If I were to choose the best decade for film, it would be tough to top film in the 1930s. Hollywood was in full stride, churning out a remarkable array of outstanding films in all sorts of genres: drama, westerns, musicals, comedies (oh my, the comedies!). And Europe, while darkening under the rising clouds of fascism, political and economic upheaval, and the start of the Holocaust, turned out some enduring classics from the UK, Germany, France, and Italy.