Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1943

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip43banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1943: World Premieres</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Meshes of the Afternoon</Font></b></Font> Dirs. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid. With Maya Deren <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=moremerr.html style="text-decoration:none">The More the Merrier</a></b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=songbern.html style="text-decoration:none">The Song of Bernadette</a></b></Font> Dir. Henry King. With Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Stormy Weather</Font></b></Font> Dir. Andrew L. Stone. With Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, Dooley Wilson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1943</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Constant Nymph</b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>For Whom the Bell Tolls</b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Gang's All Here</b></Font> Dir. Busby Berkeley. With Alice Faye, James Ellison, Carmen Miranda <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Madame Curie</b></Font> Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Albert Bassermann <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1943</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Cabin in the Sky</b></Font> Dir. Vincente Minnelli. With Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Rex Ingram<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Le Corbeau</b></Font> Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Day of Wrath</b></Font> Dir. Carl-Theodor Dreyer. With Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Hangmen Also Die</b></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Brian Donlevy, Anna Lee, Walter Brennan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Heaven Can Wait</b></Font> Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>I Walked with a Zombie</b></Font> Dir. Jacques Tourneur. With Frances Dee, Tom Conway<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp</b></Font> Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Old Acquaintance</b></Font> Dir. Vincent Sherman. With Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Ox-Bow Incident</b></Font> Dir. William Wellman. With Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Shadow of a Doubt</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Action in the North Atlantic</b></Font> Dir. Lloyd Bacon. With Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Adventure in Iraq</b></Font> Dir. D. Ross Lederman. With John Loder, Ruth Ford, Paul Cavanagh<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Adventures of Tartu</b></Font> Dir. Harold S. Bucquet. With Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Air Force</b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Crash Dive</b></Font> Dir. Archie Mayo. With Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Destination Tokyo</b></Font> Dir. Delmer Daves. With Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Du Barry Was a Lady</b></Font> Dir. Roy Del Ruth. With Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Five Graves to Cairo</b></Font> Dir. Billy Wilder. With Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Guadalcanal Diary</b></Font> Dir. Lewis Seiler. With Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>A Guy Named Joe</b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Hard Way</b></Font> Dir. Vincent Sherman. With Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Holy Matrimony</b></Font> Dir. John M. Stahl. With Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Human Comedy</b></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Journey into Fear</b></Font> Dir. Norman Foster. With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Lady of Burlesque</b></Font> Dir. William Wellman. With Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The North Star</b></Font> Dir. Lewis Milestone. With Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Ossessione</b></Font> Dir. Luchino Visconti. With Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Outlaw</b></Font> Dir. Howard Hughes. With Jane Russell, Jack Beutel, Thomas Mitchell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Phantom of the Opera</b></Font> Dir. Arthur Lubin. With Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Princess O'Rourke</b></Font> Dir. Norman Krasna. With Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Sahara</b></Font> Dir. Zoltan Korda. With Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennnett, J. Carrol Naish<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Sanshiro Sugata</b></Font> Dir. Akira Kurosawa. With Denjir&#244 &#212k&#244chi, Susumu Fujita<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Seventh Victim</b></Font> Dir. Mark Robson. With Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>So Proudly We Hail</b></Font> Dir. Mark Sandrich. With Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Something to Shout About</b></Font> Dir. Gregory Ratoff. With Don Ameche, Janet Blair, Jack Oakie<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Stage Door Canteen</b></Font> Dir. Frank Borzage. With Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker, Tallulah Bankhead<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Star Spangled Rhythm</b></Font> Dir. George Marshall. With Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Watch on the Rhine</b></Font> Dir. Herman Shumlin. 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