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What are your 10 fave 1940s films?
Publicado por genplant29STAFFMOD o 14 de decembro do 2017 ás 1:42AM
Working from titles of the '40s that are represented in my DVDs collection, I'll go with (listed chronologically by years) the following as my top 10:
- Escape (1940)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- The Uninvited (1944)
- The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Humoresque (1946)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- The Search (1948)
- The Third Man (1949)
- The Window (1949)
Some additional similarly much enjoyed movies:
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Remember the Night (1940)
- A Woman's Face (1941)
- Two-Faced Woman (1941)
- Cat People (1942)
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- The Woman in Green (1945)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
TMDbers' Fave 1930s films lists: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/244-king-kong/discuss/593a42bb9251411eff0091a9#last
TMDbers' Fave 1950s films lists: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18148-t-ky-monogatari/discuss/5954701292514168bf015522#5a65002a0e0a2619fe02d659
Resposta de rudely_murray
no 14 de decembro do 2017 ás 6:14AM
More than any other decade, it is agonising trying to restrict this to a mere ten, but here goes...
Resposta de bratface
no 14 de decembro do 2017 ás 7:25PM
I can't do just 10 for a whole decade, so I will list my top films by year (in no particular order):
1940:
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
The Shop Around the Corner
My Favorite Wife
All This and Heaven Too
His Girl Friday
I Love You Again
1941:
Shadow of the Thin Man
Penny Serenade
Meet John Doe
The Little Foxes
How Green Was My Valley
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Suspicion
1942:
Now, Voyager
Mrs. Miniver
Woman of the Year
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Magnificent Ambersons
I Married a Witch
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Cat People
1943:
Mr. Lucky
The Song of Bernadette
Stormy Weather
Cabin in the Sky
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1944:
Mr. Skeffington
Gaslight
Laura
The Curse of the Cat People
1945:
The Thin Man Goes Home
The Corn Is Green
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Christmas in Connecticut
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Leave Her to Heaven
Also a big shout out to all of the Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce that were released in the 1940's
Resposta de genplant29
no 14 de decembro do 2017 ás 7:42PM
Great lists you each posted! The 1940s truly was a tremendous decade in cinematic history.
Resposta de bratface
no 14 de decembro do 2017 ás 8:23PM
Here are the rest of the 1940's:
1946:
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gilda
Notorious
The Stranger
Brief Encounter
The Dark Corner
1947:
La belle et la bête
Black Narcissus
Life with Father
Song of the Thin Man
Miracle on 34th Street
Captain from Castile
The Egg and I
The Late George Apley
1948:
Drunken Angel (Kurosawa)
Ladri di biciclette
Adventures of Don Juan
The Fallen Idol
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Red Shoes
Sitting Pretty
1949:
Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
The Quiet Duel (Kurosawa)
Adam's Rib
The Fountainhead
The Heiress
I Was a Male War Bride
Late Spring (Ozu)
Pinky
Ma and Pa Kettle
That's it for the 40's.