Classic 40s Movies: The Entire Series

September has been Classic 40s Movies Month at Go Into The Story. Here are links to all of the movies reviewed during the last 30 days:

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
Mrs. Miniver
Now, Voyager
Notorious
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

That’s a pretty awesome list. Want to compare to the other decades? Here are those links:

40s Movies
50s Movies
60s Movies
70s Movies
80s Movies
90s Movies

Reminder: The idea behind these series is to provide resources for writers to watch movies. If you want to work in Hollywood, it’s imperative you have a deep and wide exposure to films from across all genres and eras. They not only feed your soul and inspire your creativity, a thorough knowledge of movies is essential as films get referenced all the time in development meetings, a way of shorthanding points.

I’d like to extend a final thank you to all of the writers who participated in the 40s series. You did a terrific job and I appreciate your efforts!

In January or February next year, we have a go at the 30s. Until then, why not check out some of these movies from the 40s-90s?

Question: Which decade do you think had the best movies? I’ve always favored the 70s, but I have to say the 40s is looking awfully fine just now. How about you?

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