1. To Have and Have Not
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Szurovy, Dolores Moran
Plot: A man, a boat, and an island - all ready for hire. Romance.
2. The Lost Weekend
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Terry, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen
Plot: A true alcoholic's life is followed for four days when he is on and off
his binge drinking.
3. Anchors Aweigh
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sidney
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell, Pamela Britton
Plot: Joe and Clarence, two navy sailors who have a few days leave in Hollywood. All Joe wants to do is to have a good time and meet up with his girl, the unseen Lola.
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Albert Lewin
Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Lowell Gilmore
Plot: Dorian Gray seems to always look so young... he lives a very decadent life and it never seems to show on him. It is as though something else was aging for him... say a picture.
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner, James Gleason
Plot: The story of a family living in the tenements of Brooklyn at the turn of
the century. It covers their day to day struggles, as well as their
emotional struggles. It's a sensitive and poignant award-winning film.
6. And Then There Were None
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: René Clair
Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Mischa Auer
Plot: A group of ten people find themselves guest on an island by one Mr U. N. Own - but their host is nowhere to be seen and as, one by one, our group starts dying - the true murdered will be revealed.
7. Mildred Pierce
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Plot: A woman learns the hard way that money truly does not buy happiness. In Mildred's quest to reach the top, she drives away her husband, raises a selfish daughter, hooks up with a duplicitous lover and ultimately ends up at the bottom again.
8. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: Roger Livesey, Anton Wallbrook, Deborah Kerr, Spencer Trevor, Roland Culver, Eric Maturin
Plot: The Second World war and Boer war veteran Major Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) finds himself in charge of a home guard unit under attack from a young ambitious lieutenant.
Wynne-Candy,now a rotund and seemingly blustery old duffer is outraged when the Lieutenant and his troops invade his London Club breaking all the rules of fair warfare.
The two men argue then wrestle each other and end up falling into a swimming pool. As Wynne Candy emerges from the pool he has now become a young man and his life in the military is told in a series of flashbacks.
9. The Bells of St. Mary's
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan, Joan Carroll, Rhys Williams
Plot: Father O'Malley, still the unintentional priest, is sent to St. Mary's - a parochial school that has seen much better days. He joins with Sister Benedict in trying to save the school even though their differing natures often lead to good-natured disagreements.
10. The Body Snatcher
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Rita Corday
Plot: A brilliant doctor hides a secret - all his cadavers are supplied by a cabbie who holds this fact over his head. When he takes on a new, young assistant, it complicates matters even more.
