As I've become more enthralled by cinema over the years, I have cherished reading all I possibly could about my favourite hobby. A fine resource I have discovered has been 'The Motion Picture Guide' which, in 1985, came out for films 1927-1983, then they put out annual guides till about 1999. I wish they kept on making them up to the present!

This list is one of 12. There are 11, ranging by half-star increments from zero to five stars, and, inexplicably for one year, they refused to give an objectifiable rating for the films, then returned to doing so the following year. I fervently wish that when they did so, they retroactively, at least as a footnote, and to be complete, gave a star-rating for the year they had comparatively neglected.

This list of 'two-and-a-half-star' rated films represents 'fair' films, and would be comparable the 5/10 score on IMDb. Two-and-a-1/2-star films mentioned in 'The Motion Picture Guide' that WEREN'T mentioned in Letterboxd were:
--Acceptable Levels (John Davies, 1985)
--All the Other Girls Do! (aka 'Oltraggio al pudore'; Silvio Amadio, 1964)
--Alone in the Streets (Silvio Siano, 1956)
--Angry Island (aka 'Kajikko'; Seiji Hisamatsu, 1958)
--Anna (aka 'Une mere, une fille'; Márta Mészáros, 1981)
--As Husbands Go (Hamilton MacFadden, 1934)
--The Awful Truth (Marshall Neilan, 1929)
--Back at the Front (aka 'Willie and Joe Back at the Front'; George Sherman, 1952)
--Battle Flame (R.G. Springsteen, 1959)
--Betrayal (aka 'Taran Kova' or 'La principessa Tarakanova'; Fyodor Otsep and Mario Soldati, 1938)

--Blaze o' Glory (George Crone and Renaud Hoffman, 1929)
--Blue Grass of Kentucky (William Beaudine, 1950)
--The Cannon and the Nightingale (aka 'To kanoni kai t' aidoni'; Giorgos and Iakovos Kabanellis, 1968)
--Champ for a Day (William A. Seiter, 1953)
--The Chaser (Edwin L. Marin, 1938)
--Checkers (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1937)
--The Christmas Kid (Sidney W. Pink, 1967)
--City News (Season 3, Episode 12 TV-movie of 12-season/163-episode TV-series 'American Playhouse'; David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman, 1984)
--City of Youth (aka 'Komsomolsk'; Sergey Gerasimov, 1938)
--The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland (William James Craft, 1930)

--Come on Danger! (Robert F. Hill, 1932)
--Concerning Mr. Martin (Roy Kellino, 1937)
--Confessor (Edward Bergman and Alan Soffin, 1974)
--The Conquering Horde (Edward Sloman, 1931)
--County Fair (aka 'Song of the Plough'; John Baxter, 1933)
--The Court Martial of Major Keller (Ernest Morris, 1961)
--Criminal Conversation (Kieran Hickey, 1981)
--Crossroads of Passion (aka 'Gli uomini sono nemici'; Ettore Giannini and Henri Calef [uncredited], 1948)
--The Crucifix (G.B. Samuelson, 1934)
--The Cure for Love (Robert Donat and Alexander Shaw [uncredited], 1949)

--Dangerous Medicine (Arthur B. Woods, 1938)
--Darts Are Trumps (Maclean Rogers, 1938)
--The Day the War Ended (aka 'Pervyy den mira' or 'The First Day of Peace'; Yakov Segel, 1959)
--Diary of an Italian (aka 'Diario di un italiano'; Sergio Capogna, 1973)
--Discoveries (Redd Davis, 1939)
--Do Not Throw Cushions Into the Ring (Steve Ihnat, 1970)
--Don Giovanni (aka 'Mozart's Don Giovanni'; Paul Czinner, 1955)
--Dragnet (Leslie Goodwins, 1947)
--The Duel (aka 'Duel'; Tatyana Berezantseva and Lev Rudnik, 1961)
--Easy to Take (Glenn Tryon, 1936)

--Embarrassing Moments (William James Craft, 1930)
--The End of the Road (Alex Bryce, 1936)
--Enemies of Progress (aka 'Annenkovshina'; Nikolai Beresnyov, 1933)
--Escape in the Sun (George P. Breakston, 1956)
--Fair Exchange (Ralph Ince, 1936)
--Fair Warning (Alfred L. Werker, 1931)
--Fate Takes a Hand (Max Varnel, 1961)
--Father Takes the Air (Frank McDonald, 1951)
--Fidelio (Walter Felsenstein, 1956)
--Fidelio (Joachim Hess, 1968)

--The Fighting Gringo (David Howard, 1939)
--Fighting Mad (Reginald Le Borg, 1948)
--Finney (Bill Hare, 1969)
--Flying Hostess (Murray Roth, 1936)
--Follow Your Star (Sinclair Hill, 1938)
--The Fourth Alarm (Phil Whitman, 1930)
--The Fox with Nine Tails (aka 'Kyubi no kitsune to Tobimaru'; Shinichi Yagi, 1968)
--Gaol Break (Ralph Ince, 1936)
--The Gentleman from Nowhere (William Castle, 1948)
--The Girl of the Golden West (John Francis Dillon, 1930)

--Glamour Girl (Arthur Dreifuss, 1948)
--The Glory of Faith (aka 'Coeur de gosse'; George Pallu, 1938)
--Goin' Home (Chris Prentiss, 1976)
--Goin' to Town (Leslie Goodwins, 1944)
--Golden Hoofs (Lynn Shores, 1941)
--The Great Mike (Wallace Fox, 1944)
--The Green Pack (T. Hayes Hunter, 1934)
--The Green Tree (aka 'Albero verde'; Giuseppe Rolando, 1966)
--Guests Are Coming (aka 'Jada goscie jada...'; Romuald Drobaczynski, Jan Rutkiewicz and Gerard Zalewski, 1962)
--Guilt Is Not Mine (aka 'L'ingiusta condanna'; Giuseppe Masini, 1952)

--Gun Packer (Wallace Fox, 1938)
--Gypsy (Roy William Neill, 1937)
--Gypsy Melody (Edmond T. Gréville, 1936)
--Hail and Farewell (Ralph Ince, 1936)
--Hang Your Hat on the Wind (Larry Lansburgh, 1969)
--The Heart Within (David Eady, 1957)
--Here Come the Jets (Gene Fowler Jr., 1959)
--Here's George (Redd Davis, 1932)
--High Conquest (Irving Allen, 1947)
--High Explosive (Frank McDonald, 1943)

--High Terrace (Henry Cass, 1956)
--Hiken yaburi (aka 'Broken Swords'; Kazuo Ikehiro, 1969)
--Hold 'Em Yale (Sidney Lanfield, 1935)
--The Holy Terror (James Tinling, 1937)
--Hot Hours (aka 'Heures chaudes'; Louis Félix, 1959)
--Hot Ice (Kenneth Hume, 1952)
--Hotsprings Holiday (aka 'Onsen gerira dai shogeki'; Hirokazu Ichimura, 1970)
--The House With an Atiic (aka 'Dom s mezoninom'; Yakov Bazelyan, 1961)
--Insult (Harry Lachman, 1932)
--Island of Doom (aka 'Zhit'; Semyon Timoshenko, 1933)

--The Isle of Lost Ships (Irvin Willat, 1929)
--It's Not Cricket (Ralph Ince, 1937)
--The Jazz Age (Lynn Shores, 1929)
--Jazz Babies (this isn't even mentioned in IMDb; Alexander Hall, 1932)
--Joe Palooka, Champ (Reginald Le Borg, 1946)
--Joe Palooka in the Big Fight (Cy Endfield, 1949)
--Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (Reginald Le Borg, 1949)
--Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (Reginald Le Borg, 1948)
--Johnny Vik (Charles Nauman, 1977)
--Joniko and the Kush Ta Ka (Ford Beebe Jr., 1969)

--Judgment Deferred (John Baxter, 1952)
--Judo Showdown (aka 'Yawara sempu doto no taiketsu'; Masateru Nishiyama, 1966)
--Juke Box Jenny (Harold Young, 1942)
--Julie the Redhead (aka 'Julie la rousse'; Claude Boissol, 1959)
--Killer at Large (William Beaudine, 1947)
--Lasca of the Rio Grande (Edward Laemmle, 1931)
--The Last Blitzkrieg (Arthur Dreifuss, 1959)
--The Last Man (aka 'Le dernier homme'; Charles L. Bitsch, 1969)
--Law and Disorder (David MacDonald, 1940)
--The Law Comes to Texas (Joseph Levering, 1939)

--Leave It to Me (Monty Banks, 1933)
--The Legacy of the 500,000 (Toshirô Mifune, 1963)
--Liar's Dice (Issam B. Makdissy, 1980)
--Life in Her Hands (Philip Leacock, 1951)
--Lightning Conductor (Maurice Elvey, 1938)
--Lisbon Story (Paul L. Stein, 1946)
--The Little Humpbacked Horse (aka 'Skazka o konke-gorbunke'; Aleksandr Radunsky, 1962)
--Lost on the Western Front (aka 'A Romance in Flanders'; Maurice Elvey, 1937)
--Lost Sex (aka 'Honnô'; Kaneto Shindô, 1966)
--Love (Annette Cohen, Nancy Dowd, Liv Ullmann and Mai Zetterling, 1982)

--The Love Captive (Max Marcin, 1934)
--The Love Habit (Harry Lachman, 1931)
--The Loves of Three Queens (aka 'L'amante di Paride'; Marc Allégret and Edgar G. Ulmer, 1954)
--Luck of the Turf (Randall Faye, 1936)
--Lucky Dog (Zion Myers, 1933)
--The Mad Atlantic (Jun Fukuda, 1966)
--The Magic World of Topo Gigio (aka 'Le avventure di topo Gigio'; Federico Caldura and Luca De Rico, 1961)
--Mais où et donc Ornicar (Bertrand Van Effenterre, 1979)
--Malachi's Cove (Henry Herbert, 1973)
--The Man in Blue (Milton Carruth, 1937)

--The Man Trailer (Lambert Hillyer, 1934)
--Man Who Couldn't Walk (Henry Cass, 1960)
--The Man Who Made Diamonds (Ralph Ince, 1937)
--Many Tanks Mr. Atkins (Roy William Neill, 1938)
--Marigold (Thomas Bentley, 1938)
--A Matter of Morals (John Cromwell, 1961)
--Meet My Sister (John Daumery, 1933)
--Meet the Missus (Malcolm St. Clair, 1940)
--Meet the Navy (Alfred Travers, 1946)
--Men in Her Diary (Charles Barton, 1945)

--Men of Yesterday (John Baxter, 1936)
--Messaline (aka 'Messalina'; Carmine Gallone, 1951)
--The Mighty Treve (Lewis D. Collins, 1937)
--Military Secret (aka 'Poyedinok'; Vladimir Legoshin, 1945)
--Miss President (aka 'Elnökkisasszony'; Andrew Marton, 1935)
--Mister Brown (Roger Andrieux, 1972)
--Mr. Drake's Duck (Val Guest, 1951)
--Mr. Quincey of Monte Carlo (John Daumery, 1933)
--Mr. What's-His-Name? (Ralph Ince, 1935)
--Modern Love (Arch Heath, 1929)

--Moments (Peter Crane, 1974)
--Morgan's Marauders (this isn't even on IMDb; Fred C. Newmeyer, 1929)
--Mountains O'Mourne (Harry Hughes, 1938)
--The Mouse and the Woman (Karl Francis, 1980)
--Mumu (Anatoliy Bobrovskiy and Evgeniy Teterin, 1959)
--My Girl Tisa (Elliott Nugent, 1948)
--The Mysterious Rider (Fred Allen, 1933)
--Mystery Lake (Larry Lansburgh, 1953)
--The Mystery of the Pink Villa (aka 'Le mystère de la villa rose'; René Hervil and Louis Mercanton, 1930)
--The Mystic Hour (Melville De Lay, 1933)

--The Naked General (aka 'Hadaka no taishô'; Hiromichi Horikawa, 1958)
--Night in Bangkok (aka 'Bangkok no yoru'; Yasuki Chiba, 1966)
--Night Mail (Herbert Smith, 1935)
--The Night of Nights (Lewis Milestone, 1939)
--Nights of Shame (aka 'Marchandes d'illusions'; Raoul André, 1954)
--Nine Forty-Five (George King, 1934)
--Nine Girls (Leigh Jason, 1944)
--Nine Miles to Noon (Herbert J. Leder, 1963)
--No Escape (Ralph Ince, 1934)
--No Greater Love Than This (aka 'Koto no taiyo'; Kenji Yoshida, 1969)

--Not So Dusty (Maclean Rogers, 1936)
--Nothing Like Publicity (Maclean Rogers, 1936)
--Nothing Venture (John Baxter, 1948)
--The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (Arthur B. Woods, 1939)
--The Offering (David Secter, 1966)
--Old Faithful (Maclean Rogers, 1935)
--The One Way Trail (Ray Taylor, 1931)
--Open the Door and See All the People (Jerome Hill, 1964)
--The Other Tomorrow (Lloyd Bacon, 1930)
--Our Silent Love (aka 'Chichi to ko: Zoku Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku'; Zenzô Matsuyama, 1967)

--Overnight (aka 'That Night in London'; Rowland V. Lee, 1932)
--P.C. Josser (aka 'Dr. Josser, K.C.'; Milton Rosmer, 1931)
--The Painted Angel (Millard Webb, 1929)
--Paris in the Month of August (aka 'Paris au mois d'août'; Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1966)
--The Parisian (Jean de Limur, 1931)
--Passion Island (aka 'La isla de la pasión'; Emilio Fernandez, 1942)
--Pearls Bring Tears (H. Manning Haynes, 1937)
--People Will Talk (Alfred Santell, 1935)
--The Perfect Crime (Ralph Ince, 1937)
--The Performers (aka 'Hana to namida to honoo'; Umetsugu Inoue, 1970)

--Playmates (aka 'Le bal des voyous'; Jean-Claude Dague and Louis Soulanes, 1968)
--The Poacher's Daughter (aka 'Sally's Irish Rogue'; George Pollock, 1958)
--Police Nurse (Maury Dexter, 1963)
--The P.O.W. (Philip H. Dossick, 1973)
--Private Angelo (Michael Anderson and Peter Ustinov, 1949)
--Professor Tim (Henry Cass, 1957)
--Purple Heart Diary (Richard Quine, 1951)
--Pursued (Louis King, 1934)
--Queen for a Day (Arthur Lubin, 1951)
--The Rabble (aka 'Garakuta'; Hiroshi Inagaki, 1964)

--Racketeers of the Range (D. Ross Lederman, 1939)
--Rackety Rax (Alfred L. Werker, 1932)
--Railroad Workers (aka 'Rallare'; Arne Mattsson, 1947)
--Rapture (aka 'Sangue sul sagrato'; Goffredo Alessandrini, 1950)
--Rebels Against the Light (aka 'Sands of Beersheba'; Alexander Ramati, 1964)
--Recess (Rule Royce Johnson, 1969)
--Reckless Age (Felix E. Feist, 1944)
--Rendez-vous (aka 'Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous'; Carl Boese, 1930)
--The Return of Jimmy Valentine (Lewis D. Collins, 1936)
--Reunion in Reno (Kurt Neumann, 1951)

--Rich People (Edward H. Griffith, 1929)
--Ride the High Wind (aka 'African Gold'; David Millin, 1965)
--The Riding Tornado (D. Ross Lederman, 1932)
--Right to the Heart (Eugene Forde, 1942)
--Ring Around the Clock (aka 'Vogliamoci bene!'; Paolo William Tamburella, 1950)
--Roaming Lady (Albert S. Rogell, 1936)
--Rogue River (John Rawlins, 1951)
--Romance of the Rio Grande (Alfred Santell, 1929)
--Running Wild (Robert McCahon, 1973)
--Sabra (aka 'Death of a Jew'; Denys de La Patellière, 1969)

--Salute John Citizen (Maurice Elvey, 1942)
--Sands of Beersheba (Alexander Ramati, 1964)
--Sandy Gets Her Man (Otis Garrett and Paul Girard Smith, 1940)
--Saturday's Millions (Edward Sedgwick, 1933)
--Savage Gold (no director's name given either in book or on IMDb page, 1933)
--Say It with Music (Jack Raymond, 1932)
--Scattergood Baines (Christy Cabanne, 1941)
--School for Sex (aka 'Nikutai no gakko'; Ryô Kinoshita, 1965)
--Sea of Lost Ships (Joseph Kane, 1953)
--The Sea Wolf (Alfred Santell, 1930)

--Second Best Bed (Tom Walls, 1938)
--The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (Dallas Bower, 1952)
--Secret Agent (aka 'On Secret Service'; Arthur B. Woods, 1933)
--Secret Document: Vienna (aka 'Fusillé à l'aube'; André Haguet, 1950)
--The Secrets of the Bed (aka 'Secrets d'alcôve'; Henri Decoin, Jean Delannoy, Gianni Franciolini and Ralph Habib, 1954)
--Seven Against the Sun (David Millin, 1964)
--Shades of Silk (Mary Stephen, 1978)
--Shadow of Fear (Ernest Morris, 1963)
--Shadow of the Eagle (Sidney Salkow, 1950)
--Shaggy (Robert Emmett Tansey, 1948)

--Shamrock Hill (Arthur Dreifuss, 1949)
--Side Street Angel (Ralph Ince, 1937)
--The Silence of Dr. Evans (aka 'Dr. Iven's Silence'; Budimir Metalnikov, 1973)
--The Simhon Family (Joel Silberg, 1964)
--The Singing Outlaw (Joseph H. Lewis, 1937)
--Sins of the Fathers (Ludwig Berger, 1928)
--Sixth and Main (Christopher Cain, 1977)
--Ski Battalion (aka 'Za sovetskuyu rodinu'; Rafail and Yuri Muzykant, 1937)
--Sky Above Heaven (aka 'Le ciel sur la tête'; Yves Ciampi, 1965)
--The Sky's the Limit (Jack Buchanan and Lee Garmes, 1938)

--The Sleeping Beauty (aka 'Spyashchaya krasavitsa'; Apollinari Dudko and Konstantin Sergeyev, 1964)
--The Small Man (John Baxter, 1936)
--Smart Politics (Will Jason, 1948)
--So It's Sunday (this wasn't even on IMDb; Edward Ludwig, 1932)
--The Song From My Heart (aka 'Waga koi waga uta'; Noboru Nakamura, 1969)
--Spoils of the Night (aka 'Iro'; Shinji Murayama, 1969)
--The Spots on My Leopard (Tim Spring, 1974)
--Spy for a Day (Mario Zampi, 1940)
--Squares (Patrick J. Murphy, 1972)
--The Storm (Harold Young, 1938)

--Story Without Words (aka 'Storia senza parole'; Biagio Proietti, 1981)
--The Stranger from Arizona (Elmer Clifton, 1938)
--Strangers on Honeymoon (Albert de Courville, 1936)

Notes: --The film 'Brief Ecstasy' (Edmond T. Gréville, 1937) was documented twice, as 1 and 2 1/2-stars. The 1-star entry was seen first, and thus documented.
--'La città prigioniera' (Joseph Anthony, 1962) was also listed separately as 1 1/2 and 2 1/2-starred entries. The 1 1/2-star entry occurred first and was counted as thus.
--'Conflit' (Léonide Moguy, 1938) was listed twice, under different titles, as both 1 1/2 and 2 1/2-stars. Since the 1 1/2-starred title appeared first, that was how I listed it.
--'Death in the Garden' (Luis Buñuel, 1956) was listed twice, under different titles, as both 3 and 2 1/2-stars. Since the 3-starred title appeared first, that was how I listed it.
--'Full Circle' (Richard Loncraine, 1977) was listed separately as 2 1/2 and 3-star entries. The 2 1/2-star came first and was thus recorded that way.
--'Jealousy, Italian Style' (Ettore Scola, 1970) was listed separately as 2 and 2 1/2-star entries. The 2-star came first and was thus recorded that way.
--'A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere' (Marcello Fondato, 1975) was listed separately as 2 1/2 and 2-star entries. The 2 1/2-star came first and was thus recorded that way.
--'Una moglie americana' (Gian Luigi Polidoro, 1965) was listed separately as 2 and 2 1/2-star entries. The 2-star came first and was thus recorded that way.
--'Naked Fury' (Charles Saunders, 1959) was listed separately as 2 and 2 1/2-star entries. The 2 1/2-star came first and was thus recorded that way.
--'Our Blushing Brides' (Harry Beaumont, 1930) was listed twice, as both 1 1/2 and 2 1/2-stars. Since the 1 1/2-starred title appeared first, that was how I listed it.
--'Pacific Blackout' (Ralph Murphy, 1941) was listed twice, as both 1 1/2 and 2 1/2-stars. Since the 2 1/2-starred title appeared first, that was how I listed it.
--'633 Squadron' (Walter Grauman, 1964) was listed twice, under different titles, as both 2 1/2 and 3 1/2-stars. Since the 2 1/2-starred title appeared first, that was how I listed it.
--'Smithy' (Ken G. Hall, 1946) was listed twice, under different titles, as both 1 and 2 1/2-stars. Since the 1-starred title appeared first, that was how I listed it.

Hopefully you will enjoy these lists from it as well as I have!

Sincerely,
William Wood Windsor, Ontario, Canada October, 2017