Top and Worst Rated "1940s" Titles

Top Rated "1940s" Titles

Rank	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	8.7	Casablanca (1942)	201,460
2.	8.7	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	125,950
3.	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	163,454
4.	8.5	Double Indemnity (1944)	46,773
5.	8.5	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)	40,484
6.	8.5	The Third Man (1949)	60,704
7.	8.4	Bicycle Thieves (1948)	36,860
8.	8.4	The Great Dictator (1940)	48,876
9.	8.4	Rebecca (1940)	43,064
10.	8.3	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	61,408
11.	8.3	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	20,952
12.	8.3	Children of Paradise (1945)	8,840
13.	8.3	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	29,176
14.	8.2	Notorious (1946)	38,009
15.	8.2	The Big Sleep (1946)	34,793
16.	8.2	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)	16,290
17.	8.2	White Heat (1949)	11,829
18.	8.2	The Red Shoes (1948)	10,556
19.	8.2	Sullivan's Travels (1941)	10,359
20.	8.2	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)	10,048
21.	8.2	Rome, Open City (1945)	7,712
22.	8.2	The Heiress (1949)	5,414
23.	8.1	Laura (1944)	16,562
24.	8.1	Brief Encounter (1945)	15,667
25.	8.1	To Be or Not to Be (1942)	10,605
26.	8.1	The Lost Weekend (1945)	13,717
27.	8.1	His Girl Friday (1940)	25,191
28.	8.1	Stairway to Heaven (1946)	7,704
29.	8.1	Beauty and the Beast (1946)	10,869
30.	8.1	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)	25,142
31.	8.1	Out of the Past (1947)	12,611
32.	8.1	Late Spring (1949)	3,689
33.	8.1	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)	5,420
34.	8.1	Great Expectations (1946)	11,104
35.	8.1	Rope (1948)	41,529
36.	8.1	The Lady Eve (1941)	8,499
37.	8.0	The Philadelphia Story (1940)	32,106
38.	8.0	The Shop Around the Corner (1940)	10,214
39.	8.0	The Little Foxes (1941)	4,419
40.	8.0	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)	35,069
41.	8.0	Black Narcissus (1947)	8,491
42.	8.0	Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)	3,898
43.	8.0	To Have and Have Not (1944)	14,213
44.	8.0	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)	9,924
45.	8.0	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)	3,208
46.	8.0	Shoeshine (1946)	2,160
47.	8.0	I Remember Mama (1948)	2,536
48.	7.9	Mildred Pierce (1945)	9,008
49.	7.9	The Killers (1946)	7,169
50.	7.9	Key Largo (1948)	17,005

Bottom Rated "1940s" Titles

Rank	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	1.7	Jungle Goddess (1948)	351
2.	1.8	Last of the Wild Horses (1948)	310
3.	2.0	I Accuse My Parents (1944)	1,461
4.	2.2	Raza (1942)	377
5.	2.3	The White Gorilla (1945)	261
6.	2.5	Test Tube Babies (1948)	122
7.	2.6	White Pongo (1945)	309
8.	2.6	Devil Monster (1946)	132
9.	2.8	Delinquent Daughters (1944)	167
10.	2.9	Queen of the Amazons (1947)	396

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 6.8)

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 1000 votes.