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Man HuntMan Hunt (1941)
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Shadow of the Thin ManShadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed
Yet another relaxing weekend for sweethearts Nick and Nora turns into a head–scratcher, as the crime–stopping couple divert from a day at…
SuspicionSuspicion (1941) Recommended
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine
One of Hitch's first American films uses the artificial charms of Cary Grant to strangely sinister effect, as a manipulative playboy whom wife Joan…
Swamp WaterSwamp Water (1941)
Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter
An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
Foreign CorrespondentForeign Correspondent (1940)
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
On the eve of WWII, journalist Joel McCrea gets involved in European espionage, some classic Hitchcock set–pieces (esp. the Dutch windmill…
GaslightGaslight (1940) Recommended
Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
This potently atmospheric "Victorian" thriller boasts a suitably wired Anton Walbrook as a repressed patriarch who torments his wife in an effort to…
Invisible Man Returns, TheInvisible Man Returns, The (1940)
Dir. Joe May
Feat. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey
A man falsely sentenced to death for murdering his brother – the original Invisible Man, takes a drug enabling him to vanish from his cell in…
RebeccaRebecca (1940) Recommended
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
Another Thin ManAnother Thin Man (1939)
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Otto Kruger
Nick and Nora, with newborn baby in tow, spend a weekend on Long Island, sleuthing out a shady character whose death threats lead to murder. Adapted…
Blind AlleyBlind Alley (1939)
Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy
A gangster escapes from prison and takes a psychiatrist hostage in this home–invasion film noir.

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