1933 BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

This is my choice (choices) for Best Picture for the year 1933.  My criteria is that I can only use films that are on the 1001 list. To make it a little easier on myself, I am using the rules of the first Academy Award and name a winner for Best Picture (won by Wings for 1927-1928) and Best and Unique and Artistic Picture (won by Sunrise from 1927-1928). 

And the nominees on the entries from every edition of 1001 Movie You Must See Before You Die are...
Zero for Conduct
42nd Street
Golddiggers of 1933
42nd Street
She Done Him Wrong
Duck Soup
Queen Chistina
Land Without Bread
King Kong
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Sons of the Desert

                    

And the winner for the Best Picture of 1933 is…Duck Soup

Duck Soup

Duck Soup is still one of the most famous comedies of all-time (I think it is anyway, though I may live a bit in a classic movie bubble) and certainly has as many funny gags as any of the Marx movies. Highlights include the song Hail Fredonia, Harpo and Chico's constant confrontations with street vendor Edgar Kennedy, Groucho's many scenes with Margaret Dumont (a regular target of their barbs), the final gun battle scene with the Marxes representing the last stand for their country and the classic mirror scene with Groucho and Harpo.

Duck Soup

And the Award for Unique and Artistic Picture of 1933 is...King Kong

King Kong

It's a stretch putting King Kong in the Unique and Artistic Picture Category, but was there anything at all quite like this before 1933? An original creation with stop motion effects, sound, animation and make-up and those creatures. Those dinosaurs and Kong himself. It may look dated to some, but it still looks fresh to me after eighty-five years and gets my award. And whatever happened to Fay Wray?

King Kong

I wanted to stick 42nd Street somewhere, but thems the breaks, eh kid?