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July 2 – Sergeant York, the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest-grossing picture of the year and earns Cooper the first of two Academy Awards for Best Actor. September – Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda in the United States.
1941 is a 1979 American war comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The film stars an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd , Ned Beatty , John Belushi , John Candy , Christopher Lee , Tim Matheson , Toshiro Mifune , Robert Stack , Nancy Allen , and Mickey Rourke in his film debut.
August 18 – Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a 19-year-old poet of American paternity serving in Britain with the Royal Canadian Air Force, makes a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V from RAF Llandow in Wales, and then by September 3 completes the sonnet "High Flight" about the experience.
Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night (1997) While many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Foster Hirsch defines a genre as determined by "conventions of narrative structure, characterization, theme, and visual design." Hirsch, as one who has taken the position that film noir is a genre, argues that these elements are present "in ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Accent on Love: Ray McCarey: George Montgomery, Osa Massen, J. Carrol Naish: Drama: 20th Century Fox: Across the Sierras: D. Ross Lederman: Wild Bill Elliott, Luana Walters, Richard Fiske
The film noir genre was at its height. Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film Rebecca , and made many classics throughout the 1940s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn 's The Best Years of Our Lives ; the film was directed by William Wyler , and starred Fredric March , Myrna Loy , Dana Andrews , Teresa ...
The Alley Cat (1941 film) Aloma of the South Seas (1941 film) Along the Rio Grande. Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business. Among the Living (1941 film) Amrit (1941 film) András (film) Andy Hardy's Private Secretary. Angels with Broken Wings.
G. The Gay Sisters. Giarabub (film) The Godfather Part II. Golden Eggs (film) Goodbye Christopher Robin. Greyhound (film) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (film)