Saturday, October 5

1943 National Board of Review – Best Director Winner and Nominees

1943 National Board of Review – Best Director Winner

Bataan Tay Garnett

Bataan

Tay Garnett

In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.

Casablanca Michael Curtiz

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz

A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.

The Ox-Bow Incident William A. Wellman

The Ox-Bow Incident

William A. Wellman

When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.