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Subgenre Sampler

 
PittsburghPittsburgh (1942)
Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
Marlene Dietrich – striking as always – is courted by John Wayne and Randolph Scott as coalminers–turned–millionaires. A…
Random Harvest (1942)
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Ronald Colman, Greer Garson
A shell–shocked WW1 officer marries and is contented until he remembers his past life in the aristocracy. Far–fetched but very enjoyable…
Roxie HartRoxie Hart (Chicago) (1942)
Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Comedy adapting the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical. Ginger Rogers plays the…
Tales of ManhattanTales of Manhattan (1942) Recommended
Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers
A star–studded portmanteau of five tales of life in the Big Apple. Runs the gamut from film noir, to romantic comedy, to high melodrama.
Thunder BirdsThunder Birds (Soldiers of the Air) (1942)
Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton
Routine wartime love triangle with two fighter pilots falling for a radiant Gene Tierney, gorgeous Technicolor and ace aerial photography liven it up…
Thunder RockThunder Rock (1942)
Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen
Wonderfully cerebral first film from the great Boulting Brothers in which a disillusioned newspaperman living in self imposed exile in a Michigan…
Went the Day Well?Went the Day Well? (1942) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
Citizen KaneCitizen Kane (1941) Aro Favourite
Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Orson Welles ground–breaking work chronicles a publishing tycoon's rise to power, told through a reporter's efforts to discover the meaning of…
Devil and Daniel Webster, TheDevil and Daniel Webster, The (1941) Aro Favourite
Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig
Originally released in a heavily edited version as "All That Money Can Buy", this recently restored version can now be fully appreciated as a true…
Face Behind the Mask, TheFace Behind the Mask, The (1941)
Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes
Film noir following the descent of a kind watch maker whose face is disfigured in a fire shortly after immigrating to America, and despite being a…

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