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Top 100 Classic Movies of the 1940’s | Decade: |
| Rank | Title | Cast | Score |
| 1 . | Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson | 9.90 |
| 2 . | Double Indemnity (1944) | Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall | 9.87 |
| 3 . | The Lady Eve (1941) | Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette | 7.59 |
| 4 . | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., B?la Lugosi | 7.38 |
| 5 . | Ball of Fire (1941) | Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers | 7.38 |
| 6 . | The Bishop's Wife (1947) | Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley | 7.19 |
| 7 . | Adam's Rib (1949) | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell | 7.15 |
| 8 . | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell | 7.12 |
| 9 . | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey | 6.74 |
| 10 . | Casablanca (1942) | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains | 6.68 |
| 11 . | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) | Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vall?e | 6.61 |
| 12 . | His Girl Friday (1940) | Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart | 6.57 |
| 13 . | The Big Sleep (1946) | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers | 6.52 |
| 14 . | Christmas in Connecticut (1945) | Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner | 6.51 |
| 15 . | Bambi (1942) | Hardie Albright, Sam Edwards, Otis Harlan, Sterling Holloway | 6.49 |
| 16 . | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre | 6.33 |
| 17 . | Holiday Inn (1942) | Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale | 6.25 |
| 18 . | The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) | Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke | 5.99 |
| 19 . | My Favorite Wife (1940) | Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick | 5.97 |
| 20 . | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) | Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas | 5.73 |
| 21 . | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) | Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart | 5.72 |
| 22 . | Notorious (1946) | Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern | 5.66 |
| 23 . | Mildred Pierce (1945) | Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden | 5.64 |
| 24 . | Easter Parade (1948) | Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller | 5.51 |
| 25 . | Meet John Doe (1941) | Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan | 5.44 |
| 26 . | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) | Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny | 5.40 |
| 27 . | I Was a Male War Bride (1949) | Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, King Donovan | 5.39 |
| 28 . | Suspicion (1941) | Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce | 5.25 |
| 29 . | Rebecca (1940) | Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson | 5.23 |
| 30 . | Pinocchio (1940) | Mel Blanc, Walter Catlett, Frankie Darro, Cliff Edwards | 5.15 |
| 31 . | Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) | Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey | 5.15 |
| 32 . | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright | 5.14 |
| 33 . | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett | 5.08 |
| 34 . | The Black Swan (1942) | Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell | 5.06 |
| 35 . | Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) | William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed | 5.00 |
| 36 . | Laura (1944) | Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price | 4.97 |
| 37 . | The Blue Dahlia (1946) | Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva | 4.91 |
| 38 . | The More the Merrier (1943) | Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines | 4.88 |
| 39 . | They Drive by Night (1940) | George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart | 4.86 |
| 40 . | Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) | Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer | 4.85 |
| 41 . | Key Largo (1948) | Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore | 4.83 |
| 42 . | Gaslight (1944) | Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty | 4.79 |
| 43 . | The Killers (1946) | Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker | 4.78 |
| 44 . | Lady of Burlesque (1943) | Barbara Stanwyck, Iris Adrian, Charles Dingle, J. Edward Bromberg | 4.72 |
| 45 . | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn | 4.72 |
| 46 . | You Were Never Lovelier (1942) | Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom | 4.64 |
| 47 . | Gilda (1946) | Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia | 4.62 |
| 48 . | Citizen Kane (1941) | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead | 4.58 |
| 49 . | Woman of the Year (1942) | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen | 4.57 |
| 50 . | The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) | Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce | 4.56 |
| 51 . | Scarlet Street (1945) | Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay | 4.51 |
| 52 . | Dark Passage (1947) | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead | 4.48 |
| 53 . | Cover Girl (1944) | Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers | 4.44 |
| 54 . | The Talk of the Town (1942) | Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan | 4.41 |
| 55 . | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Grapewin | 4.41 |
| 56 . | Dumbo (1941) | James Baskett, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher, Edward Brophy | 4.38 |
| 57 . | Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) | Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Edward Everett Horton | 4.38 |
| 58 . | Babes on Broadway (1941) | Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler | 4.34 |
| 59 . | Brother Orchid (1940) | Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp | 4.34 |
| 60 . | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf | 4.34 |
| 61 . | Life with father (1947) | William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn | 4.32 |
| 62 . | Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) | Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan | 4.31 |
| 63 . | Remember the Night (1940) | Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson | 4.31 |
| 64 . | The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) | Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan | 4.27 |
| 65 . | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Sergio Leone | 4.27 |
| 66 . | Going My Way (1944) | Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown | 4.27 |
| 67 . | The Thin Man Goes Home (1945) | William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven | 4.26 |
| 68 . | You'll Never Get Rich (1941) | Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Osa Massen | 4.25 |
| 69 . | Anchors Aweigh (1945) | Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell | 4.24 |
| 70 . | The Lost Weekend (1945) | Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva | 4.21 |
| 71 . | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers | 4.21 |
| 72 . | Cat People (1942) | Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jack Holt, Alan Napier | 4.20 |
| 73 . | Song of the Thin Man (1947) | William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell | 4.20 |
| 74 . | Blithe Spirit (1945) | Rex Harrison, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Carey | 4.17 |
| 75 . | Nightmare Alley (1947) | Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Taylor Holmes | 4.17 |
| 76 . | Rope (1948) | James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke | 4.17 |
| 77 . | The Stranger (1946) | Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Richard Long | 4.17 |
| 78 . | The Harvey Girls (1946) | Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury | 4.13 |
| 79 . | How Green Was My Valley (1941) | Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp | 4.13 |
| 80 . | Action in the North Atlantic (1943) | Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene | 4.13 |
| 81 . | Penny Serenade (1941) | Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan | 4.10 |
| 82 . | The Third Man (1949) | Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard | 4.07 |
| 83 . | To Have and Have Not (1944) | Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran | 4.06 |
| 84 . | Murder, My Sweet (1944) | Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger | 4.06 |
| 85 . | White Heat (1949) | James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly | 4.05 |
| 86 . | The Heiress (1949) | Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins | 4.03 |
| 87 . | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest | 4.03 |
| 88 . | The Major and the Minor (1942) | Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn | 3.94 |
| 89 . | Black Narcissus (1947) | Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Sabu Dastagir | 3.93 |
| 90 . | Fantasia (1940) | Walt Disney, James MacDonald | 3.93 |
| 91 . | Foreign Correspondent (1940) | Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders | 3.93 |
| 92 . | Blues in the Night (1941) | Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan | 3.89 |
| 93 . | High Sierra (1941) | Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie | 3.89 |
| 94 . | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty | 3.89 |
| 95 . | The Wolf Man (1941) | Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William | 3.89 |
| 96 . | All the King's Men (1949) | Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek | 3.85 |
| 97 . | Now, Voyager (1942) | Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper | 3.85 |
| 98 . | Air Force (1943) | John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake | 3.84 |
| 99 . | National Velvet (1944) | Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere | 3.84 |
| 100 . | On the Town (1949) | Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller | 3.84 |
This chart uses a weighted rating based on the average rating per film and the number of votes per film.