ALTERNATE ESSENTIALS of AMERICAN CINEMA -- 1940s

ADAM’S RIB (1949, George Cukor)

CRISS CROSS (1949, Robert Siodmak)

THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949, Max Ophuls)

THE SET-UP (1949, Robert Wise)

THIEVES HIGHWAY (1949, Jules Dassin)

WHITE HEAT (1949, Raoul Walsh)

FORCE OF EVIL (1948, Abraham Polonsky)

FORT APACHE (1948, John Ford)

KEY LARGO (1948, John Huston)

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948, Max Ophuls)

RED RIVER (1948, Howard Hawks)

THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948, Nicholas Ray)

UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (1948, Preston Sturges)

FIREWORKS (1947, Kenneth Anger)

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947, Orson Welles)

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947, Edmund Goulding)

OUT OF THE PAST (1947, Jacques Tourneur)

THE BIG SLEEP (1946, Howard Hawks)

GILDA (1946, Charles Vidor)

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946, John Ford)

NOTORIOUS (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946, Tay Garnett)

RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946, Maya Deren)

STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946, Lewis Milestone)

THE CLOCK (1945, Vincente Minnelli)

DETOUR (1945, Edgar Ulmer)

FALLEN ANGEL (1945, Otto Preminger)

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945, John Stahl)

THE LOST WEEKEND (1945, Billy Wilder)

SCARLET STREET (1945, Fritz Lang)

AT LAND (1944, Maya Deren)

HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944, Preston Sturges)

LAURA (1944, Otto Preminger)

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944, Vincente Minnelli)

THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEK (1944, Preston Sturges)

MURDER MY SWEET (1944, Edward Dmytryk)

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944, Howard Hawks)

HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943, Ernst Lubitsch)

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943, Jacques Tourneur)

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943, Maya Deren)

THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943, William A. Wellman)

THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943, Mark Robson)

SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)

BAMBI (1942, David Hand)

CAT PEOPLE (1942, Jacques Tourneur)

THE PALM BEACH STORY (1942, Preston Sturges)

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)

YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942, William Seiter)

DUMBO (1941, Ben Sharpensteen)

HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941, John Ford)

THE LADY EVE (1941, Preston Sturges)

THE LITTLE FOXES (1941, William Wyler)

THE SHANGHAI GESTURE (1941, Josef von Sternberg)

CHRISTMAS IN JULY (1940, Preston Sturges)

HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940, Howard Hawks)

PINOCCHIO (1940, Ben Sharpensteen/Hamilton Luske)

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

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