Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
Seventh Veil, The (1945)
- Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. James Mason, Ann Todd
- Renowned film serves up psychiatry in bite sized chunks as a concert pianist is cured of her complexes by a shrink intent on fixing her up with the…
Sherlock Holmes Collection (The Woman in Green, Terror by Night, Dressed To Kill) (1945-1946)
- Feat. Basil Rathbone
- Three of Basil Rathbone's classic renditions of the Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes.
Song to Remember, A (1945)
- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde
- Biopic on the life of Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin, taking a few liberties here and there to follow the child prodigy through his…
Southerner, The (1945)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Betty Field, Zachary Scott, Beulah Bondi…
- One of dir. Renoir's finest American films, follows the year–long trial of a young family who attempt to grow cotton on a derelict…
Spellbound (1945)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
- Beguiling Hitchcock, with Ingrid Bergman psychoanalyzing murder suspect Gregory Peck. Famed dream sequence by Salvador Dali.
State Fair (1945)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes…
- Cheerful Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about Iowa family visiting a colossal fairground.
They Were Expendable (1945)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Robert Montgomery
- Fine tribute to the US Torpedo–boat troops who were last to retreat from the Philippines after Pearl Harbour. John Wayne and Robert Montgomery…
Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson…
- Nick and Nora's reputation precedes them as they wrap up another murder mystery while visiting Nick's parents. The penultimate film in the popular…
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
- Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Rita Hayworth
- Rita Hayworth starring musical about a London nightclub during the war which despite bombings and blitzes, never skips a beat.
Walk in the Sun, A (1945)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne…
- Absorbing character study of men at war set in WW2 North Africa.