The Best Films1942, 1943

It's getting to be that time of year again when I begin to compile my list of the 25 best movies of the year. As a prelude I revisit the Top 25 from past years. Click on the titles to learn more about the films.

1942
1. Casablanca
2. Yankee Doodle Dandy
3.  Now, Voyager
4. Mrs. Miniver
5. Random Harvest
6. Pride of the Yankees
7. In Which We Serve
8. The Palm Beach Story
9. Bambi
10. Kings Row
11. The Black Swan
12. To Be or Not To Be
13. Gentleman Jim
14. The Magnificent Ambersons
15. Cat People
16. Holiday Inn
17. The Talk of the Town
18. Woman of the Year
19. Road to Morocco
20. This Gun for Hire
21. Jungle Book
22. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
23. Wake Island
24. The Glass Key
25 Who Done It?

1943
1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. The Ox-Bow Incident
3. Ossessione
4. Day of Wrath
5. Le Corbeau
6. The Song of Bernadette
7. Heaven Can Wait
8. Madame Curie
9. The More the Merrier
10. Lassie Come Home
11. Cabin in the Sky
12. Shadow of a Doubt
13. Watch on the Rhine
14. So Proudly We Hail!
15. The Human Comedy
16. The Phantom of the Opera
17. For Whom the Bell Tolls
18. Sanshiro Sugata
19. This Land Is Mine
20. Destination Tokyo
21. Five Graves to Cairo
22. Guadalcanal Diary
23. Hangmen Also Die
24. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
25. Tennessee Johnson