131. I Remember Mama
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Philip Dorn, Rudy Vallee, Peggy McIntyre, Oskar Homolka
132. The Blue Dahlia
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Marshall
Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Tom Powers
Plot: A husband returns home from the war and discovers that his wife has been less than faithful. When she's murdered, he becomes the prime suspect.
133. Kiss of Death
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes, Karl Malden
Plot: A small-time crook refuses to rat on his partners in crime - until his depressed wife kills herself in grief - turning on his fellow men, he is granted early parole and starts another life with another family. Yet, years later, when one of the most violent men in his crew is released, he vows revenge and tracks him down...
134. The Southerner
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper
Plot: Sam Tucker is just a man looking to do what is best for his families future. He decides the best course of action is to grow his own Cotton crop - but the first year sees a series of near disasters including disease, a flood and a jealous neighbor - will his family be able to succeed?
135. Shoeshine ( Sciuscià )
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli, Antonio Carlino
Plot: In postwar Rome, two boys get by shining shoes. The two want nothing more than to own their own horse - but in order to fund things, they take part in a black market delivery. Yet what seems like an easy task leads to trouble - as both boys find themselves in in an overcrowded boys prison and drift apart.
136. Going My Way
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Gene Lockhart, Jean Heather, Frank McHugh, James Brown
Plot: A new delightfully understanding priest arrives a stern Parish to lighten up both the Priests and the students.
137. Desert Victory
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J.L. Hodson
Actors: Harold Alexander, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Bernard L. Montgomery, Erwin Rommel
Plot: In this documentary, complete with re-enactments, the WWII battle of El Alamein - considered on of the key victories in the campaign in North Africa, is examined using footage from both sides of the battle as well as home-front support.
138. Detour
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard
Plot: Al, a down and out piano player, hitchhikes from New York to Los Angeles
in order to be with his singer girlfriend. Fate has other plans for Al
when he steps into the car of a character named Haskel, who promptly
dies in his sleep one night while Al is driving. Afraid the cops will
never believe the truth, Al takes Haskell's money, car, and identity,
and tries to make it to Los Angeles, only to have fate intervene again
when he picks up a mean-spirited female hitchhiker.
139. They Were Expendable
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson
Plot: After Pearl Harbor, a group of PT boats stationed in the Philippians battles with the Navy brass just as much as with Japanese incursions.
140. The More the Merrier
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully
Plot: During WWII the housing shortage in Washington D.C. causes a young woman to sublet half of her apartment. Not getting the female tenant she was expecting - she gets the middle-aged Benjamin Dingle instead and he, in turn, sublets his sublet to a younger man and proceeds to play cupid for the two.
