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Ten Essential Films of the 1940s

October 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten essential films of the 1940s… We recently took a dive back to the 1950s in a quest to prove Quentin Tarantino wrong in his claim that it was one of the weakest decades for cinema. Sorry QT, but there are just far too many greats to come close to paling in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bicycle Thieves, Brief Encounter, Brute Force, Casablanca, cat people, Citizen Kane, Detour, Double Indemnity, Drunken Angel, Fantasia, Gaslight, Gilda, Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, Late Spring, Le Belle et la Bette, Naked City, Notorious, Rebecca, rope, Sanshiro Sugata, shadow of a doubt, Stray Dog, the maltese falcon, The Red House, The Red Shoes, the third man, The Woman in the Window, White Heat

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