21. Out of the Past
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Rhonda Fleming, Kirk Douglas, Richard Webb, Jane Greer, Virginia Huston
Plot: A gas attendant of a small town finds his history has caught up to him as a gambling booking finds him.
22. Fantasia
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: James Algar
Actors: Leopold Stokowski, Walt Disney, Julietta Novis
Plot: An animation in which the story is told by the music of great classical compositions.
23. Pinocchio
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Actors: Mel Blanc, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Cliff Edwards, Evelyn Venable, Walter Catlett
Plot: A man named Geppetto wishes his puppet Pinocchio were a real boy.
24. Late Spring ( Banshun )
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Actors: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki, Jun Usami
Plot: A young woman cares for her father, a widower. While those around her try to convince her to get married, she is happy where she is in life and doesn't want to leave her father.
25. Miracle on 34th Street
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Seaton
Actors: Gene Lockhart, Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Porter Hall
Plot: A department store Santa claims to be the real deal, but Doris Walker, who hired to man and rejects the fantasy behind the claim, begins to investigate his condition. It winds up in a court of law where a lawyer defends Kris Kringle and tried to prove he is indeed the real Santa Claus.
26. Red River
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray
Plot: A cattle drive turns sour when the family begins to fight. They fight off other enemies including nature and humans.
27. The Red Shoes
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Jean Short, Gordon Littmann
Plot: A young ballerina is torn between her professional life and love life.
28. His Girl Friday
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, John Qualen
Plot: A skillful newspaper editor is at war with his ex wife as he uses
journalist and media tactics to keep his hot shot reporter of an ex wife
from remarrying.
29. Gaslight
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest
Plot: Years after her aunt, a famous singer, was murdered, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) moves back to her aunt's London home with her new husband Gregory (Charles Boyer). But slowly Paula begins to lose her grip on reality. Is Paula's madness congenital, or is Gregory torturing her?
30. Bambi
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: David Hand
Actors: John Sutherland, Tim Davis, Margaret Lee, Thelma Boardman, Hardie Albright, Sam Edwards
Plot: A year in the life of a deer named Bambi.
