On some level it’s more of a mystery/romance, with the veracity of the ghosts in real doubt-not unlike Guillermo Del Toro’s modern Crimson Peak, without all the visual bluster. Widely regarded as one of the finest ghost stories of the ’40s, The Uninvited carries itself with a dignity not seen in most Universal monster movies or Poverty Row cheapies. Here are the 50 best movies of the 1940s: Also, we just think these are some damned fine films. We distilled our list based on a little bit of each of those things, but overall, it’s a suggestion of required viewing material for anyone who aspires to cultural literacy. We love what we love, and for some of us it’s romantic comedies and for others it’s monster movies, while for others it’s about this cinematic innovation or that groundbreaking foray into previously unexplored subject matter. To a large extent, “best” is a meaninglessly subjective term. This was the decade of Hepburn and Tracy, Bogart and Bacall, of nostalgia and neo-realism, star-crossed lovers and double-crossing villains.
At the same time, screwball comedies proliferated. The 1940s saw the rise of Technicolor but also of film noir with its dark, cynical, moody and fatalistic stories of hard-boiled detectives and treacherous women. Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock were doing some of their best work. The 1940s saw the emergence of the auteur, filmmaking led by the director as opposed to the writer. The second World War was, of course, a heavy thread through the first half of the decade, providing fodder for stories on the one hand and on the other, a desire for the escapist balm of comedies and musicals. Critical opinion has settled pretty solidly on the “best” films of the cinematically prolific 1940s look at ten lists of the best movies of the 1940s and you’ll see a lot of overlap.
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