Top Movies of 1940s


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231. 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

232. Johnny Eager

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane
Plot: The District Attorney's daughter falls in love with a gangster the D.A. is
trying to put away.

233. My Little Chickadee

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward F. Cline
Actors: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton

234. The Big Steal

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro, Don Alvarado

235. A Letter to Three Wives

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Barbara Lawrence
Plot: Addie Ross has just delivered a letter to her three married friends: she has run off with one of their husbands - but they won't find out who until later that night.

236. Dead Reckoning

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince, Marvin Miller
Plot: Bogart and a buddy return from WW II to go to an award ceremony, but
quickly get wrapped up with shady underworld types. Of course, there's a
dame involved.

237. Germany, Year Zero ( Germania anno zero )

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne

238. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Cowan, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock
Plot: The story of the Doolittle Raids seen through the eyes of a young pilot
and the pregnant wife he leaves behind.

239. Joan of Arc

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, Gene Lockhart, Leif Erickson
Plot: With France all but ruined following the 100 years war - a young farm girl hears a voice - the voice of God, she claims - telling her to lead an army to Orleans and crown Dauphin Charles VII king. Her faith brings many, and her army does indeed take Orleans - and her next target is Paris itself. But the weak-willed Charles sells his country out to England - the army is disbanded and Joan is captured and subjected to a farcical, humiliating trial.

240. Portrait of Jennie

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, David Wayne

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