| Title |
Min. |
c | S | M | H | P | V | En | Ed |
| Always Together | 95 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Cass Timberlane | 119 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Cynthia | 98 | b | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Daisy Kenyon | 99 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Dear Ruth | 95 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Down to Earth | 101 | c | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |
| Forever Amber | 138 | c | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Golden Earrings | 95 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Good News | 93 | c | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Green Dolphin Street | 140 | b | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| High Wall | 99 | b | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| If Winter Comes | 97 | b | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Killer McCoy | 104 | b | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Kiss of Death | 98 | b | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Lady in the Lake | 103 | b | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Living in a Big Way | 104 | b | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | |
| Magic Town | 103 | b | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Man I Love, The | 90 | b | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| New Orleans | 90 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Perils of Pauline, The | 93 | c | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Possessed | 108 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Ride the Pink Horse | 101 | b | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Road to Rio | 100 | b | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Sea of Grass, The | 123 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |
| Shocking Miss Pilgrim, The | 85 | c | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Smash-up: The Story of a Woman | 103 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| So Well Remembered | 114 | b | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| They Won't Believe Me | 80 | b | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| 13 Rue Madeleine | 95 | b | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Tycoon | 128 | c | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Unfaithful, The | 109 | b | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Web, The | 87 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
Dying Jonathan Turner (Cecil Kellaway) instructs lawyer Timothy
Bull (Ernest Truex) to give Jane Barker (Joyce Reynolds) one million
dollars. She marries writer Donn Masters (Robert Hutton) without
telling him. After he finds out, she is afraid her marriage will
be ruined and sues for divorce.
This movie-type plot spoofs itself because the young couple are
movie addicts and live in such fantasies. The double standard
that a woman may live off a man's money but not the reverse is
challenged.
Adapted from the novel by Sinclair Lewis, an older judge (Spencer Tracy) marries the young and poor Virginia (Lana Turner). He allows postponements of a case involving his country-club friends while she falls in love with the firm's lawyer (Zachary Scott), who wants to take her to New York.
This drama explores issues of social class and compatibility
but suggests that love and integrity can bridge a large age difference
in marriage.
Based on a play by Viña Delmar, sickly Cynthia (Elizabeth Taylor) misses her chance to be in the high school play but gains a boyfriend (Jimmy Lydon) thanks to support from her mother (Mary Astor) and a change in her father (George Murphy).
This coming-of-age drama portrays parents who missed their
dreams but are hoping to raise a child so that she can fulfill
hers. These characters realize that they need to learn self-reliance
and not be too influenced by other people.
Based on Elizabeth Janeway's novel, Daisy (Joan Crawford) is having an affair with the married lawyer Dan (Dana Andrews), but she marries the gentle veteran Peter (Henry Fonda), who is willing to give her a divorce when Dan decides to divorce his wife.
Peter is recovering from the deaths in the war and is undergoing
psychological healing and reintegration into society while Dan
outsmarts everyone including himself because he is willing to
sacrifice his children's happiness for a new romance. Peter's
detached and unconditional love proves to be lasting.
Based on Norman Krasna's play, Bill (William Holden) returns from the war wanting to marry beautiful Ruth (Joan Caulfield); but the letters in her name were sent by her young sister Miriam (Mona Freeman), and Ruth is engaged to Albert (Billy De Wolfe).
This comedy reflects an effort to keep up the spirit of
the men fighting abroad by offering them romantic hopes. The political
activism of Miriam has effects beyond her getting her parents
to give blood.
The Muse Terpsichore (Rita Hayworth) sees a Broadway musical being made about her by Danny Miller (Larry Parks), and Mr. Jordan (Roland Culver) arranges for her to go down to Earth and get the part with Max Corkle (James Gleason) as her agent.
This musical fantasy explores the artistic dilemma of trying
to combine inspired art with earthy entertainment, and for financial
reasons the latter usually wins.
Based on Kathleen Winsor's popular novel, in London during the 1660s beautiful Amber (Linda Darnell) loves a privateer (Cornel Wilde) and has his child; but he rejects her, and she has numerous romantic adventures with pirates, rogues, a count (Richard Haydn), whom she marries, and even King Charles II (George Sanders).
A threatened boycott by the Catholic Legion of Decency caused
major censorship even beyond the Production Code over issues of
sexual morality, showing that puritanical beliefs were still socially
influential.
Adapted from a novel by Yolanda Foldes, an English officer (Ray Milland) escapes from detention in Germany and is helped by a gypsy (Marlene Dietrich) to gain a secret poison-gas formula and flee the country as World War II is beginning.
This romantic drama explores the alternative lifestyle of
the gypsies, many of whom were exterminated by the Nazis.
Based on a play by Lew Brown and Laurence Schwab, a college football star (Peter Lawford) tries to woo a new sorority pledge (Patricia Marshall) but falls in love with a student (June Allyson) who works in the library.
This musical comedy celebrates the energy and vitality of
college life with singing, dancing, and humor. With the GI Bill
college life was becoming very important in the post-war era.
Based on Elizabeth Goudge's novel, William (Richard Hart) is the son of a doctor (Frank Morgan), who was in love with Sophie (Gladys Cooper), who married Octavius (Edmund Gwenn). Their daughters Marguerite (Donna Reed) and Marianne (Lana Turner) both fall in love with William. He has a problem with alcohol, deserts the British navy, loves Marguerite, but from New Zealand mistakenly writes that he wants to marry clever Marianne. Timothy (Van Heflin) has loved Marianne from a distance and knows the secret.
This melodrama suggests that marrying someone, who was not
one's first choice, can grow into an even deeper love. Even when
one does not have a physical partner, one can find spiritual love
for God.
War hero Steven Kenet (Robert Taylor) has a brain injury and is put in a psychiatric hospital for having confessed to strangling his wife; but he gets special help from Dr. Lorrison (Audrey Totter) and in bizarre ways tries to go after his wife's boss (Herbert Marshall).
This combination psychological thriller and murder mystery
is about the strange consequences of a quick war-time marriage,
reflecting peculiar consequences of the recent mass killings.
Adapted from A. S. M. Hutchinson's novel, author Mark (Walter Pidgeon) loves Nona (Deborah Kerr); but when she married a wealthy gambler, he married Mabel (Angela Lansbury). Nona comes back and says she loves Mark; but he can be fired only for a morals charge and does not stray. However, he takes in pregnant Effie (Janet Leigh), and she commits suicide. Mabel sues for divorce, and Mark is accused of corrupting Effie.
This romantic drama is uneven and unusual; but Mark's integrity
shines forth in a world gone crazy as World War II begins.
In this remake of the 1938 film The Crowd Roars, Tommy McCoy (Mickey Rooney) has an alcoholic father (James Dunn) and becomes a boxer, falling in love with the daughter (Ann Blyth) of the gambler (Brian Donlevy) who manages him.
Boxing, gambling, and alcohol are used to create an exciting
drama with the theme that people will be much happier if these
things are avoided.
Nick (Victor Mature) is caught in a jewelry robbery but refuses to tell the assistant district attorney (Brian Donlevy) who his accomplices are until he learns his wife committed suicide. Nick squeals on a sadistic criminal (Richard Widmark) and marries his children's babysitter (Coleen Gray).
The drama explores the web of criminals that threatens anyone
who tells on the others while the police and prosecutors promise
lesser sentences to achieve opposite goals.
Based on Raymond Chandler's novel and directed by Robert Montgomery, detective Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) is hired by Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) and then her boss Derris Kingsby (Leon Ames) to find Kingsby's missing wife; but Marlowe gets caught in a web of murders involving a bad cop (Lloyd Nolan) and Mildred Haveland (Jayne Meadows).
This experimental detective story lets the audience see
the action from the viewpoint of Philip Marlowe. Yet without seeing
Marlowe and what happens to him the viewers may find it harder
to identify with his suffering and understand his character, resulting
in a peculiar detachment in a very violent story.
Soldier Leo (Gene Kelly) marries Margaud (Marie McDonald) quickly during the war but comes home three years later to discover she is a wealthy model who wants to divorce him.
This musical drama explores the postwar difficulties of
returning veterans and the adjustment of patriotic war romances.
Pollster Rip Smith (James Stewart) goes to a town that statistically represents the nation. He fears change and fails to keep it a secret from newspaper editor Mary Peterman (Jane Wyman), whose news causes a boom and a bust, solved in Capraesque fashion by people helping each other.
This populist comedy explores the modern craze for polling
in a democracy that not only reflects but also shapes public opinion.
Based on Maritta Wolff's novel, singer Petey (Ida Lupino) helps her sister Sally (Andrea King) and brother Joe (Warren Douglas) while fighting off wolfish Nicky (Robert Alda) and falling for a jazz pianist (Bruce Bennett) who is broken up over his divorce.
In this emotionally hard-hitting drama people are seeking
love in various ways, but few are finding it.
Nick Duquesne (Arturo de Cordova) moves from running a gambling hall to sponsoring jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Woody Herman, and Endie (Billie Holiday). Wealthy Mrs. Smith (Irene Rich) discourages her daughter Miralee (Dorothy Patrick) from going with Nick in order to further her classical singing career.
This musical highlights the jazz born in New Orleans while
exploring the social prejudices that delayed its acceptance in
high-brow society.
In this fictionalized biography of Pearl White (Betty Hutton), she falls in love with a Shakespearean actor (John Lund); but she leaves the troupe to become a successful star working for a silent film director (William Demarest).
This entertaining comedy with some good music sentimentalizes
the life of Pearl White, whose actual career and romantic life
was even more tragic than is portrayed in this film.
Louise (Joan Crawford) has become psychotic, and a doctor (Stanley Ridges) learns the story of her clinging attachment to independent David (Van Heflin), the suicide of the woman she had a job taking care of, and her marrying the surviving husband Dean (Raymond Massey), further complicated by Dean's daughter Carol (Geraldine Brooks) resenting Louise and falling in love with David, thus pushing Louise over her psychological cliff.
This melodrama suggests that modern civilization is producing
numerous cases of maladjustment as people, especially women in
this case, let their emotions overcome their sensibility.
Based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, the veteran Gagin (Robert Montgomery) goes to a town in New Mexico to avenge the murder of his army buddy and to blackmail a crooked war profiteer (Fred Clark). Facing his gangsters alone, Gagin is helped by Pancho (Thomas Gomez), Pilar (Wanda Hendrix), and federal agent Retz (Art Smith).
This film noir explores the ruthless ways of organized crime
amid the Mexican culture of the poor during a fiesta.
Scat (Bing Crosby) and Hot Lips (Bob Hope) stow away on a boat to avoid female trouble but are mesmerized and confused by Lucia (Dorothy Lamour), who is being hypnotized by Catherine (Gale Sondergaard).
Hope and Crosby provide their usual mayhem of comedy, songs,
dancing, and a ridiculous plot. The hypnotism theme implies that
people can be manipulated subconsciously into doing irrational
things.
Based on Conrad Richter's novel, Lutie (Katharine Hepburn) from St. Louis marries cowman Col. Jim Brewton (Spencer Tracy), but she dislikes his values and is drawn to his rival, the lawyer and judge Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas). She finds support from the cook Jeff (Edgar Buchanan) and Doc Reid (Harry Carey), but she leaves Jim after having Brice's son Brock (Robert Walker), who grows up spoiled by his father but under a social cloud.
This sad drama exposes the ruthless pride of a cattle rancher
who tries to reject the changes that farmers bring, resulting
in his broken family.
In the 1870s Cynthia Pilgrim (Betty Grable) is one of the first to learn typewriting, and she gets a job in a Boston shipping company working for John Pritchard (Dick Haymes), who reluctantly hires her at the behest of his aunt (Ann Rovere). Then he falls in love with Cynthia despite her efforts in the woman suffrage movement.
This musical comedy with Gershwin songs depicts women's
efforts for equal rights in modern society and shows that women
deserve employment opportunities.
Singer Angie (Susan Hayward) marries the crooner Ken Conway (Lee Bowman), who is a struggling song-writer with Steve (Eddie Albert). They have a daughter; but when Ken makes it big, Angie has nothing to do but drink and become jealous of the secretary Martha (Marsha Hunt), who takes care of Ken's every need.
This tragedy depicts alcoholism as a disease, and it reflects
the life of Bing Crosby's first wife, Dixie Lee.
Based on James Hilton's novel, newspaper editor George Boswell (John Mills) works to help the poor, but he marries ambitious Olivia (Martha Scott). An alcoholic doctor (Trevor Howard) fights diphtheria. After Olivia's negligence causes her child to die, she divorces George; but her son Charles (Richard Carlson) falls in love with Julie (Patricia Roc), who was raised by the doctor.
This moral drama suggests that wars and misery are caused
by selfish people who fight to get their special way while ignoring
the needs and well being of others.
Larry (Robert Young) is on trial for murder. He plans to leave his wealthy wife Greta (Rita Johnson) to go off with Janice (Jane Greer) but instead goes with his wife to California for a better job she got him. There he falls in love with Verna (Susan Hayward) and plans to marry her, but a car accident spoils that.
This mystery drama portrays an unsympathetic womanizer who
eventually feels guilt for his misadventures.
Gibson (Walter Abel), Pappy (Melville Cooper), and Sharkey (James Cagney) train a group for an O.S.S. mission in France in 1944, but O'Connell (Richard Conte) is a German mole. Sharkey goes after him and gets help from a mayor (Sam Jaffe) in the French resistance.
This espionage war drama reflects the ruthless methods used
by and against Nazis that are becoming part of cold-war tactics.
Based on a novel by C. E. Scoggins, engineer Johnny Monroe (John Wayne) is building a railroad in South America for Alexander (Cedric Hardwicke) and falls in love with his daughter Maura (Laraine Day).
This colorful drama shows a titanic clash between two strong
males over the shifting affection of a young woman from her father
to her husband.
Chris Hunter (Ann Sheridan) kills an intruder in her home, but her lawyer (Lew Ayres) and husband Bob (Zachary Scott) find out he was her lover while Bob was in the war.
This murder mystery becomes a drama of past marital infidelity
that tests an otherwise happy marriage. Divorce is increasing,
and wives with husbands abroad for so long faced loneliness and
temptations.
The young lawyer Regan (Edmond O'Brien) is hired by millionaire Colby (Vincent Price) to protect him, but while romancing Colby's secretary Noel (Ella Raines), Regan becomes entangled in murder, which he and the homicide Lt. Damico (William Bendix) attempt to unravel.
This film noir has a lawyer trying to be a detective and
digging himself deeper in a hole while the professional cop saves
him by solving the case, thus reflecting the increasing competence
of police work.