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The last Hitchcock film to be nominated for Best Picture shows the iconic director going out with a fizzle rather than a bang. Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck star in this confusing muddle of a psychological thriller that not even a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí can save. And our hosts make a surprising choice for the should have won film from this year.

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Year Eligible: 1945 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Spellbound (1945)

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While Suzan did not take David’s suggestion and just cut in a few key words and phrases to the previous episode for 1944’s Going My Way, the sequel, The Bells of St. Mary’s, is so similar that it was a half-way legitimate suggestion. Bing Crosby returns to the screen as Father Chuck O’Malley, here to save yet another church and yet another late teen girl, this time with a trusty sidekick nun played by Ingrid Bergman. While the movie is worth skipping, there’s one fantastic scene you should definitely hear about and watch, but it unfortunately is not Crosby and Bergman making out, despite their electrifying, if confusing, chemistry.

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Year Eligible: 1945 (Nominated)

Additional audio from The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)

(Explicit language, as always)

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The winner of 1945, The Lost Weekend, is a melodramatic and at times embarrassing addiction drama, confoundingly soundtracked by eerie theremin music, with a clownish performance by lead actor Ray Milland, and neither of our hosts are impressed.

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Year Eligible: 1945 (Won)

Additional audio from The Lost Weekend (1945)

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The best thing Suzan and David can say about the Joan Crawford vehicle Mildred Pierce, a movie full of terrible characters being terrible to one another, is at least it’s not very long.

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Year Eligible: 1945 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Mildred Pierce (1945)

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The 1945 nominees have kicked off with a doozy of a musical comedy. Anchors Aweigh stars Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as two sailors just trying to find a couple of girls to hook up with while on leave from the Navy for a few days, that is, until they are somehow drawn into babysitting, the Hollywood studio business, and a Tom and Jerry cartoon (no, that’s not a metaphor for anything). It’s a wild ride, but is it a movie?

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Year Eligible: 1945 (Nominated)

Additional audio: Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra from Anchors Aweigh (1945)

(Explicit language, as always)