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Subgenre Sampler
Our Town (1940)- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott - Affectionate study of small–town American life, set in New Hampshire over a twelve year period. Frank Craven narrates our tour of the community…
Rebecca (1940)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders - A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
Remember the Night (1940)- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi… - Preston Sturges scripted this forgotten yuletide gem, about an assistant D.A. (MacMurray) who, feeling sorry for a glamorous jewel thief (Stanwyck),…
- Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Freddie Bartholomew, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Jimmy Lydon - Thomas Hughes' classic novel of life at the Victorian Boys public school of Rugby is given a generous, populist treatment. New boy Lydon finds…
Twenty One Days (21 Days Together) (1940)- Dir. Basil Dean
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks… - Laurence Olivier plays a playboy embroiled in the death of an attractive model's blackmailer in this curious pre–war melodrama, from the…
Dark Victory (1939)- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart… - Sleekly upholstered melodrama, with Davis as a willful, party–going Long Island millionairess who discovers she is dying. Great performances…
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver… - Minor Ford drama with Fonda and Colbert as newlyweds whose farming career gets stymied by the Revolutionary War and attacks from Native Americans.…
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Robert Donat, Greer Garson - Slow–moving, heartfelt story of a devoted schoolteacher. Robert Donat won an Oscar in the lead role.
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939)- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Charles Laughton - Charles Laughton is perfectly cast in this beautifully expressionistic version of the classic.
Jour Se Leve, Le (Daybreak) (1939)- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Jean Gabin, Arletty - A renowned example of 'poetic realism', Jean Gabin gives another consummate performance as a doomed anti–hero. His tragic story is told in…
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