Favourite Films: 1940-1949 Edition

[gk_891]

I've seen very few films from the forties so my list is a fairly short one. What are your favourites from this era?

Citizen Kane
The Bicycle Thieves
The Third Man
Late Spring
Stray Dog
Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life
The Philadelphia Story
Ossessione
Rome: Open City
Spellbound
Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 and 2

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

I've seen very few films from the forties so my list is a fairly short one. What are your favourites from this era?

Citizen Kane
The Bicycle Thieves
The Third Man
Late Spring
Stray Dog
Casablanca YES
It's a Wonderful Life
The Philadelphia Story YES
Ossessione
Rome: Open City
Spellbound
Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 and 2

Adam's Rib
Meet Me in St. Louis
Easter Parade
The Harvey Girls
The Pirate
Gaslight
Now Voyager
The Picture of Dorian Gray
They Were Expendable
Gilda
Broadway Melody of 1940 (for the dance routines of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Girl Crazy
I Remember Mama
Black Narcissus
Caesar and Cleopatra

 

[dinakt]

Les enfants du paradis

 

[attyfan]

Maltese Falcon, plus many already listed.

 

[Cachoo]

The Grapes of Wrath
I Remember Mama
I Know Where I'm Going
The Philadelphia Story
Casablanca
It's A Wonderful Life
The Shop Around The Corner
The Red Shoes
The Third Man
Miracle on 34th Street
Fantasia
On The Town
Beauty and the Beast (France)
Saboteur
His Girl Friday
Fort Apache
How Green Was My Valley
The Best Years of Our Lives

 

[Vash01]

Casablanca- it's the only one I have seen. I want to see 'It's a wonderful life' sometime.

 

[emason]

Ball of Fire
The Palm Beach Story
The Lady Eve

 

[paskatefan]

Fantasia
The Three Caballeros
Casabalnca

 

[skatesindreams]

Citizen Kane

Lesser known fact:
The studio "held" the film for some time, as William Randolph Hearst tried to prevent its' release.
Orson Welles was even younger then we knew when the movie was completed.

Casablanca

I appreciate it even more after repeated viewings.

 

[KatieC]

The More the Merrier, with the wonderful Jean Arthur.
Lifeboat, always a favourite, with Tallulah Bankhead and Walter Slezak.
Once Upon a Honeymoon, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Walter Slezak.
Now Voyager, Bette Davis

I love so many movies from the 40’s.

 

[Spun Silver]

All Preston Sturges's best films are from this decade: Miracle at Morgan's Creek, Sullivan's Travels, the already mentioned Palm Beach Story, Christmas in July...
All or most of the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby/Dorothy Lamour Road movies (Road to Morocco, Road to Bali, etc.) as well. They may be slight but if you are stressed and NEED to laugh, watch these!
Barbara Stanwyck was at her peak in this decade. Besides the wonderful comedies Ball of Fire and The Lady Eve (another Preston Sturges film), she did the top-ten noir Double Indemnity, the Frank Capra drama Meet John Doe with Gary Cooper, another interesting noir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and many more.
Some wonderful American Hitchcocks are from this decade, including Notorious (Bergman/Grant), The Paradine Case (with Alida Valli as an accused criminal, the brilliant Charles Laughton as a sadistic judge, and Ethel Barrymore as his abused wife) and Rope (Jimmy Stewart).
All Bogart and Bacall's films together are from the 40s, including The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Dark Passage, and To Have and Have Not.
Katherine Hepburn starts her famous partnership with Spencer Tracy in the comedies Adam's Rib and Woman of the Year.
Ernest Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be, in which Carole Lombard and Jack Benny are duelling hams/spouses in a comedy set in Nazi-occupied Poland.
My Favorite Wife is another Cary Grant-Irene Dunne delight, and she is wonderful in I Remember Mama.
Rome Open City (Rossellini, with Anna Magnani), Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves (both De Sica), all Italian neorealist films
Ozu's Late Spring

 

[falling_dance]

The Magnificent Ambersons
Shadow of a Doubt

 

[skatefan]

Rebecca
Brief Encounter
Jane Eyre

 

[Icedancer]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
National Velvet
The Secret Garden
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Heiress
The Snake Pit
Any of the Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland "Hey kids, let's put on a show!" musicals

 

[Nomad]

Double Indemnity
The Palm Beach Story
Casablanca
The Lady Eve
Now, Voyager
To Have and Have Not
The Clock
The Blue Dahlia
The Heiress
Gaslight
Suspicion
Notorious
Letter to Three Wives
The Man Who Came to Dinner