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Top Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.8Casablanca (1942)80,313
2.8.6Citizen Kane (1941)72,811
3.8.5It's a Wonderful Life (1946)49,245
4.8.5The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)13,019
5.8.4The Third Man (1949)22,706
6.8.4The Maltese Falcon (1941)23,646
7.8.4Double Indemnity (1944)14,447
8.8.4Belle et la b�te, La (1946)3,176
9.8.4Brief Encounter (1945)3,812
10.8.4Rebecca (1940)14,332
11.8.3Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)4,647
12.8.3The Great Dictator (1940)13,571
13.8.3The Big Sleep (1946)12,408
14.8.3Notorious (1946)13,233
15.8.3Out of the Past (1947)3,506
16.8.2The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)1,465
17.8.2The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)2,478
18.8.2Ladri di biciclette (1948)9,586
19.8.2Vredens dag (1943)1,011
20.8.2Great Expectations (1946)2,937
21.8.2Shadow of a Doubt (1943)7,564
22.8.2The Lost Weekend (1945)3,570
23.8.2The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)7,650
24.8.1Roma, citt� aperta (1945)2,318
25.8.1The Philadelphia Story (1940)12,881
26.8.1The Grapes of Wrath (1940)9,691
27.8.1Ivan Groznyy I (1944)1,050
28.8.1The Red Shoes (1948)2,710
29.8.1The Lady Eve (1941)2,727
30.8.0His Girl Friday (1940)8,485
31.8.0The Heiress (1949)1,563
32.8.0To Have and Have Not (1944)5,165
33.8.0Black Narcissus (1947)2,303
34.8.0White Heat (1949)3,925
35.8.0Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)13,845
36.8.0Nora inu (1949)1,689
37.8.0Sergeant York (1941)2,836
38.8.0A Matter of Life and Death (1946)2,764
39.8.0Sullivan's Travels (1941)3,812
40.8.0Laura (1944)6,068
41.7.9Miracle on 34th Street (1947)6,633
42.7.9Key Largo (1948)6,695
43.7.9The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)4,126
44.7.9Dead of Night (1945)1,180
45.7.9How Green Was My Valley (1941)3,254
46.7.9'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945)1,026
47.7.9Red River (1948)4,814
48.7.9My Darling Clementine (1946)3,115
49.7.9Oliver Twist (1948)2,073
50.7.9Rope (1948)10,187

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.2.3Jungle Goddess (1948)86
2.2.5Raza (1942)161
3.2.6Last of the Wild Horses (1948)74
4.2.8I Accuse My Parents (1944)581
5.3.2The Brute Man (1946)158
6.3.4�sa-Nisse (1949)68
7.3.6The Mad Monster (1942)142
8.3.6Queen of the Amazons (1947)76
9.3.7Scared to Death (1947)236
10.3.8Night Unto Night (1949)63

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:

weighted rating (WR) = (v � (v+m)) � R + (m � (v+m)) � C

where:
R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 50 (currently 1000)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.6)
for the Top 50, only votes from regular voters are considered.

In order to appear in the Bottom 10 Titles chart the title must have received at least 50 votes.