One Line Review's Film Masterpieces Checklist: 1930

Six Film Masterpieces from 1930:

1. The Blue Angel (Ger./ d. Josef von Sternberg) [photo, above] (****)

2. All Quiet on the Western Front (US/ d. Lewis Milestone) (****)

3. Westfront 1918 (Ger./ d. G. W. Pabst) (****)

4. L’Age d’Or (Fr./ d. Luis Bunuel) (*** 1/2)

5. Hell’s Angels (US/ d. Howard Hughes, James Whale) (*** 1/2)

6. People on Sunday (Ger./ d. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer) (*** 1/2)

Film Masterpieces Checklist: 1930:
L’Age d’Or (Fr./ d. Luis Bunuel) (*** 1/2)
All Quiet on the Western Front (US/ d. Lewis Milestone) (****)
Animal Crackers (US/ d. Victor Heerman) (**)
Anna Christie (US/ d. Clarence Brown) (***)
* Anna Christie (Ger./ d. Jacques Feyder)
Big House, The (US/ d. George Hill) (** 1/2)
The Big Trail (US/ d. Raoul Walsh) (***)
Blood of a Poet (Fr./ d. Jean Cocteau)
The Blue Angel (Ger./ d. Josef von Sternberg) (****)
City Girl/ Our Daily Bread (US/ d. F. W. Murnau) (**)
The Dawn Patrol (US/ d. Howard Hawks) (** 1/2)
Earth (USSR/ d. Alexander Dovzhenko) (**)
Hell’s Angels (US/ d. Howard Hughes, James Whale) (*** 1/2)
* I Flunked But… (Jap./ Yasujiro Ozu)
Morocco (US/ d. Josef von Sternberg) (***)
People on Sunday (Ger./ d. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer) (*** 1/2)
Prix de Beaute (Fr./ d. Augusto Genina) (***)
The Royal Family of Broadway (US/ d. George Cukor, Cyril Gardner) (***)
* Seamen’s Wives/ Zeemansvrouwen (Neth./ d. Henk Kleinman)
* Three Good Friends (Ger./ d. Wilhelm Thiele)
* Two Hearts in Waltz Time (Ger./ d. Geza von Bolvary)
Under the Roofs of Paris (Fr./ d. Rene Clair) (** 1/2)
Westfront 1918 (Ger./ d. G. W. Pabst) (****)
With Byrd at the South Pole (US/ d. unknown) (**)


NOTE: Films that I have not yet seen are indicated with a *. I've rated the ones I have seen (using Leonard Maltin's BOMB and * 1/2 to **** star rating). If a film is listed without a * and without a rating, it means I've seen the movie but wish to re-evaluate it before assigning it a rating.