Most Popular Feature Films Released In 1944
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Double Indemnity
(1944) An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. Dir: Billy Wilder With: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller 107 mins. |
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Marshal of Reno
(1944) One of two towns will be selected to be the County Seat and Editor Palmer has a gang working to make sure his town is chosen... Dir: Wallace Grissell With: Bill Elliott, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Robert Blake Western 54 mins. |
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Bathing Beauty
(1944) A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students. Dir: George Sidney With: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone Comedy | Musical 101 mins. |
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Gaslight
(1944) Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret which he will do anything to protect, even if that means driving his wife insane. Dir: George Cukor With: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller 114 mins. |
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Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944) A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. Dir: Frank Capra With: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller 118 mins. |
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Janie
(1944) Janie is a scatter-brained and high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World... Dir: Michael Curtiz With: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold Comedy | Romance 102 mins. |
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Laura
(1944) A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. Dir: Otto Preminger With: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance 88 mins. |
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Tucson Raiders
(1944) In Elliot's initial appearance as Red Ryder, he finds himself framed for murder. Little Beaver then... Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet With: Bill Elliott, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Robert Blake Action | Western United States-PASSED 55 mins. |
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To Have and Have Not
(1944) Expatriate American Harry Morgan helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer. Dir: Howard Hawks With: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan Adventure | Romance | Thriller | War 100 mins. |
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Meet Me in St. Louis
(1944) In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York. Dir: Vincente Minnelli With: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor Family | Musical | Romance United States-PASSED 113 mins. |









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