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01-13-2014, 08:21 AM
Slowly making our way back in time, it's now time for the '40s and some of the most beautifully-filmed films here, the true Silver Screen! As usual, I've narrowed down my favorite films for each year and the top three have been highlighted. I'll come back with my ranking a bit later on:
Fantasia (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Go West (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
49th Parallel (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Penny Serenade (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Saboteur (1942)
The Big Street (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Ivan the Terrible: Part I (1944)
Laura (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
The Uninvited (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Detour (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Murder, He Says (1945)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
The Spiral Staircase (1945)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
Green for Danger (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Song of the South (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Red River (1948)
Rope (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Late Spring (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
The Heiress (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)
Fantasia (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Go West (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
49th Parallel (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Penny Serenade (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Saboteur (1942)
The Big Street (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Ivan the Terrible: Part I (1944)
Laura (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
The Uninvited (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Detour (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Murder, He Says (1945)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
The Spiral Staircase (1945)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
Green for Danger (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Song of the South (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Red River (1948)
Rope (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Late Spring (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
The Heiress (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)