151. Waterloo Bridge
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot: On the eve of WWII an officer recalls his time as a younger man - fighting WWI - and when he met the beautiful young ballerina, Myra. But the chance meeting meant years of torment for Myra - who found herself out the ballet and on the streets, falling lower when she learned her love had died in battle. But he did not die, and when he reunites with Myra, he promises to make things right.
152. Duel in the Sun
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: King Vidor
Actors: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston
Plot: Pearl Chavez movies in with distant Texas relatives after her father shoots her mother and her lover. Once there, here mere presence disrupts an already tense family situation as the finds acceptance, resentment and is drawn towards the unruly Lewt.
153. The Little Foxes
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea, Patricia Collinge
Plot: The Hubbard family is very well off in the Deep South but their ruthless nature threatens to poison all that is around them. One daughter looks to escape the manipulations of her family - but will she be able to escape her own nature?
154. My Name is Julia Ross
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Actors: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Doris Lloyd
Plot: A woman is employed by a employment agency to work for the widow Mrs. Hughes. Arriving at the house she is surprised when, two days later, she awakens in a different house, with new clothes and new identity - daughter-in-law of Mrs. Hughes - told she suffered a nervous breakdown. But it is all a plot by Ralph, the son of Mrs. Hughes - to maker her his new bride - for the woman he murdered. And she just may suffer the same fate.
155. Cover Girl
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Vidor
Actors: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Otto Kruger, Eve Arden
Plot: Rita Hayworth in beautiful outfits, in beautiful settings, being wooed by two men, and having to choose one of them.
156. The Major and the Minor
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn, Edward Fielding
Plot: Susan (Ginger Rogers) saved enough money for the train trip home, only
fares have increased. She pretends to be a minor so she can get half-
fare, but little does she know how much trouble this will cause.
157. Pursued
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale, Harry Carey Jr.
Plot: An orphaned boy is raised by the Callum family after his own family is brutally murdered. Constantly facing the trauma from this past - he connects with some members of the family, while others shun him.
158. The Sea Hawk
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Alan Hale
Plot: A dashing pirate raids Spanish ships for the good of England, but when one such raid introduces him to the beautiful Dona Maria - Spanish royalty - he finds himself attracted, even as she rebuffs his efforts for his pirating ways (and stealing her jewels). When he returns the jewels, she begins to rethink her opinion - even as he gets in trouble with the English he is supposedly helping.
159. Sahara
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zoltan Korda
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Richard Nugent
Plot: A group of diverse allied men must cross the bleak, unforgiving desert to regroup with their command. Both their group and the German troops are in desperate need of water.
160. Cat People
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Plot: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
