| Year | Director | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | John Huston | The Maltese Falcon | 84%
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| 1944 | Billy Wilder | Double Indemnity | 80%
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| 1950 | Billy Wilder | Sunset Blvd. | 76%
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| 1946 | Howard Hawks | The Big Sleep | 75%
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| 1949 | Carol Reed | The Third Man | 74%
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| 1946 | Orson Welles | The Stranger | 71%
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| 1955 | Charles Laughton | The Night of the Hunter | 70%
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| 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | The Killing | 69%
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| 1958 | Orson Welles | Touch of Evil | 65%
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| 1974 | Roman Polanski | Chinatown | 63%
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| 1944 | Otto Preminger | Laura | 63%
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| 1946 | Robert Siodmak | The Killers | 63%
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| 1947 | Jacques Tourner | Out of the Past | 62%
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| 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | Strangers on a Train | 60%
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| 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | Notorious | 58%
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| 1953 | Fritz Lang | The Big Heat | 56%
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| 1950 | John Huston | The Asphalt Jungle | 55%
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| 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | Shadow of a Doubt | 53%
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| 1948 | Orson Welles | The Lady from Shanghai | 52%
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| 1951 | Billy Wilder | Ace in the Hole | 50%
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| 1950 | Nicholas Ray | In a Lonely Place | 50%
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| 1948 | John Huston | Key Largo | 49%
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| 1945 | Fritz Lang | Scarlet Street | 47%
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| 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Wrong Man | 47%
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| 1949 | Raoul Walsh | White Heat | 47%
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| 1946 | Charles Vidor | Gilda | 46%
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| 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | Detour | 45%
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| 1946 | Tay Garnett | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 45%
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| 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | Gun Crazy | 44%
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| 1944 | Fritz Lang | The Woman in the Window | 42%
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| 1955 | Robert Aldrich | Kiss Me Deadly | 40%
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| 1945 | Michael Curtiz | Mildred Pierce | 38%
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| 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | Murder, My Sweet | 38%
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| 1950 | Jules Dassin | Night and the City | 37%
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| 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | Sweet Smell of Success | 37%
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| 1947 | Delmer Daves | Dark Passage | 36%
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| 1950 | Otto Preminger | Where the Sidewalk Ends | 35%
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| 1953 | Samuel Fuller | Pickup on South Street | 34%
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| 1955 | Joseph H. Lewis | The Big Combo | 34%
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| 1953 | Ida Lupino | The Hitch-Hiker | 34%
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| 1953 | Otto Preminger | Angel Face | 33%
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| 1949 | Robert Siodmak | Criss Cross | 33%
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| 1941 | Raoul Walsh | High Sierra | 33%
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| 1945 | John M. Stahl | Leave Her to Heaven | 33%
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| 1948 | John Farrow | The Big Clock | 31%
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| 1950 | Rudolph Maté | D.O.A. | 30%
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| 1947 | Robert Montgomery | Lady in the Lake | 30%
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| 1947 | Edmund Goulding | Nightmare Alley | 29%
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| 1948 | Jules Dassin | The Naked City | 29%
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| 1948 | Nicholas Ray | They Live by Night | 28%
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| 1947 | Henry Hathaway | Kiss of Death | 27%
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| 1949 | Robert Wise | The Set-Up | 27%
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| 1947 | Robert Rossen | Body and Soul | 26%
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| 1947 | Edward Dmytryk | Crossfire | 25%
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| 1946 | George Marshall | The Blue Dahlia | 25%
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| 1942 | Frank Tuttle | This Gun for Hire | 25%
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| 1947 | Anthony Mann | T-Men | 25%
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| 1949 | Fred Zinnemann | Act of Violence | 24%
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| 1959 | Robert Wise | Odds Against Tomorrow | 24%
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| 1951 | Nicholas Ray | On Dangerous Ground | 24%
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| 1951 | Joseph Losey | The Prowler | 24%
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| 1946 | Lewis Milestone | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | 24%
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| 1947 | Jules Dassin | Brute Force | 23%
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| 1947 | John Cromwell | Dead Reckoning | 23%
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| 1945 | Otto Preminger | Fallen Angel | 23%
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| 1952 | Phil Karlson | Kansas City Confidential | 23%
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| 1944 | Robert Siodmak | Phantom Lady | 23%
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| 1952 | Fritz Lang | Clash by Night | 22%
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| 1948 | Abraham Polonsky | Force of Evil | 22%
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| 1950 | Elia Kazan | Panic in the Streets | 22%
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| 1948 | André de Toth | Pitfall | 22%
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| 1949 | Max Ophüls | The Reckless Moment | 22%
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| 1947 | Robert Montgomery | Ride the Pink Horse | 21%
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| 1948 | Jean Negulesco | Road House | 21%
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| 1952 | David Miller | Sudden Fear | 21%
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| 1953 | Fritz Lang | The Blue Gardenia | 21%
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| 1942 | Stuart Heisler | The Glass Key | 21%
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| 1940 | Boris Ingster | The Stranger on the Third Floor | 21%
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| 1948 | Anthony Mann | Raw Deal | 20%
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| 1950 | Anthony Mann | Side Street | 20%
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| 1949 | Jules Dassin | Thieves' Highway | 20%
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| 1948 | Robert Siodmak | Cry of the City | 19%
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| 1947 | Robert Wise | Born to Kill | 18%
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| 1941 | H. Bruce Humberstone | I Wake Up Screaming | 18%
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| 1946 | Roy William Neill | The Black Angel | 18%
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| 1952 | Richard Fleischer | The Narrow Margin | 18%
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| 1956 | Fritz Lang | While the City Sleeps | 18%
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| 1948 | Henry Hathaway | Call Northside 777 | 17%
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| 1948 | Alfred L. Werker | He Walked by Night | 17%
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| 1954 | Fritz Lang | Human Desire | 17%
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| 1948 | Anatole Litvak | Sorry, Wrong Number | 17%
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| 1946 | Henry Hathaway | The Dark Corner | 17%
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| 1949 | Anthony Mann | Border Incident | 16%
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| 1947 | Anthony Mann | Desperate | 15%
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| 1953 | Henry Hathaway | Niagra | 15%
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| 1946 | Robert Siodmak | The Dark Mirror | 15%
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| 1950 | Robert Siodmak | The File on Thelma Jordon | 15%
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| 1950 | John Farrow | Where Danger Lives | 14%
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| 1948 | Steve Sekely | Hollow Triumph | 13%
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| 1948 | William Keighley | The Street with No Name | 12%
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