Welcome to our 25th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1940s.
To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will going back and looking at each decade of cinema and list their 10 favourite films.
This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1940s. During the 40s, Hollywood and the film industry as a whole changed radically because of World War II. Many films released that came out during and after the war were a reflection of that moment in history. A lot of influential and brilliant European filmmakers flocked across the Atlantic to America to escape Nazi prosecution and got work in Hollywood. From 1939 to 1946, the film industry faced a long period of decline and low attendance at movie theatres. What classic films of this period will be on Adam and Anders's lists? Where will films like Out of the Past, The Red Shoes, The Third Man, Murder My Sweet and The Treasure of Sierra Madre land on their lists? Listen here and find out.
We hope you enjoy it and we hope you come back for more. Next episode, it's going to be about the 1930s and each of their 10 favourite films from that period. So stay tuned for that.
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Here is an oldie but a goodie: Our episode on James Whale's horror classic Frankenstein and it's great sequel The Bride of Frankenstein.
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