The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros 1944

6.29

For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.

1944

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity 1944

8.12

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

1944

Laura

Laura 1944

7.62

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

1944

Henry V

Henry V 1944

6.58

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

1944

Gaslight

Gaslight 1944

7.50

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

1944

Lifeboat

Lifeboat 1944

7.40

During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.

1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944

7.60

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

1944

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom 1944

7.00

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

1944

Action in Arabia

Action in Arabia 1944

5.90

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis 1944

7.00

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

1944

House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein 1944

6.00

Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.

1944

The Halfway House

The Halfway House 1944

6.50

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?

1944

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1944

6.60

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

1944

Ossessione

Ossessione 1944

7.49

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

1944

The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People 1944

6.20

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

1944

A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale 1944

6.90

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

1944

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944

7.30

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

1944

The White Cliffs of Dover

The White Cliffs of Dover 1944

6.70

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.

1944

The Pearl of Death

The Pearl of Death 1944

7.00

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards 1944

6.80

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

1944

The World in Your Home

The World in Your Home 1944

4.00

The World in Your Home is an NBC Television TV series which aired from December 22, 1944 to 1948, originally broadcast on WNBT, NBC's New York flagship, then broadcast on NBC-affiliate stations WRGB in New York's Capital District and WPTZ in Philadelphia starting shortly after its premiere. The program consisted of educational short films. Each episode was 15 minutes long, and is believed to be one of the first television programs in the history of the NBC Television network. The series aired after I Love to Eat with James Beard in 1946, and after Campus Hoopla in 1947. Little else is known about the series.

1944