1943

Film Decades: 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 theaters)

  • Above Suspicion, starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray
  • Action in the North Atlantic – starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey
  • The Adventures of Tartu, starring Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson – (GB)
  • Air Force – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Garfield
  • Angels of the Streets (Les anges du peche), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
  • Background to Danger – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
  • Bataan, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Taylor and Lloyd Nolan
  • Behind the Rising Sun, starring Tom Neal, produced by Howard Hughes
  • The Bells Go Down, starring Tommy Trinder and James Mason – (GB)
  • Best Foot Forward, starring Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler
  • Bombardier – starring Pat O’Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
  • Border Patrol, starring William Boyd, George Reeves, Robert Mitchum
  • Cabin in the Sky – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ethel Waters
  • Calling Dr. Death, first of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
  • The Chance of a Lifetime – directed by William Castle
  • Clancy Street Boys, starring The East Side Kids
  • Coney Island, starring Betty Grable
  • The Constant Nymph – starring Joan Fontaine
  • Le Corbeau (The Raven), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay – (France)
  • Corvette K-225 – starring Randolph Scott
  • O Costa do Castelo (The Costa from the Castle) – (Portugal)
  • Cowboy in Manhattan
  • Crash Dive, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
  • Crazy House, starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson
  • The Crew of the Dora (Besatzung Dora) – (Germany)
  • Crime Doctor, starring Warner Baxter
  • Cry ‘Havoc’, starring Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell
  • The Dancing Masters, starring Laurel and Hardy
  • Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
  • The Demi-Paradise, starring Laurence Olivier – (GB)
  • Desert Victory, a propaganda documentary – (GB)
  • Destination Tokyo – starring Cary Grant and John Garfield
  • Destroyer, starring Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson
  • Doña Bárbara, directed by Fernando de Fuentes – (Mexico)
  • Du Barry Was a Lady – directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Zero Mostel
  • Edge of Darkness – starring Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston
  • L’Éternel retour (The Eternal Return), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais – (France)
  • Fires Were Started, directed by Humphrey Jennings – (GB)
  • Five Graves to Cairo – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter
  • Flesh and Fantasy – directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, & Barbara Stanwyck
  • Flor Silvestre, starring Dolores del Río – (Mexico)
  • Forces Occultes, directed by Jean Marny, starring Maurice Rémy, Marcel Vibert, Auguste Bovério, Giséle Parry – (France)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls – directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman
  • Forever and a Day, featuring an all-star cast
  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man – starring Lon Chaney Jr. & Bela Lugosi
  • Der Fuehrer’s Face, Donald Duck’s Academy Award-winning short
  • The Gang’s All Here, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda
  • The Ghost Ship, starring Richard Dix
  • Girl Crazy – starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
  • Guadalcanal Diary, starring Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Preston Foster, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn
  • A Guy Named Joe – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne
  • Hangmen Also Die!, starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan
  • Happy Land, starring Don Ameche and Frances Dee
  • The Hard Way, starring Ida Lupino
  • Harlem, directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Massimo Girotti and Amedeo Nazzari (Italy)
  • Heaven Can Wait – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Gene Tierney & Don Ameche
  • Hello, Frisco, Hello, starring Alice Faye
  • Hi Diddle Diddle, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pola Negri
  • Hit the Ice, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • Hitler’s Children, directed by Edward Dmytryk
  • Holy Matrimony, starring Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields
  • Huella de luz (A Sight of Light) – (Spain)
  • The Human Comedy, starring Mickey Rooney
  • I Walked with a Zombie, starring Frances Dee
  • Immensee (aka Immensee: A German Folksong) – (Germany)
  • It Ain’t Hay, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • It Comes Up Love, starring Gloria Jean and Donald O’Connor
  • Jack London, starring Michael O’Shea and Susan Hayward
  • Jane Eyre – directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Orson Welles & Joan Fontaine
  • Journey into Fear – starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Río, Orson Welles
  • The Kansan, starring Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt
  • Kismet, starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
  • Klondike Kate – directed by William Castle
  • Lady of Burlesque – directed by William A. Wellman, starring Barbara Stanwyck & Michael O’Shea
  • Lassie Come Home, starring Roddy McDowall and Donald Crisp
  • The Leopard Man, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dennis O’Keefe
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook – (GB)
  • The Mad Ghoul, starring George Zucco
  • Madame Curie, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
  • The Man in Grey, the first of the Gainsborough melodramas starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB)
  • The Man with a Cross (L’uomo dalla croce) – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt and Attilio Dottesio – Italy
  • Margin for Error – directed by Otto Preminger
  • María Candelaria, starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
  • Millions Like Us, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder – (GB)
  • Mission to Moscow, directed by Michael Curtiz – starring Walter Huston
  • Mister Big, starring Donald O’Connor and Gloria Jean
  • The More the Merrier, directed by George Stevens, starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea
  • Mr. Lucky – directed by H.C. Potter, starring Cary Grant & Laraine Day
  • Münchhausen – (Germany)
  • My Learned Friend, starring Will Hay – (GB)
  • Nasreddin in Bukhara – (U.S.S.R.)
  • No Place for a Lady, starring William Gargan and Phyllis Brooks
  • No Time for Love – directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray
  • The North Star, starring Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews
  • Northern Pursuit – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn
  • Old Acquaintance, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
  • Ossessione (Obsession), directed by Luchino Visconti – (Italy)
  • The Outlaw, controversial western directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jane Russell
  • The Ox-Bow Incident, directed by William Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews
  • Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Rains
  • Prelude to War – directed by Frank Capra
  • Princess O’Rourke – starring Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings
  • The Return of the Vampire – starring Bela Lugosi
  • Revenge of the Zombies, starring John Carradine
  • Riding High, starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell
  • Sahara – starring Humphrey Bogart
  • Saludos Amigos, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Goofy
  • Sanshiro Sugata – directed by Akira Kurosawa – (Japan)
  • The Seventh Victim, starring Tom Conway
  • Shadow of a Doubt – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Teresa Wright & Joseph Cotten
  • Sherlock Holmes Faces Death – starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
  • Sherlock Holmes in Washington – starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
  • The Shipbuilders, directed by John Baxter – (GB)
  • The Silver Fleet, starring Ralph Richardson and Googie Withers – (GB)
  • The Sky’s the Limit – starring Fred Astaire & Joan Leslie
  • So Proudly We Hail! – starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
  • Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
  • The Song of Bernadette – directed by Henry King, starring Jennifer Jones, with Vincent Price
  • Squadron Leader X, starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak – (GB)
  • Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
  • A Stranger in Town, starring Frank Morgan
  • Tender Comrade – starring Ginger Rogers & Robert Ryan
  • Thank Your Lucky Stars, starring Eddie Cantor
  • Theatre Royal, starring Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen – (GB)
  • They Came to Blow Up America, starring George Sanders
  • This is the Army – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • This Land Is Mine – directed by Jean Renoir, starring Charles Laughton & Maureen O’Hara
  • Thousands Cheer – starring Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor
  • Titanic – (Germany)
  • Top Man – directed by Charles Lamont, starring Donald O’Connor, Susanna Foster, Lillian Gish, Richard Dix, & Peggy Ryan
  • Ukraine in Flames (Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Victory Through Air Power, a propaganda film by Disney
  • Le Voyageur de la Toussaint – (France)
  • War of the Wildcats (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma) – starring John Wayne
  • Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis
  • We Dive at Dawn, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills – (GB)
  • We’ve Never Been Licked, starring Richard Quine and Noah Beery, Jr.
  • Whistling in Brooklyn, starring Red Skelton
  • The Woman of the Town, starring Claire Trevor and Albert Dekker
  • Yellow Canary, starring Anna Neagle and Richard Greene – (GB)