including many of the B movies as well as the big budget classics. I guess this list is longer than any other decade simply because they made more movies in this decade than any other. 

Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)

Adele Jergens, Charles McGraw, and William Talman in Armored Car Robbery (1950)

Peter Falk and Robert Culp in Death Lends a Hand (1971)

Jayne Mansfield and Cameron Mitchell in Einer frisst den anderen (1964)

Can there even be a thing like 'nearly good B-pictures'? At first I wasn't so sure either. But after years of watching B-movies, more often than not I stumbled across a B-picture which I wouldn't exactly consider to be a good (or even brillant) one. On the other hand it didn't reach the absolute bottoms of z-grade moviedom that connoisseurs of this kind of pictures are used to either. It was simply a movie which, in terms of B-pictures, was competently done, had all those ingredients we love so much in this kind of movies, yes, possibly it was even done bad for all the right reasons. But nevertheless, it didn't click with me, didn't offer that special something which makes B-pictures so enjoyable. What you can expect on this list are B-pictures which are not bad per se, they are more like near misses which can still offer plenty for the B-movie fan. Especially if you are a fan of a certain subgenre, actor or whatever. So have fun browsing through the nearly, but not quite, good B-pictures of the 1940s.

If you're up to it, don't hesitate to leave a comment.

PS: The movies are sorted by year and not necessarily by my preference. This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.

Movies, Shorts and TV Shows In My Personal Collection (in progress)

Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, and Connie Stevens in Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

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