21. Ornamental Hairpin ( Kanzashi )
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Actors: Shinichi Himori, Masayoshi Otsuka, Hiroko Kawasaki, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saito, Jun Yokoyama
Plot: Two friends, Emi Ota and Okiku, have a brief visit at a mountain inn before returning to Tokyo. Later, a soldier on leave, Nanmura visits the same inn and, in the public bath, happens to step on an ornamental hairpin. Emi writes to the inn asking about the very same hairpin and, when she learns it injured a soldier, returns to apologize, setting up a potential romance between the two thanks to some of the long-term visitors to the inn.
22. Man Hunt
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stössel
Plot: Before the beginning of WWII a man is caught trying to assassinate Hitler... or was he?
23. You'll Never Get Rich
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Actors: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa Massen, Frieda Inescort
24. Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Thorpe
Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Reginald Owen, Barry Fitzgerald, Tom Conway
Plot: Tarzan mus protect his home and family when greedy men threaten to destroy all in their search for gold.
25. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Hall
Actors: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason
Plot: A boxer dies prematurely in a plane crash, but it's not his time, so the celestial powers must find him another body.
26. The Strawberry Blonde
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, George Reeves
27. Great Guns
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Monty Banks
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson, Charles Trowbridge, Mae Marsh
28. Shadow of the Thin Man
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed, Barry Nelson, Alan Baxter, Sam Levene
29. Penny Serenade
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Leonard Willey
30. Love Crazy
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Conway
Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates, Sidney Blackmer
Plot: A man and his wife spend their 4th anniversary by re-enacting their first date. But a meddling mother-in-law, never happy with the relationship, has machinations to deal a deathly blow. The break-up happens, but the man figures out a way to make things right... by pretending to be insane.
