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Since You Went AwaySince You Went Away (1944)
Dir. John Cromwell, Andre De Toth
Feat. Joseph Cotton, Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones
While husband Joseph Cotton is away at WWII, Claudette Colbert must hold home and family together. A lengthy dose of home–front stoicism, that…
Tall in the SaddleTall in the Saddle (1944)
Dir. Edwin L. Marin
Feat. John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond
An action–packed John Wayne Oater in which he plays a tough, quiet cowboy who arrives at an Arizona town to find his boss has been murdered and…
Thirty Seconds Over TokyoThirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker
True life WW2 story about the first American air raids on Japan with Spencer Tracy and Robert Mitchum in his leading debut.
This Happy BreedThis Happy Breed (1944)
Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Another David Lean–Noel Coward collaboration, the pair who later made the fine BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Here they turn their sensibilities to the…
To Have and Have NotTo Have and Have Not (1944) Recommended
Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart
In the upper–bracket of Bogart films, this first time match–up with Lauren Bacall still sets the screen alight. Adapted from the…
TormentTorment (Hets) (1944)
Dir. Alf Sjoberg
Feat. Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling
Impressionistic study of authoritarian education and adolescent love was scripted by a young Ingmar Bergman, and its universe of cruel twists and…
Uncertain GloryUncertain Glory (1944)
Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson
Wartime romance with Flynn playing French criminal Jean Picard who vows to make the ultimate sacrifice, only to fall in love.
Uninvited, TheUninvited, The (1944)
Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Classic tale of the macabre with Ray Milland discovering that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply…
Way Ahead, TheWay Ahead, The (1944)
Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. David Niven, Stanley Holloway, Trevor Howard
A depleted battalion must scrub up and train a ragtag bunch of conscripts to re–fill the positions left by deceased soldiers in this morale…
White Cliffs of Dover, TheWhite Cliffs of Dover, The (1944)
Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Irene Dunne
Patriotic sentiment up full–bore, this extended saga of English–American fraternising over both World Wars, has Irene Dunne and family…

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