71. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner, James Gleason
Plot: The story of a family living in the tenements of Brooklyn at the turn of the century. It covers their day to day struggles, as well as their emotional struggles. It's a sensitive and poignant award-winning film.
72. Sands of Iwo Jima
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Allan Dwan
Actors: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Wally Cassell, James Brown
Plot: A group of marines get trained and sent to the island of Iwo Jima to fight in WW2.
73. My Darling Clementine
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Ford
Actors: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt
Plot: The famous story of the feud between Wyatt Earp and the Clantons, and their showdown at the OK Corral, is masterfully retold by John Ford in this classic western.
74. Battleground
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland
Plot: Just outside Bastogne - WWII - a group of Americans, low on supplies and constantly bombarded by German propaganda, must somehow find the will to go on. With think fog preventing air support and making it difficult to track anything, the men battle their own selves as much as the enemy.
75. Yankee Doodle Dandy
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Walter Huston
Plot: A biography portraying the life of George Cohan as it follows him through his beginning singing and acting career to further down the line when he writes and dances in his own plays.
76. Sorry, Wrong Number
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Ed Begley, William Conrad, Wendell Corey
Plot: A woman, sick and confined to bed, picks up the phone only to overhear what she thinks is a plot to murder. She becomes increasingly desperate in her quest to find out who the victim is going to be and how to stop the plot from being carried out.
77. Day of Wrath ( Vredens dag )
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Actors: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Anna Svierkier, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Olaf Ussing
Plot: In 17th-century Denmark, a village is in the midst of witch-hunt. During this time the young wife of the town's aged pastor finds herself falling for his son and begins an affair. When the pastor finds out, it leads to his death and his mother accuses the young woman of being a witch herself.
78. Bataan
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tay Garnett
Actors: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Desi Arnaz, Lee Bowman
Plot: Thirteen men are chosen to destroy a bridge on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines. The Japanese, with an overwhelming force keep trying to rebuild it. Will the men choose honor and duty?
79. The Naked City
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia
Plot: A blond model was murdered. Lt. Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) was given the assignment of the case. Detective Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) aids with the legwork. They investigate a myriad of people to resolve the difficult case including a friend of the victim Ruth Morrison (Dorothy Hart).
80. Easter Parade
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Clinton Sundberg
Plot: Fred Astaire's character, Don, is stunned when his dancing partner (and the woman he thinks he's in love with) Nadine, played by Ann Miller, refuses to sign a new contract to continue their dance partnership. To prove that she's not important to him and that he is the reason she can dance at all, he finds a new protegee, Hannah Brown, played by Judy Garland, and vows to make her a dancing sensation by next Easter.
