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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  1. 98 new

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  2. 1191 new

    Ah, Wilderness!

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 427 new

    Alice Adams

    1935, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 884 new

    Black Fury

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 1044 new

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  6. 1307 new

    Broadway Melody of 1936

    1935, in 1 top list Check
  7. 885 new

    Captain Blood

    1935, in 3 top lists Check
  8. 302 new

    The Crusades

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Dark Angel

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 218 new

    The Devil Is a Woman

    1935, in 4 top lists Check
  11. 177 new

    Divine

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 841 new

    The Gay Deception

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 687 new

    The Ghost Goes West

    1935, in 1 top list Check
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    Goin' to Town

    1935, in 1 top list Check
  15. 862 new

    Gold Diggers of 1935

    1935, in 1 top list Check
  16. 981 new

    Hands Across the Table

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 33 new

    The Informer

    1935, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 936 new

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    1935, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 250 new

    Living on Velvet

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 618 new

    Magnificent Obsession

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 1217 new

    Mary Burns, Fugitive

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 1373 new

    Mississippi

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 1285 new

    A Night at the Opera

    1935, in 17 top lists Check
  24. 1232 new

    One More Spring

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 278 new

    The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, &...

    1935 — a.k.a. David Copperfield, in 4 top lists Check
  26. 937 new

    Peter Ibbetson

    1935, in 4 top lists Check
  27. 1325 new

    Reckless

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 365 new

    Ruggles of Red Gap

    1935, in 8 top lists Check
  29. 1150 new

    The Scoundrel

    1935, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 332 new

    She Married Her Boss

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  31. 459 new

    So Red the Rose

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 34 new

    Steamboat Round the Bend

    1935 — a.k.a. Steamboat Bill, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 279 new

    Sylvia Scarlett

    1935, in 4 top lists Check
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    1935, in 3 top lists Check
  35. 191 new

    Toni

    1935, in 8 top lists Check
  36. 1216 new

    Vanessa: Her Love Story

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 1233 new

    Way Down East

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 32 new

    The Whole Town's Talking

    1935 — a.k.a. Passport to Fame, in 0 top lists Check
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