1943 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1943, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Sahara
Directed by: Breck Eisner
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, William H.Macy, Rainn Wilson, Steve Zahn, Lambert Wilson
Country: United States of America
Flicka
Directed by: Michael Mayer
Starring: Maria Bello, Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Song of Bernadette
Directed by: Henry King
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, William Eythe, Vincent Price
Country: United States of America
Outline: In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all ...
Destination Tokyo
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Starring: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely
Country: United States of America
Outline: In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Directed by: Sam Wood
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova
Country: United States of America
Outline: During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Stage Door Canteen
Directed by: Frank Borzage
Starring: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker
Country: United States of America
Outline: "Dakota," a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen ...
Coney Island
Directed by: Walter Lang
Starring: Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, Charles Winninger
Outline: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star ...
This Is the Army
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale
Country: United States of America
Outline: In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the war, he becomes a producer. In WWII his son Johnny Jones, who was before his ...
Casablanca
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Prithvi Vallabh
Directed by: Sohrab Modi
Starring: Sadiq Ali, Durga Khote, Leela Mishra, Sohrab Modi
Outline: Talip and his sister, Mrinalvati, of a neighboring kingdom imprison Prithvi Vallabh, the kind king of Avantipur.
Tansen
Directed by: Jayant Desai
Starring: K.L. Saigal, Khurshid Begum, Mubarak, Nagendra
Outline: Renowned, talent singer Tansen is settled in a small village. He has a lover whom he loves madly namely Tani. His singing talent pampers everyone in his village namely the animals, the ...
The Ox-Bow Incident
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn
Country: United States of America
Outline: When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.
Day of Wrath
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Kirsten Andreasen
Country: United States of America
Outline: The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th century Denmark.
Shadow of a Doubt
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young woman discovers her visiting uncle may not be the man he seems to be.
The More the Merrier
Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Country: United States of America
Outline: During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Starring: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest
Country: United States of America
Outline: After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
Ossessione
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Country: United States of America
Outline: Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
This Land Is Mine
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Starring: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Country: United States of America
Outline: A mild-mannered school-teacher in a Nazi-occupied town during W.W.II finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.
Sahara
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges
Country: United States of America
Outline: After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
Jane Eyre
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Country: United States of America
Outline: After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
Old Acquaintance
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Starring: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder
Outline: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
Heaven Can Wait
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
Country: United States of America
Outline: An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Five Graves to Cairo
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Starring: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim
Country: United States of America
Outline: During World War II, an undercover British soldier tries get word to the Allies that the Germans have tons of supplies buried in five excavations across Egypt.
Stormy Weather
Directed by: Andrew L. Stone
Starring: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe
Country: United States of America
Outline: The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Directed by: David Butler
Starring: Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
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