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All The 1940's (Long And Short) Films I've Seen In My Whole Life

by scobleigh-67225 • Created 8 years ago • Modified 8 months ago
All The 1940's (Long And Short) Films I've Seen In My Whole Life from past to present.
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  • Randolph Scott, Noah Beery Jr., Alan Curtis, Sam Levene, and J. Carrol Naish in 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943)

    1. 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders

    19431h 28mApproved
    6.0 (1.8K)
    The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.
    DirectorRay EnrightStarsRandolph ScottAlan CurtisNoah Beery Jr.
  • Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

    2. I Know Where I'm Going!

    19451h 32mApproved86Metascore
    7.4 (11K)
    A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
    DirectorsMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsWendy HillerRoger LiveseyPamela Brown
  • John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., and Dorothy Ford in 3 Godfathers (1948)

    3. 3 Godfathers

    19481h 46mApproved82Metascore
    7.0 (11K)
    Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WaynePedro ArmendárizHarry Carey Jr.
  • Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, and Raymond Massey in The Invaders (1941)

    4. The Invaders

    19412h 3mApproved
    7.3 (8.2K)
    A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
    DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie HowardLaurence OlivierRichard George
  • A Day at the Fair (1947)

    5. A Day at the Fair

    194710mShort
    2.2 (209)
    A family goes to the local fair to compete with their livestock and produce.
    StarJames Brill
  • Moe Howard and Larry Fine in A Gem of a Jam (1943)

    6. A Gem of a Jam

    194317mApprovedShort
    7.5 (522)
    The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Hart-Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • A Knight for a Day (1946)

    7. A Knight for a Day

    19467mApprovedShort
    6.7 (1.4K)
    With his true identity hidden in armor, lowly squire Cedric (Goofy) takes the place of his master, Sir Loinsteak, in a sidesplitting, sword-shattering joust.
    DirectorsJack HannahBurt GillettBill RobertsStarsJune ForayJohn BrownPinto Colvig
  • John Wayne and Jean Arthur in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

    8. A Lady Takes a Chance

    19431h 26mApproved
    6.3 (1.6K)
    Facing forty, a NYC spinster on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her unsuitable city suitors.
    DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsJean ArthurJohn WayneCharles Winninger
  • Kirk Douglas, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, and Ann Sothern in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

    9. A Letter to Three Wives

    19491h 43mApproved
    7.7 (11K)
    A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
    DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJeanne CrainLinda DarnellAnn Sothern
  • A Mouse in the House (1947)

    10. A Mouse in the House

    19478mApprovedShort
    7.7 (1.4K)
    Mammy Two-Shoes tells Tom and Butch that the cat who gets rid of the icebox-raiding, breadbox-invading mouse (Jerry) is the one who can stay.
    DirectorsJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsSidney ClantonWilliam HannaBob Laztny
  • Groucho Marx, Lois Collier, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx in A Night in Casablanca (1946)

    11. A Night in Casablanca

    19461h 25mApproved
    6.9 (7.8K)
    The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
    DirectorArchie MayoStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico Marx
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)

    12. A Plumbing We Will Go

    194018mTV-GShort
    8.3 (1.3K)
    To escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • A Really Important Person (1947)

    13. A Really Important Person

    194711mApprovedShort
    6.0 (214)
    A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.
    DirectorBasil WrangellStarsDean StockwellConnie GilchristClancy Cooper
  • Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, and Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember (1945)

    14. A Song to Remember

    19451h 53mApproved
    6.6 (1.7K)
    Biography of Frederic Chopin.
    DirectorCharles VidorStarsPaul MuniMerle OberonCornel Wilde
  • Bette Davis, Walter Brennan, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, and Charles Ruggles in A Stolen Life (1946)

    15. A Stolen Life

    19461h 49mApproved
    7.2 (4.5K)
    When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels that her sister took from her years before.
    DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsBette DavisGlenn FordDane Clark
  • Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Ted Donaldson, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire, and Lloyd Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    19452h 9mPG
    8.0 (8.8K)
    Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
    DirectorElia KazanStarsDorothy McGuirePeggy Ann GarnerJoan Blondell
  • Dana Andrews and Richard Conte in A Walk in the Sun (1945)

    17. A Walk in the Sun

    19451h 57mApproved
    6.9 (4.4K)
    During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.
    DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsDana AndrewsRichard ConteGeorge Tyne
  • Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Glenn Strange in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

    18. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

    19481h 23mApproved69Metascore
    7.3 (21K)
    The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
    DirectorsCharles BartonWalter LantzStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloLon Chaney Jr.
  • Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Roland Got in Across the Pacific (1942)

    19. Across the Pacific

    19421h 37mApproved
    6.8 (5.6K)
    In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
    DirectorsJohn HustonVincent ShermanStarsHumphrey BogartMary AstorSydney Greenstreet
  • Humphrey Bogart and Julie Bishop in Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

    20. Action in the North Atlantic

    19432h 6mApproved
    7.0 (4.8K)
    An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
    DirectorsLloyd BaconByron HaskinRaoul WalshStarsHumphrey BogartRaymond MasseyAlan Hale
  • Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Adam's Rib (1949)

    21. Adam's Rib

    19491h 41mApproved87Metascore
    7.4 (24K)
    Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnJudy Holliday
  • Errol Flynn and Viveca Lindfors in Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

    22. Adventures of Don Juan

    19481h 50mApproved
    7.0 (3.7K)
    The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen.
    DirectorVincent ShermanStarsErrol FlynnViveca LindforsRobert Douglas
  • Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Africa Screams (1949)

    23. Africa Screams

    19491h 19mApproved
    6.0 (4.2K)
    Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
    DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloClyde Beatty
  • African Diary (1945)

    24. African Diary

    19456mApprovedShort
    6.4 (482)
    Goofy narrates his own quest to Africa accompanied by various tour guides. He is in search of wild game. After run-ins with various animals while camping for the night and taking his morning plunge (ruined by a hippo that takes all the water with him when exiting the pool), he sets off in search of the black rhinoceros. Unfortunately for Goofy, the rhino is prepared for Goofy (thanks to a stool pigeon bird resting on his horn) and charges him. Goofy tries his gun against the rhino but the rhino is still to much for Goofy so he leaves Africa and leaves the rhino for other hunters.
    DirectorJack KinneyStarsPinto ColvigFrank GrahamJames MacDonald
  • Richard Lane, Gus Schilling, and Emil Sitka in Ain't Love Cuckoo? (1946)

    25. Ain't Love Cuckoo?

    194617mApprovedShort
    5.5 (51)
    The Schillings and the Lanes think their spouses have been killed in the war, and marry each other's mate.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsGus SchillingRichard LaneTerry Howard

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