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Best Films of The 1940s

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1940:

  • His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
  • The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
  • The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
  • The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
  • I Love You Again (W.S. Van Dyke)
  • Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen)

1945:

  • Les Enfants Du Paradis (Marcel Carne)
  • The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
  • Brief Encounter (David Lean)
  • Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  • Dead of Night (Charles Crichton et al)
  • Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)

1941:

  • Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  • The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
  • The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
  • Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
  • Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen et al)
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall)

1946:

  • La Belle et La Bete (Jean Cocteau)
  • The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
  • It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
  • My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
  • Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)

1942:

  • Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
  • The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
  • Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler)
  • Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
  • Bambi (David Hand et al)

1947:

  • Out of The Past (Jacques Tourneur)
  • Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger)
  • Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
  • Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway)
  • Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
  • The Ghost & Mrs Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1943:

  • Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
  • Shadow of A Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Day of Wrath (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
  • The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman)
  • Mr. Lucky (Ernst Lubitsch)
  • The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (M. Powell)

1948:

  • Treasure of The Sierra Madre (John Huston)
  • Letter From An Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
  • Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio DeSica)
  • Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C.Potter)
  • Red River (Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson)

1944:

  • Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
  • Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
  • Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • The Way Ahead (Carol Reed)
  • Laura (Otto Preminger)

1949:

  • The Third Man (Carol Reed)
  • Kind Hearts & Coronets (Robert Hamer)
  • Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
  • Rotation (Wolfgang Staudte)
  • Intruder In The Dust (Clarence Brown)

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