Top Movies of 1940s


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201. 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.

202. The Three Musketeers

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sidney
Actors: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Vincent Price

203. Mr. Skeffington

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincent Sherman
Actors: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring, Marjorie Riordan
Plot: Fanny marries Mr. Skeffington to repay her brother's debt and save the family name, but will she ever truly find love?

204. Objective, Burma!

Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson

205. Dark Passage

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Delmer Daves
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea, Clifton Young
Plot: A wrongfully convicted man escapes San Quentin and with the help of a beautiful woman tries to clear his name as the bodies continue to pile up.

206. Ossessione

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo, Vittorio Duse, Michele Riccardini
Plot: A drifter and his lover conspire to kill her repulsive husband. Based on James M. Cain's classic pulp noir novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.

207. Quay of the Goldsmiths ( Quai des Orfèvres )

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actors: Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Jean Daurand, Pierre Larquey
Plot: A jealous pianist married to ambicious singer Jenny Lamour threatens the powerful yet lecherous Georges Brigno after he invites his wife over for dinner and offers her a promising film role. When Brigno winds up dead, Inspector Antoine must piece together the stories and find out who the true culprit is.

208. Man Hunt

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stössel
Plot: Before the beginning of WWII a man is caught trying to assassinate Hitler... or was he?

209. The Big Steal

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro, Don Alvarado

210. Went the Day Well?

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Actors: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr, Basil Sydney, David Farrar

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