1946 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1946

Notable Films Released in 1946

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• Abilene Town, starring Randolph Scott and Ann Dvorak
• Angel on My Shoulder, starring Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter
• Anna and the King of Siam, starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell
• Appointment with Crime, starring William Hartnell - (Britain)

B

• The Bandit (Il Bandito), starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
• La Bataille du rail (The Battle of the Rails), directed by René Clément - (France)
• The Beast with Five Fingers, starring Robert Alda and Peter Lorre
• Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day - (France)
• The Best Years of Our Lives, directed by William Wyler, starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell -- winner of 8 Oscars
• Beware, starring Louis Jordan
• The Big Sleep, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Black Angel, starring Dan Duryea
• The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Hugh Beaumont
• Blue Skies, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
• Boom in the Moon (El Moderno Barba Azul), starring Buster Keaton - (Mexico)

C

• Canyon Passage, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews and Brian Donlevy
• The Captive Heart, starring Michael Redgrave, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II - (Britain)
• Centennial Summer, starring Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde
• Cluny Brown, starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones
• Crack-Up, starring Pat O'Brien and Claire Trevor
• Crisis (Kris), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)

D

• The Dark Corner, starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens
• The Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland
• A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne), directed by Jean Renoir - (France)
• Deception, starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid
• Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
• Devotion, starring Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Henreid
• The Diary of a Chambermaid, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Paulette Goddard
• Ditte, Child of Man (Ditte Menneskebarn) - (Denmark)
• Dragonwyck, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price
• Dressed to Kill, starring Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes), Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
• Duel in the Sun, directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish

EFG

• Enamorada, starring Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
• From This Day Forward, starring Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Harry Morgan, Rosemary DeCamp
• Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Glenn Ford and Janet Blair
• Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford
• God's Country, starring Robert Lowery and Buster Keaton
• Great Expectations, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson - (Britain)
• Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard - (Britain)
• The Green Years, starring Charles Coburn and Hume Cronyn

HIJ

• The Harvey Girls, directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland and John Hodiak
• The Hoodlum Saint, starring William Powell
• Humoresque, starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield
• I See a Dark Stranger, directed by Frank Launder, starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard - (Britain)
• It Rains on Our Love (Det regnar på vår kärlek), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
• The Jolson Story, a biopic of Al Jolson starring Larry Parks

KLM

• The Kid from Brooklyn, starring Danny Kaye
• The Killers, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
• Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The Locket, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne and Robert Mitchum
• London Town, directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Sid Field and Petula Clark - (Britain)
• Make Mine Music, starring Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Benny Goodman
• The Man Who Dared, starring Leslie Brooks and Forrest Tucker
• A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring David Niven - (Britain)
• Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Miss Susie Slagle's, starring Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield
• The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns), starring Hildegard Knef - (Germany)
• My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Linda Darnell
• The Mysterious Mr. Valentine

NOP

• Neecha Nagar (Lowly City), directed by Chetan Anand - (India), winner of Palme d'Or at the 1st Cannes Film Festival
• Night and Day, starring Cary Grant (as Cole Porter)
• A Night in Casablanca, with the Marx Brothers
• Night in Paradise, starring Merle Oberon and Gale Sondergaard
• No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• Nobody Lives Forever, starring John Garfield
• Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
• The Others (La Otra), starring Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
• The Overlanders, starring Chips Rafferty - (Australia/Britain)
• Paisan, directed by Roberto Rossellini - (Italy)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield

QRS

• The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
• Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
• The Secret of the Whistler, starring Richard Dix
• She-Wolf of London, starring June Lockhart
• Shock, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari
• Shoeshine (Sciuscià), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell
• Smithy - (Australia)
• Somewhere in the Night, starring John Hodiak
• Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action
• The Spiral Staircase, starring Dorothy McGuire
• A Stolen Life, starring Bette Davis
• The Stone Flower (Kamennyy tsvetok) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas
• The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Loretta Young, Edward G. Robinson
• Swing Parade of 1946, starring The Three Stooges and Gale Storm
• La Symphonie Pastorale, directed by Jean Delannoy, starring Michèle Morgan - (France)

TUV

• Tangier, starring Maria Montez
• Terror by Night, starring Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) and Nigel Bruce
• Theirs is the Glory - (Britain)
• Three Strangers, starring Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
• The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• To Each His Own, starring Olivia de Havilland
• Tomorrow is Forever, starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles
• The Trap, aka Charlie Chan in the Trap, starring Sidney Toler (in his final film)
• Two Smart People, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Lucille Ball and John Hodiak
• Utamaro and His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
• The Verdict, directed by Don Siegel, starring Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre

WXYZ

• Wake Up and Dream, starring June Haver
• Wanted for Murder (aka A Voice in the Night), starring Eric Portman and Dulcie Gray - (Britain)
• Where Words Fail (Donde mueren las palabras) - (Argentina)
• Wife Wanted, starring Kay Francis
• Without Reservations, starring Claudette Colbert and John Wayne
• The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
• The Years Between, starring Michael Redgrave and Valerie Hobson - (Britain)