41. Laura
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
Plot: Detective Mark McPherson is investigating the case of Laura - a girl who entranced every man she came across. A striking portrait, along with suspects testimony, paints the perfect picture and he finds himself falling under her spell leading to a startling revelation.
42. Dumbo
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Actors: Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Verna Felton, Herman Bing, Sarah Selby, Cliff Edwards
Plot: A little elephant with big ears learns what it means to be special.
43. Great Expectations
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: John Mills, Jean Simmons, Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Valerie Hobson
Plot: Orphan Phillip "Pip" Pirrip (Anthony Wager) assists a convict named Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie) and was recaptured. He then works for Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt) and falls for a mean Estella (Jean Simmons). After a few years, Miss Havisham's lawyer, Mr. Jaggers (Francis L. Sullivan), visits Pip and informs about a secret benefactor to make him a gentleman. Mr. Jaggers arranges for Pip to stay with Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness). Herbert and Pip have met before as kids during their stay at Miss Havisham's place.
44. Children of Paradise ( enfants du paradis, Les )
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marcel Carné
Actors: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares, Gaston Modot
Plot: Follows the loves in the life of mime Baptiste and Claire Reine - who calls herself Garance - while Garance only has love for Baptiste, she is pursued by three other men. Things are complicated by the simple Nathalie, who also loves Baptiste. Love and love lost - a classic story presented in an imaginative way that deftly blends theater, literature, music and design.
45. The Lost Weekend
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Terry, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen
Plot: A true alcoholic's life is followed for four days when he is on and off
his binge drinking.
46. The Wolf Man
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Waggner
Actors: Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Fay Helm, Ralph Bellamy
Plot: A man gets bitten by a werewolf... and becomes one himself!
47. Lifeboat
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull
Plot: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
48. The Lady Eve
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Preston Sturges
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore
Plot: After a year in the Amazon, a bumbling but rich young man is headed home
on a ship when he meets, and falls in love with, a beautiful cardsharp.
After a misunderstanding, however, he rejects her, and so she must
disguise herself to get back into his life.
49. Sullivan's Travels
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Preston Sturges
Actors: Veronica Lake, Joel McCrea, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall
Plot: A film maker pretends to be a homeless person to gain insight into his next film as he is in for a huge learning experience.
50. Black Narcissus
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, May Hallatt, Jenny Laird
Plot: A young nun is promoted to Mother Superior of a convent in the mountains of an Asian country. She may, or may not, make it through the year.
