Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Millions Like Us (1943)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford…
- Honest dramatization of the British "home front" during the second World War focuses on a factory worker struggling to overcome her grief after the…
More the Merrier, The (1943)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
- Winning romantic comedy with a peerless Jean Arthur allowing two men to share her apartment, one of whom she falls in love with.
My Learned Friend (1943)
- Dir. Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Feat. Will Hay, Mervyn Johns
- British comedy starring Will Hay as a lawyer on the run from a serial killer, whom he had previously defended and been unable to keep out of jail.…
Outlaw, The (1943)
- Dir. Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell…
- Off–beat retelling of the legend of Billy the Kid with Jane Russell's cleavage outraging the censors of the day. Now a tame curiosity.
Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…
- Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford.
Although…
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
- Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster
- Technicolour version of the old tale with Claude Rains warbling it up behind the mask. The emphasis here is more on singing than chills, it could be…
Power of the Press (1943)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger
- Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter…
- MGM Musical comedy starring Judy Garland in an early grown–up role as the titular small–town girl who heads to Broadway but struggles to…
Return of the Vampire, The (1943)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch…
- Serving as an unofficial follow–up to DRACULA (1931), Bela Lugosi plays another vampire called Armand Tesla, who encounters with an…
Sahara (1943)
- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Humphrey Bogart
- Good WWII actioner, with Humphrey Bogart commanding a tank stuck behind enemy lines.