115 English Language Films of the 1940s in Matthew Sheldon's Collection
The Golden Age of Hollywood has never been better. Film noir has always been my all-time favorite film genre/movement. With its conflicted shady characters, shadows and lighting, femme fatales, crime, sex, greed, murder and existential fatalism. How can you go wrong with an extraordinary group of actors and actresses like Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Mitchum, ect? You had beautifully told westerns starring John Wayne, hilarious screwball comedies directed by Ernst Lubitsch and intense psychological thrillers by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. The 40's were the best for American movies and its brilliance can be summed up by one of my favorite lines from one of our greatest films: "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." Bogie was the man.
avg. score: 39 of 115 (34%)
required scores: 1, 5, 21, 39, 84
