141. Jane Eyre
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Stevenson
Actors: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Agnes Moorehead, Sara Allgood, Aubrey Mather
Plot: Based on the classic novel, the plain, poor Jane Eyre comes to work as the governess for Thornhill Hall and finds herself falling for the debonaire Mr. Rochester. Yet the arrival of the wealthy Blanche Ingram means her love may be short-lived - especially as the secrets of Thornhill Hall come to light.
142. No Regrets for Our Youth ( Waga seishun ni kuinashi )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Eiko Miyoshi, Kokuten Kodo, Akitake Kôno
143. High Sierra
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull
Plot: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
144. Scarlet Street
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker, Rosalind Ivan
Plot: A married middle-aged man with a mundane life becomes infatuated with
another, younger, woman. They both end up lying to each other.
145. Monsieur Verdoux
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Chaplin
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz, Martha Raye
Plot: Chaplin stars in this very dark comedy as a "bluebeard" who supports his beloved wife and son by marrying and murdering women of property. Based on an idea by Orson Welles.
146. The Talk of the Town
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Charles Dingle
147. They Live By Night
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Will Wright, Helen Craig, Jay C. Flippen
Plot: A prison break sees three men escaped - and even though Bowie Bowers wants nothing more than to retreat or prove his innocence - especially with a new love interest in Kitty - his other escapees convince him to participate in a series of heists and the police, thinking him the ringleader, go after him harder than ever.
148. Great Madcap, The ( gran calavera, El )
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Fernando Soler, Rosario Granados, Andrés Soler, Rubén Rojo, Francisco Jambrina, Luis Alcoriza
Plot: A man's family wants to teach the patriarch about humility and so they plan a ruse to make him think his large fortune is gone by living a life of poverty. Yet, when he finds out the plot - he goes along with their idea while secretly conducting his business to teach his own family a lesson - that they are free-loading leeches.
149. Angel on My Shoulder
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Archie Mayo
Actors: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens, George Cleveland, Erskine Sanford
Plot: The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
150. The Search
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey, Ivan Jandl, Mary Patton
Plot: An American G.I. finds a silent, 9-year-old Czech boy who has survived the horrors of Auschwitz. Meanwhile his mother, the only surviving member of his family, frantically searches for his son amidst the sea of refugees.
