11. They Were Expendable
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson
Plot: After Pearl Harbor, a group of PT boats stationed in the Philippians battles with the Navy brass just as much as with Japanese incursions.
12. Spellbound
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery
Plot: A new young doctor arrives at a psychiatric institute, arousing the interest of a female colleague. Soon, however, it appears the doctor may not be who he claims, and that murder is in his past. His dreams hold the key to unlocking the truth--if only they can be deciphered.
13. The Southerner
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper
Plot: Sam Tucker is just a man looking to do what is best for his families future. He decides the best course of action is to grow his own Cotton crop - but the first year sees a series of near disasters including disease, a flood and a jealous neighbor - will his family be able to succeed?
14. Detour
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard
Plot: Al, a down and out piano player, hitchhikes from New York to Los Angeles
in order to be with his singer girlfriend. Fate has other plans for Al
when he steps into the car of a character named Haskel, who promptly
dies in his sleep one night while Al is driving. Afraid the cops will
never believe the truth, Al takes Haskell's money, car, and identity,
and tries to make it to Los Angeles, only to have fate intervene again
when he picks up a mean-spirited female hitchhiker.
15. Scarlet Street
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker, Rosalind Ivan
Plot: A married middle-aged man with a mundane life becomes infatuated with
another, younger, woman. They both end up lying to each other.
16. My Name is Julia Ross
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Actors: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Doris Lloyd
Plot: A woman is employed by a employment agency to work for the widow Mrs. Hughes. Arriving at the house she is surprised when, two days later, she awakens in a different house, with new clothes and new identity - daughter-in-law of Mrs. Hughes - told she suffered a nervous breakdown. But it is all a plot by Ralph, the son of Mrs. Hughes - to maker her his new bride - for the woman he murdered. And she just may suffer the same fate.
17. Story of G.I. Joe
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell, Jimmy Lloyd, John R. Reilly
Plot: This film covers a chapter in the life of famed war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, set during his coverage of the Italian campaign.
18. Sanshiro Sugata Part Two ( Zoku Sugata Sanshiro )
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kôno, Yukiko Todoroki, Shôji Kiyokawa
19. Objective, Burma!
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson
20. Yolanda and the Thief
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mary Nash, Leon Ames
Plot: A con man on the lam finds himself in Patria, a Latin-American country where he overhears convent-bred rich girl Yolanda praying for a guardian angel to appear and help her in her business affairs. Realizing this is a perfect opportunity, he poses as her "angel" all the while planning to help himself to her millions. Yet, just as the plan is about to go off without a hitch, he realizes he has fallen for the girl and nixes the plan while offering a confession - both to the crime and of his love - when he attempts to flee Patria, things are much for difficult than anticipated.
