Ten Favorite Films of the Fourties

Some of the greatest movies of all time were made during this Golden Age of Film.

Here are mine:

1. Casablanca
2. The Phildelphia Story
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Laura
5. Citizen Kane
6. Pinocchio
7. Rebecca
8. Notorious
9. Arsenic and Old Lace
10. Double Indemnity

The Bishops Wife
Desk Set
To Kill A Mockingbird?
Boystown
Bells of St Mary
Ox-Bow Incident
Little Women
The Grapes of Warth
The Good Earth
Gunga Din
and not sure of the year but,
The Wizard of Oz?

wasn't it?...i don't think any B&W films were made in the 60's
and Horton Foote wrote it in the 40's about the depression era south....sorry my bad :shrug:

Especially is the film was low budget.

Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Award for TKAM in 1962...

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Inherit the Wind was made in the 60s; Desk Set is from the 50's. Boys' Town, Little Women, The Good Earth, Gunga Din, and The Wizard of Oz are all from the 30s.

Good choice of films, though.

Another great movie, which I remember seeing as a kid as a new release.

One I would add: "The Bridge Over the River Kwai". It came out the year I turned 8 -- made my mother take it to me 3 times that summer.

Another wonderful 1940s movie -- Blossoms in the Dust.

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1) Citizen Kane

2) Bringing Up Baby

3) The Thief of Bagdad

4) Double Indemnity

5) Rebecca

6) Notorious

7) The Philadelphia Story

8) Arsenic and Old Lace (my favorite Capra movie)

9) Meet John Doe

10) Laura

I'd Add

Adam's Rib

1. Casablanca
2. The Phildelphia Story
3. Mrs. Miniver
4. Laura
5. Citizen Kane
6. Children of Paradise (France)
7. Adam's Rib
8. Notorious
9. The Bicycle Thief (Italy)
10. Double Indemnity

A great film with a top-drawer cast that was remarkably honest for its time about the effects of war on small-town life. The title itself is a subtle indictment of war.

The performances have a degree of realism that was uncommon for the time.

Excellent film.

A biography of song and dance man George M. Cohan, a very proud democrat who would tell you that to your face. They studio system didn't give James Cagney too many chances to dance on screen but in this movie he was given the chance and he was superb. "Proud to be an American" may be Lee Greenwood's call to imortality by the right wing but "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Over There" helped boost wartime morale and helped to win wars against global tyrrany. Take that, Lee.

I've seen Miracle on 34th Street more times than I can countbut it still has a wonderful message.

Good call on Best Years of Our Lives. It is a very fine human drama, a great character study.

The Ox Bow Incident-excellent

Casablamca, Double Indemnity, It's a Wonderful Life, all excellent

and Old Lace--classics.

I'm an idiot savant with dates.