Your Favourite film of the 1940s?

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What’s your favourite movie from the 1940s?

  • Casablanca
  • Citizen Kane
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Double Indemnity
  • The Third Man
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Rebecca
  • The Great Dictator
  • The Bicycle Thief
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • The Big Sleep
  • Brief Encounter
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
  • Rome, Open City
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Red Shoes
  • The Lady Eve
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Rope
  • Late Spring
  • Fantasia
  • Letter From an Unknown Woman
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Les Enfants du Paradis
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Great Expectations
  • Black Narcissus
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Spring in a Small Town

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The 1940s was a big decade for cinema. Hollywood at it’s best - the Golden Era, thrillers, Hitchcock, ‘that’ film which is always voted best of all time, screwball comedies, big studios and big stars. I think my fave Hollywood film of the era is Casablanca, but my vote has to go elsewhere. The Bicycle Thief comes close, but Les Enfants du Paradis just has a special exuberance that earns it my vote.

Brian

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For me it was between The Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity, and I’m still not sure how Billy Wilder lost.

One of the things I like about them both is that in each movie the Hollywood factory, with its focus on cycle time and editing, actually helped to churn out art.