Essential American Films of the 1940's

These are what I consider to be the Essential American films of the 1940's:

1) "Fantasia" (1940)
2) "His Girl Friday" (Howard Hawks/1940)
3) "Pinocchio" (1940)
4) "The Shop Around the Corner" (Ernst Lubitsch/1940)
5) "Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles/1941)
6) "The Maltese Falcon" (John Huston/1941)
7) "Sullivan's Travels" (Preston Sturges/1941)
8) "Casablanca" (Michael Curtiz/1942)
9) "The Magnificent Ambersons" (Orson Welles/1942)
10) "Shadow of a Doubt" (Alfred Hitchcock/1943)
11) "Double Indemnity" (Billy Wilder/1944)
12) "Meet Me in St. Louis" (Vincente Minnelli/1944)
13) "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (Preston Sturges/1944)
14) "Detour" (Edgar G. Ulmer/1945)
15) "It's a Wonderful Life" (Frank Capra/1946)
16) "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (John Huston/1948)
17) "Fort Apache" (John Ford/1949)

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