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 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1947:

1. "Somewhere In Europe" (Géza von Radványi, Hungary)

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

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

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

5. "Quax in Africa" (Helmut Weiss, Germany)

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

7. "Les Atouts de Monsieur Wens" (E.G. de Meyst, Belgium)

8. "Parohy" (Alfréd Radok, Frantisek Sádek, Czechoslovakia)

9. "Koskenkylän laulu" (Ilmari Unho, Finland)

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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Top 3 Musicals of 1947

1. "Good News" (Charles Walters, MGM)


2. "This Time For Keeps" (Richard Thorpe, MGM)


3. "It Happened In Brooklyn" (Richard Whorf, MGM)


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Song Of The South (1947) ****

Because of excessive political-correctness, this wonderful Disney classic is unavailable on DVD. Songs: 

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" ****
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Record Of A Tenement Gentleman (1947) ****

Neorealist "hahamono" film by Yasujiro Ozu, deeply touching.
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Koskenkylän laulu (1947)

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Parohy (1947)

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Les Atouts de Monsieur Wens (1947)

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Woman On The Beach (1947) ***

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Quax in Africa (1947) ***



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Unconquered (1947) ***

Epic western set in western Pennsylvania during the Indian Wars in the 18th century.
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Somewhere In Europe (1947) ***



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Ship To India (1947) ***

One of the best among Ingmar Bergman's early melodramas (those made in the 1940's). A story of a very toxic relationship between a father and his son.
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Seven Journeys (1947) ***





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