Stotty's 1940s Favourites


Adam's Rib | 1949 | USA | George Cukor


Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | USA | Frank Capra


Bad Luck Blackie | 1949 | USA | Tex Avery


The Bank Dick | 1940 | USA | W.C. Fields


Begone Dull Care | 1949 | Canada | Norman McLaren


Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Italy | Vittorio De Sica


The Big Sleep | 1946 | USA | Howard Hawks


Blithe Spirit | 1945 | UK | David Lean


Blood of the Beasts | 1949 | France | Georges Franju


Brief Encounter | 1945 | UK | David Lean


Brighton Rock | 1947 | UK | Boulting Brothers


Build My Gallows High | 1947 | USA | Jacques Tourneur


A Canterbury Tale | 1944 | UK | Powell & Pressburger


Casablanca | 1942 | USA | Michael Curtiz


Citizen Kane | 1941 | USA | Orson Welles


Copenhagen Boogie | 1949 | Denmark | Keld Helmer-Petersen


Day of Wrath | 1943 | Denmark | Carl Th. Dreyer


Dead of Night | 1945 | UK | Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, & Robert Hamer


Double Indemnity | 1944 | USA | Billy Wilder


The Dover Boys at Pimento University | 1942 | USA | Chuck Jones


Dumb-Hounded | 1943 | USA | Tex Avery


Easter Parade | 1948 | USA | Charles Walters


The Ghost Train | 1941 | UK | Arthur Askey


Great Expectations | 1946 | UK | David Lean


The Heiress | 1949 | USA | William Wyler


Hellzapoppin' | 1941 | USA | Olsen & Johnson


Hideko, the Bus Conductress | 1941 | Japan | Naruse Mikio


It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | USA | Frank Capra


It's in the Bag! | 1945 | USA | Richard Wallace


The Lady Eve | 1941 | USA | Preston Sturges


Late Spring | 1949 | Japan | Ozu Yasujirō


Laura | 1944 | USA | Otto Preminger


The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | UK | Powell & Pressburger


The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | USA | John Huston


The Man Who Came to Dinner | 1942 | USA | William Keighley


A Matter of Life and Death | 1946 | UK | Powell & Pressburger


Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | USA | Maya Deren


Mr. Shosuke Ohara | 1949 | Japan | Shimizu Hiroshi


My Learned Friend | 1943 | UK | Will Hay


Northwest Hounded Police | 1946 | USA | Tex Avery


Notorious | 1946 | USA | Alfred Hitchcock


Oliver Twist | 1948 | UK | David Lean


The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | USA | Preston Sturges


Passport to Pimlico | 1949 | UK | Henry Cornelius


The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | USA | George Cukor


A Place of One’s Own | 1945 | UK | Bernard Knowles


Prison | 1949 | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman


The Red Shoes | 1948 | UK | Powell & Pressburger


Ritual in Transfigured Time | 1946 | USA | Maya Deren


The Set-Up | 1949 | USA | Robert Wise


Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | USA | Alfred Hitchcock


The Small Back Room | 1949 | UK | Powell & Pressburger


Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | USA | Preston Sturges


The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | UK | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, & Tim Whelan


The Third Man | 1949 | UK | Carol Reed


This Happy Breed | 1944 | UK | David Lean


Torment | 1944 | Sweden | Alf Sjöberg


The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | USA | John Huston


Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | USA | Preston Sturges


The Way to the Stars | 1945 | UK | Anthony Asquith


The Way You Wanted Me | 1944 | Finland | Teuvo Tulio


Whisky Galore! | 1949 | UK | Alexander Mackendrick


Women of the Night | 1948 | Japan | Mizoguchi Kenji