1946

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)

• Angel on My Shoulder – starring Paul Muni, Anne Baxter and Claude Rains
• Anna and the King of Siam, starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell
• Aru yo no Tonosama (或る夜の殿様, Lord for a Night) directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa – Japan
• Bad Bascomb, starring Wallace Beery, Margaret O’Brien and Marjorie Main
• The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, starring Cornel Wilde
• The Beast with Five Fingers – starring Robert Alda and Peter Lorre
• Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day
• The Best Years of Our Lives – directed by William Wyler, starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Harold Russell – winner of 8 Oscars
• Beware, directed by Bud Pollard, starring Louis Jordan
• The Big Sleep – directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Black Beauty, starring Mona Freeman and Richard Denning
• The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
• Blue Skies – starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
• Boom in the Moon, starring Buster Keaton
• A Boy and His Dog, starring Harry Davenport
• The Bride Wore Boots – directed by Irving Pichel, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, featuring Natalie Wood in an early role
• The Captive Heart, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
• Canyon Passage, starring Dana Andrews
• Centennial Summer – directed by Otto Preminger
• Children of Paradise (U.S. release)
• Cluny Brown, starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones
• Crime Doctor’s Man Hunt – directed by William Castle
• The Dark Corner – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens
• The Dark Mirror – starring Olivia de Havilland
• Deception – starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains
• Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
• Desire (Desiderio) – directed by Marcello Pagliero & Roberto Rossellini – Italy
• Devotion – directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, Sydney Greenstreet
• The Diary of a Chambermaid – directed by Jean Renoir
• Dragonwyck – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price
• Dressed to Kill – starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• Duel in the Sun – directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
• Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman
• Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford
• Great Expectations, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills, Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson
• Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard
• The Green Years
• The Harvey Girls – directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland and John Hodiak
• Henry V (U.S. release)
• Humoresque, starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield
• I See a Dark Stranger – starring Deborah Kerr
• It’s a Wonderful Life** – directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
• Ivan the Terrible – written & directed by Sergei Eisenstein – USSR
• The Jolson Story, a biopic of Al Jolson starring Larry Parks
• Just Before Dawn (Exposed By The Crime Doctor) – directed by William Castle
• The Kid from Brooklyn – starring Danny Kaye
• The Killers, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
• Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Little Mister Jim – directed by Fred Zinnermann
• Make Mine Music
• Magnificent Doll – starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven
• A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring David Niven
• Miss Susie Slagle’s – directed by John Berry, starring Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Joan Caulfield, Lillian Gish
• Monsieur Beaucaire, starring Bob Hope
• The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns), starring Hildegard Knef
• My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell
• My Reputation – directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Mysterious Intruder – directed by William Castle
• Night and Day
• A Night in Casablanca with the Marx Brothers
• No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi) – directed by Akira Kurosawa – Japan
• Nobody Lives Forever
• Notorious – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
• The Outlaw (re-release)
• The Overlanders
• Paisan (Paisà) – directed by Roberto Rossellini – Italy
• People Are Funny, starring Jack Haley
• The Postman Always Rings Twice, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield
• The Razor’s Edge – starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
• Renegade Girl, starring Ann Savage
• The Return of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward
• The Return of Rusty – directed by William Castle
• Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
• The Seventh Veil (U.S. release)
• She-Wolf of London. starring June Lockhart
• Shoeshine (Sciuscià) – directed by Vittorio De Sica
• Shock – directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari
• Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell
• Somewhere In The Night, starring John Hodiak
• Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
• The Spiral Staircase, starring Dorothy McGuire
• A Stolen Life, starring Bette Davis
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers – directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and features Kirk Douglas in his film debut
• The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders
• The Stranger – directed by and starring Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson
• Terror by Night – starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• Theirs is the Glory
• Three Strangers – directed by Jean Negulesco, written by John Huston and Howard Koch, starring Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
• Three Wise Fools, starring Margaret O’Brien and Lionel Barrymore
• The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• To Each His Own – starring Olivia de Havilland
• Tomorrow is Forever – starring Orson Welles
• Utamaro and His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna)
• The Verdict – directed by Don Siegel, starring Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre
• Wake Up and Dream
• Wanted for Murder
• The Wife of Monte Cristo, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
• Without Reservations – starring John Wayne
• The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman