Essential American Films of the 1930's

These are what I consider to be the Essential American films of the 1930's:

1) "City Lights" (Charles Chaplin/1931)
2) "Scarface" (Howard Hawks/1932)
3) "Duck Soup" (Leo McCarey/1933)
4) "42nd Street" (Lloyd Bacon/1933)
5) "Golddiggers of 1933" (Mervyn LeRoy/1933)
6) "Bombshell" (Victor Fleming/1933)
7) "The Kennel Murder Case" (Michael Curtiz/1933)
8) "King Kong" (Merian C. Cooper-Ernest B. Schoedsack/1933)
9) "Mutiny on the Bounty" (Frank Lloyd/1935)
10) "A Night at the Opera" (Sam Wood/1935)
11) "Top Hat" (Mark Sandrich/1935)
12) "Modern Times" (Charles Chaplin/1936)
13) "My Man Godfrey" (Gregory La Cava/1936)
14) "Easy Living" (Mitchell Leisen/1936)
15) "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
16) "History is Made at Night" (Frank Borzage/1937)
17) "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (William Keighley/1938)
18) "Young Mr. Lincoln" (John Ford/1939)
19) "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (Frank Capra/1939)
20) "Ninotchka" (Ernst Lubitsch/1939)
21) "Stagecoach" (John Ford/1939)
22) "The Wizard of Oz" (Victor Fleming/1939)
23) "Gone With the Wind" (Victor Fleming/1939)

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