Steven Shaviro
English 5060, Fall 2009

Hollywood Film from Sound to 1960

Suggested Films for short paper assignments

1. 1930s (paper due October 19)

• All Quiet On The Western Front (Lewis Milestone, Universal,1930)
• The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, Columbia, 1937)
• The Black Cat (Edgar Ulmer, Universal, 1934)
• Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)
• Camille (George Cukor, MGM, 1937)
• Death Takes A Holiday (Mitchell Leisen, Paramount, 1934)
• Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, Fox, 1939)
• Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, Paramount, 1933)
• Forty-Second Street (Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley, Warner Bros, 1933)
• Frankenstein (James Whale, Universal, 1931)
• Freaks (Tod Browning, MGM, 1932)
• Gold Diggers of 1935 (Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley, Warner Bros, 1935)
• Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, Selznick, 1939)
• Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932)
• I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, Warner Bros, 1932)
• I'm No Angel (Wesley Ruggles, Paramount, 1933)
• Imitation of Life (John Stahl, Universal, 1934)
• The Informer (John Ford, RKO, 1935)
• It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, Columbia, 1934)
• Jezebel (William Wyler, Warner Bros, 1938)
• King Kong (Merian C Cooper, RKO, 1933)
• Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, Warner Bros, 1930)
• The Light Ahead (Edgar Ulmer, independent, 1939)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, Columbia, 1936)
• A Murder in Harlem (Oscar Micheaux, independent, 1936)
• My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, Universal, 1936)
• Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, MGM, 1939)
• Nothing Sacred (William Wellman, Selznick, 1937)
• Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, United Artists, 1934)
• Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, MGM, 1933)
• Scarface (Howard Hawks, United Artists, 1932)
• The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
• Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, Disney, 1937)
• Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
• Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, Columbia, 1934)
• The Whole Town's Talking (John Ford, Columbia, 1935)
• The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, MGM, 1939)
• Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, Goldwyn, 1939)

2. 1940s (paper due November 9)

• Adam's Rib (George Cukor, 1949)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
• The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
• Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947)
• Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
• Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)
• The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)
• His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
• How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941)
• I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller, 1949)
• It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
• The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
• The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948)
• Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
• Leave Her To Heaven (John Stahl, 1945)
• Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
• The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
• The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
• Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
• Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang, 1945)
• My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
• Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
• Out Of The Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946)
• Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
• Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
• The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
• The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
• Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage, 1940)
• The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
• To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
• To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
• White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)

3. 1950s (paper due December 14)

• The African Queen (John Huston, 1952)
• All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950)
• An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)
• Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1953)
• Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955)
• Ben Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
• The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953)
• The Brothers Rico (Phil Karlson, 1957)
• Forbidden Planet (Fred McLeod Wilcox, 1956)
• Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
• High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
• Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
• Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
• My Son John (Leo McCarey, 1952)
• Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
• Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
• A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
• Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
• Rio Grande (John Ford, 1950)
• Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelley and Stanley Donen, 1952)
• The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller, 1951)
• Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
• The Tall T (Budd Boetticher, 1957)
• The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956)
• Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954)
• Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
• The Wild One (Laslo Benedek, 1953)
• Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1957)
• The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)

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