Thirties Thursday

Here's a list I found of the 100 greatest movies of the 1930s.

It's quite a list.

It was quite a decade.

The brackets show the year, director and leading actors.

1. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard)
2. The Wizard of Oz - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger)
3. The Rules of the Game - (1939, Jean Renoir) (Roland Toutain, Nora Gregor)
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - (1939, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Claude Rains)
5. City Lights - (1931, Charles Chaplin) (Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers)
6. M - (1931, Fritz Lang) (Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut)
7. Modern Times - (1936, Charles Chaplin) (Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard)
8. King Kong - (1933, Merian C. Cooper) (Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot)
9. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis Milestone) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)
10. Grand Illusion - (1937, Jean Renoir) (Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim)
11. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - (1937, William Cottrell) (Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne)
12. Little Caesar - (1931, Mervyn LeRoy) (Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)
13. The 39 Steps - (1935, Alfred Hitchcock) (Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim)
14. It Happened One Night - (1934, Frank Capra) (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Alan Hale)
15. Stagecoach - (1939, John Ford) (John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine)
16. L'Atalante - (1934, Jean Vigo) (Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis)
17. Scarface - (1932, Howard Hawks) (Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff)
18. Bringing Up Baby - (1938, Howard Hawks) (Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Barry Fitzgerald)
19. Frankenstein - (1931, James Whale) (Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Frederick Kerr)
20. Freaks - (1932, Tod Browning) (Wallace Ford, Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova)
21. The Adventures of Robin Hood - (1938, Michael Curtiz) (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland)
22. The Bride of Frankenstein - (1935, James Whale) (Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive)
23. Duck Soup - (1933, Leo McCarey) (Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres)
24. The Public Enemy - (1931, William Wellman) (James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell)
25. Grand Hotel - (1932, Edmund Goulding) (Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford)
26. Dracula - (1931, Tod Browning) (Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners)
27. The Thin Man - (1934, W.S. Van Dyke) (William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan)
28. I Am a Fugitive from A Chain Gang - (1932, Mervyn LeRoy) (Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell)
29. A Star is Born - (1937, William Wellman) (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou)
30. Wuthering Heights - (1939, William Wyler) (Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven)
31. My Man Godfrey - (1936, Gregory La Cava) (William Powell, Carole Lombard)
32. Angels With Dirty Faces - (1938, Michael Curtiz) (James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart)
33. They Won't Forget - (1937, Mervyn LeRoy) (Claude Rains, Lana Turner, Otto Kruger)
34. A Tale of Two Cities - (1935, Jack Conway) (Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan)
35. Manhattan Melodrama - (1934, W.S. Van Dyke) (Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy)
36. Little Women - (1933, George Cukor) (Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas)
37. Zemlya (aka Earth) - (1930, Alexander Dovzhenko) (Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko)
38. A Night at the Opera - (1935, Sam Wood) (Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Margaret Dumont)
39. A Day in the Country - (1936, Jean Renoir) (Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken)
40. The Four Feathers - (1939, Zoltan Korda) (John Clements, Ralph Richardson)
41. You Can't Take It With You - (1938, Frank Capra) (Jean Arthur, James Stewart)
42. The Front Page - (1931, Lewis Milestone) (Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Brian)
43. Trouble in Paradise - (1932, Ernst Lubitsch) (Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall)
44. Top Hat - (1935, Mark Sandrich) (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton)
45. 42nd Street - (1933, Lloyd Bacon) (Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers)
46. The Blue Angel - (1930, Josef von Sternberg) (Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings)
47. Young Mr. Lincoln - (1939, John Ford) (Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Alice Brady)
48. Alexander Nevsky - (1938, Sergei Eisenstein) (Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov)
49. The Roaring Twenties - (1939, Raoul Walsh) (James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart)
50. Les Misérables - (1935, Richard Boleslawski) (Fredric March, Charles Laughton)
51. Zero for Conduct - (1933, Jean Vigo) (Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron)
52. The Stars Look Down - (1939, Carol Reed) (Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood)
53. Osaka Elegy - (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa)
54. Of Mice and Men - (1939, Lewis Milestone) (Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr.)
55. Jezebel - (1938, William Wyler) (Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent)
56. The Informer - (1935, John Ford) (Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster)
57. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - (1939, William Dieterle) (Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara)
58. The Good Earth - (1937, Victor Fleming) (Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly)
59. Dodsworth - (1936, William Wyler) (Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven)
60. David Copperfield - (1935, George Cukor) (W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Elsa Lanchester)
61. Show Boat - (1936, James Whale) (Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Hattie McDaniel)
62. The Great Ziegfeld - (1936, Robert Z. Leonard) (William Powell, Myrna Loy, Fanny Brice)
63. Gold Digger of 1933 - (1933, Mervyn LeRoy) (Warren William, Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers)
64. The Gay Divorcee - (1934, Mark Sandrich) (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady)
65. The Scarlet Pimpernel - (1934, Harold Young) (Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Nigel Bruce)
66. Mutiny on the Bounty - (1935, Frank Lloyd) (Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Donald Crisp)
67. Gunga Din - (1939, George Stevens) (Cary Grant, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)
68. Captains Courageous - (1937, Victor Fleming) (Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy)
69. Captain Blood - (1935, Michael Curtiz) (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone)
70. Love Affair - (1939, Leo McCarey) (Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya)
71. Camille - (1936, George Cukor) (Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore)
72. Destry Rides Again - (1939, George Marshall) (James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich)
73. Vampyr - (1932, Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel)
74. Son of Frankenstein - (1939, Rowland V. Lee) (Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone)
75. The Mummy - (1932, Karl W. Freund) (Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners)
76. Island of Lost Souls - (1932, Erle C. Kenton) (Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen)
77. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - (1931, Rouben Mamoulian) (Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins)
78. Lost Horizon - (1937, Frank Capra) (Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard)
79. Animal Crackers - (1930, Victor Heerman) (Marx Brothers, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont)
80. Twentieth Century - (1934, Howard Hawks) (John Barrymore, Carole Lombard)
81. Nothing Sacred - (1937, William Wellman) (Carole Lombard, Fredric March)
82. Ninotchka - (1939, Ernst Lubitsch) (Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi)
83. Holiday - (1938, George Cukor) (Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lew Ayres)
84. The Awful Truth - (1937, Leo McCarey) (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy)
85. À Nous la Libertén - (1931, René Clare) (Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand)
86. The Invisible Man - (1933, James Whale) (Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan)
87. Queen Christina - (1933, Rouben Mamoulian) (Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith)
88. Pygmalion - (1938, Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard) (Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller)
89. Dark Victory - (1939, Edmund Goulding) (Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, George Brent)
90. Three Comrades - (1938, Frank Borzage) (Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan)
91. Fury - (1936, Fritz Lang) (Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Brennan, Walter Abel)
92. The Scarlet Empress - (1934, Josef von Sternberg) (Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge)
93. A Farewell to Arms - (1932, Frank Borzage) (Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou)
94. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - (1933, Fritz Lang) (Oscar Beregi Sr., Paul Bernd)
95. The Lady Vanishes - (1938, Alfred Hitchcock) (Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave)
96. King Solomon's Mines - (1937, Robert Stevenson) (Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson)
97. The Mystery of the Wax Museum - (1933, Michael Curtiz) (Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray)
98. Love Me Tonight - (1932, Rouben Mamoulian) (Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald)
99. A Day at the Races - (1937, Sam Wood) (Marx Brothers, Maureen O'Sullivan)
100. The Big House - (1930, Paul Fejos, G.W. Hill) (Chester Morris, Wallace Beery)