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 -
36 new
The Hurricane
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
56 new
Gideon's Day
1958 — a.k.a. Gideon of Scotland Yard, in 0 top lists Check -
75 new
The Dawn Patrol
1930, in 1 top list Check -
76 new
Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
83 new
Air Force
1943, in 2 top lists Check -
86 new
Red River
1948, in 16 top lists Check -
91 new
Hatari!
1962, in 3 top lists Check -
106 new
Saboteur
1942, in 2 top lists Check -
120 new
North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
130 new
The Navigator
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
132 new
The General
1926, in 34 top lists Check -
134 new
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928, in 13 top lists Check -
234 new
Attack
1956, in 2 top lists Check -
238 new
The Dirty Dozen
1967, in 8 top lists Check -
295 new
The Squaw Man
1914, in 1 top list Check -
306 new
North West Mounted Police
1940 — a.k.a. Northwest Mounted Police, in 0 top lists Check -
307 new
Reap the Wild Wind
1942, in 0 top lists Check -
315 new
The Great Race
1965, in 2 top lists Check -
319 new
The Steel Helmet
1951, in 2 top lists Check -
320 new
Fixed Bayonets!
1951, in 1 top list Check -
324 new
China Gate
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
354 new
Bend of the River
1952 — a.k.a. Where the River Bends, in 3 top lists Check -
358 new
Strategic Air Command
1955, in 0 top lists Check -
406 new
The Lusty Men
1952, in 4 top lists Check -
477 new
Desperate Journey
1942, in 0 top lists Check -
480 new
Objective, Burma!
1945, in 1 top list Check -
488 new
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951, in 0 top lists Check -
489 new
Distant Drums
1951, in 0 top lists Check -
491 new
The World in His Arms
1952, in 1 top list Check -
494 new
The Tall Men
1955, in 1 top list Check -
504 new
Westbound
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
536 new
Sands of Iwo Jima
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
552 new
A Terrible Beauty
1960 — a.k.a. The Night Fighters, in 0 top lists Check -
556 new
99 River Street
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
565 new
The Silencers
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
613 new
The Crimson Pirate
1952, in 1 top list Check -
638 new
Canyon Passage
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
739 new
Across the Pacific
1942, in 0 top lists Check -
746 new
Beat the Devil
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
815 new
Beau Geste
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
820 new
Battleground
1949, in 3 top lists Check -
822 new
The High and the Mighty
1954, in 1 top list Check -
885 new
Captain Blood
1935, in 3 top lists Check -
886 new
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936, in 2 top lists Check -
888 new
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938, in 17 top lists Check -
895 new
The Sea Hawk
1940, in 2 top lists Check -
939 new
Souls at Sea
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
940 new
Spawn of the North
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
944 new
Wing and a Prayer
1944, in 0 top lists Check
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