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Subgenre Sampler
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…
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…
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…
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…
- 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).
Great Moment, The (1944)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Betty Field, William Demarest… - An oddly serious drama for dir. Sturges, this biopic of WTG Morgan (who discovered the anaesthetic properties of ether in the 19th century), played…
Keys of the Kingdom, The (1944)- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price… - Quietly powerful drama about a devout Catholic priest (played by a young Gregory Peck) who travels to China to establish a parish. Through…
Love Story (A Lady Surrenders) (1944)- Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc… - Classy tearjerker with dying pianist Lockwood falling in love with blind pilot Granger. Treacly but satisfying with the two leads performances…
Mr. Skeffington (1944)- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel - Unrepentant weepie of epic length with Bette Davis as a NYC 'society girl' who snags a devoted and rich Jewish husband (Rains). But after a tangle…
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