231. The Fighting 69th
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Keighley
Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Plot: A man who's all talk and no bite joins the military.
232. The Strawberry Blonde
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, George Reeves
233. Johnny Eager
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane
Plot: The District Attorney's daughter falls in love with a gangster the D.A. is trying to put away.
234. My Little Chickadee
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward F. Cline
Actors: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton
235. Dead Reckoning
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince, Marvin Miller
Plot: Bogart and a buddy return from WW II to go to an award ceremony, but quickly get wrapped up with shady underworld types. Of course, there's a dame involved.
236. Germany, Year Zero ( Germania anno zero )
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne
237. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Cowan, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock
Plot: The story of the Doolittle Raids seen through the eyes of a young pilot and the pregnant wife he leaves behind.
238. Boomerang!
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Ed Begley, Arthur Kennedy
Plot: Based on the true story of a vagrant who was accused of murder, only to be found innocent through the efforts of the prosecutor.
239. Joan of Arc
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, Gene Lockhart, Leif Erickson
Plot: With France all but ruined following the 100 years war - a young farm girl hears a voice - the voice of God, she claims - telling her to lead an army to Orleans and crown Dauphin Charles VII king. Her faith brings many, and her army does indeed take Orleans - and her next target is Paris itself. But the weak-willed Charles sells his country out to England - the army is disbanded and Joan is captured and subjected to a farcical, humiliating trial.
240. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy William Neill
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya, Ilona Massey, Dennis Hoey
Plot: Larry Talbot aka The Wolfman, is in the care of Dr. Manning - but knows his condition cannot be cured my modern medicine. Instead, after escaping the asylum, an old gypsy points him to the only man who can help: Dr. Frankenstein. But the doctor is nowhere to be found - his daughter, who send him to the ruins of the former castle - but is not abandoned as Frankenstein's monster is still around.
