1945: Movies Sorted By Tier

Submitted by stooky on Sat, 07/17/2004 - 02:36
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  • Great

  • And Then There Were None
  • Brief Encounter
  • Dead Of Night
  • Henry V
  • National Velvet
  • Spellbound
  • They Were Expendable
  • A Walk In The Sun

  • Very Good

  • Blithe Spirit
  • The Body Snatcher
  • Detour
  • The House On 92nd Street
  • Isle Of The Dead
  • The Lost Weekend
  • The Southerner
  • The Story Of G.I. Joe
  • **The G.I. Joe of the title actually refers to any soldier of the infantry and the movie seeks to communicate their stories as realistically as possible for 1945. The story focuses on a single division 18th C Company, peopled by an unusual amount of non-stereotypes, from their beginnings to their eventual taking of Rome. There are no horoic charges and battles of gargantuan scope, this is simply the lives infantry soldiers in their daily lives, told with an great amount of humanity. Excellent use of stock footage helps infinitely with realism, the best example being explosions of mortar fire hitting an Italian Monastery. The real strength of the film, however, is the skill with which the cast, writer and director created such a pragmatic sincere film. William Wellman, a man who seemed bent of making morbidly fascinating stories, is in fine form dissembling the movie into small scenes separated by time and emotion yet never skimping on entertainment. The best scenes ranging from a man’s daily attempts to listen to his son’s voice on gramophone to a wedding punctuated by the line “till death do you part…now hit the floor!” as an air raid ensues. Robert Mitchum, as usual, is excellent in what was his first major role but it's Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle (winner of the Pulitzer for the correspondence this movie was based on) who shines in what could be his best performance.(Incidentally Ernie Pyle worked as a technical advisor on this film, he was later shot and killed by a sniper before it’s release.)

  • Good

  • Anchors Aweigh
  • A Bell For Adano
  • The Picture Of Dorian Gray
  • State Fair
  • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

  • Guilty Pleasures

  • Average

  • The Bells Of St. Mary’s
  • Christmas In Connecticut
  • Pride Of The Marines
  • Sherlock Holmes And The Woman in Green

  • Dreck

  • Road To Utopia

  • The Big Stink

  • Unfortunately Haven’t Seen

  • Children Of Paradise
  • The Clock
  • The Corn Is Green
  • The Enchanted Cottage
  • Objective Burma!
  • Open City
  • Scarlet Street
  • The Seventh Veil
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1946: Movies Sorted By Tier
bertie10/01/2004

I would rate The Lost Weekend a notch higher. The high point of Ray Milland's career; he really chews up the scenery. A seriously good film about a seriously bad addiction.

stooky10/01/2004

Yeah, that's a woopsy right there, I swear I edited these but I think I should go over it again. I totally agree. (:?D

Bertie, editor of Stooky.

I feel like I should be paying you. :?)

T'ho

:?)