Film Decades: 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theatears)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois, starring Raymond Massey
- All This and Heaven Too, starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer
- And One Was Beautiful – directed by Robert B. Sinclair, starring Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, & Jean Muir
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, and Fay Holden
- Angels Over Broadway – starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Rita Hayworth
- Anne of Windy Poplars, starring Anne Shirley
- The Ape, starring Boris Karloff
- Arise, My Love – starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland
- Arizona – starring Jean Arthur and William Holden
- Band Waggon, directed by Marcel Varnel, starring Arthur Askey – (GB)
- The Bank Dick, written by and starring W.C. Fields
- Before I Hang, starring Boris Karloff
- The Biscuit Eater, directed by Stuart Heisler
- Bismarck, starring Paul Hartmann – (Germany)
- Black Friday – starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
- The Blue Bird, starring Shirley Temple
- Boom Town – starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
- The Boys from Syracuse, starring Allan Jones
- Boys of the City, starring the East Side Kids
- Brigham Young – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, with Vincent Price
- British Intelligence, starring Boris Karloff
- Broadway Melody of 1940 – starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell – final film of series
- Brother Orchid – starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart
- Calling Philo Vance, starring James Stephenson
- Castle on the Hudson, directed by Anatole Litvak, starring John Garfield and Ann Sheridan
- The Catacombs (Katakomby), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, starring Sidney Toler
- Charlie Chan in Panama, starring Sidney Toler
- Christmas in July – written & directed by Preston Sturges
- A Chump at Oxford, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, featuring a young Peter Cushing
- City for Conquest, starring James Cagney
- Confucius – (China)
- Contraband, directed by Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson – (GB)
- Convicted Woman, starring Rochelle Hudson and June Lang
- Convoy – directed by Pen Tennyson, starring Clive Brook, John Clements (UK)
- Crimes at the Dark House, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter – (GB)
- Dance, Girl, Dance – starring Maureen O’Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball
- Dark Command – starring John Wayne
- Dead Man’s Shoes, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Leslie Banks – (GB)
- The Devil Bat – starring Bela Lugosi
- A Dispatch from Reuter’s, starring Edward G. Robinson
- Dívka v modrém – (Czechoslovakia)
- Doomed to Die, starring Boris Karloff
- Down Argentine Way, starring Don Ameche, Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda
- Dr. Cyclops, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Albert Dekker
- Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp
- Dr. Kildare’s Crisis – directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, & Laraine Day
- East Side Kids, starring Leon Ames and the East Side Kids
- Edison, the Man – starring Spencer Tracy
- Ergens in Nederland (Somewhere in the Netherlands) – (Netherlands)
- Escape, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor
- Fantasia, directed by Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen, David D. Hand, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson and Wilfred Jackson
- The Fatal Hour, starring Boris Karloff
- The Fighting 69th – directed by William Keighley, starring James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale Sr.
- Flowing Gold, starring John Garfield and Frances Farmer
- Foreign Correspondent – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, & Edmund Gwenn
- Four Sons, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Don Ameche
- The Fox of Glenarvon, directed by Max W. Kimmich – (Germany)
- French Without Tears, starring Ray Milland – (GB)
- Gaslight, starring Anton Walbrook – (GB)
- The Ghost Breakers, starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard
- Girl in the News, starring Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
- Give Us Wings, starring the Dead End Kids
- Go West, starring the Marx Brothers
- The Grapes of Wrath – directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda
- The Great Dictator – directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin with Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie
- The Great McGinty – written & directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy
- Green Hell – directed by James Whale, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Bennett, with Vincent Price
- Here Is the Point (Ahí está el detalle), starring Cantinflas – (Mexico)
- His Girl Friday – directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
- Hoots Mon!, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Max Miller and Florence Desmond (Britain)
- The House Across the Bay, starring George Raft
- The House of the Seven Gables – directed by Joe May, starring George Sanders, Vincent Price
- The Howards of Virginia – starring Cary Grant and Martha Scott
- Hullabaloo, starring Frank Morgan
- I Love You Again, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- I Take This Woman – starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr
- The Invisible Man Returns – directed by Joe May, starring Cedric Hardwicke and Vincent Price
- The Invisible Woman, starring Virginia Bruce and John Barrymore
- It All Came True – starring Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart
- June Nights (Juninatten), starring Ingrid Bergman – (Sweden)
- King of the White Elephant (Prajao Changpeuk) – (Thailand)
- Kitty Foyle – starring Ginger Rogers
- Laddie, starring Tim Holt
- Lady with Red Hair, starring Miriam Hopkins
- The Letter – directed by William Wyler, starring Bette Davis
- Lillian Russell, starring Alice Faye and Henry Fonda
- Little Men, starring George Bancroft and Kay Francis
- The Long Voyage Home – starring John Wayne
- Maddalena, Zero for Conduct – directed by and starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
- The Man from Dakota, starring Wallace Beery
- The Man Who Talked Too Much, starring George Brent
- The Marines Fly High, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Dix
- The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell
- The Middle Watch, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Jack Buchanan and Greta Gynt (Britain)
- The Minister’s Girlfriends (Přítelkyně pana ministra) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Millionaires in Prison, starring Lee Tracy
- The Mortal Storm – starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart
- The Mummy’s Hand, starring Dick Foran
- My Favorite Wife – starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
- My Little Chickadee, starring Mae West and W.C. Fields
- My Son, My Son! – directed by Charles Vidor, starring Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward, & Laraine Day
- New Moon, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
- Night Train to Munich, directed by Carol Reed, starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison – (GB)
- No Time for Comedy – directed by William Keighley, starring James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin and Charlie Ruggles
- North West Mounted Police – starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll
- Northwest Passage – directed by King Vidor, starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Young
- One Million B.C. (aka The Cave Dwellers), starring Carole Landis
- One Night in the Tropics, film debut of Abbott and Costello
- Our Town – starring William Holden and Martha Scott
- Pastor Hall, directed by Roy Boulting – (GB)
- The Philadelphia Story** – directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart
- Pinocchio, directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, starring Dickie Jones
- Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier
- Primrose Path – starring Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea
- The Proud Valley, starring Paul Robeson – (GB)
- Queen of the Yukon, starring Charles Bickford
- Rebecca – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier – Oscar for best picture
- Remember the Night – directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
- Rhythm on the River, starring Bing Crosby and Mary Martin
- Road to Singapore, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope – first in the series
- Saps at Sea, starring Laurel and Hardy
- The Sea Hawk – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
- Seven Sinners – starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne
- The Shop Around the Corner – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart
- The Siege of the Alcazar (L’Assedio dell’Alcazar) – (Italy)
- Sky Murder, starring Walter Pidgeon
- Son of Ingagi, directed by Richard Kahn
- The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett
- Spring Parade, starring Deanna Durbin
- The Stars Look Down, directed by Carol Reed, starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
- The Stationmaster (Der postmeister) – (Germany)
- Strange Cargo – starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford
- Stranger on the Third Floor – starring Peter Lorre
- Strike Up the Band – directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
- South of Suez, starring George Brent
- Swiss Family Robinson, starring Thomas Mitchell and Edna Best
- They Drive by Night – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
- They Knew What They Wanted, directed by Garson Kanin, starring Charles Laughton and Carole Lombard
- The Thief of Bagdad, starring Conrad Veidt and Sabu – (GB)
- ‘Til We Meet Again, starring Merle Oberon and George Brent
- Tom Brown’s School Days, starring Cedric Hardwicke
- Too Many Girls, starring Lucille Ball
- Too Many Husbands, starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas
- Tørres Snørtevold – (Norway)
- Torrid Zone – directed by William Keighley, starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O’Brien
- Turnabout, starring John Hubbard and Carole Landis
- Vigil in the Night, starring Carole Lombard
- Virginia City – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart
- Waterloo Bridge – starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor
- The Well-Digger’s Daughter (La Fille du puisatier), directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu and Fernandel – (France)
- The Westerner – starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Dana Andrews, Forrest Tucker
- Where’s That Fire?, starring Will Hay – (GB)
- Women in War, starring Elsie Janis and Patric Knowles
- Young People, starring Shirley Temple
- Young Tom Edison, starring Mickey Rooney
- You’re Not So Tough, starring the Dead End Kids