| Rank/Year/Director/Performers | Film |
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| 1. 1945 (Fritz Lang) Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett | |
| 2. 1962 (J. Lee Thompson) Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum | |
| 3. 1968 (Sergio Leone) Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda | |
| 4. 1931 (Fritz Lang) Peter Lorre | |
| 5. 1953 (Samuel Fuller) Richard Widmark, Jean Peters | |
| 6. 1957 (Sidney Lumet) Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb | |
| 7. 1950 (Jules Dassin) Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney | |
| 8. 1947 (Jacques Tourneur) Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer | |
| 9. 1960 (Alfred Hitchcock) Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh | |
| 10. 1960 (Stanley Kramer) Spencer Tracy, Fredric March | |
| 11. 1958 (Alfred Hitchcock) James Stewart, Kim Novak | |
| 12. 1945 (Robert Wise) Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi | |
| 13. 1954 (Alfred Hitchcock) James Stewart, Grace Kelly | |
| 14. 1933 (James Whale) Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart | |
| 15. 1939 (Howard Hawks) Cary Grant, Jean Arthur | |
| 16. 1950 (Nicholas Ray) Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame | |
| 17. 1942 (Jacques Tourneur) Simone Simon, Kent Smith | |
| 18. 1962 (John Frankenheimer) Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury | |
| 19. 1944 (Robert Wise) Simone Simon, Ann Carter | |
| 20. 1969 (Sam Peckinpah) William Holden, Ernest Borgnine | |
| 21. 1951 (Alfred Hitchcock) Farley Granger, Robert Walker | |
| 22. 1928 (Paul Leni) Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin | |
| 23. 1941 (Orson Welles) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten | |
| 24. 1929 (G.W. Pabst) Louise Brooks | |
| 25. 1962 (John Ford) John Wayne, James Stewart | |
| | Rank/Year/Director/Performers | Film |
|---|
| 26. 1940 (Howard Hawks) Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell | |
| 27. 1926 (F.W. Murnau) Emil Jannings | |
| 28. 1942 (Michael Curtiz) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman | |
| 29. 1956 (Stanley Kubrick) Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray | |
| 30. 1946 (Alfred Hitchcock) Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman | |
| 31. 1933 (Fritz Lang) Rudolf Klein-Rogge | |
| 32. 1927 (F.W. Murnau) George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor | |
| 33. 1922 (F.W. Murnau) Max Schreck | |
| 34. 1955 (Robert Aldrich) Ralph Meeker | |
| 35. 1948 (Anthony Mann) Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor | |
| 36. 1949 (Carol Reed) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten | |
| 37. 1945 (Otto Preminger) Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell | |
| 38. 1955 (Charles Laughton) Orson Welles, Shelley Winters | |
| 39. 1953 (George Stevens) Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur | |
| 40. 1939 (George Marshall) James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich | |
| 41. 1935 (Alfred Hitchcock) Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll | |
| 42. 1931 (F.W. Murnau) Matahi, Anne Chevalier | |
| 43. 1953 (Fritz Lang) Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame | |
| 44. 1949 (Nicholas Ray) Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell | |
| 45. 1952 (Fritz Lang) Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan | |
| 46. 1949 (Robert Wise) Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter | |
| 47. 1948 (Charles Barton) Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | |
| 48. 1943 (Jacques Tourneur) Dennis O'Keefe, Jean Brooks | |
| 49. 1952 (Nicholas Ray) Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino | |
| 50. 1935 (Henry Hathaway) Gary Cooper, Ann Harding | |
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