And here is the overall 1 through 128 ranked list for the 1940s according to our membership:
- Casablanca
- Citizen Kane
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Notorious
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Big Sleep
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Fantasia
- Rebecca
- Rope
- Spellbound
- Lifeboat
- Double Indemnity
- Bambi
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Wolf Man
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Shadow of a Doubt
- The Philadelphia Story
- The Great Dictator
- Saboteur
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Suspicion
- Key Largo
- The Third Man
- Dumbo
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Gaslight
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- The Body Snatcher
- Hamlet
- Laura
- Mighty Joe Young
- To Have and Have Not
- Nightmare Alley
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Stranger
- Stray Dog
- Great Expectations
- A Night in Casablanca
- White Heat
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- Mrs. Miniver
- Cat People
- His Girl Friday
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- The Red Shoes
- Gentleman's Agreement
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Bicycle Thieves
- Sergeant York
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Foreign Correspondent
- Brief Encounter
- Drunken Angel
- The Thief of Bagdad
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Heaven Can Wait
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
- The Spiral Staircase
- The Yearling
- The Killers
- Dead of Night
- All The King's Men
- Mildred Pierce
- Lassie Come Home
- They Were Expendable
- The Mark of Zorro
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Little Women
- National Velvet
- Gilda
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Lady from Shanghai
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- The Uninvited
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Stormy Weather
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- The Devil and Daniel Webster
- My Darling Clementine
- My Little Chickadee
- Sullivan's Travels
- On the Town
- Phantom of the Opera
- The Little Foxes
- Jane Eyre
- The Bank Dick
- Angel and the Badman
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- The Snake Pit
- The Heiress
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Adam's Rib
- Murder, My Sweet
- Late Spring
- The Lost Weekend
- Pinocchio
- The Bishop's Wife
- I Walked with a Zombie
- Black Narcissus
- Children of Paradise
- Christmas in Connecticut
- A Woman's Face
- Holiday Inn
- Day of Wrath
- Remember the Night
- The Pride of the Yankees
- Unfaithfully Yours
- I Was a Male War Bride
- Detour
- I Married a Witch
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- How Green Was My Valley
- Twelve O'Clock High
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- The Leopard Man
- Waterloo Bridge
- To Be or Not to Be
- The Palm Beach Story
- Going My Way
- Red River
- The Enchanted Cottage
- Out of the Past
- The Lady Eve
- The Major and the Minor