Top 25 Films Of The Greatest Year - 1941
1941 was the second greatest year in the Hollywood and the world cinema, after 1939, and became the landmark film success of The Maltese Falcon, Sullivan's Travels, Dumbo, 1941 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and The Lady Eve, and more. They also became famous known for the greatest film ever made by critics, Citizen Kane.
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- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.''Some called him a hero…others called him a heel.'
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsJoel McCreaVeronica LakeRobert WarwickHollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.'Veronica Lake’s on the Take'
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsRobert MontgomeryClaude RainsEvelyn KeyesBoxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.Columbia Pictures presents a picture different from anything ever screened before!
- DirectorJohn FordStarsWalter PidgeonMaureen O'HaraAnna LeeAt 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.Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles CoburnA trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.'When you deal a fast shuffle, love is in the cards.'
- DirectorFritz LangStarsWalter PidgeonJoan BennettGeorge SandersIn July 1939, British hunter Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.'Man Hunt' is the one of the Most Gripping Scenes Ever Filmed…as two world-famous hunters stalk each Other!
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsTyrone PowerLinda DarnellRita HayworthIlliterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.Love flamed in the shadow of death!
Photographed in Technicolor - DirectorBusby BerkeleyRobert Z. LeonardStarsJames StewartJudy GarlandHedy LamarrIn the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.Ziegfeld Girl is the GREATEST MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA OF ALL TIME!
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyIngrid BergmanLana TurnerDr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild after he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.It CHILLS you! Half-MAN! Half-MONSTER!
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonFelix BressartAfter losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.The stirring saga of a childless beauty…who was determined to be a mother!
Photographed in Technicolor - DirectorSamuel ArmstrongNorman FergusonWilfred JacksonStarsSterling HollowayEdward BrophyHerman BingRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.The One…The Only…The FABULOUS…
A Disney Animated Canon classic -- Photographed in Technicolor - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallTeresa WrightThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.'The Little Foxes' is the film version of the stage hit, as the ruthless beauty whose ambition spelt the doom of three men
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCharles BoyerOlivia de HavillandPaulette GoddardStopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.Paramount presents a three great stars in the story of love…coldly conceived from a man’s need, and a woman’s desire!
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie HowardLaurence OlivierRichard GeorgeA World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.THE MIGHTEST MANHUNT THAT EVER SWEPT THE SCREEN!
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneBetty FieldHarry CareyA mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.He Tamed Their Wild Hearts With His Courage and Won Them With His Love
Photographed in Technicolor - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantIrene DunneBeulah BondiA couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unforeseen sadness and unexpected joy.“Remember the tune they were singing the night we fell in love?…”
- DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsClaude RainsWarren WilliamRalph BellamyUpon his return to his father's estate, aristocrat Larry Talbot meets a beautiful woman, attends a mystical carnival and uncovers a horrifying curse.His hideous howl a dirge of death!
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineCedric HardwickeA shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.In his arms she felt safety…in his absence, haunting dread!
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJoan CrawfordMelvyn DouglasConrad VeidtA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.HOW COULD THIS WOMAN WIN A MAN’S LOVE…HIS KISSES…HIS EMBRACES…?
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsOle OlsenChic JohnsonMartha RayeOlsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.AT LAST IT’S ON THE SCREEN! Greater than the Stage Show!
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckOscar HomolkaA group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.“I LOVE HIM because he doesn’t know how to kiss—THE JERK!”
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanJoan LeslieA 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.Missiles! Jets! Tanks! … It’s still the guy with guts and a gun who wins the war!
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsW.C. FieldsGloria JeanLeon ErrolA filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.It’s a Fields-day of fun!
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMerle OberonMelvyn DouglasBurgess MeredithA psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.It’s a serious problem for a lady with the hiccups, and he is it!
