1941 Movies

Sergeant York

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias

Country: United States of America

Outline: A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

How Green Was My Valley

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

Ball of Fire

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers

Country: United States of America

Outline: A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

They Died with Their Boots On

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin

Country: United States of America

Outline: A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. He has little ...

Men of Boys Town

Directed by: Norman Taurog

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Larry Nunn

Outline: Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flannigan tries to help every little boy he meets. ...

Honky Tonk

Directed by: Jack Conway

Starring: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor

Outline: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

A Yank in the R.A.F.

Directed by: Henry King

Starring: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner

Outline: An American pilot impulsively joins Her Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Citizen Kane

Directed by: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

Country: United States of America

Outline: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

The Little Foxes

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson

Country: United States of America

Outline: The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Maltese Falcon

Directed by: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre

Country: United States of America

Outline: A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Sullivan's Travels

Directed by: Preston Sturges

Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

Country: United States of America

Outline: A director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about life, which gives him a rude awakening.

The Lady Eve

Directed by: Preston Sturges

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette

Country: United States of America

Outline: A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him.

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Directed by: William Dieterle

Starring: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon

Country: United States of America

Outline: A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.

Meet John Doe

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.

The Devil and Miss Jones

Directed by: Sam Wood

Starring: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn

Country: United States of America

Outline: A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Directed by: Alexander Hall

Starring: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.

High Sierra

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy

Country: United States of America

Outline: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Hold That Ghost

Directed by: Arthur Lubin

Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis

Country: United States of America

Outline: After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

Hellzapoppin'

Directed by: H.C. Potter

Starring: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert

Country: United States of America

Outline: Olsen 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.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Directed by: William Keighley

Starring: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis

Country: United States of America

Outline: When acerbic critic Sheridan Whiteside slips on the front steps of a provincial Ohio businessman's home and breaks his hip, he and his entourage take over the house indefinitely.

Adventures of Captain Marvel

Directed by: John English, William Witney

Starring: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie

Outline: To protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, a teenage boy named Billy Batson is given the power to become an adult superhero, Captain Marvel, with a single magic word: "Shazam!"

King of the Texas Rangers

Directed by: John English, William Witney

Starring: Sammy Baugh, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Moore, Duncan Renaldo

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White Eagle

Directed by: James W. Horne

Starring: Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy Fay, James Craven

Outline: White Eagle is the son of a massacred army officer, who has been raised by an Indian tribe and believes himself to be the son of the tribal chief. White Eagle is working to get a peace ...

Love Crazy

Directed by: Jack Conway

Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson

Outline: A series of misunderstandings on their fourth wedding anniversary lead an architect and his wife to break up, but he pretends to be insane and even poses as his own sister in order to win her back.