Yeah, Gunga Din is great, one of Cary Grant's best.
'39 was a really tough year to narrow down -- Dark Victory, The Four Feathers, Goodbye Mr Chips, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Roaring Twenties, Young Mr Lincoln, Le Jour se lève, Midnight, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Intermezzo, Love Affair, Union Pacific ... that would be a pretty good top ten all by itself.
Gunga Din, The Four Feathers and Young Mr. Lincoln, I think, were all competing for that last slot which went to The Women and Destry Rides Again. In the year of #MeToo and #TimesUp, I couldn't leave off The Women, a movie I really like.
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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would have voted for Gunga Din if it had been there.
Yeah, Gunga Din is great, one of Cary Grant's best.
'39 was a really tough year to narrow down -- Dark Victory, The Four Feathers, Goodbye Mr Chips, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Roaring Twenties, Young Mr Lincoln, Le Jour se lève, Midnight, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Intermezzo, Love Affair, Union Pacific ... that would be a pretty good top ten all by itself.
Gunga Din, The Four Feathers and Young Mr. Lincoln, I think, were all competing for that last slot which went to The Women and Destry Rides Again. In the year of #MeToo and #TimesUp, I couldn't leave off The Women, a movie I really like.
Maybe could have dropped Destry Rides Again ...
Time to start alternate Alternate Oscars!
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