie Nr 6" (Oskar Fischinger, Germany)

8. "Ship Ahoy" (John Foster, RKO)

9. "Studie Nr 5" (Oskar Fischinger, Germany)

10. "Arctic Antics" (Ub Iwerks, Disney)


Other great cartoons:

Cannibal Capers

Weak films of 1930:

Anna Christie
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Top 3 Musicals of 1930

1. "King Of Jazz" (John Murray Anderson, Universal)


2. "Monte Carlo" (Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount)


5. "Whoopee" (Thornton Freeland, United Artists)

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Earth (1930) *****

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The Dawn Patrol (1930) ****

The best of all WWI warplanes dramas (like 1927's "Wings", 1930's "Hell's Angels" and 1938's "Dawn Patrol"), with terrific aerial combat footage and a tense, exciting, Oscar-nominated story.
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All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) ****

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Maria do Mar (1930) ****

A great classic of the Portuguese cinema.
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That Night's Wife (1930) ****

A silent crime melodrama directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Absolutely unique in his filmography. A tense thriller that begans with an armed robbery, continues with a police dragnet and ends with a stand-off involving the criminal, his wife, his sick daughter and a police detective.
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Holiday (1930) ***

Eclipsed by the 1938 remake starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, this is the original movie adaptation. And a fine one too.
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Murder (1930) ***

A juror (Herbert Marshall) comes to believe that a woman convicted of murder is actually innocent.
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With Byrd At The South Pole (1930) ***

Documentary set in Antarctica.
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The Doorway To Hell (1930) ***

Excellent early talkie gangster film starring Lew Ayres as a head of the organized crime who decides to retire from the business. A fascinating portrait of Chicago's gangland during the Prohibition.
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