I Love Pop Culture - 1940's Movies

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I Love Pop Culture theme: a list of movies that were widely viewed, praised, awarded, and so forth. In short, if you lived in the period then you watched these movies. (There is a bias towards movies in English.)

Other lists in the series:

I Love Pop Culture: 1930s Movies: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/38970
I Love Pop Culture: 1950s Movies: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13294
I Love Pop Culture: 1960s Movies: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5931
I Love Pop Culture: 1970s Movies: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5802
I Love Pop Culture: 1980s Movies: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5402
I Love Pop Culture: 1990s Movies: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5418

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    49th Parallel - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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  2. 2.
    Abe Lincoln in Illinois
    by John Cromwell

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  3. 3.
    Adam's Rib
    by George Cukor

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  4. 5.
    Air Force
    by Howard Hawks

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  5. 6.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Rossen

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  6. 7.
    All This, and Heaven Too
    by Anatole Litvak

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  7. 8.
    Anchors Aweigh
    by George Sidney (II)

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  8. 9.
    And Then There Were None
    by René Clair

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  9. 10.
    Anna and the King of Siam
    by John Cromwell

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  10. 11.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra

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  11. 12.
    The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
    by Irving Reis

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  12. 13.
    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks

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  13. 14.
    Bambi (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by David Hand

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  14. 15.
    The Barkleys of Broadway
    by Charles Walters

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  15. 16.
    Battleground

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  16. 18.
    The Bells of St. Mary's
    by Leo McCarey

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  17. 19.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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  18. 20.
    Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  19. 21.
    The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
    by John Farrow

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  20. 22.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  21. 23.
    The Bishop's Wife
    by Henry Koster

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  22. 24.
    Black Angel
    by Roy William Neill

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  23. 25.
    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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  24. 26.
    The Black Swan
    by Henry King

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    Blithe Spirit
    by David Lean

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  26. 28.
    Blood & Sand
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  27. 29.
    Blossoms in the Dust
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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  28. 30.
    The Blue Dahlia
    by George Marshall

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  29. 31.
    Blue Skies
    by Stuart Heisler

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  30. 32.
    Body and Soul
    by Robert Rossen

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  31. 33.
    The Body Snatcher
    by Robert Wise

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  32. 34.
    Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  33. 35.
    Broadway Melody of 1940
    by Norman Taurog

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  34. 36.
    Brute Force (Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

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  35. 37.
    Buck Privates
    by Arthur Lubin

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  37. 39.
    A Canterbury Tale - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  38. 40.
    Can't Help Singing
    by Frank Ryan

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  39. 41.
    Captains of the Clouds
    by Michael Curtiz

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  40. 42.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  41. 43.
    Champion (1949)
    by Mark Robson

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  42. 44.
    The Children Are Watching Us - Criterion Collection
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  43. 45.
    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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  44. 46.
    Christmas in Connecticut
    by Peter Godfrey

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  45. 47.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  46. 48.
    The Clock
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  47. 49.
    Come to the Stable
    by Henry Koster

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  48. 50.
    The Constant Nymph
    by Edmund Goulding

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Created by kalavinka on Dec 27, 2006.
 

Comments

greenfruit
Augusta

Corrected Versions — 1 week ago

Removed 1920 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and added the 1941 version.

Removed 1955 version of My Sister Eileen and added the 1942 version.


greenfruit
Augusta

Desk Set — 1 week ago

Desk Set isn’t a 1940s movie. It was released in 1957.