Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Cover Girl (1944)- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers… - Sheer energy and razzamatazz compensate for the rampant cliches of this Rita Hayworth/Gene Kelly dance–musical, set in the world of magazine…
Fighting Sullivans, The (1944)- Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Anne Baxter, Edward Ryan - Early telling of the true story that inspired SAVING PRIVATE RYAN about five brothers who served in WWII (in reality, at Guadacanal).
- Passage to Marseille (1944)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre - Distinguished by the use of flashbacks within flashbacks, this WW2 propaganda piece re–unites the director with CASABLANCA alumnae.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker - True life WW2 story about the first American air raids on Japan with Spencer Tracy and Robert Mitchum in his leading debut.
Torment (Hets) (1944)- Dir. Alf Sjoberg
Feat. Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling… - Impressionistic study of authoritarian education and adolescent love was scripted by a young Ingmar Bergman, and its universe of cruel twists and…
Uncertain Glory (1944)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson - Wartime romance with Flynn playing French criminal Jean Picard who vows to make the ultimate sacrifice, only to fall in love.
White Cliffs of Dover, The (1944)- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Irene Dunne… - Patriotic sentiment up full–bore, this extended saga of English–American fraternising over both World Wars, has Irene Dunne and family…
Air Force (1943)- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Garfield - Persuasive propaganda piece focusing on the crew of a B–17 bomber, quite thrilling in the hands of director Hawks.
Edge of Darkness (1943)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston… - Taut account of Resistance activities in Norway during WWII, has extra–good camerawork of Erroll Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston in some…
Lassie Come Home (1943)
- Dir. Fred M. Wilcox
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp… - Brilliant emotional manipulation for all the family, with the impoverished parents of Roddy McDowall forced to sell their beloved Collie, who…
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