Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1941

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip41banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1941: World Premieres</b></Font><br>  <a href=persac41.html>My 1941 Oscar Ballot</a> / <a href=osactresframes41.html target="_new">The Best Actress Race</a><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">Citizen Kane</Font></b></Font> Dir. Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore <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><Font Color="#003399">The Lady Eve</Font></b></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn <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><Font Color="#003399">The Maltese Falcon</Font></b></Font> Dir. John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</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=howgreen.html style="text-decoration:none">How Green Was My Valley</a></b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</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><Font Color="#003399">The Blood of Jesus</Font></b></Font> Dir. Spencer Williams. With Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</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><Font Color="#003399">The Flame of New Orleans</Font></b></Font> Dir. Ren&#233 Clair. With Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</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">The Little Foxes</Font></b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Teresa Wright, Herbert Marshall <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">49th Parallel (aka The Invaders)</Font></b></Font> Dir. Michael Powell. With Eric Portman <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><a href=hcjordan.html style="text-decoration:none">Here Comes Mr. Jordan</a></b></Font> Dir. Alexander Hall. With Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains <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">Sullivan's Travels</Font></b></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1941</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 Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<a href=hcjordan.html style="text-decoration:none">Here Comes Mr. Jordan</a></b></Font> Dir. Alexander Hall. With Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<a href=tobaccrd.html style="text-decoration:none">Tobacco Road</a></b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With Charley Grapewin, Elizabeth Patterson, Marjorie Rambeau <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<a href=wolfman.html style="text-decoration:none">The Wolf Man</a></b></Font> Dir. George Waggner. With Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1941</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>Ball of Fire</b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Dana Andrews <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Blossoms in the Dust</b></Font> Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b><a href=devdanwb.html style="text-decoration:none">The Devil and Daniel Webster</a></b></Font> Dir. William Dieterle. With James Craig, Walter Huston <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Devil and Miss Jones</b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dumbo</b></Font> Dir. Ben Sharpsteen. Animated. With the voices of Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>High Sierra</b></Font> Dir. Raoul Walsh. With Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Hold Back the Dawn</b></Font> Dir. Mitchell Leisen. With Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>I Wake Up Screaming</b></Font> Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone. With Victor Mature, Betty Grable <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Love Crazy</b></Font> Dir. Jack Conway. With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Meet John Doe</b></Font> Dir. Frank Capra. With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Mr. & Mrs. Smith</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Robert Montgomery, Carole Lombard <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>One Foot in Heaven</b></Font> Dir. Irving Rapper. With Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Penny Serenade</b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Edgar Buchanan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b><a href=sgtyork.html style="text-decoration:none">Sergeant York</a></b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Margaret Wycherly <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Shanghai Gesture</b></Font> Dir. Josef von Sternberg. With Ona Munson, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Suspicion</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce, Auriol Lee <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>That Hamilton Woman</b></Font> Dir. Alexander Korda. With Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Tom, Dick, and Harry</b></Font> Dir. Garson Kanin. With Ginger Rogers, Burgess Meredith <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Two-Faced Woman</b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>A Woman's Face</b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Ziegfeld Girl</b></Font> Dirs. Robert Z. Leonard. With Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1941</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 47 Ronin</b></Font> Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi. With Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Back Street</b></Font> Dir. Robert Stevenson. With Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Big Store</b></Font> Dir. Charles Reisner. With the Marx Brothers, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Blood and Sand</b></Font> Dir. Rouben Mamoulian. With Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Great Lie</b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Bette Davis, Mary Astor, George Brent<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Major Barbara</b></Font> Dir. Gabriel Pascal. With Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Strawberry Blonde</b></Font> Dir. Raoul Walsh. With James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>That Uncertain Feeling</b></Font> Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>They Died with Their Boots On</b></Font> Dir. Raoul Walsh. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Western Union</b></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Billy the Kid</b></Font> Dir. David Miller. With Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Blues in the Night</b></Font> Dir. Anatole Litvak. With Priscilla Lane, Betty Field<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Bride Came C.O.D.</b></Font> Dir. William Keighley. With James Cagney, Bette Davis<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Chocolate Soldier</b></Font> Dir. Roy Del Ruth. With Nelson Eddy, Ris&#235 Stevens, Nigel Bruce<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>King of the Zombies</b></Font> Dir. Jean Yarbrough. With Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Lydia</b></Font> Dir. Julien Duvivier. With Merle Oberon, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshall<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Men in Her Life</b></Font> Dir. Gregory Ratoff. With Loretta Young, Conrad Veidt<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Rage in Heaven</b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Sea Wolf</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shadow of the Thin Man</b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With William Powell, Myrna Loy<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shining Victory</b></Font> Dir. Irving Rapper. With James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Sundown</b></Font> Dir. Henry Hathaway. With Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Tall, Dark, and Handsome</b></Font> Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone. With Cesar Romero<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Tell-Tale Heart</b></Font> Dir. Jules Dassin. With Joseph Schildkraut, Roman Bohnen<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>When Ladies Meet</b></Font> Dir. Robert Z. Leonard. With Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>You'll Never Get Rich</b></Font> Dir. Sidney Lanfield. 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