All The 1940's (Long And Short) Films I've Seen In My Whole Life
by scobleigh-67225 | created - 18 Oct 2016 | updated - 3 weeks ago | PublicAll The 1940's (Long And Short) Films I've Seen In My Whole Life from past to present.
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1. 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, War
The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr., J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 1,646
2. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie
Votes: 9,782
3. 3 Godfathers (1948)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Western
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Votes: 10,617
4. 49th Parallel (1941)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George, Eric Portman
Votes: 7,672
5. A Day at the Fair (I) (1947)
10 min | Short, Documentary
A family goes to the local fair to compete with their livestock & produce.
Star: James Brill
Votes: 196
6. A Gem of a Jam (1943)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Hart-Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dudley Dickerson
Votes: 495
7. A Knight for a Day (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
With his true identity hidden in armor, lowly squire Cedric (Goofy) takes the place of his master, Sir Loinsteak, in a sidesplitting, sword-shattering joust.
Directors: Jack Hannah, Burt Gillett, Bill Roberts | Stars: June Foray, John Brown, Pinto Colvig, Arch Denison
Votes: 1,241
8. A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Facing forty, a NYC spinster on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her unsuitable city suitors.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers
Votes: 1,458
9. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 10,804
10. A Mouse in the House (1947)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mammy Two-Shoes tells Tom and Butch that the cat who gets rid of the icebox-raiding, breadbox-invading mouse (Jerry) is the one who can stay.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: William Hanna, Bob Laztny, Lillian Randolph, Jack Sabel
Votes: 1,264
11. A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Family
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake
Votes: 7,483
12. A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
TV-G | 18 min | Comedy, Short
To escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Wilson Benge
Votes: 1,200
13. A Really Important Person (1947)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama
A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.
Director: Basil Wrangell | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Connie Gilchrist, Clancy Cooper, Chick York
Votes: 210
14. A Song to Remember (1945)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biography of Frederic Chopin.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Nina Foch
Votes: 1,618
15. A Stolen Life (1946)
Passed | 109 min | Drama
When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan
Votes: 4,090
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 8,412
17. A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland
Votes: 4,081
18. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Directors: Charles Barton, Walter Lantz | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi
Votes: 19,576 | Gross: $4.80M
19. Across the Pacific (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton
Votes: 5,446
20. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, War
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop
Votes: 4,549
21. Adam's Rib (1949)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell
Votes: 22,923
22. Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Passed | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale
Votes: 3,540 | Gross: $4.72M
23. Africa Screams (1949)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck
Votes: 4,058
24. African Diary (1945)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Goofy narrates his own quest to Africa accompanied by various tour guides. He is in search of wild game. After run-ins with various animals while camping for the night and taking his ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 453
25. Ain't Love Cuckoo? (1946)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
The Schillings and the Lanes think their spouses have been killed in the war, and marry each other's mate.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Gus Schilling, Richard Lane, Terry Howard, Barbara Slater
Votes: 52
26. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1943)
Passed | 87 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
A boy prince, raised by forty thieves, takes revenge on the Mongol invaders who murdered his father and stole his kingdom.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,380
27. All This and Rabbit Stew (1941)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs heckles a black hunter and escapes from a bear.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Darrell Payne, Danny Webb
Votes: 865
28. All the King's Men (1949)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek
Votes: 16,597
29. All the World's a Stooge (1941)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Three bumbling window washers are mistaken for dentists and run amok at an affair in the home of a rich socialite.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lelah Tyler
Votes: 588
30. An Ache in Every Stake (1941)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The three stooges employed as icemen attempt to deliver ice to a mountaintop house and are forced to cater for a birthday dinner there.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Wilson Benge
Votes: 658
31. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Directors: George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Votes: 9,437
32. And Then There Were None (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young
Votes: 16,651
33. Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 3,196
34. Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.
Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen
Votes: 1,341
35. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,641
36. Annie Was a Wonder (1949)
Passed | 11 min | Short
In this entry in the Passing Parade series, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Annie Swenson, who worked as a cook/housekeeper in the Nesbitt home when he was growing up. Annie was ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Kathleen Freeman, Howard Negley, Ruth Lee, Sven Hugo Borg
Votes: 269
37. Arranging the Buffet Supper (1946)
5 min | Short, Drama
A young girl is about to host her first dinner party. Unsure what's the best way to prepare, she calls her grandmother to help her set up a delightful meal.
Director: Edward G. Simmel
Votes: 21
38. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson
Votes: 74,992
39. Baby Puss (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom is dressed up and treated like a baby by the little girl of the house, and he hates it aside from the bottle of milk, that is. Jerry brings in some alley cats, who tease Tom.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Sara Berner, William Hanna, The King's Men, Harry Lang
Votes: 1,479
40. Back from the Front (1943)
19 min | Short, Comedy, War
Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German battleship and by various means, such as Moe ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 508
41. Baggage Buster (1941)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Goofy has to get a box belonging to a magician in time for the next train to pick the baggage. Clumsy Goofy drops the box and a lot of magician's props (a rabbit which multiplies, a bull, a woman sawed in half) appear.
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster, Ellen Drew, Lorena Layson
Votes: 643
42. Bambi (1942)
G | 69 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.
Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn
Votes: 154,164 | Gross: $102.80M
43. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
Directors: Jean Cocteau, René Clément | Stars: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Nane Germon
Votes: 28,092 | Gross: $0.30M
44. Bedlam (1946)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, the cruel Master Sims ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser
Votes: 4,378
45. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri
Votes: 175,244 | Gross: $0.33M
46. Black Narcissus (1947)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird
Votes: 27,693
47. Blondie Goes Latin (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Dagwood disguises himself as a drummer in the ship's conga band to sneak aboard a South American cruise ship. Blondie performs several song-and-dance routines.
Directors: Frank R. Strayer, Robert Sparks | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 328
48. Blondie Goes to College (1942)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Family
A man and his wife attend college together, only to find out that married couples are not allowed. Pretending not to be a couple, starts a dilemma as they become the object of other students' flirtations and romantic interest.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 373
49. Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Family
Dagwood and Blondie are overjoyed when Mr. Dithers invites them to stay in an old mansion with servants and everything else--including ghosts.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 332
50. Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 399
51. Blondie in Society (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 369
52. Blondie on a Budget (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Family
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 560
53. Blood on the Sun (1945)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery
Votes: 2,273
54. Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Approved | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,293
55. Bone Trouble (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Pluto's dish is empty, so he goes after the bone in the dish of Butch the bulldog, who is sleeping next door. Can he make it home with the bone before Butch wakes up? No. Soon they are ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Lee Millar, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash, Hal Rees
Votes: 725
56. Boobs in Arms (1940)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Richard Fiske
Votes: 598
57. Booby Dupes (1945)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Rebel Randall
Votes: 483
58. Boomerang! (1947)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams
Votes: 5,062
59. Born to Kill (1947)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry
Votes: 6,087
60. Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School (1942)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Borrah Minnevitch and His Rascals play popular songs on their harmonicas.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Borrah Minevitch, Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals, Leo Diamond
Votes: 90
61. Brief Encounter (1945)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey
Votes: 44,261
62. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Passed | 102 min | Musical
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan
Votes: 2,789
63. Brute Force (1947)
Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 11,551
64. Buck Privates (1941)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, War
Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Jane Frazee
Votes: 4,732 | Gross: $4.00M
65. Busy Buddies (1944)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
To save their debt-ridden diner, the Stooges enter a cow milking contest.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Nick Arno
Votes: 480
66. Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
Votes: 3,414
67. Cactus Makes Perfect (1942)
17 min | Comedy, Western, Short
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Ernie Adams
Votes: 494
68. Californy er Bust (1945)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A narrator tells the story of how the Western pioneers (all being Goofy lookalikes) are travelling in covered wagons across the frontier. They run into some Indians (who are also Goofy ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Kinney, David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Cactus Mack
Votes: 394
69. Call Northside 777 (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker
Votes: 10,244
70. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 606,302 | Gross: $1.02M
71. Cat Fishin' (1947)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom is a feline fisherman, Jerry is his live bait, and Spike is the bulldog guarding the lake.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Billy Bletcher, William Hanna
Votes: 1,535
72. Cat People (1942)
Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Votes: 26,006 | Gross: $4.00M
73. Cavalcade of San Francisco (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
A Technicolor travelogue celebrating San Francisco - past and present
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 277
74. Champion (1949)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Votes: 4,759
75. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 825
76. Cheese Burglar (1946)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Herman the mouse attempts to break up the smarmy friendship between the cat and dog of the house in order to raid the icebox.
Directors: Izzy Sparber, James Tyer | Stars: Jackson Beck, Carl Meyer, Arnold Stang
Votes: 167
77. Children of Paradise (1945)
Not Rated | 189 min | Drama, Romance
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 21,174
78. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 12,032
79. Christmas in July (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Votes: 4,269
80. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 466,152 | Gross: $1.59M
81. Comrade X (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart
Votes: 1,833
82. Cookoo Cavaliers (1940)
18 min | Short, Comedy
The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 518
83. Cover Girl (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers
Votes: 5,944
84. Crash Goes the Hash (1944)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are hired as reporters and their first assignment is to get a picture of a visiting prince who is planning to marry a local socialite. The boys disguise as servants and ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 507
85. Crossfire (1947)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Votes: 9,709 | Gross: $1.30M
86. Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick
Votes: 3,036
87. Dakota (1945)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In 1871 Dakota, two crooked businessmen oppose the local wheat farmers and the railroad development to control the town of Fargo.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond
Votes: 1,704
88. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
Directors: Dorothy Arzner, Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Votes: 3,082
89. Dark Command (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers
Votes: 3,037
90. Dark Mountain (1944)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey, Eddie Quillan
Votes: 368
91. Dark Passage (1947)
Passed | 106 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 21,987
92. Day of Wrath (1943)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History
The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Kirsten Andreasen
Votes: 11,094
93. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,224
94. Deep Valley (1947)
Passed | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A girl living with her parents on an isolated California farm falls in love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site, and sets out to help him when he escapes.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris, Fay Bainter
Votes: 1,068
95. Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.
Directors: Jack Kinney, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Charles Judels, Billy Bletcher, Clarence Nash
Votes: 4,625
96. Desperate Journey (1942)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, War
When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey
Votes: 2,592
97. Detour (1945)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald
Votes: 19,727 | Gross: $0.02M
98. Dishonored Lady (1947)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A beautiful editor at a fashion magazine has a breakdown due to the pressures of her work and her disappointing love life. A psychiatrist recommends that she start life fresh by moving into a smaller apartment and under another name.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan
Votes: 1,689
99. Dizzy Detectives (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Botiller
Votes: 641
100. Dizzy Pilots (1943)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft. When their plane, the "Buzzard", turns out ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Barber
Votes: 560
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