And here we go!

This is the nominations thread for the ninth portion of The Great Movie Tournament (ninth of ten) where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1930s (from 1930 to 1939). 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, 1930 and December 31, 1939 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 96 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 3 titles - top 2 move on
  • Round 2: 32 groups of 2 - top 1 moves on
  • Round 3: 16 groups of 2 - 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. King Kong (1933), dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
  2. The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
  3. Gone with the Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
  4. M (1931), dir. Fritz Lang
  5. A Night at the Opera (1935), dir. Sam Wood
  6. The 39 Steps (1935), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  7. Modern Times (1936), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  8. Alice in Wonderland (1933), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
  9. Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks
  10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), dir. David Hand
  11. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) dir. Lewis Milestone
  12. The Rules of the Game (1939), dir. Jean Renoir
  13. It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
  14. The Thin Man (1934), dir. W. S. Van Dyke
  15. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), dir. James Whale
  16. Frankenstein (1931), dir. James Whale
  17. Dracula (1931), dir. Tod Browning
  18. City Lights (1931), dir. Charlie Chaplin
  19. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra
  20. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) dir. Sam Wood
  21. The Lady Vanishes (1938), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  22. White Zombie (1932), dir. Victor Halperin
  23. The Invisible Man (1933), dir. James Whale
  24. Freaks (1932), dir. Tod Browning
  25. Grand Illusion (1937), dir. Jean Renoir
  26. L'Âge d'Or (1930), dir. Luis Buñuel
  27. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), dir. Frank Lloyd
  28. Dinner at Eight (1933), dir. George Cukor
  29. Scarface (1932), dir. Howard Hawks
  30. Duck Soup (1933), dir. Leo McCarey
  31. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), dir. Fritz Lang
  32. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), dir. Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
  33. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), dir. Michael Curtiz
  34. Grand Hotel (1932), dir. Edmund Goulding
  35. The Women (1939), dir. George Cukor
  36. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), dir. Harold Young
  37. The Blue Angel (1930), dir. Josef von Sternberg
  38. The Mummy (1932), dir. Karl Freund
  39. Vampyr (1932), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  40. Dark Victory (1939), dir. Edmund Goulding
  41. Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  42. Queen Christina (1933), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
  43. The Public Enemy (1931), dir. William A. Wellman
  44. You Can't Take It with You (1938), dir. Frank Capra
  45. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), dir. William Dieterle
  46. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), dir. Dorothy Arzner
  47. Mad Love (1935), dir. Karl Freund
  48. Swing Time (1936), dir. George Stevens
  49. My Man Godfrey (1936), dir. Gregory La Cava
  50. Only Angels Have Wings (1939), dir. Howard Hawks
  51. Wuthering Heights (1939), dir. William Wyler
  52. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), dir. Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley
  53. Holiday (1938), dir. George Cukor
  54. Shanghai Express (1932), dir. Josef von Sternberg
  55. Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
  56. The Black Cat (1934), dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
  57. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), dir. Rouben Mamoulian
  58. Babes in Toyland (1934), dir. Charley Rogers and Gus Meins
  59. Libeled Lady (1936), dir. Jack Conway
  60. Sons of the Desert (1933), dir. William A. Seiter
  61. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), dir. Sidney Lanfield
  62. The Good Earth (1937), dir. Sidney Franklin
  63. The Petrified Forest (1936), dir. Archie Mayo
  64. Animal Crackers (1930), dir. Victor Heerman
  65. Island of Lost Souls (1932), dir. Erle C. Kenton
  66. 42nd Street (1933), dir. Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
  67. Easy Living (1937), dir. Mitchell Leisen
  68. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  69. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  70. Baby Face (1933), dir. Alfred E. Green
  71. Gunga Din (1939) dir. George Stevens
  72. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), dir. Allan Dwan
  73. Little Caesar (1931), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  74. Gulliver's Travels (1939), dir. Dave Fleischer
  75. Tarzan and His Mate (1934), dir. Cedric Gibbons
  76. Little Women (1933), dir. George Cukor
  77. Morocco (1930), dir. Josef von Sternberg
  78. The Old Dark House (1932), dir. James Whale
  79. Sylvia Scarlett (1935), dir. George Cukor
  80. She Done Him Wrong (1932), dir. Lowell Sherman
  81. Footlight Parade (1933), dir. Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
  82. Sabotage (1936), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  83. Alice Adams (1935), dir. George Stevens
  84. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), dir. Michael Curtiz
  85. The Walking Dead (1936), dir. Michael Curtiz
  86. Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
  87. Dracula's Daughter (1936), dir. Lambert Hillyer
  88. Dodsworth (1936), dir. William Wyler
  89. Stage Door (1937), dir. Gregory La Cava
  90. Camille (1936), dir. George Cukor
  91. The Awful Truth (1937), dir. Leo McCarey
  92. Fury (1936), dir. Fritz Lang
  93. The Big Trail (1930), dir. Raoul Walsh
  94. The Raven (1935), dir. Lew Landers
  95. Lost Horizon (1937) dir. Frank Capra
  96. A Tale of Two Cities (1935), dir. Jack Conway

List of films not seconded:
  1. Mädchen in Uniform (1931), dir. Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich
  2. Le Jour se Lève (1939), dir. Marcel Carné
  3. Reefer Madness (1936), dir. Louis J. Gasnier
  4. L'Atalante (1934), dir. Jean Vigo
  5. You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939), dir. George Marshall and Edward F. Cline
  6. Nothing Sacred (1937), dir. William A. Wellman
  7. The Tale of the Fox (1937), dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz and Irene Starewicz
  8. I'm No Angel (1933), dir. Wesley Ruggles
  9. The Scarlet Empress (1934), dir. Josef von Sternberg
  10. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), dir. Frank Capra
  11. The Sign of the Cross (1932), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
  12. The Life of Emile Zola (1937), dir. William Dieterle
  13. Trouble in Paradise (1932), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  14. Marked Woman (1937), dir. Lloyd Bacon
  15. Deluge (1933), dir. Felix E. Feist
  16. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), dir. Anatole Litvak
  17. Night Nurse (1931), dir. William A. Wellman
  18. Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
  19. Dead End (1937), dir. William Wyler
  20. American Madness (1932), dir. Frank Capra
  21. The Four Feathers (1939), dir. Zoltan Korda
  22. Monkey Business (1931), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
  23. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), dir. George B. Seitz
  24. Pépé le Moko (1937), dir. Julien Duvivier
  25. Madam Satan (1930), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
  26. The Front Page (1931), dir. Lewis Milestone
  27. The Little Princess (1939), dir. Walter Lang
  28. Call Her Savage (1932), dir. John Francis Dillon
  29. Doctor X (1932), dir. Michael Curtiz
  30. The Roaring Twenties (1939), dir. Raoul Walsh
  31. Zero for Conduct (1933), dir. Jean Vigo
  32. It's a Gift (1934), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
  33. The Cat and the Canary (1939), dir. Elliott Nugent
  34. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), dir. John Ford
  35. The Story of Temple Drake (1933), dir. Stephen Roberts
  36. Red Dust (1932), dir. Victor Fleming
  37. Blonde Venus (1932), dir. Josef von Sternberg
  38. Design for Living (1933), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  39. Under Western Stars (1938), dir. Joseph Kane
  40. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), dir. Clyde Bruckman
  41. Jezebel (1938), dir. William Wyler
  42. Of Human Hearts (1938), dir. Clarence Brown
  43. Horse Feathers (1932), dir. Norman Z. McLeod
  44. Comradeship (1931), dir. G. W. Pabst