Favorite Films of 1945
by bertramsharp | created - 16 Oct 2011 | updated - 14 May 2019 | PublicUpdated: 5/14/2019
I have watched 24 films with a 1945 release date. I have listed them here ranked from best to worst (in my opinion).
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1. Spellbound (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 52,257 | Gross: $7.00M
2. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,219
3. And Then There Were None (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young
Votes: 16,648
4. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 12,028
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 14,451
6. The Body Snatcher (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Thriller
A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater
Votes: 10,192
7. Isle of the Dead (1945)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery
Votes: 5,264
8. Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi, Anne Jeffreys
Votes: 876
9. Scared Stiff (1945)
Approved | 65 min | Mystery, Comedy
The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 230
10. The Woman in Green (1945)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell
Votes: 6,872
11. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 3,530
12. Blazing the Western Trail (1945)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Stage line owner Brent's men rob the Halliday stages. When his manager Waring protests, Brent has him killed. Waring's nephew Jeff takes his uncle's job and helps Halliday get the mail contract by entering the official stagecoach race.
Director: Vernon Keays | Stars: Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Carole Mathews
Votes: 173
13. San Pietro (1945)
Unrated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, War
Director John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Votes: 2,459
14. The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's choice of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven
Votes: 6,276 | Gross: $3.86M
15. The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson
Votes: 2,163
16. The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Votes: 11,273
17. A Game of Death (1945)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure
A remake of Richard Connell's famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," about a madman who hunts human prey on his personal island habitat.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: John Loder, Audrey Long, Edgar Barrier, Russell Wade
Votes: 448
18. Utah (1945)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Music, Western
When ranch foreman Roy learns the new ranch owner Dorothy Bryant and her friends are arriving, he directs them to Gabby's rundown ranch. He figures they will be discouraged and return East.... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 191
19. The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A theatre critic (Dave O'Brien) teams up with a cop (Jack Mulhall) to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks
Votes: 405
20. The Return of the Durango Kid (1945)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Kirby's gang preys on Buckskin Blodgett's stage line by robbing the payroll and passengers. Her only hope to avoid bankruptcy is Bill Blayden and his alter ego, the Durango Kid, who hopes to clear his late father's name.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Jean Stevens, John Calvert
Votes: 161
21. House of Dracula (1945)
Approved | 67 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Martha O'Driscoll
Votes: 6,159
22. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty, Bob Haymes
Votes: 2,396
23. Prairie Rustlers (1945)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Billy Carson is accused of the crimes committed by his dead-ringer, outlaw cousin, Jim Slade, and barely escapes a lynching. With the aid of his pal, Fuzzy Jones, Billy catches up with his cousin and clears his own name.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Evelyn Finley, Karl Hackett
Votes: 100
24. Wonder Man (1945)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods
Votes: 2,492
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