Daniel's Favorite Films: 1915-1949

I realized that I couldn't possibly attempt a list of my favorite movies of all time, since I have too many gaps in my viewing history. So I'm going to do a pre-1950s list for now. I'm afraid my taste tends to be rather gay, too, which explains why Stella Dallas makes it and Stagecoach doesn't.

The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, Robert Wiene)
The Kid (1921, Charles Chaplin)
Greed (1924, Erich Von Stroheim)
Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
Menilmontant (1925, Dimitri Kirsanoff)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
The first half of Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
The Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
The Wind (1928, Victor Sjöström)
Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
Camille (1936, George Cukor)
Sabotage (1936, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey)
Nothing Sacred (1937, William Wellman)
Stage Door (1937, Gregory La Cava)
Stella Dallas (1937, King Vidor)
Bringing up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
The Women (1939, George Cukor)
Fantasia (1940, James Algar)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
Laura (1944, Otto Preminger)
Lifeboat (1944, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944, Preston Sturges)
Phantom Lady (1944, Robert Siodmak)
Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
Dead of Night (1945, Alberto Cavalcanti)
The first half of The Best Years of Our Live (1946, William Wyler)
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
La Belle et La Bête (1946, Jean Cocteau)
Brief Encounter (1946, David Lean)
The young part of Great Expectations (1946, David Lean)
The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)
Lady in the Lake (1946, Robert Montgomery)
Notorious(1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell)
Nightmare Alley (1947, Edmund Goulding)
Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
D.O.A. (1949, Rudolph Maté)
Gun Crazy (1949, Joseph H. Lewis)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)