171. The Bank Dick
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward F. Cline
Actors: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph, Franklin Pangborn
Plot: Egbert Souse - henpecked and fed up - takes the place of a drunken film director, manages to capture a bank robber and finds himself as a guard where he gets himself in no end of trouble trying to swindle his daughter's finacee.
172. They Died with Their Boots On
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, John Litel
Plot: An interesting, if completely historically inaccurate, biography of George Armstrong Custer - from his time as a cadet to the ill-fated Battle of Little Big Horn.
173. The Seventh Veil
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Compton Bennett
Actors: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven, Yvonne Owen
Plot: The once world-famous pianist Francesca Cunningham has been confined to a hospital room and, attempting escape and suicide, is examined by Dr. Larsen who is keen to analyze her past and figure out how it led to her current plight.
174. The Westerner
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker, Lilian Bond
Plot: The wily Cole Harden bonds with Judge Roy Bean over a popular actress... and temporarily avoids a hanging. In the meantime, Harden finds himself embroiled in a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders
175. Story of G.I. Joe
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell, Jimmy Lloyd, John R. Reilly
Plot: This film covers a chapter in the life of famed war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, set during his coverage of the Italian campaign.
176. Lassie Come Home
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Elsa Lanchester, Elizabeth Taylor
Plot: Falling on hard times, the Carraclough family is forced to sell their prized dog, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling. But Lassie is not content, and despite the dangerous conditions, will stop at nothing to return to his true family.
177. National Velvet
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Clarence Brown
Actors: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins
Plot: Mi Taylor, a wanderer, and former jockey, finds himself in a small English town where he becomes involved with the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and wins the spirited steed Pie in a lottery. Encouraged by her family, she enlist the help of Taylor to train the horse for England's Grand National, the premiere racing event in the country.
178. Remember the Night
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway
Plot: A prosecutor takes a lady thief home with him to Indiana for Christmas and they fall in love.
179. The Queen of Spades
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Actors: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold, Anthony Dawson
180. This Land is Mine
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith, Una O'Connor
Plot: A mild-mannered teacher is caught between the resistance and Nazi collaboration in a French town that has been occupied by the Germans.
