Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1944

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip44banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1944: World Premieres</b></Font><br>  <a href=persac44.html>My 1944 Oscar Ballot</a></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><a href=laura.html style="text-decoration:none">Laura</a></b></Font> Dir. Otto Preminger. With Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price <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=tohavhav.html style="text-decoration:none">To Have and Have Not</a></b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall <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=doubindm.html style="text-decoration:none">Double Indemnity</a></b></Font> Dir. Billy Wilder. With Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck <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><a href=mircmorg.html style="text-decoration:none">The Miracle of Morgan's Creek</a></b></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=atland.html style="text-decoration:none">At Land</Font></b></a> Dir. Maya Deren. With Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Parker Tyler, John Cage <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=henryv44.html style="text-decoration:none">Henry V</Font></b></a> Dir. Laurence Olivier. With Laurence Olivier, Harcourt Williams, Michael Warre <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=meetmest.html style="text-decoration:none">Meet Me in St. Louis</Font></b></a> Dir. Vincente Minnelli. With Judy Garland, Lucille Bremer <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=cantbuta.html style="text-decoration:none">A Canterbury Tale</Font></b></a> Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. With John Sweet <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>9. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=torment.html style="text-decoration:none">Torment</Font></b></a> Dir. Alf Sj&#246berg. With Alf Kjellin, Stig J&#228rrel, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>10. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=wingpray.html style="text-decoration:none">Wing and a Prayer</Font></b></a> Dir. Henry Hathaway. With Don Ameche, William Eythe, Dana Andrews <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1944: World Premieres</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">★</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">★</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog/Favorites Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">★</Font>   <a href=atland.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>At Land</b></a></Font> Dir. Maya Deren. With Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Parker Tyler, John Cage <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">★</Font>   <a href=curscatp.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Curse of the Cat People</b></a></Font> Dirs. Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise. With Ann Carter <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>   <a href=experils.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Experiment Perilous</b></a></Font> Dir. Jacques Tourneur. With George Brent, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Lukas <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">★</Font>   <a href=hairyape.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Hairy Ape</b></a></Font> Dir. Alfred Santell. With William Bendix, Susan Hayward, Dorothy Comingore <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>   <a href=janeyr44.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Jane Eyre</b></a></Font> Dir. Robert Stevenson. With Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">★</Font>   <a href=mrsparkg.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Mrs. Parkington</b></a></Font> Dir. Tay Garnett. With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Agnes Moorehead <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>   <a href=wingpray.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Wing and a Prayer</b></a></Font> Dir. Henry Hathaway. With Don Ameche, William Eythe, Dana Andrews <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1944</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">      <a href=arsenlac.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Arsenic and Old Lace</b></a></Font> Dir. Frank Capra. With Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=chilwatc.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Children Are Watching Us</b></a></Font> Dir. Vittorio De Sica. With Luciano De Ambrosis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=cobrawom.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Cobra Woman</b></a></Font> Dir. Robert Siodmak. With Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Lon Chaney Jr. <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=dragseed.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Dragon Seed</b></a></Font> Dirs. Harold S. Bucquet & Jack Conway. With Katharine Hepburn, Turhan Bey <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=gaslight.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Gaslight</b></a></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=gomyway.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Going My Way</b></a></Font> Dir. Leo McCarey. With Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Ris&#235 Stevens <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=hailconq.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Hail the Conquering Hero</b></a></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=ivanter1.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Ivan the Terrible, Part 1</b></a></Font> Dir. Sergei Eisenstein. With Nikolai Cherkasov, Mikhail Nazvanov <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=keysking.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Keys of the Kingdom</b></a></Font> Dir. John M. Stahl. With Gregory Peck, Benson Fong <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=lifeboat.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Lifeboat</b></a></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, John Hodiak <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=mdimtros.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Mask of Dimitrios</b></a></Font> Dir. Jean Negulesco. With Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=mrskeffg.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Mr. Skeffington</b></a></Font> Dir. Vincent Sherman. With Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=natlvelv.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>National Velvet</b></a></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=7thcross.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Seventh Cross</b></a></Font> Dir. Fred Zinnemann. With Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn, Signe Hasso <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=sincywen.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Since You Went Away</b></a></Font> Dir. John Cromwell. With Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=uninvitd.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Uninvited</b></a></Font> Dir. Lewis Allen. With Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=wilson.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Wilson</b></a></Font> Dir. Henry King. With Alexander Knox, Ruth Nelson, Geraldine Fitzgerald <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=womwindw.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Woman in the Window</b></a></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1944</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>Bluebeard</b></Font> Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer. With John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Cover Girl</b></Font> Dir. Charles Vidor. With Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Days of Glory</b></Font> Dir. Jacques Tourneur. With Gregory Peck, Alan Reed, Maria Palmer<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Lodger</b></Font> Dir. John Brahm. With Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Ministry of Fear</b></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Murder, My Sweet</b></Font> Dir. Edward Dmytryk. With Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>None But the Lonely Heart</b></Font> Dir. Clifford Odets. With Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Thirty Seconds over Tokyo</b></Font> Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Van Johnson, Robert Walker<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>This Happy Breed</b></Font> Dir. David Lean. With Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The White Cliffs of Dover</b></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Between Two Worlds</b></Font> Dir. Edward A. Blatt. With John Garfield, Edmund Gwenn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Fighting Sullivans</b></Font> Dir. Lloyd Bacon. With Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>His Butler's Sister</b></Font> Dir. Frank Borzage. With Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Janie</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Kismet</b></Font> Dir. William Dieterle. With Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Lady in the Dark</b></Font> Dir. Mitchell Leisen. With Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>None Shall Escape</b></Font> Dir. Andr&#233 de Toth. With Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Phantom Lady</b></Font> Dir. Robert Siodmak. With Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Together Again</b></Font> Dir. Charles Vidor. With Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Charles Coburn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Two Girls and a Sailor</b></Font> Dir. Richard Thorpe. With June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven<br> </Table> <hr> <Font Face=Garamond> <table cellpadding=12><tr> <td>Trackbacks:</td> <td><b><a href=movies44home.html target="_top">Permalink</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=movies44.html target="_top">1944</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=movarchs.html target="_top">Home</a></b></td> <td><b><a href="http://blog.nicksflickpicks.com" target="_new">Blog</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=email.html target="_top">E-Mail</a></b></td> </tr></table> </Font> </center> </body>