Science has determined the "most influential" movie of all time . . . and it's "The Wizard of Oz", which was released in 1939.
Researchers in Italy "analyzed the impact" of more than 47,000 movies to determine which ones have changed movies the most. And they used some complex math to figure it out, so we're just going to take their word for it.
Here's the Top 20:
1. "The Wizard of Oz", 1939
2. "Star Wars", 1977
3. "Psycho", 1960
4. "King Kong", the 1933 original . . . not the 2005 Jack Black one, obviously.
5. "2001: A Space Odyssey", 1968
6. "Metropolis", 1927
7. "Citizen Kane", 1941
8. "The Birth of a Nation", 1915
9. "Frankenstein", 1931
10. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", 1937
11. "Casablanca", 1942
12. "Dracula", 1931
13. "The Godfather", 1972
14. "Jaws", 1975
15. "Nosferatu", 1922
16. "The Searchers", 1956
17. "Cabiria", 1914
18. "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", 1964
19. "Gone with the Wind", 1939
20. "Battleship Potemkin", 1925
It's worth noting that "Star Wars" was also the most recent movie in the Top 20 . . . and 13 of the Top 20 were released before 1950.
SOURCE: (Yahoo)