Category:Film Studies--1940s

Film Studies (1940s)

The page: Film Studies--1940s includes (in chronological order) films made in the 1940s, or from 1940 to 1949.

This page was created by Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan (@2022)

Highlights (1940s)

-> (1940) <-

Fantasia (Disney) -- Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock) -- The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) -- The Great Dictator (Chaplin) -- The Letter (Wyler) -- The Mark of Zorro (Mamoulian) -- Pinocchio (Disney) -- Pride and Prejudice (Leonard) -- Rebecca (Hitchcock) -- The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch) -- The Thief of Bagdad (Powell) -- see also -- His Girl Friday (Hawks) -- The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)

-> (1941) <-

Ball of Fire (Hawks) -- Citizen Kane (Welles) -- The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle) -- Dumbo (Disney) -- How Green Was My Valley (Ford) -- The Maltese Falcon (Huston) -- see also -- The Lady Eve (Sturges) -- Sergeant York (Hawks) -- Sullivan's Travels (Sturges) -- Suspicion (Hitchcock)

-> (1942) <-

Bambi (Disney) -- Casablanca (Curtiz) -- I Married a Witch (Clair) -- Mrs. Miniver (Wyler) -- The Pied Piper (Pichel) -- To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch) -- Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz) -- Larceny, Inc. (Bacon) -- Cat People (Tourneur) -- see also -- The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) -- The Palm Beach Story (Sturges) -- Now, Voyager (Rapper) -- The Pride of the Yankees (Wood)

-> (1943) <-

The Children Are Watching Us (De Sica) -- Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder) -- Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch) -- The Human Comedy (Brown) -- Jane Eyre (Stevenson) -- The More the Merrier (Stevens) -- Ossessione (Visconti) -- The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman) -- Phantom of the Opera (Lubin) -- Shadow of Doubt (Hitchcock) -- see also -- Mesches of the Afternoon (Deren & Hackenschmied) -- Day of Wrath (Dreyer) -- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger) -- For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wood)

-> (1944) <-

Double Indemnity (Wilder) -- Laura (Preminger) -- Arsenic and Old Lace (Capra) -- Lifeboat (Hitchcock) -- Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli) -- Gaslight (Cukor) -- The Woman in the Window (Lang) -- Henry V (Olivier) -- The Curse of the Cat People (Wise) -- The Uninvited (Allen) -- National Velvet (Brown) -- Going My Way (McCarey) -- see also -- A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger) -- Since You Went Away (Cromwell) -- Wilson (King)

-> (1945) <-

Rome Open City (Rossellini) -- Brief Encounter (Lean) -- Spellbound (Hitchcock) -- Scarlet Street (Lang) -- The Lost Weekend (Wilder) -- Detour (Ulmer) -- Ivan the Terrible, Part One (Eisenstein) -- Mildred Pierce (Curtiz) -- I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell & Pressburger) -- Dead of Night (Cavalcanti) -- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lewin) -- They Were Expandable (Ford) -- And Then There Were None (Clair) -- Blithe Spirit (Lean) -- Anchors Aweigh (Sidney) -- Christmas in Connecticut (Godfrey) -- The Bells of St. Mary's (McCarey) -- The House I Live In (LeRoy) -- see also -- Les enfants du paradis (Carne) -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Kazan)

-> (1946) <-

It's a Wonderful Life (Capra) -- Notorious (Hitchcock) -- Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) -- The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) -- Great Expectations (Lean) -- A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger) -- Great Expectations (Lean) -- The Killers (Siodmak) -- Paisan (Rossellini) -- Shoeshine (De Sica) -- The Stranger (Welles) -- The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett) -- The Spiral Staircase (Siodmak) -- Green for Danger (Gilliat) -- Song of the South (Disney) -- see also -- The Big Sleep (Hawks) -- My Darling Clementine (Ford) -- Gilda (Vidor) -- Duel in the Sun (Vidor) -- The Yearling (Brown)

-> (1947) <-

Out of the Past (Tourneur) -- Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin) -- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Mankiewicz) -- Miracle on 34th Street (Seaton) -- Crossfire (Dmytryk) -- Gentleman's Agreement (Kazan) -- The Bishop's Wife (Koster) -- Boomerang! (Kazan) -- Life with Father (Curtiz) -- It Happened on 5th Avenue (Del Ruth) -- Bush Christmas (Safran) -- see also -- Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger) -- The Lady from Shanghai (Welles) -- A Double Life (Cukor)

-> (1948) <-

Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) -- Rope (Hitchcock) -- The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger) -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) -- Germany Year Zero (Rossellini) -- Red River -- The Naked City -- Hamlet (Olivier) -- Oliver Twist (Lean) -- The Fallen Idol (Reed) -- La Terra Trema -- Key Largo -- Fort Apache (Ford) -- Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle) -- A Foreign Affair (Wilder) -- The Boy with Green Hair (Losey) -- The Search (Zinnemann) -- Rachel and the Stranger (Foster) -- see also -- Louisiana Story (Flaherty) -- The Quiet One (Meyers)

-> (1949) <-

The Third Man (Reed) -- Late Spring (Ozu) -- Stray Dog (Kurosawa) -- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer) -- White Heat (Walsh) -- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford) -- The Heiress (Wyler) -- A Letter to Three Wives (Mankiewicz) -- I Was a Male War Bride (Hawks) -- Whisky Galore! (Mackendrick) -- The Secret Garden (Wilcox) -- Little Women (LeRoy) -- The Window (Tetzlaff) -- see also -- All the King's Men (Rossen)