221. 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.
222. Tarzan's New York Adventure
Year of Release: 1942
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, Virginia Grey, Charles Bickford, Chill Wills
Plot: When their son, Boy, is kidnapped for a circus, Tarzan and Jane travel to
New York to rescue him.
223. Christmas in Connecticut
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Godfrey
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Shayne
Plot: A famous food writer who claims to be a hard-working woman on a family farm is actually a single, lonely New Yorker who gets all her recipes from her friend Felix. When her magazine editor decides a returning war hero will spend Christmas with her on the farm, she must scramble to save her career by crafting the perfect homecoming.
224. Sanshiro Sugata ( Sugata Sanshirô )
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Takashi Shimura, Ranko Hanai
225. Possessed
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Actors: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, John Ridgely
Plot: Possessed tells the story of a woman (Joan Crawford) who is obsessed with her ex-lover and over the course of the film, loses her sanity.
226. 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.
227. State Fair
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Walter Lang
Actors: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger, Fay Bainter
228. 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.
229. The Glass Key
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stuart Heisler
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning, Joseph Calleia
230. Night Train to Munich
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carol Reed
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt
Plot: The Germans have taken Czechoslovakia and scientist Axel Bomasch, inventor of a new type of armor plating, manages to flee to England with his daughter, Anna. The relief is short-lived as Gestapo agents find them and take them back to Berlin. British secret service agent Gus Bennet is in pursuit, disguised as a German officer, must rescue the scientist even if it means starting a romance with Anna.
