Director Henri-Georges Clouzot treats as a given that the world is a crappy place, through and through, detailing how the denizens of a small French town (“anywhere”) are pitted against one another through a series of “poison pen” letters sent by the titular Raven. Some of the entries might be considered trash, but I assure you that you will find only the hilarious ones here. RKO cut the film from two hours, five minutes to one hour, twenty minutes and showed it in mono to trim costs.  •    •   We distilled our list based on a little bit of each of those things, but overall, it’s a suggestion of required viewing material for anyone who aspires to cultural literacy. Starring: Wilson releases a repentant former associate of Kindler’s, hoping the man will lead him to the fugitive. Mildred Pierce is a strong woman driven by an inexhaustible love for her children, Veda (Ann Blyth) and Kay (Jo Ann Marlowe), but she’s also stymied by the restricting grasp of a patriarchal society.  •   —Bonnie Stiernberg. The production team didn’t consider it a big deal, in fact; just one of hundreds of films being made that year (despite a major league cast and great writers). This is a movie—as are many spy movies—that is essentially about trust. Broadly considered to be one of the greatest of the genre, Red River is the story of the first cattle drive down the Chisholm Trail and the film that made director Howard Hawks exclaim “I didn’t know the big son of a bitch could act!” The big son of a bitch was John Wayne, who stars as Tom Dunson, a stubborn and conflicted man on a mission to start a cattle ranch in Texas. Starring: Smart, sweet, and witty; probably the quintessential film of the 1940s, and one of the best feel-good movies of the 20th century. The other thing that is likely to grate upon the sensibilities of modern viewers is the tacit understanding (whether Hawks deliberately placed it there or whether it happened by default) is the “white guys can take whatever they want” attitude that pervades the minds of the characters. As one might imagine, things don’t go well for Anna. With evocative, moody cinematography that presages the likes of The Innocents 15 years later, the film succeeds as a serious, suspenseful mystery in an era when “ghost stories” were much more likely to be comedic or campy. To Have and Have Not is loosely adapted from Hemingway’s novel of the same name. Everyone’s in love with Gene Tierney—even the guy who’s come to investigate her murder. C. Captured in Chinatown. Aren’t mob heavies supposed to be intimidating? Starring: The story of a proud, well-off Midwestern family whose position and stability are compromised by the advent of the automobile, The Magnificent Ambersons was itself a victim of the vicissitudes of mass production-but that hasn’t stopped it from being an enduring and masterful Welles classic. Doomed love, self-sacrifice, Bogie one-liners galore, and one of the most quintessential cinematic moments of its age (both of my kids were born after 9/11 and even they cheered when that chorus of La Marseillaise drowned out the Nazis). He’s a fraud, his work is empty, and he knows it, so like any hack who desperately needs artistic validation to assuage his feelings of creative guilt, he hefts a hobo stick over his shoulder and hits road in the guise of a down-on-his-luck tramp, followed all the while by a lavish double-decker bus as well as the inescapable grip of his own prestige. Right. Fantasia ran at New York’s Broadway Theatre for 49 consecutive weeks, the longest film run ever at the time. Honorable Mentions: Searching (2018) A Simple Favor (2018) Wind River (2017) Inherent Vice (2014) Sherlock Holmes (2009) Primal Fear (1996) Scream (1996) Blow Out (1981) The Conversation (1974) Murder On The Orient Express (1974) In The Heat Of The Night (1967) Diabolique (1955) The Big Sleep (1946)  •   Wolf Man Larry Talbot, along with Frankenstein’s Monster, represents the more sympathetic side of the Universal monster movie canon, although some viewers would doubtlessly substitute the word “whiny” in its place. Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey, Orson Welles Rossellini contrasts Italian fear with Italian heroism, creating opportunities for the movie’s German characters to look inward and realize that force of arms isn’t the same thing as force of courage. Top 100 Movies of the 1930's. She’s not bound (at least briefly, repeatedly) to the mise en scène, a rebellious force keenly aware of her charms. —A.C. Yup, it’s a Christmas story.  •   —Mark Rozeman. Maybe his words read as the wildest of exaggerations back in 1970, but in 2017 they ring as genuinely as John Ford’s 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel. Production codes at the time of The Big Sleep’s release prohibited it from being as graphic as Chandler’s novel, but maybe thrillers of today can learn a valuable lesson from the restrictions: Less can so often mean much, much more. As it turned out, it was Welles’ only significant box office success on release, and remains a canonized film noir. Starring: On the eve of the honeymoon he drops by his family home to meet check in with his loony and sweetly homicidal aunties, a charmingly delusional uncle who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt, and his brother, Jonathan, who has bodies to bury and a flat-out crazy alcoholic plastic surgeon in tow. There are tragic consequences, naturally. Considered by many to be a major turning point in Hitchcock’s career, this film, still very much in the spy/noir realm, is his first serious attempt at a love story. at least, it’s the most definitive Crawford performance of all time.) Together they pop, but no matter how brightly they might shine, Out of the Past remains a masterwork coated in darkness from page to screen. Also, we just think these are some damned fine films.  •   The film almost demands to be seen twice for the sheer volume of slants and revelations. Starring: Starring:  •   Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Charles Barton The story’s simple enough: a poor man and his son search postwar Rome for the man’s stolen bicycle, without which he cannot work. —B.S. When you think of Italian neorealist cinema, your mind probably zips straight right on over to Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, a beautifully made movie about the harsh realities of life in postwar Italy. She’s also more than a little desperate, as it turns out. But certainly for its day, and quite equally so now, this film is a pretty astute and sophisticated look at post-traumatic dissociative compartmentalization, and it’s really fun to watch it unfold. Joan Fontaine plays a young woman in 1900 Vienna who falls in love with a concert pianist. Sexual blackmail and postwar espionage: A classic cocktail and one that packs a punch. Starring: —A.G. But at times the framing makes Hayworth’s erotic physicality all the more charged, and dangerous. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, John Cromwell Innovative cinematography, intriguing storytelling and great acting are all reasons to watch this dramatic mystery, in which journalists race to unspool the mystery of the absurdly wealthy and tyrannical Kane’s mysterious dying word, “Rosebud.” The way the plot unfolds is fascinating, the shifts in point of view are superb, and the mirroring opening and closing sequences are beautiful. A paean to the ungodly power of unrequited love, a gut-wrenching treatise on self-centeredness, and in the deft hands of Max Ophüls, more contemplative and penetrating than melodramatic. Brewster, an author of many tomes on the stupidity of marriage, gets married. The fourth and final film teaming of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall doesn’t rank with their other onscreen pairings—the real dance here is between Bogie, as a returning veteran, and Edward G. Robinson, as a gangster who has Bogie’s war buddy’s island resort in a stranglehold, just in time for a hurricane to make landfall. Starring: —Tim Grierson. Most of these movies were made on a small budget but can be very entertaining nevertheless. Such is Ozu’s skill as a director that he can devastate us just by filming a man peeling an apple, a perfect image that captures Late Spring’s compassion with heartbreaking clarity. Three unlikely comrades pursue  a cache of gold, and the resulting obsession turns them against each other with tragic results. Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce. ), Bergman’s Dr. Petersen isn’t as emotionless as she seems, and justice is served in the end-all good. The choice to play both the tyrant and the oppressed man was an inspired one, underscoring the frightening but inescapable truth that we all contain a little bit of both characters. There’s no better way to describe Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past than “perfect.” For many, this is the epitome of all things noir, a sprawling, rambling examination of betrayal and seduction peppered with shrapnel-sharp dialogue. Like Rashomon, Drunken Angel puts male toughness on trial and makes it look ridiculous, but the study of manliness might be a smokescreen for Kurosawa’s veiled jabs at the board of censors installed by the U.S. government in post-World War II Japan. Famed for the groundbreaking FX of its iconic transformation scene, and aided by the same top-notch makeup that Jack Pierce employed in Frankenstein, it raised the bar for horror FX substantially. Akira Kurosawa shoots every scene in the pursuit of making his audience swelter, yanking us into the frame and effectively immersing us in his neorealist depiction of Tokyo. Crawford’s face holds multitudes: Even in the beginning of the film, when we briefly court a humble, hardworking Stark, we can see in Crawford’s eyes and jowls the beginnings of something deeply troubling. But in addition, you might notice that the film remains eerily timely in an age in which the influence and power of the mass media (and the accrual of gauche, pointless wealth) is a topic of constant discourse. Creeping in stark contrast to Universal’s monster movies of the same era, it leans on suspense and carefully constructed shots rather than Jack Pierce makeup to make an impression. —A.G. Starring:  •   You arguably need to see it before you can use that word and understand what you’re saying. A prototypical “war of the sexes” comedy in which each side represents the status quo for his or her respective gender, Adam’s Rib transcends its dumbest Mars-vs-Venus trappings by portraying Tracy’s Bonner as a stuffy turd too caught up in his derision of women to do anything about the fact that a famous musician lothario (David Wayne) is getting mighty close to cuckolding him, were Amanda Bonner a dunce susceptible to shameless advances. The opening number, as we drift through the Smith household meeting each member as they pass off bars of “Meet Me in St. Louis” to each other, instantly establishes the warm, familial tone while implanting an ear worm into your subconscious that you’ll find yourself humming days later. But folded within the tale of Shukichi Somiya (Chishu Ryu) and Noriko Somiya (Setsuko Hara) lie a handful of barbs aimed at censorship protocols imposed upon Ozu during Late Spring’s production, which is itself a nod to the kind of tension Japanese citizens had to live with every single day of the occupation. Starring: —A.G. Welles hadn’t directed a film in four years and was so eager for the work that he took a contract stipulating that if he went over-budget he’d be paying the studio out of pocket.  •   It doesn’t take much to do violence upon others. A life insurance investigator is subsequently sent to piece together the events that led to the Swede’s demise.  •   —A.C. When the pastor’s son (Preben Lerdorff Rye) from his first marriage returns home, Anna is smitten, and the two carry on a clandestine love affair amidst a time in which every action, however benign, can be dissected to reveal supernaturally nefarious doings. woman, and it is one of the most brilliant soundtracks of its day. It’s a trajectory that will seem pretty traditional when it comes to stories like this—a clear progenitor is Citizen Kane, replete with Rossen’s dedicated eye to following the film’s god-like politician, Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford), as he both attains and, especially, freefalls from grace—but with a contemporary sense of cynicism when it comes to the American political landscape, it helps to get a reminder, if melodramatic, that corruption and power have always been blasphemous bedfellows. Peter Lorre plays the surgeon, who has altered Jonathan’s face to make him look like Boris Karloff (naturally). one of those star-crossed love stories that, if it doesn’t tug at your heart, you might want to check to make sure you have one. But today George Cukor’s suspense-gem has also attained mandatory-viewing status because it is the source text for the term “gaslighting.” The word has been swept into public discourse and mass misuse and misunderstanding. Otto Preminger’s masterful orchestration of convoluted twists and turns, and stellar performances by Tierney, make Laura a great film noir. There were a lot of great noirs in the ’40s. One of the first titles to be preserved in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, The Maltese Falcon is landmark filmmaking.  •   Starring: This is at once classic Howard Hawks and quite emotionally driven compared to many of his films. Starring: So, yeah, of course he’s gotta get blown up, noir-comeuppance style. Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Robert Siodmak Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Foreign Language Film  •  Mystery  •  Psychological Thriller, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Gilda represents the oft-discussed male gaze of noir at its most blatant—she’s largely a fetishized object. In Stray Dog,  Kurosawa emulates the central feat of Jules Dassin’s The Naked City, the marriage between the stylized trappings of film noir and cinematic realism, but Stray Dog doesn’t copy Dassin’s work; rather, it absorbs and applies lessons taught by The Naked City in ways that only a filmmaker like Kurosawa could. Mike Mazurki, Anne Shirley, Dick Powell, Edgar G. Ulmer Regardless, Cat People was a populist hit in its day before being reevaluated decades later as a landmark of ’40s horror. Still, Cagney is mesmerizing to watch self-destruct. Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim, Megs Jenkins, Frank Tuttle  •   Weird, beautiful, orgiastic, abstracted, wildly colored and meticulously recorded, the film was a critical darling and considered to be an incredibly bold move on Disney’s part, though many in the classical music community nitpicked Stokowski’s arrangements. On that note, the damage is no longer rooted in his environment; Jarrett’s a disaster from the inside out, dysfunctional in his very wiring (thanks, ma!). 1940s mystery comedy-drama films‎ (2 P) Pages in category "1940s comedy mystery films" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. But when the businessman—now Johnny’s boss—seems to meet an untimely end, the guilt-stricken employee is determined to cruelly punish both himself and Gilda for their deceit. Before there were Jerry Orbach and Angela Lansbury voicing animated, animate household items, there was Jean Cocteau. How much does an artist need to suffer for their art? Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Comedy Drama  •  Comedy of Manners  •  Drama, Sidney Gilliat Rear Window 1954, 112 min. or Create A New Account ►, Carol Reed And that’s just the setup. Stefan, the pianist (Louis Jourdan) is remarkably clueless, and, reading the letter as he’s preparing to leave town to evade a duel, follows Lisa through a series of flashbacks starting when she was 14, progressing through an episode where they’d had a brief tryst, to her marrying someone else and giving birth to Stefan’s child, to him trying to seduce her at a chance encounter without realizing she was the same woman, to their child’s death from typhus, which is threatening to carry her off as she writes the letter. Overall, the film is more a distance runner than a sprinter and a brilliant example of Disney’s strange, maverick, expansive imagination. There’s espionage. Epic, lavish, tragic and enchanting, this film has enormous style and a kind of poetry to it. —A.G. —A.C. Nevertheless, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Aside from Bogie’s legendary turn, the other performances are spot-on: among them, an already scandalized Mary Astor as the femme fatale; Sydney Greenstreet (Casablanca) as hulking baddie Kasper “Fat Man” Gutman—astonishingly, his film debut; and Peter Lorre as an obviously gay associate of Gutman’s whose homosexuality was muted for the folks at the Hays Code. Starring: To this day, it doesn’t seem entirely fair that so much credit for Cat People is almost universally given to producer Val Lewton, rather than director Jacques Tourneur or writer DeWitt Bodeen, but it’s true of the entire run of low-budget horror films that Lewton produced at RKO. As a result, it took home the Oscar for Best Picture in 1940. Prone to throbbing headaches, he’s a dangerously troubled tough guy who still retreats to his mother’s lap, and declares “Made it, Ma! Then it won a bunch of Academy Awards. But sandwiched in between this probing whodunit lies one of noir’s most sympathetic and purely humanist tales.  •    •   It not only dominates the background music, but it pops in in the narrative of the film—it’s the record on the phonograph; it’s the song the band is playing at the coffeeshop; it’s playing at the journalist’s party.  •   ), and wonderful performances by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer as a traumatized woman and a sociopath determined to drive her out of her mind. We chat his character Jeff Jackson, what it was like to executive produce, what to expect in future movies and get some insight into his career journey. The film understands wartime trauma in ways most war films simply don’t; it captures Italy’s emotional, and sociopolitical fragility in the aftermath of World War II on celluloid like an insect trapped in amber, indulging in slight degrees of wish fulfillment while staging a credible representation of Italian resistance to German occupation in 1944. Starring: Bicycle Thieves marries sober observations about its time and place with an abiding sense of optimism that’s fully realized in the film’s climax. Can you believe there was a time when Katharine Hepburn was known in Hollywood as “box office poison”? List of thriller films of the 1940s. Starring: The city is nearly a character more than it is a backdrop, though of course the hero is Murakami (the great Toshiro Mifune, here appearing in the third of his sixteen eventual roles in Kurosawa’s filmography), a coltish young detective who is obsessed to the point of detriment with retrieving his stolen service gun. Starring: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Anthony Mann Starring: The Top 10 Mystery Movies of the 1940s; The Top 20 Mystery Movies of the 1940s; The Top 50 Mystery Movies of the 1940s; The Top 100 Mystery Movies of the 1940s; The Top 250 Mystery Movies of the 1940s; The Best Horror Movies Of the 1980s; The Best Science Fiction Movies of 1977; The Best Comedy Movies Of the 2000s; The Most Recently Released Movies Throw it on at your next Halloween party, and you’ll see that it holds up remarkably well. Starring: While his plot is the stuff of soap opera pulp, Clouzot masterfully mounts paranoia on top of tension on top of existential guilt, winding his players so tightly that when the film inevitably erupts into violence, the viewer is left with nothing but a bleak sense that nobody ever gets what they deserve. An amazing collection of experts and performers were assembled to consult on science, animal movement and different types of dance. An hour of the original film was cut and the ending re-shot, and though Welles had left detailed instructions on how it should be edited, the studio overrode him and the excised footage from his rough cut was trashed. At the same time, screwball comedies proliferated. When that didn’t work he had Welles thoroughly libeled in all his papers.) The story’s compelling enough, but what really blows me away about this film is the otherworldly visual sensibility. The American occupation whitewashes and corrupts Japanese culture in equal measure, and Drunken Angel captures it all with deft humanism. What sets Laura apart is the music. Starring: Van Dyke The rewrite was strongly influenced by the War (for example, the setting was moved from Cuba to Martinique to avoid provoking ire from the Roosevelt administration) and beyond the beginning of the book, the film veers off in its own direction—specifically in directions that made it resemble Casablanca since it had been so popular.  •   … The Top 10 Mystery Movies of the 1930s; The Top 20 Mystery Movies of the 1930s; The Top 50 Mystery Movies of the 1930s; The Top 100 Mystery Movies of the 1930s; The Top 250 Mystery Movies of the 1930s; The Best Horror Movies Of the 1980s; The Best Science Fiction Movies of 1977; The Best Comedy Movies Of the 2000s; The Most Recently Released Movies A collection of eight short pieces intercut with live-action intros by Deems Taylor, Fantasia is set to classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, mostly with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Starring: Powell’s camerawork is mesmerizing and the film is steeped in supersaturated color, underlining the exoticism and confusion faced by the nuns. John Huston’s treasure-hunt adventure is less about mining gold than mining the human psyche through action and distrust and conflict. Starring: Starring:  •   On Christmas Eve, suicidal George Bailey (the sublime Jimmy Stewart) receives a visit from a sort of junior angel who calls himself Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). We love what we love, and for some of us it’s romantic comedies and for others it’s monster movies, while for others it’s about this cinematic innovation or that groundbreaking foray into previously unexplored subject matter. And it’s one of the most enduring ones for a bunch of reasons, including Stewart’s amazing performance and a beautiful script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett along with Capra. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop. Starring: Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye. Ultimately, of course, his undoing is a clock—literally. —A.S. Not many films can say they introduced one standard, let alone multiple ones, a la “The Trolley Song” or “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which was later ranked as the third most-performed Christmas song of all time—you can thank Garland for the initial take on it, and she seems considerably more comfortable in her own skin here than in The Wizard of Oz. Starring: Orson Welles just couldn’t catch a break sometimes. It’s possible that Welles’ inventiveness was partially forged by the constraints under which he found himself working on all of his early films. Free Classic Movies from the 1920's,1930's, 1940's and 1950's of the Crime,Detective or Film-Noir Genre all in the Public Domain, edited to reduce video noise. The real Dr. Edwardes is missing and feared dead. To a large extent, “best” is a meaninglessly subjective term. In one of his darkest roles, 50-year-old Cagney is at his unhinged best, a powder keg of neuroses and sadistic impulses who can feign insanity—as he does in the prison infirmary—for only so long before his delusions overtake him completely. Long before the Boomers came to know Fred MacMurray as the kindly father on My Three Sons, the actor essayed his best performance in Double Indemnity as the deplorable, hard-boiled Walter Neff, who falls for a married temptress (Barbara Stanwyck) who talks him into killing her husband. Best B Movies the 1940s by karljhickey14 | created - 27 Dec 2015 | updated - 08 Jan 2019 | Public No Noir , Westerns , or series (except minor series , and series with only two or three films ).Those are the categories or genres with the best B movies , and are generally better known . 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