The Eleven Best 40s Films
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 09/17/2002 - 04:07
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- 1) Citizen Kane (1941)
- 2) The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- 3) The Children of Paradise (1945)
- 4) The Third Man (1949)
- 5) Casablanca (1942)
- 6) Notorious (1946)
- 7) A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
- 8) The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- 9) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
- 10) Laura (1944)
- 11) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Mr. lbangs, I was wondering what your thoughts on Double Indemnity were.
If I expanded this list, the additions would probably look something like this:
12) The Big Sleep (sorry, everybody!)
13) His Girl Friday
14) Double Idemnity
I think it is a terrific film. On first viewing, I was quite shocked to find the Absent-Minded Professor behaving that way! (I was pretty young...)
Once I got past that, however (and MacMurray made it easier to get past that than I would have possibly believed), I adored the film. It is surely one of the Noirest of the Noirs, and part of me really wishes Wilder made more of them.
Great film.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs