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Subgenre Sampler
National Velvet (1944)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney - Ever–exciting family classic, with 12 year–old budding equestrian Elizabeth Taylor, taking her horse Velvet all the way to the Grand…
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.
Phantom Lady (1944)- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac… - Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
Pin Up Girl (1944)- Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye… - Betty Grable, America's #1 pin–up during WWII, strikes a pose as a canteen girl who pretends to be broadway star in order to stay close to her…
Purple Heart, The (1944)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger… - Watchable flag–waver from WW2 depicts the show trial of a crew of American airmen (led by Andrews) who are shot down over Tokyo in 1944. Has…
Rats of Tobruk, The (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) (1944)- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch - Aussie battler Chips Rafferty fight hard in the Battle of Rommel in this chest–thumping follow–up to FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN.
Since You Went Away (1944)- Dir. John Cromwell, Andre De Toth
Feat. Joseph Cotton, Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones… - While husband Joseph Cotton is away at WWII, Claudette Colbert must hold home and family together. A lengthy dose of home–front stoicism, that…
Tall in the Saddle (1944)- Dir. Edwin L. Marin
Feat. John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond - An action–packed John Wayne Oater in which he plays a tough, quiet cowboy who arrives at an Arizona town to find his boss has been murdered and…
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.
This Happy Breed (1944)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills - Another David Lean–Noel Coward collaboration, the pair who later made the fine BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Here they turn their sensibilities to the…
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