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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Air Mail
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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One Hour with You
1932, in 6 top lists Check -
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Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
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Die verkaufte Braut
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Boudu sauvé des eaux
1932 — a.k.a. Boudu Saved from Drowning, in 9 top lists Check -
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Shanghai Express
1932, in 9 top lists Check -
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A Farewell to Arms
1932, in 3 top lists Check -
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American Madness
1932, in 1 top list Check -
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A Bill of Divorcement
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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What Price Hollywood?
1932, in 1 top list Check -
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The Sign of the Cross
1932, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Half-Naked Truth
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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One Way Passage
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Back Street
1932, in 1 top list Check -
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Love Me Tonight
1932, in 11 top lists Check -
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Rain
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Hatchet Man
1932 — a.k.a. The Honourable Mr. Wong, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Cabin in the Cotton
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Grand Hotel
1932, in 4 top lists Check -
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
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Two Seconds
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Old Dark House
1932, in 5 top lists Check -
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Emma
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
1932 — a.k.a. Invisible Power, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Dentist
1932, in 1 top list Check -
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Million Dollar Legs
1932, in 1 top list Check -
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Horse Feathers
1932, in 6 top lists Check -
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Arsène Lupin
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Red-Headed Woman
1932, in 2 top lists Check -
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Blessed Event
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Taxi
1931, in 0 top lists Check -
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Red Dust
1932, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Mouthpiece
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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Life Begins
1932 — a.k.a. The Dawn of Life, in 0 top lists Check -
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Tarzan the Ape Man
1932, in 0 top lists Check
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