Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1946

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip46banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1946: World Premieres</b></Font><br>  <a href=persac46.html>My 1946 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><Font Color="#003399">Notorious</Font></b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Rains <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=bestyrs.html style="text-decoration:none">The Best Years of Our Lives</a></b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Dana Andrews, Fredric March <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><Font Color="#003399">It's a Wonderful Life</Font></b></Font> Dir. Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Donna Reed <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">The Big Sleep</Font></b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers <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=posalw46.html style="text-decoration:none">The Postman Always Rings Twice</a></b></Font> Dir. Tay Garnett. With John Garfield, Lana Turner <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><Font Color="#003399">The Harvey Girls</Font></b></Font> Dir. George Sidney. With Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Preston Foster <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</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><Font Color="#003399">Duel in the Sun</Font></b></Font> Dir. King Vidor. With Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1946</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=posalw46.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b></a></Font> Dir. Tay Garnett. With Joan Garfield, Lana Turner <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1946</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>Anna and the King of Siam</b></Font> Dir. John Cromwell. With Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Humoresque</b></Font> Dir. Jean Negulesco. With Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Sister Kenny</b></Font> Dir. Dudley Nichols. With Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=marthivr.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Strange Love of Martha Ivers</b></a></Font> Dir. Lewis Milestone. With Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=teachown.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>To Each His Own</b></a></Font> Dir. Mitchell Leisen. With Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Roland Culver <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Yearling</b></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With Claude Jarman, Jr., Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Also from 1946</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Gilda</b></Font> Dir. Charles Vidor. With Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, George Macready, Joseph Calleia<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Killers</b></Font> Dir. Robert Siodmak. With Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien, Ava Gardner<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1946</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>Beauty and the Beast</b></Font> Dir. Jean Cocteau. With Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Par&#233ly<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Cluny Brown</b></Font> Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Peter Lawford<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Diary of a Chambermaid</b></Font> Dir. Jean Renoir. With Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Great Expectations</b></Font> Dir. David Lean. With John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>A Matter of Life and Death</b></Font> Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. With David Niven<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>My Darling Clementine</b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Pais&#224n</b></Font> Dir. Roberto Rossellini. With Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Shoeshine</b></Font> Dir. Vittorio De Sica. With Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Stranger</b></Font> Dir. Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Edward G. Robinson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Utamaro and His Five Women</b></Font> Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi. With Minosuke Band&#244<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Angel on My Shoulder</b></Font> Dir. Archie Mayo. With Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Black Angel</b></Font> Dir. Roy William Neill. With Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Blue Dahlia</b></Font> Dir. George Marshall. With Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Centennial Summer</b></Font> Dir. Otto Preminger. With Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Cloak and Dagger</b></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Dark Corner</b></Font> Dir. Henry Hathaway. With Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Dark Mirror</b></Font> Dir. Robert Siodmak. With Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Deception</b></Font> Dir. Irving Rapper. With Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, John Abbott<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Dragonwyck</b></Font> Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Gates of the Night</b></Font> Dir. Marcel Carn&#233. With Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Green Years</b></Font> Dir. Victor Saville. With Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Hume Cronyn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>I See a Dark Stranger</b></Font> Dir. Frank Launder. With Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Jolson Story</b></Font> Dir. Alfred E. Green. With Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Locket</b></Font> Dir. John Brahm. With Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Murderers Are Among Us</b></Font> Dir. Wolfgang Staudte. With Ernst Wilhelm Borchert<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>My Reputation</b></Font> Dir. Curtis Bernhardt. With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Night and Day</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>No Regrets for Our Youth</b></Font> Dir. Akira Kurosawa. With Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Nobody Lives Forever</b></Font> Dir. Jean Negulesco. With John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Of Human Bondage</b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Razor's Edge</b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Road to Utopia</b></Font> Dir. Hal Walker. With Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>A Scandal in Paris</b></Font> Dir. Douglas Sirk. With George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Secret Heart</b></Font> Dir. Robert Z. Leonard. With Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Somewhere in the Night</b></Font> Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With John Hodiak, Nancy Guild<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Song of the South</b></Font> Dirs. Harve Foster & Wilfred Jackson. Animated. With James Baskett<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>A Stolen Life</b></Font> Dir. Curtis Bernhardt. With Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Three Strangers</b></Font> Dir. Jean Negulesco. With Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Tomorrow Is Forever</b></Font> Dir. Irving Pichel. With Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Undercurrent</b></Font> Dir. Vincente Minnelli. With Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Verdict</b></Font> Dir. Don Siegel. With Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring<br> </Table> <hr> <Font Face=Garamond> <table cellpadding=12><tr> <td>Trackbacks:</td> <td><b><a href=movies46home.html target="_top">Permalink</a></b></td> <td><b><a href=movies46.html target="_top">1946</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>