1941 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1941, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Tenebre
Directed by: Dario Argento
Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D'Angelo
Country: Italy
Outline: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
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
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 ...
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