My Ten Favorite Film Directors Of All Time

Yes, it's another list. On this one I've also listed what I think is each director's greatest, and most underrated, movie.

1. John Ford
Greatest Film: THE SEARCHERS
Most Underrated: THE HORSE SOLDIERS

2. Sergio Leone
Greatest Film: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
Most Underrated: DUCK YOU SUCKER (aka A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE)

3. Frank Capra
Greatest Film: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Most Underrated: THE MIRACLE WOMAN

4. Alfred Hitchcock
Greatest Film: VERTIGO
Most Underrated: MARNIE

5. Steven Spielberg
Greatest Film: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Most Underrated: ALWAYS

6. Sam Peckinpah
Greatest Film: THE WILD BUNCH
Most Underrated: THE GETAWAY

7. Stanley Kubrick
Greatest Film: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Most Underrated: BARRY LYNDON

8. James Whale
Greatest Film: BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Most Underrated: THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

9. Akira Kurosawa
Greatest Film: SEVEN SAMURAI
Most Underrated: Is there a Kurosawa movie that's underrated?

10. Fritz Lang
Greatest Film: METROPOLIS
Most Underrated: SPIES

Honorable Mention: Tim Burton, Mario Bava, Sam Raimi, Terence Fisher, F. W. Murnau, Josef von Sternberg, William Wellman, David Lean, Michael Curtiz.