With 1945 being the last year of World War II, the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace.[1] In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.[2]
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1945 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
January 30 – Restricted release of Kolberg, an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000, probably fewer people view it than appear in it.
April 20 – Release of Son of Lassie, the 2nd Lassie film and the first film ever to be filmed using the Technicolor monopack method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor, which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.
The Woman in Green, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson, co-starring Hillary Brook and Henry Daniell
*Source: Best Years Going to the Movies, 1945-1946 [6]
Notes
^ abAffron, Charles; Affron, Mirella Jona (2009). Best Years : Going to the Movies, 1945-1946. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. pp. 1–9. ISBN9786613588685.
^Film Daily Year Book (Reading, UK: Research Publications, 1947), microfilm, 59.
^ abcdeThe Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^Affron, Charles; Affron, Mirella Jona (2009). Best Years Going to the Movies, 1945-1946. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 297. ISBN9780813548456.
