Cinema: Ten

Ten best cinema directors of 1930-1931, as selected by Film Daily's poll of 300 U. S. cinema critics:

Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page)

Wesley Ruggles (The Sea Bat, Cimarron)

George William Hill (The Big House, Min and Bill)

Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel, Morocco)

David Wark Griffith (Abraham Lincoln)

Robert Z. Leonard (The Divorcee, In Gay Madrid, Let Us Be Gay, The Bachelor Father, It's a Wise Child)

John Cromwell (For the Defense, Tom Sawyer, Scandal Sheet, Unfaithful)

Charles Chaplin (City Lights)

Howard W. Hawks (The Dawn Patrol, The Criminal Code)

Howard...

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