Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1940

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip40banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1940: World Premieres</b></Font><br>  <a href=persac40.html>My 1940 Oscar Ballot</a></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Pinocchio</Font></b></Font> Dirs. Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske. Animated. Voice of Dickie Jones <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=hisgirlf.html style="text-decoration:none">His Girl Friday</a></b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=letter.html style="text-decoration:none">The Letter</a></b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=philstor.html style="text-decoration:none">The Philadelphia Story</a></b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=grapeswr.html style="text-decoration:none">The Grapes of Wrath</a></b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With Henry Fonda, John Carradine <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=rebecca.html style="text-decoration:none">Rebecca</a></b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Broadway Melody of 1940</Font></b></Font> Dir. Norman Taurog. With Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">All This, and Heaven Too</Font></b></Font> Dir. Anatole Litvak. With Bette Davis, Charles Boyer <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>9.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Waterloo Bridge</Font></b></Font> Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Virginia Field <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>10.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Shop around the Corner</Font></b></Font> Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With Margaret Sullavan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1940</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog/Favorites Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=gaslig40.html style="text-decoration:none" target="_new">Gaslight</a></b></Font> Dir. Thorold Dickinson. With Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Frank Pettingell <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1940</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Arise, My Love</b></Font> Dir. Mitchell Leisen. With Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Walter Abel <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dance, Girl, Dance</b></Font> Dir. Dorothy Arzner. With Maureen O'Hara, Lucille Ball, Louis Hayward <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Kitty Foyle</b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Long Voyage Home</b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>My Favorite Wife</b></Font> Dir. Garson Kanin. With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Primrose Path</b></Font> Dir. Gregory La Cava. With Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>They Knew What They Wanted</b></Font> Dir. Garson Kanin. With Charles Laughton <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Also from 1940</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Foreign Correspondent</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Joel McCrea, Laraine Day<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Abe Lincoln in Illinois</b></Font> Dir. John Cromwell. With Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Great Dictator</b></Font> Dir. Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1940</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Bank Dick</b></Font> Dir. Edward F. Cline. With W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Fantasia</b></Font> Dirs. James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, et al.<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Great McGinty</b></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Night Train to Munich</b></Font> Dir. Carol Reed. With Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Pride and Prejudice</b></Font> Dir. Robert Z. Leonard. With Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Return of Frank James</b></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Strange Cargo</b></Font> Dir. Frank Borzage. With Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Susan and God</b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>They Drive by Night</b></Font> Dir. Raoul Walsh. With George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Thief of Bagdad</b></Font> Dirs. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan. With Sabu<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Boom Town</b></Font> Dir. Jack Conway. With Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Christmas in July</b></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dark Command</b></Font> Dir. Raoul Walsh. With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet</b></Font> Dir. William Dieterle. With Edward G. Robinson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Go West</b></Font> Dir. Edward Buzzell. With the Marx Brothers, John Carroll, Diana Lewis<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>I Love You Again</b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Invisible Woman</b></Font> Dir. A. Edward Sutherland. With Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Mark of Zorro</b></Font> Dir. Rouben Mamoulian. With Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>My Little Chickadee</b></Font> Dir. Edward F. Cline. With Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Road to Singapore</b></Font> Dir. Victor Schertzinger. With Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Santa Fe Trail</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Sea Hawk</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Westerner</b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. 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