1940s Movies

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While shooting the film, director Howard Hawks lost track of the story. The author of the source, Raymond Chandler, had no solution to offer. Didn't keep Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall from memorable performances, though.

Second and arguably best Disney picture. Jiminy Cricket sings "When You Wish Upon A Star".

Shot still during World War II, this film is set in Paris in the 1830s. Still, the epic scale allowed many French artists to join shooting in order to escape forced labor by the Nazis.

Roberto Rossellini tells the story of a 12-year old surviving in post-war Germany.

Irena thinks she belongs to a race of people that transform into animals when sexually aroused.

This early work by Akira Kurosawa is both a Japanese noir and a prototype for buddy cop film.

Cary Grant going up a gloomy staircase carrying a glass of milk that creepily shines.

David Lean's version of a famous Charles Dickens novel starring Alec Guinness.

Considered one of the Noir classics and directed by Otto Preminger. The lady that gives the film its name is dead right at the beginning.