The Top 100 Worst Dramas of the 1940s

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The Top 100 Worst Dramas of the 1940s
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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59207 I Accuse My Parents 1945 Sam Newfield NR -
17237 Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two 1945 Akira Kurosawa NR -
16429 The Dolly Sisters 1945 Irving Cummings NR -
16800 The Shepherd of the Hills 1941 Henry Hathaway NR -
10446 Tortilla Flat 1942 Victor Fleming NR -
10118 Tarzan and the Amazons 1945 Kurt Neumann NR -
13631 The Jolson Story 1946 Alfred E. Green NR -
15826 Dive Bomber 1941 Michael Curtiz NR -
40607 Jungle Goddess 1948 Lewis D. Collins NR -
5650 The Paradine Case 1947 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
14236 Pittsburgh 1942 Lewis Seiler NR -
19477 The Ape 1940 William Nigh NR -
18481 Black Magic 1949 Gregory Ratoff NR -
21372 The Babe Ruth Story 1948 Roy Del Ruth NR -
15520 My Friend Flicka 1943 Harold D. Schuster NR -
17524 Courage of Lassie 1946 Fred M. Wilcox G -
17029 Reunion in France 1942 Jules Dassin NR -
11743 The Great Moment 1944 Preston Sturges NR -
4346 Song of the South 1946 Harve Foster NR -
8706 Samson and Delilah 1949 Cecil B. DeMille NR -
17951 The Mad Doctor of Market Street 1942 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
12484 Sleep, My Love 1948 Douglas Sirk NR -
15916 Uncertain Glory 1944 Raoul Walsh NR -
17607 I Was a Fireman 1943 Humphrey Jennings NR -
14997 Tarzan's Secret Treasure 1941 Richard Thorpe NR -
6773 Under Capricorn 1949 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
21949 They Caught the Ferry 1948 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
6428 Sanshiro Sugata 1943 Akira Kurosawa NR -
17303 Wilson 1944 Henry King NR -
9918 Ziegfeld Girl 1941 Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley NR -
27389 Mission to Moscow 1943 Michael Curtiz NR -
10295 Crisis 1946 Ingmar Bergman NR -
14194 Charlie Chan in Panama 1940 Norman Foster G -
11252 Blue Skies 1946 Stuart Heisler NR -
19249 It Rains on Our Love 1946 Ingmar Bergman NR -
7136 Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox NR -
19138 The Story of Seabiscuit 1949 David Butler NR -
13407 The Most Beautiful 1944 Akira Kurosawa NR -
13314 Seven Sinners 1940 Tay Garnett NR -
17252 Behind Locked Doors 1948 Budd Boetticher NR -
11011 The Undying Monster 1942 John Brahm NR -
11458 Till the Clouds Roll By 1946 Richard Whorf G -
6571 Terror by Night 1946 Roy William Neill NR -
14342 So Proudly We Hail! 1943 Mark Sandrich NR -
14009 The Bribe 1949 Robert Z. Leonard NR -
13940 Captain from Castile 1947 Henry King NR -
8714 The Human Comedy 1943 Clarence Brown NR -
12163 The Valley of Decision 1945 Tay Garnett NR -
19950 Lumière d'été 1943 Jean Grémillon NR -
22277 No, No, Nanette 1940 Herbert Wilcox NR -
16711 Ruthless 1948 Edgar G. Ulmer NR -
11387 Unconquered 1947 Cecil B. DeMille NR -
13315 The Male Animal 1942 Elliott Nugent NR -
16555 The Sea of Grass 1947 Elia Kazan NR -
4660 The Song of Bernadette 1943 Henry King NR -
18836 Tycoon 1947 Richard Wallace NR -
10978 One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
8030 Tomorrow Is Forever 1946 Irving Pichel NR -
24345 Jolson Sings Again 1949 Henry Levin NR -
14781 The Man I Love 1947 Raoul Walsh NR -
5656 The Quiet Duel 1949 Akira Kurosawa NR -
14417 Rope of Sand 1949 William Dieterle NR -
6436 Madame Curie 1943 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
13121 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940 William Dieterle NR -
5855 The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail 1945 Akira Kurosawa NR -
8639 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner NR -
17738 Ghosts on the Loose 1943 William Beaudine NR -
10642 The Return of the Vampire 1944 Lew Landers NR -
14177 Tobacco Road 1941 John Ford NR -
25854 Hitler's Madman 1943 Douglas Sirk NR -
5691 Objective, Burma! 1945 Raoul Walsh NR -
13857 The North Star 1943 Lewis Milestone NR -
8960 Secret Beyond the Door 1947 Fritz Lang NR -
8750 The Woman on the Beach 1947 Jean Renoir NR -
4170 Phantom of the Opera 1943 Arthur Lubin NR -
11035 Pinky 1949 Elia Kazan NR -
11571 Keeper of the Flame 1942 George Cukor NR -
12601 Obsession 1949 Edward Dmytryk NR -
19252 21 Days 1940 Basil Dean NR -
14317 The Fugitive 1947 John Ford NR -
10878 Caesar and Cleopatra 1945 Gabriel Pascal NR -
11681 Night and Day 1946 Michael Curtiz NR -
9418 Santa Fe Trail 1940 Michael Curtiz NR -
12956 The Long Night 1947 Anatole Litvak NR -
14538 Shockproof 1949 Douglas Sirk NR -
12615 The Seventh Cross 1944 Fred Zinnemann NR -
17381 An Ideal Husband 1947 Alexander Korda NR -
9140 Blossoms in the Dust 1941 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
6499 A Guy Named Joe 1943 Victor Fleming NR -
2837 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford NR -
10763 Angels over Broadway 1940 Ben Hecht NR -
16333 One Foot in Heaven 1941 Irving Rapper NR -
8483 Border Incident 1949 Anthony Mann NR -
8991 Reap the Wild Wind 1942 Cecil B. DeMille NR -
12945 The Man in Grey 1943 Leslie Arliss NR -
9563 So Dear To My Heart 1948 Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske G -
4391 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown G -
9744 Thirst 1949 Ingmar Bergman NR -
16188 Flame of Barbary Coast 1945 Joseph Kane NR -
7212 Flying Tigers 1942 David Miller NR -

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