40s Movies

I asked Go Into The Story readers to post about a favorite movie from the 40s with two goals: To provide background and analysis on movies from this decade, and to inspire you to watch movies which is critical to learning the craft of screenwriting.

Act of Violence

Arsenic and Old Lace

Bicycle Thieves

Brief Encounter

Casablanca

Double Indemnity

Five Graves to Cairo

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

His Girl Friday

It’s a Wonderful Life

Key Largo

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Laura

Les enfants du paradis

Mrs. Miniver

Notorious

Now, Voyager

Out of the Past

Rope

Stray Dog

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Big Sleep

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Lost Weekend

The Maltese Falcon

The Ox-Bow Incident

The Philadelphia Story

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

The Third Man

To Have and Have Not