My Favorite Movies from the 1940's

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.