The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.

Best Foot Forward

1943

English

♡ 2

Edward Buzzell Director

Jack Wagner as Cadet

Shirley Jean Rickert as Dancer

June Allyson as Ethel

Nancy Walker as Nancy - Blind Date

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

The Underground World

♡ 5

Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "At the Earth's Core".

Jungle Drums

♡ 3

Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.

Lady of Burlesque

1943

English

♡ 4

based on novel or book

William A. Wellman Director

Marion Martin as Alice Angel

Virginia Gardner as Chorine

Chuck Hamilton as Cop in Courtroom Skit

George Chandler as Jake

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

♡ 4

Preston Sturges Director

Louis Jean Heydt as Army Officer

Diana Lynn as Emmy Kockenlocker

Max Wagner as Military Police Driver

Kenneth Gibson as Secret Service Man

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.

Johnny Come Lately

1943

English

6.8

♡ 5

43%

William K. Howard Director

Irving Bacon as Chief of Police

Marjorie Main as 'Gashouse' Mary

Marjorie Lord as Jane

Margaret Hamilton as Myrtle Ferguson

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.

Warn That Man

1943

English

5.6

♡ 3

96%

Lawrence Huntington Director

Finlay Currie as Captain Andrew Fletcher

Jean Kent as Frances Lane

Ferdy Mayne as German Radio Operator

Anthony Dawson as Radio Operator in Police Car

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.

Watch on the Rhine

1943

English

7.1

♡ 3

80%

Herman Shumlin Director

Eric Roberts as Bodo

Alan Hale Jr. as Boy

Anthony Caruso as Italian Man

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Marthe de Brancovis

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

1943

English

6.9

♡ 7

73%

based on novel or book

Roy William Neill Director

Milburn Stone as Captain Vickery

Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson

Norma Varden as Gracie - Barmaid

Hillary Brooke as Sally Musgrave

During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.

Jane Eyre

1943

English

7.4

♡ 17

Action

based on novel or book

Robert Stevenson Director

Hillary Brooke as Blanche Ingraham

Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre

John Abbott as Mason

Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Reed

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Power of the Press

1943

English

6.0

♡ 1

95%

Lew Landers Director

Lee Tracy as Griff Thompson

Frank Sully as Mack Gibbons

Victor Jory as Oscar Trent

Don Beddoe as Pringle

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

A Lady Takes a Chance

1943

English

6.3

♡ 14

34%

William A. Seiter Director

Mary Field as Florrie Bendix

George DeNormand as Truck Driver

Hank Worden as Waiter

George Ford as Wealthy Young Man

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

The Outlaw

1943

English

5.4

♡ 15

71%

Howard Hughes Director

Walter Huston as Doc Holliday

Martin Garralaga as Mike - Waiter

Thomas Mitchell as Pat Garrett

Wallace Reid Jr. as Townsman Bystander

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.

Raiders of San Joaquin

1943

English

5.8

♡ 4

95%

Lewis D. Collins Director

Henry Hall as Bodine Carter

Johnny Bond as Johnny - Member, Jimmy Wakely Trio

Roy Brent as McQuarry

John Elliott as R.R. Vice President Morgan

In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad

Fires Were Started

1943

English

6.4

♡ 4

43%

Action

Drama

War

Humphrey Jennings Director

George Gravett as Dykes

Fred Griffiths as Johnny Daniels

Johnny Houghton as S.H. Jackson

Philip Dickson as Walters

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II.

Another Dawn

1943

Spanish

7.3

♡ 6

71%

Julio Bracho Director

Manuel Dondé as Gunman

Narciso Busquets as Juanito

Andrea Palma as Julieta

Pedro Armendáriz as Octavio

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Lassie Come Home

1943

English

7.1

♡ 10

94%

human animal relationship

scotland

yorkshire

Fred M. Wilcox Director

Ben Webster as Dan'l Fadden

Nigel Bruce as Duke of Rudling

Roddy McDowall as Joe Carraclough

Edmund Gwenn as Rowlie

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.