181. Heaven Can Wait
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington
Plot: A man finds himself at the gates of hell - certain he deserves admittance
- but he will have to prove it to the gatekeeper and so recounts his life
- including what he suspects is his ticket inside - his 25-year
relationship with his wife, Martha.
182. 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
183. In This Our Life
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn, Billie Burke
Plot: A young woman leaves her fiancee and runs off with her sister's husband. But the brief affair ends badly, and she is forced to return after his suicide. Her sister is just about to marry her former fiancee - and she will stop at nothing to get him back.
184. Ministry of Fear
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram, Dan Duryea
Plot: A man released from an asylum stumbles into a WWII Nazi plot by accident and must convince someone to help him stop it.
185. The Keys of the Kingdom
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John M. Stahl
Actors: Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Thomas Mitchell, Roddy McDowall, Anne Revere, Rose Stradner
Plot: This film covers the life of a Catholic priest who is a missionary in China. It covers the struggles and the triumphs during his many years ministering to his congregation.
186. Brute Force
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines
Plot: Prison inmates revolt against a sadistic guard.
187. 3 Godfathers
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Mildred Natwick
Plot: 3 Godfathers follows three horse thieves who have turned to bank robbing.
After a narrow escape from the Law, they stumble on a woman about to give
birth. She names the child after all three of them and puts her child in
their care. With the Law still on their heels they set out for New
Jerusalem, with the bible as their guide. It is a sweet allegory for the
Christmas story. This movie is a remake of an earlier silent version.
188. Stormy Weather
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Actors: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller, Dooley Wilson
Plot: An all-black musical with an improbable romance, wrapped in some of the best music, performed by some of the great entertainers of that time.
189. Hold Back the Dawn
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Actors: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois
Plot: Georges Iscovescu is a Romanian gigalo looking to make his way into the
U.S. but in order to get by immigration, he will have to marry an
American. Complications arise when he finds himself actually falling in
love with his chosen "bride".
190. Five Women Around Utamaro aka Utamaro and His Five Women ( Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô, Hiroko Kawasaki, Toshiko Iizuka, Kyôko Kusajima
