The Best Of The 1940's!! (39 titles)

This is my pick of the best films from the 40's

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"She learned about men from him!"

His Girl Friday on DVD (1940)
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Howard Hawks
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In Howard Hawks's screwball masterpiece adapted from the stage play THE FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), once married to suave editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant), plans to leave the stressful newspaper world behind and marry a boring ..read more »

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"Uncle Leo's bedtime story for you older tots! The things they do among the playful rich - Oh, boy!"

"The shadow of this woman darkened their love."

Rebecca on DVD (1940)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A string of classic suspense films produced in England had earned Alfred Hitchcock a reputation in the United States, and his first American production, REBECCA, cemented his fame. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, REBECCA was conceived to rival producer David O. Selznick's previous epic, ..read more »

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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Starring: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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This 1940 romantic comedy finds James Stewart working in a small shop in Budapest and longing for a girl to call his own. His coworker, Margaret Sullavan, feels the same, and soon they are both corresponding and falling in love with their respective pen pals. What they don't realise is that they ..read more »

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"Some called him a hero. Others called him a heel..."

Citizen Kane on DVD (1941)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Director: Orson Welles
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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »

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"It's thrilling . . . it's chilling . . . it's the most baffling mystery story in years!"

The Maltese Falcon on DVD (1941)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet
Director: John Huston
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Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »

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"Veronica Lake's on the take"

"They had a date with fate in Casablanca!"

Casablanca on DVD (1943)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey
Director: Michael Curtiz
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The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.

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"Real life screened more daringly than it's ever been before!"

"In The Arms Of Another Woman's Man...She Finds Her Man!"