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Subgenre Sampler
Way to the Stars, The (1945)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Douglas Montgomery… - An RAF airfield in WWII is the setting of this unassuming war–drama, set around the lives of the ‘flyers’ and the ground–crew. Given…
Wonder Man (1945)- Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen… - A typically zany fairy–tale for Danny Kaye, as a mild–mannered student persuaded by the ghost of his dead twin to seek out his murderer.…
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)- Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson… - Adventure film based on 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights' about a boy prince who takes revenge on the Mongol invaders who murdered his father…
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey - Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
Bells of St. Mary's (1944)- Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman - Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman team up for a musical comedy as a gentle priest and a prim nun who slug out their differences. 8 Oscar nominations.
Buffalo Bill (1944)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell - Fictionalized story of one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, from his days as an army scout to his…
Can't Help Singing (1944)- Dir. Frank Ryan
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff - Sugary sweet technicolour western musical based on the book "Girl of the Overland Trail" by Samuel J. and Curtis B. Warshawsky. Set during the…
Canterbury Tale, A (1944)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Porter, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price - A typically uncategorisable Powell/Pressburger movie, that draws on British eccentricities to flesh out its simple story about three wartime…
Champagne Charlie (1944)- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Stanley Holloway, Jean Kent - Ealing musical drama following the fortunes of an ambitious entertainer trying to make it big in grimy late 19th century London. This often…
Christmas Holiday (1944)- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly - Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
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