5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1944

I guess we're going to spend the majority of today doused in World War II stuff - I just wished Veronica Lake a happy birthday with 1942's I Married a Witch and I'm planning on writing up my thoughts on the new Winston Churchill bio-pic Darkest Hour with Gary Oldman a little later, and now here for our "Siri Says" series my telephone has gone and given me the number "44" and so it's off the The Movies of 1944 that we cast a glance. And I have to say 1944 isn't glancing me as the greatest year for movies - I only mostly like my Top 5; none of them are really films that I'd demand my lifeless corpse be buried beside, or anything. (Although you could make a case for about two of them.) That said let's take a look...

(dir. Billy Wilder)

-- released on July 6th 1944 -- 

(dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

-- released on January 28th 1944 -- 

(dir. Gunther von Fritsch)

-- released on March 3rd 1944 -- 

(dir. Lewis Allen)

-- released on February 19th 1944 --

(dir. Otto Preminger)

-- released on October 11th 1944 -- 

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Runners-up: Gaslight (dir. Cukor), Since You Went Away (dir. John Cromwell), Arsenic and Old Lace (dir. Capra), To Have and Have Not (dir. Hawks), House of Frankenstein (dir. Erle C. Kenton)

Never seen: Murder, My Sweet(dir. Edward Dmytryk), Henry V (dir.  Filippo Del Giudice), Mr. Skeffington (dir. Vincent Sherman), Going My Way (dir. Leo McCarey), The Lodger(dir. John Brahm), Destination Tokyo (dir. Delmer Daves)

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