1945 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1945

Notable Films Released in 1945

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• The Abandoned (Las Abandonadas), starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
• Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Along Came Jones, starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young
• Amok - (Mexico)
• Anchors Aweigh, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra
• And Then There Were None, starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston

B

• Back to Bataan, directed by Edward Dmytryk, with John Wayne
• A Bell For Adano, starring Gene Tierney and John Hodiak
• The Bells of St. Mary's, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
• Blithe Spirit, directed by David Lean, starring Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings, based on the play by Noël Coward - (Britain)
• Blood on the Sun, starring James Cagney
• The Body Snatcher, directed by Robert Wise, starring Boris Karloff
• Brewster's Millions, starring Dennis O'Keefe
• Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard- (Britain)

C

• Caesar and Cleopatra, directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains - (Britain)
• Captain Kidd, starring Charles Laughton
• The Cheaters, starring Joseph Schildkraut and Billie Burke
• The Cherokee Flash, starring Sunset Carson and Linda Stirling
• Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), by Marcel Carné, starring Arletty, released following the liberation of France
• Christmas in Connecticut, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• The Clock, starring Judy Garland
• Confidential Agent, starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall
• Conflict, starring Humphrey Bogart
• The Corn Is Green, starring Bette Davis and John Dall
• Cornered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Dick Powell

D

• Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• Dead of Night, Ealing Studios chiller compendium starring Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers - (Britain)
• Detour, starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage
• Diamond Horseshoe, starring Betty Grable
• Dick Tracy, starring Morgan Conway and Mike Mazurki
• Dillinger, starring Lawrence Tierney
• The Dolly Sisters, starring Betty Grable

EFG

• The Enchanted Cottage, starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young
• Fallen Angel, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Alice Faye in her last major film role, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell
• Flame of Barbary Coast, starring John Wayne
• Guest Wife, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
• Gun Smoke, starring Johnny Mack Brown and Jennifer Holt

HIJ

• Hangover Square, starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders
• Here Come the Co-Eds, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The House I Live In, a short film starring Frank Sinatra
• House of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and John Carradine
• The House on 92nd Street, produced by Louis de Rochemont, starring Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso
• I Know Where I'm Going!, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey - (Britain)
• I Live in Grosvenor Square, starring Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison and Robert Morley - (Britain)
• Incendiary Blonde, starring Betty Hutton
• The Invisible Army (Den usynlige hær) - (Denmark)

KLM

• Kiss and Tell, starring Shirley Temple
• Lady on a Train, starring Deanna Durbin and Ralph Bellamy
• The Last Chance (Die letzte Chance) - (Switzerland)
• Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde
• The Lost Letter (Propavshaya gramota) - (USSR)
• The Lost Weekend, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman
• Love Letters, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten
• Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger - (Britain)
• A Medal for Benny, starring Dorothy Lamour
• The Men who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
• Mom and Dad, a hygiene documentary
• Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei), the first feature length animated film from Japan
• My Name is Julia Ross, starring Nina Foch

NOPQ

• The Naughty Nineties, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Objective, Burma!, starring Errol Flynn
• Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, starring Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O'Brien
• Perfect Strangers, starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr - (Britain)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield
• Pink String and Sealing Wax, starring Googie Withers and Mervyn Johns - (Britain)
• La porta del cielo (The Gate of Heaven), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Pride of the Marines, starring John Garfield
• Pursuit to Algiers, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

R

• The Rake's Progress, starring Rex Harrison - (Britain)
• Rhapsody in Blue, a biopic of George Gershwin starring Robert Alda
• Roll Call in Heaven (Cuando en el cielo pasen lista) - (Argentina)
• Rome, Open City (Roma Città aperta), directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi - (Italy)
• A Royal Scandal, starring Tallulah Bankhead
• Rustlers' Hideout, starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John

S

• San Antonio, starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith
• Saratoga Trunk, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
• Scarlett Street, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
• La selva de fuego (The Forest Fire), starring Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
• The Seventh Veil, starring James Mason and Ann Todd - (Britain)
• Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• Son of Lassie, starring Peter Lawford
• A Song to Remember, a biopic of Frédéric Chopin starring Cornel Wilde
• The Southerner, starring Zachary Scott
• The Spanish Main, starring Maureen O'Hara and Paul Henreid
• Spellbound, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck
• State Fair, starring Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain
• The Story of G.I. Joe, directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum
• The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, starring George Sanders

TUV

• They Were Expendable, directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne
• The Three Caballeros, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz
• The Thin Man Goes Home, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• Thrill of a Romance, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson
• Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, starring Roddy McDowall
• Tonight and Every Night, starring Rita Hayworth
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Dorothy McGuire
• Two O'Clock Courage, starring Ann Rutherford and Tom Conway
• The Valley of Decision, starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck
• La vida en un hilo - (Spain)

WXYZ

• A Walk in the Sun, starring Dana Andrews
• Waterloo Road, starring John Mills and Stewart Granger - (Britain)
• The Way to the Stars, starring John Mills and Michael Redgrave, written by Terence Rattigan - (Britain)
• The Wicked Lady, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason - (Britain)
• Without Love, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
• The Woman in Green, starring Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) and Nigel Bruce
• Wonder Man, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
• Yolanda and the Thief, starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer
• Ziegfeld Follies, with an MGM all-star cast