1944 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1944

Notable Films Released in 1944

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• The Adventures of Mark Twain, starring Fredric March
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, starring Maria Montez and Jon Hall
• And Now Tomorrow, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young
• And the Angels Sing, starring Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour
• Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane

B

• Between Two Worlds, starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey, starring Lynn Bari
• Buffalo Bill, starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara

C

• Candlelight in Algeria, starring James Mason - (Britain)
• Can't Help Singing, starring Deanna Durbin
• A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Eric Portman - (Britain)
• The Canterville Ghost, starring Charles Laughton
• Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
• Champagne Charlie, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Tommy Trinder and Stanley Holloway - (Britain)
• The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
• The Climax, starring Boris Karloff
• Cobra Woman, starring Maria Montez
• The Conspirators, starring Paul Henreid and Hedy Lamarr
• Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
• Crime by Night, starring Jane Wyman
• Cry of the Werewolf, starring Nina Foch
• The Curse of the Cat People, starring Simone Simon

D

• Don't Take It to Heart, directed by Jeffrey Dell, starring Richard Greene - (Britain)
• Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
• Dragon Seed, starring Katharine Hepburn
• Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong lou meng) - (China)

EF

• Fanny by Gaslight, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger - (Britain)
• The Fighting Seabees, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward
• The Fighting Sullivans, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Anne Baxter
• For Those in Peril, directed by Charles Crichton - (Britain)
• Frenchman's Creek, starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl) - (Germany)

G

• Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
• Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald - winner of 7 Oscars
• The Great Sacrifice (Opfergang) - (Germany)

HIJ

• Hail the Conquering Hero, starring Eddie Bracken and Ella Raines
• To Have And Have Not, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier - (Britain)
• Hollywood Canteen, starring Joan Leslie
• Home in Indiana, starring Walter Brennan
• The Hour Before the Dawn, starring Veronica Lake
• House of Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr.
• I'll Be Seeing You, starring Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple
• In Our Time, starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid
• In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• It Happened Tomorrow, starring Dick Powell
• Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozniy), by director Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
• Jwar Bhata - (India)

KL

• The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Roddy McDowall
• Kismet, starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich
• Lady in the Dark, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
• Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
• Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb
• Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak
• The Lodger, starring Merle Oberon and George Sanders
• Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

M

• Man from Frisco directed by Robert Florey, starring Michael O'Shea and Anne Shirley
• The Mask of Dimitrios, starring Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
• Meet Me in St. Louis, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Judy Garland
• Meet the People, starring Lucille Ball
• Melody of Murder (Mordets Melodi) - (Denmark)
• Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a documentary by William Wyler
• Ministry of Fear, starring Ray Milland
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton
• Mr. Skeffington, starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains
• Mrs. Parkington, starring Greer Garson
• The Mummy's Curse, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• The Mummy's Ghost, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• Murder, My Sweet (aka Farewell My Lovely), directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor

N

• The Nail (El clavo) - (Spain)
• National Velvet, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney
• None but the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant
• None Shall Escape, starring Alexander Knox

OPQ

• On Approval, starring Clive Brook and Googie Withers - (Britain)
• Passage to Marseille, starring Humphrey Bogart
• The Pearl of Death, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• Phantom Lady, starring Franchot Tone and Ella Raines
• Pin Up Girl, starring Betty Grable
• Port of Freedom (Große Freiheit Nr. 7) - (Germany)
• The Princess and the Pirate, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo
• The Purple Heart, starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger

R

• Rainbow (Raduga) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Rats of Tobruk (aka The Fighting Rats of Tobruk), starring Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty - (Australia)
• The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice (Počestné paní pardubické), directed by Martin Frič - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Return of the Vampire, starring Béla Lugosi

S

• The Scarlet Claw, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• The Seventh Cross, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Spencer Tracy
• Since You Went Away, starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
• Song of Russia, starring Robert Taylor
• The Spider Woman, a Sherlock Holmes mystery featuring Gale Sondergaard
• The Story of Dr. Wassell, starring Gary Cooper
• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak
• The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton

TUV

• Tall in the Saddle, starring John Wayne
• Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy
• This Happy Breed, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills and Celia Johnson - (Britain)
• The Three Caballeros
• Torment (Hets), directed by Alf Sjoberg - (Sweden)
• La Torre de los Siete Jorobados (Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks) - (Spain)
• The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland

WXYZ

• The Way Ahead, directed by Carol Reed - (Britain)
• The White Cliffs of Dover, starring Irene Dunne
• Wilson, a biopic of President Woodrow Wilson, starring Charles Coburn
• The Woman in the Window, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
• The Yellow Rose of Texas, starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans