11. Ball of Fire
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall
Plot: What happens when sexy nightclub singer in trouble with the mob meet up with a group of lexicographers looking to build up their slang knowledge?
12. That Hamilton Woman
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Korda
Actors: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Henry Wilcoxon, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
13. Devil and Daniel Webster, The ( All that Money Can Buy )
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Gene Lockhart, Jane Darwell, John Qualen, Simone Simon
Plot: A farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. After seven years are up, the devil comes to collect his due, but the farmer calls on Daneil Webster, master orator, to save his soul.
14. The Little Foxes
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea, Patricia Collinge
Plot: The Hubbard family is very well off in the Deep South but their ruthless nature threatens to poison all that is around them. One daughter looks to escape the manipulations of her family - but will she be able to escape her own nature?
15. High Sierra
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull
Plot: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
16. The Reluctant Dragon
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred L. Werker, Hamilton Luske
Actors: Robert Benchley, Barnett Parker, Frances Gifford, Claud Allister, Clarence Nash, Alan Ladd
17. The Man Who Came to Dinner
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Keighley
Actors: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis
Plot: Sheridan Whiteside, critic extraordinaire, and with quite the acid tongue, slips on the ice outside the home of prominent Ohio family and is told he will have to stay while his broken leg heals. He wastes no time in getting involved with everyone in the family and taking over the household.
18. The Devil and Miss Jones
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sam Wood
Actors: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall
19. They Died with Their Boots On
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, John Litel
Plot: An interesting, if completely historically inaccurate, biography of George Armstrong Custer - from his time as a cadet to the ill-fated Battle of Little Big Horn.
20. Hold Back the Dawn
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Actors: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois
Plot: Georges Iscovescu is a Romanian gigalo looking to make his way into the U.S. but in order to get by immigration, he will have to marry an American. Complications arise when he finds himself actually falling in love with his chosen "bride".
