Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Captain Kidd (1945)
- Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton…
- Charles Laughton has a great time playing the 17th century English pirate, who swindles King William III. Rollicking production is a nicely comic…
Clock, The (1945)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason…
- Judy Garland's first dramatic role (in which she did not sing) reunites her with director (and future husband) Vincente Minnelli from MEET ME IN ST.…
Dead of Night (1945)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden
- This model of the horror portmanteau film remains unsurpassed by modern all–comers, with five strong, scary short stories that converge quite…
Detour (1945)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage
- Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Paulette Goddard
- Chambermaid Paulette Goddard upsets an aristocratic household brimming with secrets and intrigues. One of Renoir's early Hollywood pictures.
Dillinger (1945)
- Dir. Max Nosseck
Feat. Lawrence Tierney
- Lawrence Tierney stars in this robust B–Movie biopic as the notorious gangster who declared war on America's banking system.
Dolly Sisters, The (1945)
- Dir. Irving Cummings
Feat. Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver
- Flash, energetic musical biopic on Hungarian–born sisters Jennie and Rosie Dolly, who conquered Broadway in the early 1900s. Ravishing…
Fallen Angel (1945)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell
- Follow–up to Preminger's film noir LAURA stars Andrews as a penniless drifter who falls in love with beautiful waitress Stella (Darnell) so…
Harvey Girls, The (1945)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger…
- A much–loved, if rather formless musical about the heyday of the railroad in the Old West and the Harvey House restaurants which sprang up…
House of Dracula (1945)
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, John Carradine, Onslow Stevens…
- Actually a sequel to HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with a scientist attempting to rectify the monstrous villains of the Universal Studios horror movies.