10 movies of the 1940s

[Allhallowsday]

10 movies of the 1940s ... why not?

IVAN THE TERRIBLE PART 1 (1944)
IVAN THE TERRIBLE PART 2 (1945)

GERMANY YEAR ZERO (GERMANIA ANNO ZERO - 1948)
OSSESSIONE (OBSESSION - 1943)
ROME, OPEN CITY (ROMA CITTA APERTA - 1945)
LADRI DI BICICLETTE (BICYCLE THIEVES - 1948))

CAT PEOPLE (1942)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
THE LITTLE FOXES (1941)

[bob]

I see your 10 movies and raise you 20  

the 1940's had a bunch of great films and I had a hard time cutting my list to 20

1 The Third Man (1949)
2 Citizen Kane (1941)
3 Notorious (1946)
4 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
5 Casablanca (1942)
6 Rebecca (1940)
7 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
8 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
9 The Great Dictator (1940)
10 The Wolf Man (1941)
11 The Big Sleep (1946)
12 The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
13 Ministry of Fear (1944)
14 Bitter Rice (1949)
15 49th Parallel (1941)
16 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
17 The Philadelphia Story (1940)
18 Henry V (1944)
19 His Girl Friday (1940)
20 Cat People (1942)

honorable mentions:


Double Indemnity (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

[Ticonderoga 64]

1) Casablanca(1942)
2) Picture Of Dorian Gray
3) The Lodger(1944)
4) The Wolf Man(1941)
5) Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein(1948)
6) The Spiral Staircase(1945)
7) Treasure Of the Sierra Madre(1948)
8) The Seventh Victim(1943)
9) The Uninvited(1944)
10) Beauty and the Beast(1946)
11) The Maltese Falcon(1941)
12) The Body Snatcher(1945)
13) Dragonwyck(1945)
14) I Walked With A Zombie(1943)
15) The Time Of Their Lives(1946)
16) The Ghost Chasers(1940)
17) House Of Seven Gables(1940)
18) Arsenic and Old Lace(1944)
19) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man(1943)
20) Buck Privates(1941)

[RCMerchant]

1. the MALTESE FALCON
2. the BODY SNATCHER
3. HIGH SIERRA
4. the TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
5. WHITE HEAT
6. KEY LARGO
7. the BIG SLEEP
8. the CAT PEOPLE
9. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
10. the BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS

[Rev. Powell]

There were fewer movies made in the 40s because of the war, so I'll stick to 10.

CASABLANCA (1942)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
ROPE (1948)
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)
THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943)
FANTASIA (1940)
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947)

[ralfy]

Beauty and the Beast
Ivan the Terrible
Diary of a Country Priest
Children of Paradise
Le Corbeau
Black Narcissus
Day of Wrath
47 Ronin
Hamlet
Rashomon

[RCMerchant]

I can add 10 more, I think...

11. DILLINGER
12. the LOST WEEKEND (story of my life!)
13. SHOCK
14. STRANGE CARGO
15. the CROSS OF LORRAINE
16. the FACE BEHIND THE MASK
17. FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (ok- not the best horror film. Nostalgia reasons)
18. ONE MILLION BC
19. GUNG HO! - Yes, a WW 2 rascist, "lets gear the boys up to kill!", movies. But the cast is amazing. And it is truly a very BAD movie!

If you want to see it-here it is! I hope you don't run in the streets with a gun screaming "JAPS!" after seeing it.

http://youtu.be/0M6kqKlmAnk

[Allhallowsday]

I could add 10 more :
BORN TO KILL (1947)
KEY LARGO (1948)
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
CASABLANCA (1942)
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
HIGH SIERRA (1941)
OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES (1945)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944)
LA BELLE ET LA BETE (THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - 1946)
WHITE HEAT (1949)

[RCMerchant]

WHITE HEAT (1949)

[Allhallowsday]

WHITE HEAT (1949)

I own that one on DVD.  It's my favorite of his movies.  Another awesome performance!