161. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: H.C. Potter
Actors: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Sharyn Moffett, Connie Marshall
Plot: A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country
built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.
162. Shoeshine ( Sciuscià )
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli, Antonio Carlino
Plot: In postwar Rome, two boys get by shining shoes. The two want nothing more
than to own their own horse - but in order to fund things, they take part
in a black market delivery. Yet what seems like an easy task leads to
trouble - as both boys find themselves in in an overcrowded boys prison
and drift apart.
163. Pittsburgh
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Seiler
Actors: Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Craven, Louise Allbritton, Shemp Howard
Plot: Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham burns every bridge on his way to becoming one of the biggest magnates in the steel industry. Unsurprisingly, he finds being at the top is nothing when there is no one around him. A sudden crash gives him a second chance at life.
164. 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.
165. 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
166. Cat People
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Plot: 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.
167. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Animation
MPAA Rating: G
Director: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi
Actors: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore, J. Pat O'Malley, John McLeish, Colin Campbell
Plot: Animated adaptation of two tales: The Wind in the Willows - in which Mr. Toad's fascination with the latest fads get him into all sorts of trouble, the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - the story of Ichabod Crane, a fleeting love and his run-in with the legendary headless horseman.
168. 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
169. You Were Never Lovelier
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Seiter
Actors: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks, Adele Mara
Plot: The rich, Argentine Acunas live by a traditional rule - the daughters must get married in order from oldest to youngest. The oldest follows, but sister #2, Maria, has not found love - even though sisters #3 and 4 have already found their respective future husbands. The patriarch of the family, feeling the modern man isn't romantic enough, creates a "mystery man" to entice his daughter. But when an American dancer enters the picture - it shakes everything up.
170. Madame Curie
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot: The story of scientist couple Pierre and Marie Curie, who embark on a journey of discovery over the radioactive element radium. From young love the Nobel Prize, the story has both a tragic and uplifting end.
