The Best Films According to Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema
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In Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema, every director in the book has their full filmography listed, and Sarris italicizes the best films of each director. Here is the full collection of every film italicized in the book (with the exception of Out of the Past, which remains unitalicized likely as an error as he calls it Jacques Torneur's masterpiece).
The book has multiple sections, with who Sarris viewed as the pantheon directors at the top, and slowly dwindling in quality as the list goes down. However, there is merit to be found towards the bottom, as he lists a series of oddities, one-shots, and, at the time, newcomers, as well as subjects for further research.
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Men Without Women
1930, in 0 top lists Check -
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Up the River
1930, in 0 top lists Check -
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Arrowsmith
1931, in 1 top list Check -
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Air Mail
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Doctor Bull
1933, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Lost Patrol
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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Judge Priest
1934, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Whole Town's Talking
1935 — a.k.a. Passport to Fame, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Informer
1935, in 7 top lists Check -
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Steamboat Round the Bend
1935 — a.k.a. Steamboat Bill, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Hurricane
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
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Stagecoach
1939, in 21 top lists Check -
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Young Mr. Lincoln
1939, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Long Voyage Home
1940, in 4 top lists Check -
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Tobacco Road
1941, in 2 top lists Check -
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How Green Was My Valley
1941, in 11 top lists Check -
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They Were Expendable
1945, in 4 top lists Check -
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My Darling Clementine
1946, in 20 top lists Check -
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Fort Apache
1948, in 5 top lists Check -
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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Wagon Master
1950, in 6 top lists Check -
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Rio Grande
1950, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Quiet Man
1952, in 15 top lists Check -
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Mogambo
1953, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Sun Shines Bright
1953, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Long Gray Line
1955, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Searchers
1956, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Wings of Eagles
1957, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Rising of the Moon
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
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Gideon's Day
1958 — a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Horse Soldiers
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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Two Rode Together
1961, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962, in 16 top lists Check -
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Donovan's Reef
1963, in 0 top lists Check -
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7 Women
1965, in 3 top lists Check -
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Pinky
1949, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mister Roberts
1955, in 3 top lists Check
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