1944's Best Movies: 80 Years Later

Archers

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Double Indemnity is great, but Meet Me In St. Louis is such a captivating film, I have to vote for that

"You ever been bit by a dead bee?" endures in my heart forever.

Ditto "I think you're swell--so long as I'm not your husband."

Among the Hollywood productions, I would've gone with Meet Me in St. Louis - great film. But At Land gets my vote.

I love more of these than maybe in any other of these polls, but going with Meet Me in St. Louis because I think it’s so remarkable — one of the greatest Hollywood musicals, but also such a small, carefully observed story. You can fault it for being basically the quid/ags of the bourgeoisie circa 1900, but it’s so fully inhabited and felt. Nothing else like it.

“Meet me in st louie, louie” makes me want to kick someone’s teeth in

I’m not a rewatcher but Meet Me in St Louis is good enough for the occasional rewatch.

“Meet me in st louie, louie” makes me want to kick someone’s teeth in

If only the filmmakers had got their first choice for opening song: "Stayin' Alive"

These movies being 80 years old is crazy

I have voted for the Double Indemnity. :)

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The Woman in the Window is fantastic, right up until the last 5 minutes or so...

A worthy victory for the Glue Man

I used to dislike the ending of The Woman in the Window but I actually think it's pretty brilliant. (FWIW, Lang himself came up with it and knew what he was doing.) In its own way it's deceptively a happy ending and tragic in a different way - it's a manifestation of his own feelings of guilt, and no matter how dreary or boring he may find his home life, he will never allow himself to escape it and was unlikely to find more in life to begin with.

I voted for Deren's film, but it's still a well-deserved victory by the Archers.