And here we go!

This is the nominations thread for the eighth portion of The Great Movie Tournament (eighth of ten) where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1940s (from 1940 to 1949). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 1940 and December 31, 1949 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).

Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):
  • You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after one other member has made their nomination.
  • You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after two other members has made their seconds.
  • If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
  • Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.

Once 128 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.
  • Round 1: 32 groups of 4 titles - top 3 move on
  • Round 2: 32 groups of 3 titles - top 2 move on
  • Round 3: 16 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
  • Round 4: 16 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner

This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in. You can also keep up to date with this handy Google Sheet.

Enjoy and have fun!

List of seconded films:
  1. Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
  2. The Great Dictator (1940), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  3. Rebecca (1940), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  4. Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
  5. Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder
  6. The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
  7. Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  8. The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed
  9. It's a Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra
  10. Rope (1948), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  11. Fantasia (1940), dir. Samuel Armstrong, Wilfred Jackson, et al
  12. The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor
  13. Bambi (1942), dir. David Hand
  14. The Red Shoes (1948), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  15. Cat People (1942), dir. Jacques Tourneur
  16. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), dir. John Huston
  17. Laura (1944), dir. Otto Preminger
  18. His Girl Friday (1940), dir. Howard Hawks
  19. Gaslight (1940), dir. Thorold Dickinson
  20. Bicycle Thieves (1948), dir. Vittorio De Sica
  21. Suspicion (1941), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  22. The Big Sleep (1946), dir. Howard Hawks
  23. To Be or Not to Be (1942), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  24. Children of Paradise (1945), dir. Marcel Carné
  25. The Uninvited (1944), dir. Lewis Allen
  26. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), dir. John Ford
  27. Miracle on 34th Street (1947), dir. George Seaton
  28. Late Spring (1949), dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  29. Drunken Angel (1948), dir. Akira Kurosawa
  30. Black Narcissus (1947), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  31. Mildred Pierce (1945), dir. Michael Curtiz
  32. Shadow of a Doubt (1943), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  33. The Lady Eve (1941), dir. Preston Sturges
  34. Stray Dog (1949), dir. Akira Kurosawa
  35. The Mark of Zorro (1940), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
  36. The Wolf Man (1941), dir. George Waggner
  37. Detour (1945), dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
  38. Foreign Correspondent (1940), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  39. Gilda (1946), dir. Charles Vidor
  40. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  41. Pinocchio (1940), dir. Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske
  42. Beauty and the Beast (1946), dir. Jean Cocteau
  43. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), dir. Frank Capra
  44. Red River (1948), dir. Howard Hawks
  45. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), dir. Vincente Minnelli
  46. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), dir. H. C. Potter
  47. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), dir. Victor Fleming
  48. The Thief of Bagdad (1940), dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan
  49. Saboteur (1942), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  50. The Lady from Shanghai (1947), dir. Orson Welles
  51. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), dir. Orson Welles
  52. Murder, My Sweet (1944), dir. Edward Dmytryk
  53. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), dir. William Dieterle
  54. The Spiral Staircase (1946), dir. Robert Siodmak
  55. I Married a Witch (1942), dir. René Clair
  56. Waterloo Bridge (1940), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  57. Spellbound (1945), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  58. The Bishop's Wife (1947), dir. Henry Koster
  59. Key Largo (1948), dir. John Huston
  60. Out of the Past (1947), dir. Jacques Tourneur
  61. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), dir. Tay Garnett
  62. The Stranger (1946), dir. Orson Welles
  63. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), dir. William Wyler
  64. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), dir. Charles Barton
  65. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
  66. Great Expectations (1946), dir. David Lean
  67. The Snake Pit (1948), dir. Anatole Litvak
  68. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), dir. Albert Lewin
  69. My Darling Clementine (1946), dir. John Ford
  70. Dumbo (1941), dir. Ben Sharpsteen
  71. Holiday Inn (1942), dir. Mark Sandrich
  72. I Walked with a Zombie (1943), dir. Jacques Tourneur
  73. Nightmare Alley (1947), dir. Edmund Goulding
  74. On the Town (1949), dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
  75. Christmas in Connecticut (1945), dir. Peter Godfrey
  76. White Heat (1949), dir. Raoul Walsh
  77. Phantom of the Opera (1943), dir. Arthur Lubin
  78. The Heiress (1949), dir. William Wyler
  79. A Night in Casablanca (1946), dir. Archie Mayo
  80. Lifeboat (1944), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  81. Gentleman's Agreement (1947), dir. Elia Kazan
  82. Stormy Weather (1943), dir. Andrew L. Stone
  83. The Killers (1946), dir. Robert Siodmak
  84. Sullivan's Travels (1941), dir. Preston Sturges
  85. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), dir. Elia Kazan
  86. How Green Was My Valley (1941), dir. John Ford
  87. Dead of Night (1945), dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer
  88. A Matter of Life and Death (1946), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  89. Twelve O'Clock High (1949), dir. Henry King
  90. My Little Chickadee (1940), dir. Edward F. Cline
  91. All The King's Men (1949), dir. Robert Rossen
  92. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), dir. William A. Wellman
  93. Sergeant York (1941), dir. Howard Hawks
  94. To Have and Have Not (1944), dir. Howard Hawks
  95. Mrs. Miniver (1942), dir. William Wyler
  96. Mighty Joe Young (1949), dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
  97. Day of Wrath (1943), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  98. Brief Encounter (1945), dir. David Lean
  99. The Lost Weekend (1945), dir. Billy Wilder
  100. Remember the Night (1940), dir. Mitchell Leisen
  101. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), dir. Robert Hamer
  102. Hamlet (1948), dir. Laurence Olivier
  103. The Pride of the Yankees (1942), dir. Sam Wood
  104. The Leopard Man (1943), dir. Jacques Tourneur
  105. The Shop Around the Corner (1940), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  106. The Yearling (1946), dir. Clarence Brown
  107. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  108. Adam's Rib (1949), dir. George Cukor
  109. I Was a Male War Bride (1949), dir. Howard Hawks
  110. The Little Foxes (1941), dir. William Wyler
  111. National Velvet (1944), dir. Clarence Brown
  112. The Major and the Minor (1942), dir. Billy Wilder
  113. A Woman's Face (1941), dir. George Cukor
  114. Angel and the Badman (1947), dir. James Edward Grant
  115. The Palm Beach Story (1942), dir. Preston Sturges
  116. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), dir. Preston Sturges
  117. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), dir. Irving Reis
  118. Jane Eyre (1943), dir. Robert Stevenson
  119. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), dir. Preston Sturges
  120. Lassie Come Home (1943), dir. Fred M. Wilcox
  121. They Were Expendable (1945), dir. John Ford
  122. Going My Way (1944), dir. Leo McCarey
  123. The Bank Dick (1940), dir. Edward F. Cline
  124. Heaven Can Wait (1943), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  125. The Body Snatcher (1945), dir. Robert Wise
  126. The Enchanted Cottage (1945), dir. John Cromwell
  127. Unfaithfully Yours (1948), dir. Preston Sturges
  128. Little Women (1949), dir. Mervyn LeRoy

List of films not seconded:
  1. Rome, Open City (1945), dir. Roberto Rosselini
  2. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), dir. W. S. Van Dyke
  3. The Razor's Edge (1946), dir. Edmund Goulding
  4. Don't Fence Me In (1945), dir. John English
  5. The Mortal Storm (1940), dir. Frank Borzage
  6. The Silence of the Sea (1949), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
  7. The Scarlet Claw (1944), dir. Roy William Neill
  8. Crossfire (1947), dir. Edward Dmytryk
  9. The Farmer's Daughter (1947), dir. H. C. Potter
  10. Murder, He Says (1945), dir. George Marshall
  11. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), dir. Dorothy Arzner
  12. Crook's Tour (1941), dir. John Baxter
  13. Battleground (1949), dir. William A. Wellman
  14. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940), dir. Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor
  15. The Naughty Nineties (1945), dir. Jean Yarbrough
  16. Cabin in the Sky (1943), dir. Vincente Minnelli
  17. The Naked City (1948), dir. Jules Dassin
  18. A Letter to Three Wives (1949), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  19. Brute Force (1947), dir. Jules Dassin
  20. The Big Street (1942), dir. Irving Reis
  21. The Queen of Spades (1949), dir. Thorold Dickinson
  22. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  23. Scarlet Street (1945), dir. Fritz Lang
  24. The Letter (1940), dir. William Wyler
  25. Not Wanted (1949), dir. Elmer Clifton and Ida Lupino
  26. The Seventh Victim (1943), dir. Mark Robson
  27. Since You Went Away (1944), dir. John Cromwell
  28. Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941), dir. George B. Seitz
  29. In This Our Life (1942), dir. John Huston
  30. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), dir. Roy William Neill
  31. The Curse of the Cat People (1944), dir. Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise
  32. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), dir. Edward F. Cline
  33. Bedlam (1946), dir. Mark Robson
  34. Hellzapoppin' (1941), dir. H. C. Potter
  35. Man Hunt (1941), dir. Fritz Lang
  36. Le Corbeau (1943), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  37. Lured (1947), dir. Douglas Sirk
  38. They Drive by Night (1940), dir. Raoul Walsh