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Subgenre Sampler
A Bell For Adano (1945)- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix… - Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn… - Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)- Dir. Gabriel Pascal
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Claude Rains… - The oft–told tale of the First Roman Emperor and the Queen of Egpyt, here adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play. Stagey filming is offset by…
Clock, The (1945)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason… - Judy Garland's first dramatic role (in which she did not sing) reunites her with director (and future husband) Vincente Minnelli from MEET ME IN ST.…
Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Paulette Goddard - Chambermaid Paulette Goddard upsets an aristocratic household brimming with secrets and intrigues. One of Renoir's early Hollywood pictures.
I'll Be Seeing You (1945)- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton, Shirley Temple… - Ginger Rogers picks up a rare dramatic role in this sincere, if at times clunky melodrama, playing a convict on Christmas leave who falls in love…
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (1945)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Maria Casares - Dir. Bresson and writer Jean Cocteau are strange bedfellows in this lush, stylish drama, well–removed from the director’s austere later…
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)
- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur… - This resplendent evocation of nineteeth century Paris street theatre follows the love of mime Jean–Louis Barrault for the highly–strung…
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard da Silva… - Would–be novelist Ray Milland's personal frustrations bring on a three day drinking binge of desperate, terrifying proportions. Laced with a…
Rome: Open City (1945)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi - Neo–realist war drama about resistance fighters in fascist Italy places the action right inside the everyday and humanises the heroic.…
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