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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Wizard of Oz beats Star Wars as most influential film of all time, study of 47,000 movies shows

(The Daily Telegraph)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Most Influential Films of All Time Compiled By The University of Turin

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Star Wars
3. Psycho
4. King Kong
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Metropolis
7. Citizen Kane
8. The Birth of a Nation
9. Frankenstein
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11. Casablanca
12. Dracula
13. The Godfather
14. Jaws
15. Nosferatu
16. The Searchers
17. Cabiria
18. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
19. Gone With the Wind
20. Battleship Potemkin
= We see that these created the most spinoffs and mentions

1. Frank Baum
2. Notwithstanding Nazi elements
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Fay Wray on the Empire State Building
5. Wise HAL
6. Fritz Lang
7. Orson Welles
8. Civil War, nationhood
9. Boris Karlov
10. A Walt Disney fantasy
11. Humphrey Bogart
12. Tod Browning
13. Francis Ford Coppola
14. Spielberg
15. Vampire
16. John Ford
17. Viewed at the White House
18. Zany Kubrick, he's too OTT!
19. Scarlett O'Hara
20. Eisenstein
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