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Showdown: Grand Illusion

Prompt:

The sixteenth-annual TCM Classic Film Festival just kicked off in Hollywood, and this year’s theme is “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film”. For this week’s Showdown, create a list of your ten favorite sci-fi and/or fantasy films released a long time ago in a galaxy not-so far away—i.e. during or before 1980, the debut year of TCM Fest’s opening-night film, Here’s a web example that finds films tagged with both genres, and here are some lists by Jeannie and Peter.)

There are 5 films in this list released in the 1940s.

  • I Married a Witch

    15

  • Fantasia

    27

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    30

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    33

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    14