61. The Stranger
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne
Plot: Edward G. Robinson plays a government agent who tracks an escaped Nazi, masquerading as a teacher, to a small New England town.
62. Henry V
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Helpmann, Gerald Case , Vernon Greeves, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Warre
Plot: Classic historical epic charting Henry the V's victory at Agincourt.
63. The Pride of the Yankees
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sam Wood
Actors: Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen
Plot: The story of the life of famous baseball player for the New York Yankees, Lou Gehrig.
64. Adam's Rib
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen
Plot: A happily married, middle aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder marital case (he as the prosecutor, she as the defender).
65. Anchors Aweigh
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sidney
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell, Pamela Britton
Plot: Joe and Clarence, two navy sailors who have a few days leave in Hollywood. All Joe wants to do is to have a good time and meet up with his girl, the unseen Lola.
66. Meet John Doe
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Gene Lockhart, Edward Arnold, Irving Bacon
Plot: A fired reporter thinks she has gained revenge by posting a letter from
"John Doe" who threatens suicide due to the many social ills. But the
story proves popular and the paper, seeing opportunity, hires her back, as
well as creating their own "Doe" to play the part - but when the man
sparks a movement, no one will remain unaffected.
67. Foreign Correspondent
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley
Plot: A New York reporter, tired of the city grind, is assigned as the European correspondent in order to get the inside story on a new treaty. But things turn out much more exciting than expected as he finds himself in the middle of spy ring.
68. Letter from an Unknown Woman
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Max Ophüls
Actors: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Carol Yorke
Plot: A former concert pianist, Stefan Brand, plans to flee his Vienna home in order to avoid a duel. Yet a letter from an unknown woman holds the key to his current predicament: through flashbacks we see their interactions, from a young neighbor, to a sudden pregnancy to a older woman willing to leave her family to be with him. Despite having forgotten her time and time again - she has never forgotten him.
69. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Albert Lewin
Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Lowell Gilmore
Plot: Dorian Gray seems to always look so young... he lives a very decadent life and it never seems to show on him. It is as though something else was aging for him... say a picture.
70. Gilda
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Vidor
Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer
Plot: Johnny Farrell, a small-time crook, arrives in Argentina and is saved by the equally crooked Ballin Mundson - who makes him his right-hand man. When Mundson returns from a trip with the sensuous Gilda - Farrell realizes he already knows her - and it's not a pleasant reunion.
