Best Pictures

List of the ten best pictures of the year, selected by The Film Daily after a poll which this year included 339 cinema critics on newspapers with 30,000,000 readers:

Cimarron 273

Street Scene 200

Skippy 178

Bad Girl 172

Min and Bill 164

The Front Page 162

Five Star Final 138

City Lights 128

A Free Soul 114

Sin of Madelon Clandet 99

Little Caesar was the eleventh on the list, Smiling Lieutenant, twelfth, Trader Horn, 13th, Public Enemy, 18th.

A list to which cinemanufacturers may have paid closer heed was compiled by Variety of the six pictures which drew the largest gross box office profits in 1931. Alphabetically, the six were:

Cimarron

Daddy Long Legs

Little Caesar

Min and Bill

Smiling Lieutenant

Trader Horn

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