Subgenre Sampler
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Since 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 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 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 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 Not (1944)
- 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…
Torment (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 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, 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, 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, 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…